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Friday, 30 September 2005
Have you purchased a Dell computer recently? If you did, then you may have also copped the Alexa Toolbar for “free”, as part of the pre-configured Internet Explorer. This seemingly handy little utility offers a number of features to allegedly “enhance your browsing experience” and looks similar to this:
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Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Even though Windows XP supports skinnable interfaces, Visual Basic 6 applications will not automatically inherit the new look and feel. This is not surprising, considering VB6 has been around long before Windows XP came out. What is surprising though, is that your VB.NET applications also will not automatically inherit the new look.
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Friday, 23 September 2005
I would like to share my browser hijacking experience with you. As a web developer I still have to use Microsoft Internet Explorer from time to time to test web compatibility. On this particular day, I, like a million others got compromised somewhere down the track while visiting legitimate sites of interest.
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Tuesday, 20 September 2005
Ebay has just recently committed to coughing up $4.1 billion (US) for Skype, that wonderful example of VOIP technology, which is really, really cheap and works pretty well, most of the time, for most users.
But what the hell could Ebay actually use Skype for?
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Friday, 16 September 2005
In my previous post about the relevance of search engine meta tags I claimed that the keywords meta tag was almost useless these days. As a follow up, I thought I’d show you a real-world example.
Since I’m into photography, and since Ted’s have finally decided to put their camera catalogue online, and since Ted’s are a good example of a website still using the keywords meta tag, why not start there?
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