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Should CSS Hacks Be Used?
CSS Hacks allow Web Designers to target IE and pass extra CSS, but they can be hit or miss. Is there a better way for designers to target IE?
Guitar Hero 3 Hates PS2 My Memory Card
Some of you purchasing Guitar Hero 3 may find when you go to play it that your memory card will not load.
The Max 16mb Memory Card, which requires a boot disc prior to game launch, is not compatible with Guitar Hero 3. According to the manufacturer an alternate boot method can be used for [...]
Browser Review: Flock
I’ve been using Flock as my web browser for a few weeks now. Has it passed my tests? Will it have a permanent home on my computer? Has it pushed Firefox off its high perch?
Being Social
Flock is billed as a Social Web Browser, so it should be no surprise that it allows you to add login information for the most popular social networking websites directly into the browser. This information allows Flock to access these accounts and display content to you in sidebars and topbars and to quickly add content to these services. After adding my information for the various sites I have accounts with, I found that don’t use them. I have a flickr account, a facebook account, and a youtube account, but I only use them a few times a year. There is one social network website I use daily, Last.fm, but Flock does not give sidebar access to it. So the social aspect of the social web browser was basically useless to me. Granted, to some these features are possibly a God send, but for me they collected dust in the corner.
Post Anywhere Blog
Flock allows you to post to a variety of blogs from within the browser window. It also gives you right click access to post various internet findings to your blog. These features were pretty cool, but I still found myself preferring to visit this site and post it manually. I attempted to use Tags in Flock, but found that they do not represent tags in WordPress. Instead it seems that flock decided to make its own system for tags which bypasses the way WordPress does them. Not that I use tags often, but if you make it an option it should at least act as expected.
For the most part blogging through Flock was easy and painfree and I’m sure will be the most used feature of Flock.
Web Browsing
Unfortunately this is were most Mozilla web browsers suffer on a PPC Apple computer. There is a problem with the way they display text and form elements. When using a textbox the cursor lags behind the text and is always a few letters back from where it should be. This makes posting to a forum almost impossible. Even as I type this into WordPress the cursor is about three characters behind. I also find that on a PPC text will sometimes be cut off in unexpected places. I don’t know why, but it makes surfing with Mozilla browsers all that more difficult.
Overall
Overall Flock wasn’t a bad browser, but it definitely wasn’t the browser for me. I prefer speed over gadgets. I prefer usability over flash. I prefer Firefox over Flock.
Sorry Flock, but you’re deleted.