Last week, I installed Netscape 4.79 on a virtual machine to verify my bold claims only to end up with: Netscape Navigator AOL Instant Messenger RealPlayer Winamp Netscape Messenger Netscape Composer …as well as palm top sync tools and a bunch of utilities. And people tell me Microsoft are bad for bundling software, pfft! PS…. read full entry »

When I first posted my theories on Frozen Midnight a year ago, I had no idea what kind of reaction it would get (from the company or its users). Little did I know that so many existing and ex-customers would come forward with their stories of outrageous fees and unnecessary charges. No less than 8… read full entry »

I’ve currently got an ongoing project at work, part of which entails redeveloping a website and providing a news section. Given the functionality needed (not a lot) I would normally knock something together with PHP and MySQL, give it a basic admin panel and make do. This is totally sufficient, and would normally take maybe… read full entry »

Some time in 2005 I passed comment on a website. A website that loaded so terribly in Firefox — well, any browser that wasn’t IE actually — that I was rendered speechless. I know! Me! Speechless! It’s as if pigs had learnt to fly and my cold frosty heart melted a little. OK, maybe not… read full entry »

Fuse: An Online Magazine, a new collaborative web project created and compiled by Sarai (chiklita.net), went live today. First up, I’ll admit that most online magazines annoy the crap out me. It seems that all a person has to do to gain a little link-popularity these days is create a few lists derived from other… read full entry »

I’ve been using Site5 as my web host for several years now, both personally and professionally, and have had nothing but great experiences. The support team even helped me with my mysql errors despite it being a script issue (before I moved back to WordPress), and the affiliate payout system is financing my hosting 2008-09,… read full entry »

I’ve been using the new browser for nearly 48 hours now, so I thought it about time I share my thoughts. The Awesome Address Bar I think the name is somewhat exaggerated, and I hated the look of the new address bar so much that I installed the oldbar extension, nonetheless the new functionality is… read full entry »

It’s Firefox 3 Download Day today. It is effectively marketing hype and a viral campaign, although the less cynical among you may call it Mozilla’s attempt to create a world record. The idea being that after 3 years of development, the “new and improved” (oxymoron?) browser will not only revolutionise the browser market but will… read full entry »

In Part Three of the Beginner’s Guide to PHP we learnt about the if construct (“statement”), and using it to check the value of some input. In this guide we’ll learn about two more constructs: foreach() and array() foreach Construct foreach — a type of loop, but we’ll cover that more in the future —… read full entry »

You know how I mentioned that I was being spammed by link-droppers on dofollow posts? Well, this was despite running Akismet. It turns out, that on top of *not* picking up the blatant link-dropping, it was falsely listing some of my long-time readers as spam! Fook knows how long that’s been going on, I never… read full entry »