Photoshop CS4 Has Sliders… Lots of Sliders…

By Malcolm Owen | Nov 9, 2009

You would expect from a high-priced product with a vast user base to get things right. Sadly, it appears Photoshop CS 4 has issues.
For reasons known only to Adobe, Photoshop has lots of different types of sliders. A good selection of those are documented here, along with a few other gripes over the software from [...]

Fog Creek Has New Offices. Must Work There!

By Malcolm Owen | Jan 1, 2009

I will openly admit to being an office furniture geek. I don’t know why, but looking at office furniture catalogues and working out what my dream office space would be like just fills me with joy. Yes, I know I’m pathetic…
Joel Spolsky (fantastic name, by the way) writes a blog called Joel on Software, and [...]

Firefox 3 Released, Trying for World Record on Launch Day Downloads

By Malcolm Owen | Jun 17, 2008

The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance
[From Firefox web browser | Faster, more secure, & customizable]

Yes, it’s time to download the Firefox 3 browser, and this time there’s an actual reason to do it [...]

Wii Needs This – Damn Fantastic 3D Using Head Tracking and Voodoo

By Malcolm Owen | Jan 23, 2008

Hi, I’m Johnny Lee, Welcome to Jac… No, wait…
Do you own a Wii? Do you own a Wiimote? Are you a really geeky person that needs to see the latest in future gaming technology using today’s tech? I’d suggest watching this…

Johnny Chug Lee has somehow managed to destroy everyone else’s normal thought patterns, bent [...]

Better Late Than Never: I’ve Finally Registered mIRC

By Malcolm Owen | Jan 14, 2008

This might sound a bit strange, but I’ve registered mIRC. That in itself is weird, although it really shouldn’t be.

mIRC, to the uninitiated, is a fantastic Internet Relay Chat client that has been around since 1995. A fairly simple client with the flexibility for it to be used/misused with vast amounts of scripting, it is [...]

Safari – Great for “Private Browsing”

By Malcolm Owen | Jun 19, 2007

So, I’m watching the latest episode of Diggnation, and halfway through they talk about the Safari browser for Windows. More specifically, this button…

…Guh? It’s an option that when activated does not add anything to the history, cache or anything, keeping whatever happens in that session from that point onwards “Private”. “Off The Record Browsing” if [...]

Blogging with ecto

By Malcolm Owen | Jun 18, 2007

So. You’re writing away on the perfect blog post in your friendly neighborhood browser window, and suddenly the internet connection dies on you just before you hit submit. You get the Page Can’t Be Displayed error, and so you quickly hit the Back icon to revive your work. Sadly, in quite a few cases, it [...]

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