Posts by FraserGJ

Google, what the hell? Search giant wrongly said shop closed down, refused to list the truth

Guidelines fixed

It looks like Google have updated that guidelines link now.

The article now says "Has one of your locations mistakenly been marked as permanently closed? Find out how to reopen a location." at the top with a link to page with instructions on reopening...

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

The changes aren't too bad - I've seen worse.

All I'll say:

1) Far too much white - hurts my eyes when viewing for long periods

2) Bars of solid white down the side also too big - I assume they are going to be filled with full height, multi-colour flash advertising in due course though (please don't)

3) Picture at the top of the article is too big - the one in the "UK flights CRIPPLED" article is 429px high and I can only see 2 lines of the actual article (3 once notice about cookies is closed)

4) Why is the section the article is in shown in big letters on the top of the right hand bar. Couldn't you make the image smaller and put it there instead. The section isn't needed as it's highlighted on top bar instead

5) Related topics should be at bottom of article really as you'll be looking for related topics AFTER you've finished reading the article

6) The search box isn't very big, you could swap entire nav bar for search bar and include other options for searching too

7) The images in the nav bar hover are too big too - couldn't you put the text alongside smaller version of each image? I know you could probably only fit 3 articles in but you could have 2 rows and fit 6 articles in the same space!

8) I know The Reg gets money from advertising but the advert at the top of each page is taller than the red header bar on each page. Surely it should be the other way around?

I'm sure I'll spot other stuff and post about that when I can

New software nasty encrypts Android PHONE files and demands a ransom

I've already got that setup on my phone using a combination of Titanium Backup, FolderSync and Tasker

Tasker kicks off a FolderSync task to sync my phone and SD card contents to my NAS (via samba) but only if (a) phone is connected to power (any state except battery), (b) wifi is connected to my home SSID AND (c) the time is 3:30am. I could configure it to check GPS to see if I'm actually at my house but I thought that was overkill.

(Titanium Backup is for my apps and other data which syncs to another location on the NAS but you won't need that I suspect)