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I’ve been told to post more often

SockBoy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:26:28 +0000

Perhaps I will, friend. Perhaps I will.

When did this start?

SockBoy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:59:57 +0000

I often travel over to Google News to search for my goalies, seeing whether they’re going to start that night. When I searched for #1 hot goalie superstar Pekka Rinne today, I saw this:

Google News picks up quotes now? I decided to try another name:

Interesting! I tried one more:

Impressive, Google!

Firefox 3 Meets Windows Live Wave 3, World Happiness Achieved (Momentarily)

SockBoy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:41:26 +0000

I like the way that the new Windows Live toolbars look. They’ve done away with icons for the most part, and now it’s just straight up text on a bar. I thought ‘I would like Firefox to appear the same way’. And the following Stylish style was born:

#main-window #navigator-toolbox #PersonalToolbar
{
    padding: 2px 3px 3px 3px !important;
}

#main-window #navigator-toolbox #PersonalToolbar toolbarbutton
{
    padding: 0px 10px !important;
}

#main-window #navigator-toolbox #PersonalToolbar .toolbarbutton-icon
{
    display: none ! important
}

#main-window #navigator-toolbox #PersonalToolbar toolbarbutton > label
{
    color: #355a88 !important;
}

Basically just hides the favicons and sets the label colour to a nice blue. The actual WL Wave 3 apps have a slightly lighter background colour, so I might embed a PNG into the style as the background in the near future, but until that time, this will do. Also, the separator needs to be lighter and extend 100% vertically, but again, I’m going to bed and will forget about this by tomorrow.

It looks like this:

And for reference, Windows Live apps now have a toolbar that looks like this:

iPhone Crash Watch

SockBoy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:42:07 +0000

Safari finally crashed this morning. I was editing my lines in my hockey pool, and when I went to go hit submit, it died. So, new Safari still isn’t perfect, but it is much better than it used to be.

iPhone Crash Watch: Day 2

SockBoy — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:59:21 +0000

Yesterday, no crashes at all! We’ll see how today goes.

In other news, did you see those Poop Faces last night? They gained 9 fabulous points and worked their way out of last place. Good show, gentlemen.

iPhone 2.2 Crash Watch: Day 1

SockBoy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:02:04 +0000

Apple released the iPhone 2.2 update late last night, and I installed it this morning. Of particular interest in the release notes is this saucy item:

Improved stability and performance of Safari

Ooh! I plan on putting this claim to the test. Immediately after I updated, I opened up Mobile Safari and viewed a few of the sites that generally don’t agree with my iPhone. Surprisingly, no crashes! Interesting! But, one isolated test a conclusion does not draw… from? I will keep track of when or if Safari crashes, and keep you updated.

Oh boy…

SockBoy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:33:25 +0000

Ugh! XBox! Come on! Ugh! I’m insulted. I thought we had something special.

Hot Avatar Action

SockBoy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:03:07 +0000

Not as bang-on as our Miis, but close enough.

iPhone. Let’s talk.

SockBoy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:39:38 +0000

Why do your apps have to crash so much? And why do you act like nothing out of the ordinary has happened? Why do you think it’s acceptable to just make Safari disappear as I’m trying to set my lines in my hockey pool? Or as I update my status within your Facebook app? Like, honestly, apps crash probably around 10 times a day. It’s silly. If Firefox crashed as often as Mobile Safari did on a daily basis, I would have given up on the Internet long ago. I would probably become a forest ranger, protecting the forests from fires, drunks, etc.

Apple: Get your shit together. I don’t think it’ll be fixed in 2.2, but perhaps in 2.3? 2.4? Actually, if they released 3.0 and the only noteworthy addition was ‘no more crashes’ it would possibly be the greatest update ever.

You know what else is crazy? Apple with their commercials about how bad Vista is when OS X on iPhone is a horrible, horrible mess. I believe it is a good case of the pot calling the kettle black?

Anyways, these feelings of mine may have been triggered by the arrival of a Blackberry Bold in the office, with its sexy, sexy screen and it’s snazzy leather back. *wistful sigh*

Things that are fantastic: In Video

SockBoy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:39:17 +0000

And another: