Whaaaaat? Yes, that’s right. A new series of Futurama airs in the States tonight (9pm) on Comedy Central. So it should be turning up on iTunes or bit torrent soon.
Also today is the day iPhone 4 should be arriving. There’s such a demand for them that shipping has been pushed back to 3 weeks.
Recently I’ve been seeing some weird things happening with Safari & Google. Lately, gMaps is very slow and takes up a lot of process. Streetview is horrible in Safari 5. gAnalytics doesn’t display content correctly.
I’ve been using Chrome for each thing i think is dodgy and each time I’ve been correct.
Now I don’t think it’s to do with Webkit, i think it’s to do with the JS rendering system. Both Chrome and Safari use completely different JS renderers however share the same markup renderer.
Now that all UK mobile providers are capping all unlimited data plans to <1gb, this data monitor might be useful. And it's pretty good looking too.
Looks like Google have just recently added video support for the Mac. Unless I’ve been under a rock for a while, this is news to me.
Hopefully they’ll open up the API and allows developers like Adium to use gVideo or something.
Stupid SanDisk make it so difficult to remove their on board software which comes preloaded on the Cruzer range.
I bought a 16gb Cruzer and have had big issues trying to format the disk in NTFS/FAT32. Each time Windows would only allow me 200mb.
Download the removal software (Windows only) to get rid of this nasty software, once and for all!
Apple’s iPhone 4 goes on pre-order tomorrow so if you’re wanting to get one, you’ll need to order early as these will sell out fast.
My previous post about Lovefilms ongoing efforts to advertise as much as they can at the expensive of their customers has just led me to an extension for Safari. For you Firefox users, been running extensions for a while now, i’m sure you’re aware of Adblock. Also for Chrome (Windows) users extensions are available – not sure about Adblock but wouldn’t put it past them.
Check out Michael’s port of Adblock for Safari. It has known bugs (which is more of a Safari issue i think). Don’t be shy to drop him a donation.
I pay a service to Lovefilm. £13 per month for 2 rental movies at a time. I can usually get about a maximum of 10 DVDs per month. This is good value. However, their website is increasing with the amount of stupid adverts.
i’m not just talking about the small Google adverts. I’m am talking about the huge Flash overlays which prevent you from viewing your content. This following screenshot prevented me from seeing what movies i had at home. The close button also didn’t work, then crashed Safari:
So I’ve created some sort of hack (specifically from Lovefilm.com) which can be used in most browsers. It’s a custom stylesheet which forces the adverts not to display.
Updated: Download it here: custom-stylesheet-lovefilm.com.css
With extensions for Safari 5 finally being enabled, developers are starting to produce some good stuff.
One thing (which Apple has never had) is a separate reload button. I dislike buttons which have two functions such as reload/stop. If you click ‘stop’ just as its loaded, and changes it’s state to ‘reload’, thus loading it again. Grrr annoying. Happens too many times.
You’ll need to enable extensions, then check out http://siracusafamily.org/safari/extensions/
