Science & Tech
When there’s a new discovery or invention, it goes here.
GrinfilledCelt:
Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show
Note to self: Move to Oklahoma when the revolution comes.
World’s Largest Model Rocket to Lift Off Saturday
Any of you ever do model rockets? Loads of fun, especially if you like to climb trees.
Are you still bothered by sites that insist that you use IE? Try this Firefox add-on.
When you come upon a naggy site that doesn’t like your browser, go to tools, select User agent switcher, and select the browser you need to pretend to be.
Reload the page and the prejudice ends. You can use it on many sites to log-in to your classes or pay your bill. It will even fool Mozilla.org into insulting you for using IE. That’s how good it is.
Do be aware, sometimes the reason they warn you to use a certain browser is because their crappy site BREAKS in every other browser, so the user agent won’t help you in those situations. But for a lot of sites, you’ll be able to use them just as if you had Internet Explorer running in Windows.
As long as it doesn’t emulate IE’s security flaws.
Firefox has had a similar add-on for a few years now called IETab. I use it, and it’s pretty good.
Although Firefox is a good browser, one of my main beefs with it is that it lags horribly when you go to Flash-heavy websites (Blip.tv is a common offender). As much as I hate IE, I will admit that it’s somehow able to withstand the crazy load, and IETab is quite handy in that situation.
Actually, IETab is something completely different. User agent spoofing as in GFC’s trick just involves Firefox telling the web site “Hi, I’m Internet Explorer” instead of “Hi, I’m Firefox.” Otherwise, it behaves just like Firefox normally would. IETab is actually Internet Explorer… in a tab.
I’ve used a similar user agent spoofing trick to get around “IE only” site walls on my Mac. Most of the time, the site works just fine in my non-IE browser.
Earnestly restricting your web site to users of just one browser is a sure sign that you are a shitty web developer.
How well informed are you of the facts about global warming? I got one wrong.
GrinfilledCelt:
How well informed are you of the facts about global warming? I got one wrong.
I got 100%.
Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company.
The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
The case echoes previous circumstances in which Apple attempted to hush up incidents when its devices overheated.
I was thinking of posting this in “What the” and having you guys guess what it is, but there is only two of you and you probably wouldn’t bite anyway. Given what it is, this is the most bizarre picture I have ever seen.
