Posts by batfastad

Mozilla promises more speed with Firefox 9 beta

v9?

Version 9? Great, that'll be another few addons that I'll lose due to addon developers giving up.

No doubt it will also add some baffling UI changes and a bunch of features copied from Opera/Chrome.

I really like Firefox but this is getting ridiculous. Enterprises aren't going to go anywhere near it without any sort of LTS version. Be great if there was a way to update Gecko and the JS engine without updating the UI. So you could have the support for newest standards and improved performance, without the constant UI tinkering!

Yamaha RX-V471 5.1 AV receiver

Radio

This looks seriously good value.

I've got an old grunter Cambridge Audio Azur 540R which I've been looking to replace for a few years now. I was thinking I would end up having to spend >£500 even for a non-audio-tart receiver. Looks like we might have a winner here though!

Regarding DAB... I'm not so bothered any more. The future of radio is analogue (hopefully) co-existing with internet radio and Freeview radio, completely skipping DAB.

Analogue will keep winning for me until someone creates a pocket-sized DAB radio that can get Test Match Special and last an entire Australia Ashes test series on a single pair of AA batteries!

And Analogue keeps winning in my flat anyway because DAB just sounds like someone drowning.

But while I'm thinking about it, internet radios. Are there any that let you connect to streams on your wireless network?

What I'd quite like to do is be able to cue up a playlist on my HTPC, then just connect to that stream with a WiFi radio. I already stream music through VLC but to have a receiver that's not a full-on computer would be really ace.

I just wish there was a standard way of tuning in to internet radio and standard codecs. That might all exist already, never really looked into it. DNS SRV records would be perfect for this as you could just tune in to [e-mail], then the stream server is located through DNS.

Netbook shipments slump in face of tablet rise

Well I still love my netbook... an Asus Eee 1005HA-P.

Intel Atom 1.66GHz, 2GB memory, 10" screen at 1024x600 res, runs Win XP at brilliant speed and consistently gives me 9+ hours of battery life 3 years after purchase (I can get a whole transatlantic flight worth of work done). Only weighs 1kg which is barely noticeable in your bag, and only cost £200 (much cheaper than those ultra-portable laptops). Plus it has a full keyboard with which I am typing this.

It's not one of those super-early netbooks that had no screen, no battery and no power. I didn't ever see the point in those.

Most tablets I've seen only seem to support cut-down "mobile" operating systems and don't have the ability to install things like jedit, gimp, inkscape, libreoffice etc.

It's the ability to do everything, everywhere that makes netbooks a winner for me. The thought of having to sub-edit an article or make some emergency edits to some code using a tablet just sounds like a nightmare.

Having said that, most people are idiots when it comes to computers and probably just want app stores and shiny things that work.

But you'll have to pry my netbook from my cold hands because I have no intention of ever replacing it with a tablet.

However I would consider a tablet if you could install an OS of your choice and they were made into more rugged sealed units for use outdoors.

VeriSign demands website takedown powers

Down with that sort of thing. Be careful now!

Guilty until proven innocent.

Can I have powers to arbitrarily seize domain names without a court order that I find offensive (or just too profitable for my liking)?

Or do you have to pay big money to half-wit bureaucrats to obtain that privilege?

YouTube ships movie rental service to UK

I like this! I've been waiting for something like this for a while as I don't want to have to pay a monthly subscription to LoveFilm etc. A pay as you go service to just pay yer money and stream a film is a good thing. Now they just need to expand the range of films available to ones that aren't pants.

It has the big advantage that you can completely avoid the hoi polloi by not going to your local generic high street and not buying a DVD from one of the generic high street shops!

LibreOffice fixes virus-friendly Word import flaw

So Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Chrome, Azureues/Vuze, jEdit etc. And Adobe Creative Suite I believe downloads and integrate updates without re-installing the whole lot. And not forgetting the many Linux distros that download and update changed components via a package manager.

All in violation of a patent? Wowzer!

Update

Shame that in order to update you have to download the full 150MB thing and re-install.

Hopefully LibreOffice will one day implement an auto-update system which doesn't require manually downloading and re-installing. And instead just updates the changed components.

id Software's Rage

The actual FPS engine of this sounds promising. I've dropped off from gaming in the last few years apart from retro/emulation, mainly through lack of time but also because there's nothing that has really appealed..

I was a big fan of Quake 2 and Quake 3 and Timesplitters on the PS2. But FPS games these days tend to be more varied or war simulations.

