Tag: Firefox
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It’s a Fine Day…
People Fall From Windows, But Just for A Small While….la la la la. Obtuse reason for that singalong is that Radio Clash Live has been upgraded to Airtime 2.4 which supports the new Opus codec…so I’ve changed the low quality stream to that format for a trial. Give it a spin – amazing quality for…
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How to create your own non-spyware HTML5 mixcloud players
You might have noticed the new spiffy players on Radio Clash for Mixcloud – these should work on all browsers, phones, and the most recent ones even Firefox with Flash (more later on why that is). They’re HTML5 but using Mixcloud. How is this done? Took me a while to work it out so thought…
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a rather geeky post but I’m rather pleased…my first Linux install
May seem a small step for the rest of the universe, but this is my first post on Ubuntu, a Linux system. I like open source, and use it where I can on this Vista machine…but previously scared of all the driver hassles and hoops you had to jump through – and those bash/bin/i/am/a/total/geek/ -rm…
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Not SmartFTP
Something I hate about commercial ‘free’ software, like FTP and Anti-virus programs when they say ‘free for uncommercial use’ – so I happily use them at home (not commercially of course) for several years, lured into a false sense of a happy-warm-fuzzy-glow towards the company. Then some marketing wonk in the company obviously freaks out,…
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Tip
If you click on the MP3 podcast links here, or anywhere with an MP3 and get that annoying Quicktime player appearing like I did, and don’t want it to play movies or audio in your Firefox browser, then delete or move these files from your Firefox plugins directory: npqtplugin.dll npqtplugin2.dll and probably Quicktime.class. I’d not…
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The Beauty of GYBO
I’ve mentioned Get Your Bootleg On mashup messageboard in the past, although sometimes had my differences in the past, it always has great humour and sometimes comes up with classic and extremely funny threads. A recent one was this thread, which mostly about a crap site I won’t mention here, and quite serious in part…