Well when that happened I thought, Amazon should buy the OS and run it as an iOS & Android competitor. Google has Android, Apple has iOS and Amazon, now with their tablet announced – it sure could use it’s own OS.

Looks like this _may_ be happening (it’s still a rumor – but still)…

via Lifehacker

Download Modify Headers from the Firefox Addons repository, install, restart browser.

Then from the menubar, select Tools > Modify Headers. Under the first tab ‘headers’ click the drop down ‘select action’ and change it to ‘Add’.

Next in ‘Header name’, type ‘X-Forwarded-For’.

In ‘Value’ type in ’12.13.14.15′

Done. Check Comedy Central or Hulu and watch your favourite clips.

Ever since the scroller was invented in 1990something, you would scroll down to move the page up, revealing the lower part of the page.

Now Apple have thrown up all over the place with ‘natural scrolling’. Which is the complete opposite of what everyone else has been doing for the past 20 odd years.

Lion has the ability to turn off natural scrolling on the trackpad, but not on the mouse.

But there is a fix. Pilotmoon have created a menubar app, Reverse Scrolling which turns on natural scrolling for OS X Snow Leopard. Not sure of a work around for OS X Lion, but at least you have consistency between your computers.

A chap called Matt Patenaude has made a small app called Colors which takes care of all the crap Apple failed to care about. Thanks Matt.

Even thought I’d love a brand new one, with ABS as an optional extra (another £990) is a bit much just for now. Heated grips, another optional extra, £130. And I’d need pannier bags and cellphone/GPS mount) – PLUS protective gear.

So, I’m thinking of a 2007/8 BMW F650gs for around £3000, inc ABS and bags. A bike similar to this:

Anyone had experience with taking these over Europe? Or have any points/tips on the bike?

Last night I was watching a ripped movie – a crap one at that, but then suddenly the sound cuts out and I see this message appear:

Just goes to show Sony are indeed dicks. Cutting off Linux for PS3, enforcing their copyright measures, rootkitting PCs – what else?

To be honest, I used to have a lot of admiration for Sony but now that’s lost. As a games machine it’s pretty cool – however i prefer to game on PC using mouse & keyboard. The only game i really play is IL2 on PS3.

So now, I am building my own Boxee. Boxee plays internet media, shares it via Facebook, Twitter etc. Awesome.

Luckily I found my phone, was down the side of the couch.

However, I’ve just invested (61p) in a new app for Android Seekdroid. I downloaded it, signed up as a new user and it started working straight away. Located my phone down to a couple of meters.

This shows how polished Apple’s find iPhone service is much more polished than Android’s. Instead of “it just works”, Android should adopt “you have to make it work yourself”.

Windows however, have been using it for sometime in their IM software, MSN Messenger. But why do this?! Why would you have pulsing and distracting adverts – and a fucking splash screen full of adverts when you sign in? No other IM software I know of does this. In fact – no software I know of (excluding mobile applications) use adware.

Is this the future? Is this where we’re heading? Considering the current state of free apps on Android Marketplace and App Store mostly have adverts in them. Why shouldn’t free software on your OS contain adverts?

Why? Because it’s just not done. Don’t ever do this.

However the next morning, there was a post on Lifehacker on that exact idea. Some guy had bought a couple bookcases to make a cheap bed base, with easy-access storage. (via Ikeahack)

This seemed like the solution, except i wanted my Malm bed on top of the bookcases laying horizontally flat. I went to Ikea early and bought two bookcases. Came home, put them together (quite quickly) and had a hell of a time trying to get them downstairs into my room, lifting the bed up while nudging the bookcases into place.

Once in place i realised they’re too high. So instead of resting the Malm bed on top of the bookcases naturally, I rest the bed on the long supporting side bars. One thing to note is that the bookcases are about 17cm longer than the bed. It however would suit a 160cm wide bed – but i’m happy as it is a natural bed side table.

It’s steady as a rock and a fair bit of room underneath now.

There are a few issues.

• pages with JS loaded content panic and gives you a warning saying “the page has become unresponsive”
• the spinning beach ball seems to come up randomly
• switching tabs, shows a blank screen for up to 10 seconds, while it renders the content (nothing to do with bandwidth, just seems to take ages)
• when downloading something, the download window doesn’t show – but a small icon in the top right next to the search show a progress

The download thingo really annoys me and seems to be a ‘feature’. This minimalistic icon, which Apple seem to love (monochrome icons in iTunes sidebar, Safari controls etc). But I ended up downloading the same thing over and over – until I went to check my Downloads folder. The icon needs to be prevalent or at least some other way of showing the item is being downloaded. Maybe a badge on the Dock icon for example.

Also Safari STILL has a URL bar and separate search bar. Why still do this Apple? Combine the two as the other browsers do. If the content is “something.com” try that address. Otherwise try the default search. This is basic stuff.

Fingers crossed Apple already knows about these and addresses these seemingly minor but annoying flaws.