I'd love to see a return to the fundamentals of the arcade-style FPS... deathmatches, capture the bag, larger maps and more of them, improved graphics, improved bot intelligence, no difference between characters, but all on modern hardware. Hopefully Doom 4 will bring that to me!

Budget airlines warned over 'hidden' debit card charges

Annoying

The card surcharges are very annoying.

Though what's more annoying is that Sleazyjet no longer appear to offer a method of payment which doesn't attract a surcharge... cheque or bank transfer. Or I couldn't see it when I last booked with them. The only way to pay without a surcharge is by Visa Electron or by signing up for their pre-paid Mastercard, no thanks! I bank with Barclays and my debit card used to be Electron but that was replaced a few years ago unfortunately.

I don't think most people mind additional charges - it's just that the payment processing charges are always insanely marked up on what it actually costs to process the payment!

For the volume of payments they must process charging an equivalent of 12% to handle a credit card is ridiculous. We're only charged 3% with our Worldpay merchant account!

Programmers urged to code with their tootsies

Dictation

We had some pedals knocking around that were used by legal secretaries to control the playback of voice recordings made on dictaphones. They seemed to work pretty well actually.

I did a custom configuration on them and got certain macros and key combinations running but gradually stopped using them because I couldn't be bothered! Always ended up missing the pedal or they'd have moved slightly or something that it was actually quicker just to use the keyboard.

World+dog yawn over NFC smartphone shopping

Title

I wish all that stuff would go away.

Fair enough on a bank card but I don't see any advantage in having NFC payments on a phone.

What might be good is the ability to have a smart card which can combine several credit/debit cards in one. But actually maybe that's just as rubbish as having it on your phone.

Got a website? Pay attention, Cookie Law will come

Why only small business?

Why is it only small businesses that need to make sure they're compliant?

I'd like to see a business with the turning circle of Paypal/Ebay become compliant.

And does it only apply to sites hosted in the EU?

I'd like to see how websites in Europe would cope if they could no longer store a session ID on a user's machine... I predict a boom in the US hosting market and goodbye to most internet banking services etc. And probably most EU internal sites... The OAMI EU community trademark registration system uses a total mess of cookies.

The only cookies we use are to store a session ID for an authenticated users session. Then any personally identifiable is stored in the session on the server.

But surely they should be complaining more about that! Storing a user's personally identifiable info on a their own machine actually sounds much better than storing it in a session on a potentially insecure server somewhere! But the fact that cookies are open to exploitation is mainly down to the HTTP protocol and browsers' cookie implementations.

Anyway, can't wait to see their faces when they discover that HTML5 contains a module for offline data storage. (Incidentally I predict that module has a very bright future... as the primary method for malware injection).

What a waste of time.

Gov 'skunkworks' to develop e-petitions system

Again?

Hang on... wasn't there an existing e-petitions system at number10.gov.uk that was shut down on pretty much the same day this government was established?

Fedora 15: More than just a pretty interface

Gnome 3

I've never used Linux as my MAIN system so can't comment on the differences between Gnome 2 vs 3. Not being able to have icons/files/directories on the desktop seems like a strange decision though. But Fedora does seem like it's the future distro for me. Not sure about Ubuntu these days, with all social media blarg all pre-integrated. I think I'd end up spending more time disabling and removing stuff.

But for me to switch to Linux full time (and I really really want to, believe me!) there needs to be more polish in the lead programs, not the OS. Proper CMYK support in GIMP and a decent Acrobat equivalent (not just a PDF reader/creator but full PDF manipulation). Libre/OpenOffice is alright but needs another 12 months or so of work. Seems to crash with pivot tables frequently but I've worked with them on that. Inkscape is brilliant and Scribus is close. Then I'll be able to switch most of my workflow over to Linux.

But a serious question... do we ever think commercial software companies will start developing applications for Linux that aren't just an afterthought, feature parity with Win/Mac etc?

MP names Ryan Giggs as super-injunction football star

Hansard

So will this appear in the Hansard records?

I doubt it, but it would be hilarious!

My Tracks travel tracker

Trekbuddy

Trekbuddy has similar position recording abilities and is also really good. It can record in GPX and NMEA formats. But the main reason I like Trekbuddy is that you can create your own Atlas/Maps, which means (with a whole load of screen grabbing from my OS digital maps purchased from Mapyx) I can use my collection of OS 1:25k maps on the move. Also being able to plot your route as waypoints in advance then export from your digital mapping program of choice (Mapyx Quo for me) to view on your Trekbuddy display is essential for me.

