Just when I thought that those annoying Google popups telling me to install Google Chrome had gone way, those evil things made their return yesterday to IE7, IE9, Firefox 9 and 10, and Safari. Strangely that damn popup did not appear in Opera. What does it take to destroy that annoying Google popup? Clearly Google [...]
Further to what I think of as Google abusing its dominant position in constantly targeting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers and asking the user to switch to Google’s Chrome browser, there appears to be a change now. My previous rants on this: Google, you’re still annoying me and abusing your position http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/12/16/718.html Google abusing its dominant [...]
I recently bought a Microsoft Wireless Speed Wheel for the Xbox360 and have used it with “Forza 4”. It looks great and feels great. The Speed Wheel does pretty well as a casual gaming racing wheel controller and in that role it certainly allows good steering, braking and acceleration control; it is not, though, for [...]
I had previously blogged about Google abusing its position. They’re still are it; spot the odd one out: Google, please don’t tell me what browser to use. And why is it that your annoying message is not shown in Opera, Safari and Firefox? There’s something not quite right in Google. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu [...]
Google has been irritating me of late. And increasingly so. I have tried to “just get along” with one aggressive form of product-push from Google but it’s now reached the stage where I need to say something and get it off my chest. I use Firefox as my default web browser but, now and again, [...]
I recently posted about a particular Service Pack 1 improvement for Outlook 2010 at: Outlook 2010 Service Pack 1 and IMAP notifications http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/06/30/617.html I can confirm that the other issue of “Your IMAP server closed the connection” messages is still there. Therefore I have reactivated the following AutoHotkey scrip: #NoEnv ; standard AutoHotkey header SendMode [...]
I recently installed Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010. I immediately noticed something different In Outlook 2010 when IMAP e-mails arrive…. The previous version of Outlook 2010 did not provide proper notification of new e-mails arriving via IMAP. I wrote an AutoHotkey script to get around this problem: Outlook 2010 support for IMAP (with [...]
Today I downloaded and installed the non-beta version of IE9 (version 9.0.8112.16421) and checked out Microsoft’s “Color Management” site at http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/ColorProfiles/Default.html. At first everything looked well with indications that this version of IE9 on my system had full ICC v2 and ICC v4 colour profile support. But then I compared the colours with Firefox 3.6.15 [...]
After my Future of music – my vision! article posted in January 2008, Wired has just put up an article regarding the new Microsoft Zune MP3 players, where it seems that the Zunes will implement the ability to purchase songs heard on the Zune’s FM radio. My original thoughts were that Apple would be the first [...]
Having bought the 80GB Zune 2 MP3 player, I treated myself to the 32GB iPod touch from Kuala Lumpur after all that hard work on the Borneo Orangutan Adventure. The iPod touch is a really sleek design, a joy to hold and look at. However, even with the latest firmware (1.1.4), the iPod touch crashes on [...]
