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 [...]
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 [...]
There are some moderately amusing Easter Eggs in Firefox 3. Simply type one of the following into the address bar (no spaces or http) and you’ll get a message: about:robots about:mozilla about:config (ok, technically “about: config” isn’t an Easter Egg, but the title on the warning screen is relatively amusing!) Enjoy! Also, don’t forget to [...]
A few months ago I was faced with a bit of a problem. A webpage I was writing was AJAX-based – meaning that it sent requests to and from the server asynchronously and would rewrite parts of the page as the server responded. However if the server returns any kind of scripting code (including javascript) [...]