Trekbuddy's been around for a few years now and I used to use it as a Java application on my SE P1i but the developer started packaging it for Android about a year ago.

The only downside to Trekbuddy (as of a few months ago when I last checked) is that it doesn't support the built-in GPS on the HTC Desire, but I tend to use a Bluetooth GPS receiver (Holux M-1200) anyway for better accuracy and improved battery life of the phone. Also means I can keep the phone out of the way of crud and rocks when mountain biking as well.

Updating of your position to Google Maps is pretty cool though. I developed my own solution for a charity bike ride where the GPX data would be sent by HTTP POST to a server and stored in a DB, then plotted on a Google Map so people could follow our progress on the website.

I think there's an official Ordnance Survey mobile application for displaying their digital maps on iTard devices. But there's nothing for Android and their digital mapping is so overpriced it's sick.

Is Skype Microsoft's PowerPoint part deux?

Exchange + Skype?

The MS and Skype purchase does actually make quite a bit of sense, especially when you think of the potential unified comms package they'd be offering with Skype tied in with Exchange Server.

One thing I always wished Skype had was some sort of business switchboard software. So you could setup a central Skype username for a small business then have multiple Skype users able to answer/make calls through that Skype username. Or something like that anyway.

Could have been attractive to people who couldn't be bothered with full-blown IP PBX systems anyway.

We've got a mail server, XMPP server and remote Asterisk box. But tying it all together is fairly tough. I'm still trying to get aggregated presence with SIP/call status and XMPP. And I'd really like video and voice support to be improved under XMPP as well, I believe it can be done but not without a bit of faff.

Go SMS Pro

Eh?

Do you mean in Go SMS Pro?

Or can you do that in the stock Android Messages program?

As this doesn't work on my HTC Desire but that could be because it's the HTC Sense Messages program rather than the stock Android Messages program.

Yep

Yeah I know, I'm just being an idiot and having a general rant.

It's still a great phone and my experiences with Android so far are good. Would a 3310 let me connect via wifi or let me use TrekBuddy with all my 1:25k OS maps?

But being able to change the grouping of SMS would make this app a definite purchase for me. Combined with Touch Calendar and PowerAmp then all my slight annoyances with Android would be fixed!

Apart from bluetooth tethering, still can't do that unfortunately. Stuck with Wifi hotspot which uses more energy than bluetooth, or tethering by USB cable.

Threads

Yeah I'm yet to find a solution for this on Android. Most responses usually go along the lines of "why do you want to?" or "just get used to it".

We seem to be in a world where it's encouraged to expose fewer options to end users and be stuck with UIs agreed on by board members or graphic designers (user experience technicians). I don't care about Fisher Price rounded buttons, bouncy Early Learning Centre icons or gradients. Just give me something that I can make work, the way I want it. It might be faster and use less resources and in turn energy, as well!</rant>

Threaded SMS

Does this have an option to completely disable threaded SMS?

That's been my biggest annoyance since switching to Android... that there was no way to have a regular SMS view or even change the group by/sort options (on HTC Desire anyway).

What annoys me the most is that it's not even threaded in the GMail "conversation" sense but grouped by sender in ascending date order.

So if you've not contacted someone for a month or so, a new message is deemed to be part of the same conversation.

Even being able to sort the grouped "threads" in descending date order rather than ascending would be an improvement. But the whole thing is generally annoying when you start getting 100+ messages per contact. Personally I would prefer to have the messages grouped by day or not at all, than by contact.

Touch Calendar

Almost

Yeah Smooth Calendar is a decent widget. I just wish you could configure it to span more rows of the home screen. 1x4 isn't enough for me.

Apple's 'Do Not Track' feature goes on Safari

How

So there's a Do Not Track header added to all web requests from your browser. But there's no guarantee that ad networks will actually adhere to it. Perhaps they're optimistically thinking that the Do Not Track header will dissuade people from installing AdBlockPlus etc.

UK is 15th best place in the world to do IT

Cool

As a remote IT dev that's a decent shopping list of places to upgrade myself to! After all... why live in the UK if you have the option not to.

PowerAmp

Pauses

What annoys me about the default music player is that it restarts music automatically when a call ends - which would be fine if I was using a phone headset to talk. But when using normal headphones and unplugging them to take the call, the music restarts as soon as the call is ended and usually blasts out of the speakers so I sound like one of thoze kidz on the busez wif their phonez and the load muzic innit.

