For those of you that didn’t see this at the other place: Microsoft Update KB951748 and ZoneAlarm woes
In short: ZoneAlarm + Security update for Windows (KB95174 = no internet connection.
Update
For those folks who don’t bother clicking through to my other blog post: the advice from ZoneAlarm is to uninstall the KB951748 hotfix until there [...]
I’m really appreciating Portable Firefox for testing code in older versions of the browser.
But one thing that I really wish is that the process name (or whatever it is) in Portable Firefox was different to the installed version so that I could run both Firefox 2 and 3 simultaneously, like you can with the standalone [...]
Presumably the British mobile phone network O2 chose that name because it’s the chemical symbol for oxygen which is absolutely essential for life on this planet.
It’s just as well my mobile phone isn’t similarly essential because I’ve had pretty much no mobile signal all day. Jane is the same.
When I couldn’t find anything on [...]
I followed a link from James W Frost’s blog to Tobeon.co.uk and discovered this wonderful video.
Nice to see that the excellent TweakGuides Tweaking Companions for Windows XP and Vista by Koroush Ghazi have been updated. Included in the update is advice on installing AVG Free 8.0 (antivirus software).
What’s not included is the switch to ensure that LinkScanner isn’t installed.
Having used AVG for a couple of weeks, I’ve found it [...]
It would appear that Twitter.com is currently down. Bah!
I can’t connect to it with Twhirl
I can’t connect to it with Firefox
When I ping www.twitter.com I get 100% packet loss
If only there was some kind of nearly-instant messaging service that could inform me of such outages.
Fabulous article from PC Plus with these 16 tips for advanced Google Searches:
Use the Google search bar as a dictionary
Check the time in other countries
Universal converter
Calculator
Scientific calculator
Finding MP3s
Retrieve unavailable pages
Find show times for films
Site-specific searching
Carry out a book search
Retrieve old Web pages
Google Experimental search
Better people search
Access the Deep Web
Protect your privacy
Search for videos
Looking through my emails I discovered this one:
We’re writing to let you know that Pipex Communications Ltd - the parent company of 123-reg - has changed its name. We use the Pipex name on some of the emails and invoices we send you.
Because Pipex Broadband was sold to Tiscali last year, the name of Pipex [...]
Today I upgraded my anti-virus protection to AVG Free 8.0 (from version 7.5).
I upgraded on another computer yesterday, which went well but I discovered that I didn’t really like the LinkScanner component installed.
So I disabled LinkScanner and discovered to my disappointment that the status icon in the notification area showed an error. At least [...]
Interesting article about Adobe AIR in this month’s Adobe Edge newsletter: Get up to speed on Adobe AIR.
There’s a video about Adobe AIR too.
Adobe AIR allows you to develop rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the desktop using either:
XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flex
The fact that it allows you to develop desktop applications entirely in XHTML, [...]
