The other day, my wife explained that she has been telling her team to use IE6, since IE7 breaks her ASP.NET application. She has been keeping this a secret from me, since obviously it is a grave violation of trust between mates. She came to me only because IT is forcing upgrade of IE7 on […]
I whipped up a quick tool to allow Firefox to integrate with Vista’s Common RSS Feed List. You can download and install it here.
After installing, you need to select “Tools | Options” in Firefox, then click the “Subscribe … using” radio button, the “Choose Application” button.
Browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Common Feed List\Common Feed List.exe. After selecting […]
Concerned about biased and inaccurate material in Wikipedia, Dough Mahugh contacted Rick Jellife (a long-time independent expert in the topic at hand) with a proposal. He asked if Rick could review the Wikipedia article and make edits according to his own expert opinion, in exchange for money. Doug further stipulated that he would not review or approve […]
CNET recently wrote a review of Vista, where they complained that “IE7 RSS feeds get preferential treatment”. They say:
“… there’s a Gadget for subscribed RSS feeds. We downloaded and installed Firefox 2, made Firefox our default browser, and quickly set up a few RSS feed subscriptions. Guess what? The Windows Vista Gadget was unresponsive to […]
Dave linked to the Mercury News article so I don’t have to. The article is poorly-researched, poorly-written, and misleading.
For starters, it acts as if everyone (including Microsoft) is trying to catch up to Google in Mapping. That is exactly opposite of truth. Google is trying to copy and play catch-up to the previously-established players like MSN and […]