There’s a bug in Tesco Direct’s website that makes it almost unusable to firefox 3 users. It keeps trying to download the aspx files instead of running them on the server - strange and utterly useless if you’re doing some shopping for groceries or a kettle & baby monitor as I was.
Tesco themselves are promising [...]
Having moved house I have just been connected to broadband. The connection is a decent enough 4mbps but for some reason, especially in the evening, when I went to a website when I was surfing the browser would spend a few seconds “looking up” the domain that I wanted to go to (like www.matt-helps.com) before [...]
Often I like to give people directions on google maps or some other service and the best way to do this is often just to cut and paste the web address (called URL: Uniform Resource Locator) into an email and hit send. The problem is that some links can be longer than the 80 characters [...]
Google Maps’ new Street Level tool has caught many people unawares, gawking at strange cameras mounted on cars and generally made people feel uneasy about public image rights!
It is a great tool and I’m sure in future (once enough places are mapped out) it will be much used for scoping out addresses. Until then we’ll [...]
Following on from my previous article, Firefox 3 Easter Eggs, I have discovered that broadband users can get a significant speed increase from Firefox just by changing a couple of settings. Firefox is distributed with settings that will work with any machine or setup, but really anyone with a half-decent connection can make these changes [...]
