I found the pictures of Toyota’s robot cars/personal vehicles very interesting. (‘Those whacky Japanese do it again’ was going to be my alternative headline, but that doesn’t give a great deal away about the content.) Okay, they may only travel at less than 1mph and look like a 1960’s sci-fi view of the future, but …
I recently downloaded and installed QuickTime. I couldn’t do much about it, but it installed QuickTime at the same time. I have no desire for keeping iTunes on my system, and certainly no reason to have an iPodHelper.exe process running all the time (since I don’t own an iPod). There were no options to uninstall …
Quicktime installs a very annoying process when you install it on Windows XP called qttask.exe that you may often see running in your taskbar and processlist. There is no way to stop it running from within quicktime’s preferences. Instead, you must: Go to ‘Start’ -> ‘Run’ Type ‘regedit’ and click ‘OK’ Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apple Computer, …
“Attention grabbing pseudo-science headline”. It’s not so dramatic as it sounds – apparently we’re all carrying loads of data round on our PDA’s. So nothing to do with obesity at all. BBC NEWS | Technology | Britons growing ‘digitally obese’: “Britons growing ‘digitally obese’”
An interesting browser (mostly, it has to be said, Internet Explorer) rendering issue has produced an slightly odd workaround. The problem arises from the rendering of form elements, specifically dropdowns, by the browser. These are registered as windows components and hence are rendered somewhat outside of the other HTML elements. (This is not true in …
With the prospect of legalised casino’s in the UK, the parallels between the ‘real’ world and Sim City seem ever closer. Personally, I don’t know what the moral arguments before and against are, but if the government had ever played Sim City but the legalisation of gambling in that game always resulted in higher crime …
I’ve just come across these pages about JavaScript that I found very interesting. The examples of private variables and inheritance are quite an eye-opener for someone like me who’s been writing away in JavaScript and DHTML for a few years now.