I’m the co-creator of a webcomic: go on, have a look – you might enjoy it. That’s it advertised over in the sidebar. Our comics are generally released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) license, like many other webcomics. But …
Read moreMozilla Add-ons workshop, London 2010
Last night I went to the free Add-ons workshop that Mozilla hosted in London. It was an informative and interesting evening – well worth the trek down to London, even if it did then lead to a late-night trek back …
Read moreProject Canvas
It looks like my wish for a common on-demand TV service might actually become reality with the BBC Trust’s approval of “Project Canvas”. From the sounds of it they’re primarily targeting set-top boxes, though hopefully their current iPlayer implementations for …
Read moreNo footie for me
I’m not a big football fan, to be honest, but I do usually try to catch the England games during the World Cup – or at least any that are shown at sensible times. Not so much this year, though. …
Read moreFocus in XBL handlers in Firefox 3.6
Most people can safely ignore this post for fear of melting your brains. It’s only here to help people who stumble across the same problem I did, and go googling for the terms I’ve put in the post title. For …
Read moreFixing online safety where it counts
Facebook’s in the news again as yet another country wants them to add a “safety” or “panic” button to the site so that users (especially children) can easily report any improper contact from other users. This time it’s Australia asking …
Read moreFlattr
I recently signed up to flattr.com. I think it’s an interesting take on a micropayment system, intended to make it easy to reward the creators of good or interesting content, while only having to budget for a small fixed monthly …
Read moreTop-left, top-right: why not let me choose?
As I mentioned in this post, the migration of Ubuntu’s window controls from the top right to the top-left were a precursor to other changes which would make use of the now-empty corner of the title bar. I’m still not …
Read moreIt’s not just me then…
A while back I posted an article bemoaning the adoption of HDTV resolutions for desktop monitors. It seems I’m not the only person to be annoyed by this trend: a “Microsoft evangelist” has posted a similar article which I found …
Read moreLosing the http:// is a good thing
Chromium – the developer builds of the code that eventually becomes Google Chrome – was recently changed to not show the “http://” that precedes normal web URLs. This has, of course, led to bug reports and much discussion about the …
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