Sunday, December 4th, 2005
Attention-seeking TV
Oitv seeks your attention by randomly switching channels, rotating the image, rewinding, ffw-ing, etc. after longer periods of user inactivity.
You can gently stroke it or hit it to “fix” it. (via we make money not art)
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Firefox 1.5 does the middleclick-thingy!
Finally had a chance to testdrive firefox 1.5 and guess what - they finally came around to fixing bug #151249: “middle click does nothing on mac os x”.
This bug’s been known forever and i have no idea what took them so long to fix it. It’s been a real showstopper for me, but now that it’s fixed i can finally give firefox a chance as a worthy safari replacement.
There’s a lot of stuff i like better in safari than in firefox: it feels ever-so-slightly faster, page scrolling seems smoother, feed autodiscovery & integration is way better (why can’t i specify an external feedreader in firefox?) and page rendering is prettier - going from shiny aqua widgets back to boxy form elements is hard on the eyes.
It’s not all happy sunshine with safari, though, and firefox has it’s fair share of advantages: some pages won’t display properly in safari or downright lock it out whereas they work flawlessly in firefox, many web-apps are incompatible with safari (google analytics comes to mind), bookmark management is way better in firefox, you can install handy extensions and you can use greasemonkey scripts (something i wanted to fiddle with for a long time).
Overall firefox 1.5 seems a lot more polished than 1.0.7 - so for now it’s my default browser. Any tips for extensions?
Later: this bug is kinda scary: click-and-hold a mousebutton inside a firefox window and cpu usage goes up to 100% under mac os x.
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
3 years already
Three years already… actually feels a lot longer than that. It’s interesting seeing how things have changed around here. To another three years and onward.