FLAC support!

This actually looks very decent.

I don't have too much of a problem with the built-in music player on my HTC Desire to be honest, apart from the track search bar is a fiddly nightmare of touchscreen hell. The play/pause/skip buttons work. And there's a button to access playlists/albums/folders!

Would be cool to use the optical scroll to operate it or a touchscreen swipe. Most of the music files I listen to are 1-2hr long sets/recordings so any improvements in navigating through long tracks are a bonus.

Not so fussed about management/tagging as I keep all my music strictly de-tagged and have a rather revolutionary idea of using the filename to describe the contents of the file, rather than meta data.

Hoorah for FLAC support as well! Not because I want, need or can notice the extra quality when playing music on my phone but it will save me having to convert from FLAC to WAV to MP3 all the time. FLAC should have been supported by the built-in music player from the start though.

Seven... SSD sizzlers

Really?

How would switching to SSDs on the desktop machines make the size of my server mailstore backups smaller?

One thing I really need to find though, are decent rugged eSATA 2.5" drive enclosures. Something like those LaCie orange rubber buffer things but without the drive would be ideal. Anyone know of anything like that?

Read

Are 2TB 2.5" drives even available yet?

2TB is way more than we need for our offsite backups currently. 300GB more than enough for a full month's worth of weekly full backups and daily incrementals.

I'd love to see someone's face when I tell them they've got to take a RAID unit home with them as an offsite backup. Or even 2x 3.5" drives in rugged enclosures. And RAID != backup.

The unit we're looking to backup is our mail server which has a 4 drive RAID 10. The onsite backup volume is an LV on a RAID 6 array mounted over iSCSI. The offsite backups will be copied from this RAID 6 volume.

Why am I looking at SSDs for robust offsite backup?

Because they stand a better chance at surviving shocks that would normally destroy a conventional HDD.

Where are drives more likely to be subjected to shocks?

Sat in a server cabinet or in an enclosure on a desk? Or being thrown around in someone's bag/case.

I realise the cost per-GB is higher with SSDs - I can do basic maths. But if I'm going to have decent offsite backup then I'd like it to be the most robust available. Without any moving parts or tape.

So back to my original question... so there's no manufacturer wear calculations available for SSDs? Just guestimates based on typical usage patterns?

Good news on the power front. Didn't think they'd use significantly less power.

How long

But how long do they last?

I'd be looking for a pair of 500GBs for off-site backups of 100GB of mail stores (files divided into 30MB chunks).

But I'm worried about putting that amount of wear through them - copying 100 GB of data every night.

I realise there's backup sectors and wear-levelling on these things but without some sort of dynamic partition size management in the file system used, these things do still strike me as a bit dangerous.

If anyone says "tape backup" then I'll take a tape and unreel it all round them.

Also power usage... how do they compare with a conventional 2.5" HDD

Anyone aware of decent rugged 2.5" eSata enclosures out there?

Something like LaCie's orange rubber things would be great, if you could get them without the drive and it was an eSata passthrough connection.

Opera uncloaks Gmail challenger from Down Under

Google

Google Calendar is truly excellent. But I think GMail is pretty poor. I'd prefer to have proper folders rather than labels/tags. And the ability to disable conversation mode.

But the thing that keeps me in GMail rather than my own mail server is the mobile client. The GMail application for Android is excellent and really quick for checking your mail.

I could use my own mail server with IMAP but I believe there need to be some upgrades to IMAP or a new protocol. When using a standard IMAP 4 implementation, outgoing mail gets sent to the server twice: Once through SMTP to actually send the message, then again to the IMAP server so it sits in your sent items folder. Not so bad for a desktop client but pretty brutal when using a mobile client. Also IMAP is a pretty "chatty" protocol in general.

Be good if there was a new mail protocol based on SOAP/XML... being able to use the GMail mobile application with any mail server supporting SOAPmail would just be excellent.

BT reveals fibre-to-the-cabinet plans for 156 exchanges

Cabinet checker

We're on a business park out of the centre of town and we moved from being virtually on top of the exchange (20Mb down and 2Mb up) to being connected via what must be string (4Mb down and 0.5Mb up). But the main thing that kills us is a ping speed of 200ms from our new location to our dedicated server in Maidenhead. We used to have a ping of about 12ms. I was expecting significantly better seeing as we're only 1.8km from the exchange.

