It appears that Network Solutions are immediately registering all domains searched for. In what I consider a highly shady move, Network Solutions have started immediately registering domain names when customers search for them via the Network Solutions website, and holding them for 4 days - effectively meaning that if you checked whether it was available using their domain search tools, you now have no choice but to buy it from them, locking out all other registrars.
It seems that, as of February 2008, Netscape Navigator will no longer be developed. Netscape may not be popular any more (certainly nowhere near the ~80% share they had in their heyday) but the Mozilla project owes a hell of a lot to the original Netscape codebase.
Netscape are recommending that all remaining Netscape users should move to Firefox - sensible advice
So, farewell Netscape, commendations for playing a big part in the spread of the Internet (even if the 4.x browsers were often a real PITA for web developers), and RIP.
I forgot to do my Friday fun post last week - oops!
Never mind - here’s a little something, it’s been around for a fair while but it’s pretty cool. It’s a little magic trick by a friend of a friend, Colin Soper, who is a rather talented balloon modeller.
I placed an order with Amazon today, and applied a gift voucher to it. When I added the voucher, I was quite amazed by the saving it offered:
I had no idea I’d received a 9 billion pound voucher! Unfortunately, it subsequently changed to the correct figure of £20, otherwise I’d have added all of Amazon to my shopping basket
Ditlev from UK2 is trying to put together a list of the most popular scripts & web apps and asks for feedback on your favourites - whether it’s WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, SquirrelMail or any of the thousands of scripts out there, go and cast your vote
For ages I’ve found Firefox on Linux very, very slow when I go to Digg. It takes a while to load the page, and scrolling is horrible.
Finally found a solution to the problem.
I decided to try out Pownce. It looks to be pretty good, although signing up with Firefox didn’t seem to want to work - it slowed Firefox to an absolute crawl, and kept telling me my postcode was invalid. (I’m wondering if it was something to do with not having Javascript turned on, although I’d think that’d make it faster?).
Pownce is, in their words, “a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.”
I have 6 invites to give out if anyone wants them… let me know in the comments if you want one (and make sure to leave a valid email address so I can send it to you, obviously!).
Went to metcheck.com to see what the latest on all the rain + flooding (of which I’ve seen no flooding at all), and see:
Heavy rain and flooding has is causing problems with our processing servers at the Gloucester server farm. Technical peeps are working on this at the moment. This is affecting all data updates to the Metcheck servers.
There’s something delightfully ironic about that :)Â Â “We can’t tell you whether there’s any flooding, as our servers have been flooded”
I’ve been getting sick of hearing about the iPhone lately, it seems to be the only thing a lot of bloggers and tech news sites are writing about. Sure it’s a pretty nice-looking gadget, but you’d think it was a f**king cure for cancer by the amount of exposure.
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