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Windows behaves in inexplicable ways. A few days ago I was uninstalling programs that I didn’t need any more. Suddenly, all icon text became italicised and most other text became bold. This formatting freak out was affecting window elements (buttons, menus etc.) and even web pages. Switching themes didn’t help and I had no idea [...]

Firefox 3 is out and you can download it here. George kept telling me to download the Release Candidate versions even though he knows I’m not going to look for or report bugs.
The first thing I noticed when I downloaded the new version was that the Back and Forward buttons on my toolbar went missing. [...]

I read this article about web design screw ups Sindhu linked to which reminded me that I too had a few things to say on the topic.
When we had lab exercises for designing web pages and basic forms (in VB) in my computer science engineering course, I noticed that most of my classmates couldn’t come [...]

A few days ago my PC began behaving very sluggishly. Firefox start up time went to 2 solid minutes and the rest of the programs very loading 3 times slower as well. I thought it might have something to do with SP3 for Windows XP that I had chosen to download from the Windows Update [...]

I don’t understand why Adobe Photoshop is so popular among people who have no idea how to use it. It’s a great piece of software and the interface is very comfortable, yes, but it’s simply overkill for simple image manipulation.
If all you want to do it cut an object from a solid background and insert [...]

Updating to the latest version of WordPress is a pain. You have to download the most recent version from the main site and then overwrite the old files with the new ones. It’s not all that difficult but why does this system exist when updating can be made even easier?
This plugin aims to simplify the [...]

Microsoft has made a bid. A proposal. They have not bought Yahoo.
Saying ‘Microsoft is buying Yahoo’ or anything similar implying that the sale is imminent is incorrect. See the image below:

The news was buried and marked as inaccurate for a reason. (Well, because it is inaccurate.)
So chill out. It’s not important. Both companies suck. One [...]

I use the Mouse Gestures Firefox addon for easier website navigation and tab opening. After the addon is installed right clicking and dragging the mouse across the Firefox window creates a line on the screen for your reference (disappears quickly). I can draw a line to the left to go back to the previous page [...]

If you’ve seen the plugins list in a new WordPress install, you would have noticed a plugin called Hello Dolly. It comes preloaded with every WordPress install but not (thankfully) pre-activated.
What does it do? It displays random lyrics from the song ‘Hello Dolly’ by Louis Armstrong on your blog. That’s it.
How totally and utterly pointless! [...]

Gravatars (Globally Recognised Avatars) is a service that lets you display a small image of your choice in your comment on blogs that support Gravatars.
I’ve installed the Gravatar plugin on my blog and modified the CSS and the comments.php file to make the Gravatars display. (I’ll post a tutorial later.) This is how it looks:

George [...]