Offtakes on Web-related software, services 'n tips
Archive for October, 2006
Lessons in Eating Crow
Oct 29th
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded and installed a free disk defragmentation utility. I learned about Auslogics DiskDefrag courtesy the LangaList Plus edition. The interface is very simple. Select the drive to defragment. The i9nterface refresh with drive data: file system (my drives are all NTFS for better space usage and lower fragmentation). Total disk space, user space (in red) and free space (in green).
You click the Next button to begin the defragmentation. The resulting drive map interface is quite basic. And overall quite similar to the ChkDsk GUI that debuted in Windows 95. DiskDefrag defragments files. Without moving around system More >
Nanny Gate II: Web Browsers As Fraud Detectors
Oct 23rd
I’d like you to forgive me the formatting and spelling errors dotted over last week’s post. I wrote the post using Notepad and the lack of on-demand code formatting. As well as a spell checker resulted in the crap formatting. I won’t let it happen again. Now, on with the software reviews.
The new Opera 9.03 Beta Build 8629 introduces a Phishing detector that detect and alerts the user in real-time if a web site is genuine or fraudulent. I tested using “http://0xd2.0x695fd6/https:/signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll/SignIn.htm” extracted from Google’s list of known fraudulent sites. I find the level of alerts much better than those More >
Up To My Ass In Alligators
Oct 22nd
Don’t you love slaughtering them alligators? All that prime hide turned into bags and shoes and designer luggage. If we believe the advertisements, that is. But environmentalists don’t diss me for cruelty. Blame the person who coined the expression When you’re up to your ass in alligators, there’s no time to remember you’re there to drain the swamp!
First and foremost in software updates this week is Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. Along with an all-new Microsoft favicon. Or perhaps that’s been there for a while and I never noticed the change. I’m certainly getting all woolly-headed in me old age
IE7′s More >
Oranges & Lemons Ring The Bells of Saint Clemens
Oct 2nd
This week I’ve spent quite a bit of time evaluating web-based bug and issue tracking scripts. But I won’t bore you with the details beyond a warning. Never take the developer’s presentation of facts and features at face value. Always run through the online demo. Or if possible, download the scripts and set them up on your own web server then test them exhaustively. Diamonds, even in the rough, too often turn out to be lemons.
But that not so true of a few under-exposed Microsoft Power Toy-like add-ins. One is Microsoft TimeZone that (optionally) loads with Windows, and remains in More >
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