Apparently they are just starting this new bit where they show the actual buildings on the street maps and camera shots. It doesn’t show up everywhere, but it does in Boston. See for yourself here: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=boston&sll=35.229548,-80.834937&sspn=0.001597,0.002865&ie=UTF8&ll=42.358845,-71.05559&spn=0.005779,0.011458&z=17
Yesterday an acquaintance began following me on Twitter, and I found that they were using Twitter Job Search. It’s in beta, and I wish I had time to contribute as it looks promising.
It appears that some companies are following people as a marketing approach, which is the only reason I can think of for an eBusiness-in-a-box company to start following me that had no job postings. Their Twitter page did remind me that I wanted to customize my Twitter page as I have noticed some folks have done, and I found this handy blog post on how to.
With all the recent press (Craigslist drops prostitutes, Craigslist CEO demands apology) about craigslist the last few days, eBay is up almost 10%. According to Google Finance, eBay owns about 25% of craigslist.
Remember when web standards were supposed to end cross browser development issues? Now you can not share documents the same way, according to this ZDNet article.
My favorite Windows utility now fully functional in Vista
If you are like me (and I am realistic to know that the odds are really against that), you could care less about visitors to your blog that have Javascript disabled. There is really just no reason for it, with 99.99% of browsers supporting it. So, if you want to save a few bytes and just have a clickable icon for your Delicious tag, here is my version:
<img id=”DeliciousIcon1″ title=”Bookmark this on Delicious”
src=”http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif”
height=”10″ width=”10″ alt=”Bookmark this on Delicious”
style=”cursor: pointer; vertical-align: middle”
onclick=”window.open(‘http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url=’+encodeURIComponent(‘<?php the_permalink() ?>’)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(‘<?php the_title() ?>’),’delicious’, ‘toolbar=no,width=550,height=550′); return false;” />
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes blog post on ZDNet today reminds me of when Windows 95 users where expecting the next service pack and instead got an ad for an upgrade.
Buying Vista is the biggest mistake I have made since buying Circuit City stock.
Over in my old blog, I recently had an entry about cleaning up the context menu in XP with PowerToys to fix a problem where Windows Exlplorer was even slower than usual.
Alas, Power Toys are not available for Vista, and even cleaning out the context menu will not speed it up. But, cleaning up the context menu does make it easier to use simply by narrowing down the choices by eliminating those you don’t use.
One habit I am trying to get into is adding a link to my Google query so folks can a) point out how I could have got better results and b) teach the less sophisticated Googlers how to improve their own results.
For the curious (and those who have not done much with Windows under the hood), there is a good summary of why your context menu may be annoying in an article at My Digital Life. The article includes a link to a ShellExView v1.37 by NirSoft. ShellExView is a cool tool if you are computer savvy, but not something I would recommend for your grandmother.
Of course, you can always do it the old fashioned way, i.e., regedit. Instructions on where to make the changes can be found at The WinVista Club.
On a related note, there is a good article at Computer World on how to manage your context menu in the “normal” way.
The point of this post is getting rid of that annoying incompatibility notice about Real every time an update is made to FireFox. But first, a rant…
I am not a fan of the Real Player to begin with. I certainly give it credit for being one of the early multimedia players. I also give them credit for being one of the first major abusers of the installation process, changing extension mappings without asking, installing itself as a service when it is only used occasionally, and being really obtuse in how to fix these problems afterward. When I did PC maintenance service (before the Geek Squad, which people keep reminding me that I thought of four years before they did) I routinely removed the RealPlayer service and was always thanked for speeding up the machine.
I even tried to give the Real Player a second chance when they bought the Napster name. That lasted about 2 minutes past the installation where it still did all the things that annoyed me about the their 1.0 version. The Real Player is not installed on my personal machine. I used to routinely uninstall it from my work machine until my current employer decided to build their compliance training application using it. Which brings me to my point.
After updating the excellent password manager I use (RoboForm), I was once again confronted with this annoying screen.
Real Extension Annoyance
My first shot in Google (remove incompatible firefox extension) got me pretty close to a solution with a Mozilla Support thread. The last entry in the thread did the trick for me. In case that link is dead, the entry was:
Ok, run the program “regedit” and goto “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\”
If there is nothing there try “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions”
There you should see the extension… delete the registry entry.
That worked for me…
The first path worked for me, too, specifically the key {ABDE892B-13A8-4d1b-88E6-365A6E755758}, with the value of “C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\browserrecord”