Our exchange is enabled (was meant to be Dec then slipped to Jan then March) and I've noticed the new beast cabinets along the main residential road. But I think all the wiring is underground here, rectangular concrete covers with "Tenet" written in the middle. There's one street cabinet with Alcatel branding which must have been attacked and set on fire by yobs ages ago as there's nothing in it.

I think this is one of those cases where the gov should actually have built the infrastructure then rent it back to BT or whoever else. But I wouldn't trust any politicians to pick the right people to build the infrastructure in the first place.

I wish there was a scheme whereby you could put a deposit down then once there's enough in the pot to upgrade your street cabinet then the work is done and you get 6 months' of service or something. Then that would provide decent numbers as to how many people are serious about connecting via fibre.

Dig deep! Radio asks taxpayers for blank cheque

title

Just to add... DAB should then be shut down and the extra dosh used to get basic ADSL to rural areas.

Brilliant

Yes there are work arounds for when you're listening at a computer.

But what about the potential market for portable internet radios that aren't computers?

Forcing people to look at online advertising becomes a bit irrelevent in that situation. A small internet radio device connecting to the internet via WiFi would likely use similar/more power than DAB but alot less than a full-blown computer.

My point is that it would be great if there was a standard for station discovery that all broadcasters adhere to... if they want people to listen using portable internet radios of course.

Until the stream data is presented in a standard format, internet radio will remain tied to computers. And while internet radio remains tied to computers, there's no impetus to agree a standard for radio stream discovery. Though there is this... http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2974 but I've not heard the BBC etc announcing support for it.

And I believe that's a real shame as internet radio is a clear improvement over the current DAB fiasco and would happily co-exist with analogue.

Power

Over the winter I had a pocket-sized LW radio tuned in to Radio 4 for most of every night of the cricket test matches and ODIs. All it needed was a single pair of AAA batteries.

Are there any DAB units that can boast such low power consumption?

That's one problem with DAB. Another is that they're trying to sell DAB on the basis of improved audio quality. Yes in theory the audio quality is better than that of analogue (even though they've chopped the quality back a bit in the past few years). However when I try a listening test of DAB vs analogue in my back garden then analogue wins by miles, even LW. And my postcode is listed in a "green" area.

I just wish there was a more open approach to streaming technologies for internet radio. Most mass-market/commercial radio stations seem to fall into the trap of needing some sort of closed-source client or plugin technology: Flash, RealPlayer, Quicktime and god knows what else. Internet radio could destroy DAB (at home/work at least) if a standard format for exposing and connecting to streams was adopted... typing in a subdomain/URL to access a stream directly would be ideal. Could use DNS SRV/TXT records to expose a list of stations available at a particular (sub)domain so all the user has to do is input a simple URL and the radio retrieves the list of channels. Spotify could expose yer customised playlists as internet radio channels. There's plenty of possibilities... but instead I'm stuck with stupid BBC stupid iPlayer stupid Flash stupid plugin to listen to their radio online.

Deleting 'innocent' DNA will cost £5m

Not fit for purpose

If this is the case, then the DNA DB is not fit for purpose and there should be serious questions asked of the supplier of the system.

Did they just build it thinking that our civil liberties would never ever be restored after more than 10 years of erosion (and bankruptcy) by Labour?

Please tell me it's a normalised relational database and there's some sort of common ID field linking the DNA profile with a human. If it is, then the hard bit would actually be trying to get together all the ID numbers of the innocent humans in the first place. The actual delete should be a simple process after that.

Surely under the data protection act people can just go and inspect this data and request for it to be deleted? Oh I forgot, the law doesn't apply to governments and their gravy train agencies.

South West Trains puts squeeze on commuters

Yep

There also seems to be another type on Southeastern where the seats are huge bulky things but give you no leg room once you're in the airline style ones. Clear discrimination against anyone over 6ft.

Oh also the overhead racks are a joke, presumably designed so you can only keep your newspaper up there.

<rant>

I hate the train cartels so much. I reverse commute so I'd always have a coach or 2 to myself, shame it cost the same as travelling in though. If they made it cheaper to travel out then maybe more people would do it.

But these days it's cheaper for me to drive out AND pay the congestion charge (I live inside the zone).

Ticket used to cost £8.90 4 years ago, now costs £19.80.

