July 29th, 2010
Posted in Web · Tags: digg
Just incase you don’t like the Digg version 4, here are some alternatives to check out.
- DZone – Great site for development news and blog stories, they have plenty of tags to let you filter out what you use. The site gets a lot of submissions but not enough votes on the submissions to figure out what is really good (the top stories for 24 hours may only have 15 or 8 votes). Also the AJAX scrollbar is irritating to me.
- DesignFloat – Focuses on web design news and tips, but most of the submissions are nothing but lists.
- DesignBump – Another site about web design news and lots of lists
- Sphinn – Dedicated to internet marketing
- reddit – Similar to Digg, but the design is too plain and submitting stories can be a pain as they make you wait a long time before submitting again. The submissions are pretty general so expect a lot of weird images, funny videos and bizarre news.
- Slashdot – The classic technology news site is still around and has improved a bit, but it doesn’t have as that much information on web development and design.
- Mixx (classic) – The submitted stories aren’t as good as they should be, but you’ll get the top news stories. The site has a general audience, so the technology news isn’t what it could be. I really dislike how they changed the homepage for mixx.com because they wanted to promote tweetmixx which doesn’t seem much more than something that could be a sidebar.
- Propeller – Another general news site.
- Yahoo! Buzz – Another site to find the top news stories online
July 9th, 2010
Posted in Software
I’ve tried every major code editor out there (and a few text editors) and none of them let you tab through the code completion hints.
I’ve tried the following:
None of them support this! The only editor that ever did support this was Aptana and they gave up on PHP.
Why do I have to move my hand from where I am typing to the arrow keys or to my mouse and select an option. Why not let us tab through the list of choices? This is clearly a better approach to UX (user experience). Firefox and IE both allow you to do this from the URL box. And I wrote about how to configure Opera to allow tabbing through the URL bar. Unfortunately Google Chrome and Safari don’t support it.
July 3rd, 2010
Posted in Software, Web
Why does Yahoo! Messenger allow people that are not on your buddy list to send you files? Seriously, there should be an option to disable anyone sending you a file that is not on your buddy list. If you want to trust anyone, you can disable that option, otherwise you should be able to turn it on and prevent anyone from giving you viruses. Not only that, but I’ve noticed that somehow people that send you files over and over can crash your Yahoo! Messenger or lock it up so you have to Control-Alt-Delete and kill the program.
June 25th, 2010
Posted in Software, Web
This should go without saying, because I’m sure if you have used Yahoo! Messenger you know its a place for spam bots.
One thing that bothers me is that I often get conference invites.
However, there is no setting to disable or ignore those. You can only ignore chat invitations.
Seriously they need to add this option, I get these all the time. Yes, I could use Pidgin, but Pidgin doesn’t have all the features that Yahoo! Messenger has.
June 23rd, 2010
Posted in Software
When installing PDFCreator I told it not to install what I thought was the Yahoo! Toolbar. However, when I launched my internet browser I noticed a new toolbar appeared. So I uninstalled PDFCreator and the PDFforge Toolbar (as it’s called here) from Windows’ Set Program Access and Defaults.
I decided to reinstall it and see how it snuck by. It seems to be mentioned in the license agreement, but its buried in all that text.
On the screen I thought was for a Yahoo! Toolbar, I find out its actually for setting up Yahoo! as my default search engine, yet why put the image of a toolbar on that page? Not only that but the title of that screen says PDFCreator Browser Add On, but not only that it specifically says, “Install the PDFCreator Browser Add On and” then some bullet points and a toolbar image followed by “Set Yahoo! as my default search engine and notify me of changes.”
Therefore, I assume that it will install the toolbar and set Yahoo! as the default search engine. But then below that it says “IMPORTANT: If you don’t want to install the PDFCreator Browser Add On, then please unselect it on the next screen.” But why even mention it or give it the name of that screen if we have to select it on the next screen.
Here is that next screen
I like PDFCreator for creating PDFs from other programs, but I think I’ll be on the lookout for a replacement after this. And it should go without saying when you install programs always do the Advanced Install because they will often sneak things in by default and don’t blindly click next.
