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.
There’s a handy way to stop PDF’s loading slowly using the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin for Firefox. You can read the full details here: Speed up PDF opening in Firefox.
PHP 5’s OO structure is way ahead of PHP 4 and has so many ‘proper’ object oriented concepts built into it that writing well-structured code is much easier than ever. The problem that PHP faces (and may always face) is that being a loosely-typed language (click here for an explanation of the differences between PHP …
Actually, I get a lot of it. Spam comes flooding through old e-mail in a constant stream. The thing I don’t get is: what is the spammer getting out of it? I mean, most of the e-mails at the moment are for one of: Rolex’s: as if they’re genuine. Yeah, right. Various pharmaceuticals: I don’t …
There are a few sites on the web which will generate haiku’s using a set of code rules. I think I can lay claim to have written what could be the world’s first (and only) haiku actually in JavaScript. I’m quite interested in the idea of code being poetry, but just generally not interested enough …