AVG and OpenDNS bring up some bad suggestions on searches

Saturday, 10. 25. 2008  –  Category: Other

On a computer with IE7 and the AVG toolbar I tried to go to mail.google.co.uk, which it turns out doesn’t exist. So as no DNS record is found, the address is sent off to Yahoo. AVGs partner, then it gives some suggested results of what I may be looking for, but the results [...]

Google Chrome annoyances

Thursday, 10. 9. 2008  –  Category: Other

It has been over a month now since Google released Chrome to the world and quite a few annoyances have appeared over that time.
Closing multiple tabs

The huge flaw that is extremely irritating is no warning of closing multiple tabs.
If you have 10 tabs open and accidentally close the main window at the top right rather [...]

[HTML] Make YouTube embed code XHTML valid without Javascript

Thursday, 10. 9. 2008  –  Category: Development

When you embed a video on to your website from YouTube you will find that your site will no longer successfully validate on the W3C validator.
This is because the embed tag is not supported, although it works on most browsers.
The code you get from YouTube is something similar to this:

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<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jJpx9MEi6_M&hl=en&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" [...]

[Photoshop] Chrome your car

Sunday, 09. 21. 2008  –  Category: Development

This tutorial teaches you how to chrome a cars paint.  This will only work properly on dark cars and works best on black cars.

View tutorial at Skeletorscorpse.com

Google Chrome really Safari in disguise?

Tuesday, 09. 2. 2008  –  Category: PCs

While enabling Google Gears from within the newly released Google Chrome, I noticed something odd about the wording.
In Firefox and IE, you get the same text:

Make note of the first paragraph. Now if you open up the same javascript window within Google Chrome, you get this:

Once again, note the first paragraph again.  Within Google Chrome [...]