It takes me about 10mins longer to drive but it's door to door and I don't have to mix with the hoi polloi.

If our dear leaders want to cut our carbon emissions you'd think they'd give some incentives to not use a car. Or maybe they'll just ramp up fuel costs so the train becomes the cheaper option.</rant>

Protect online retail, says eBay

Hate

eBay is a nightmare. Listing fees are so high, with compulsory free p&p on many low-margin categories.

Would love to see some competition in this space but unfortunately eBay have a habit of suing any competitors. I think a regulator should intervene in online retail in the UK!

Watchdog disses City of Medway

sh*t h*le

The glorious cathedral city of medway?

Should be just wiped from the map, better for all concerned.

Another year, another iPhone time slip

tz database

This is an insanely fundamental thing to get wrong.

Especially when more and more systems use the tz database to keep track of all the regional DST differences.

It always annoys me when I have to use an application/system where you are asked to enter your current timezone by choosing a UTC offset rather than a TZ identifier eg: Europe/London.

Not being able to handle regional DST differences is inexcusable, that problem was solved years ago.

Hackers find Google's music cloud

pants

Sounds a bit rubbish. I hope it can all be turned off.

I'd prefer they worked on FLAC support in the built-in Music program. Not because I or can appreciate the extra quality when listening on the go, but so I don't have to convert to MP3 every time I want to change the music on my phone.

Whilst the read speed of data from local storage is: significantly faster, less battery draining and more reliable than the read speed over wireless networks, local media storage (ie on a phone/laptop/whatever) will always win with me.

Credit cards at the turnstile across London by 2013

Interesting

Really? Wow!

So I buy an annual travel card, and my credit/debit card expires at some point during that year and I get sent a new one with a new number.

What then? No bananas, that's what.

Travelcards

So if they're going to get rid of Oyster cards, how will it work for weekly/monthly/annual travelcards that are on your Oyster card?

Or are they going to abolish travelcards altogether so everyone has to pay up front?

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

How will this work on buses? Via 3G?

You're never going to get anywhere near 100-200ms round trip auth with that surely.

But as others have said, with contactless there's no auth phase for small transactions so that discussion is all a bit irrelevant.

Sony wins subpoenas revealing visitors to PS3 jailbreaker site

Title

If Sony sell each PS3 at a loss, maybe that's why they want to put people off buying one so much?

When they initially released the PS3 I was vaguely tempted. It was the cheapest BluRay player around at that point.

Then they got rid of PS2 compatibility so that was the end for me, before it had even started. And removing OtherOS? Definitely a no!

I was one of the few people who bothered with those PS2 Linux kits that Sony made and it was actually pretty decent.

Also there's not been any decent arcade-style first person shooters (Quake / Timesplitters etc) released that I'm aware of. All the FPS I've seen appear to be more of the war simulation style. Though please suggest some if there's any I've missed!

Apple: If you're under 17, you can't use Opera

Fisher Price

Always figured OSX was the Fisher Price and Early Learning Centre of the operating system world.

Can't you just go to the Opera site, download it, then just install it themselves?

Guess that could require an IQ >= 80

Oh and for the people reading this with Safari... >= means greater than or equal to.

Browser election

This stuff seriously stinks.

Just a general question here... were Apple forced to display a browser election screen similar to the result of the ruling against MS? Since Safari is bundled with the OS.

MS were also panned for Windows Media Player as well but I don't think there was a judgement on that. But what about iTunes being bundled with the OS?

Or is it different rules for different companies depending on market share?

Nuance Flext9

But

My point is that to not have the link in a human readable format in addition, is idiotic.

QR codes

Can we stop our sudden fascination with QR codes now please?

I mean they were cool and techy and Japanese and stuff 5 years ago, but now they are just really really annoying. Really annoying.

Maybe use the alt attribute in the image tag to display the URL, rather than having it exactly the same as the title attribute. Or maybe just make a website link to the page you intended in addition.

IT job seekers can't smell spell

So...

If I'm setting up a recruitment website, all I need to do is make up some stats and I get some free publicity?

Mozilla unfurls twelfth and last Firefox 4 beta

Iron

Oops. Think you actually meant to switch to Iron rather than Chrome.

Or maybe you want to give Google your browsing history info for free?

Addons

I'll only switch to 4 once ALL of my addons have been officially updated for 4.

And once there's addons available which turn on all the features that are removed from 4.

Why do people think that fiddling with UIs for the sake of it is a good thing?