Showing posts with label Rant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rant. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Internet Explorer 8.0 Crashing Already

Only had this for a couple days and it's already giving me problems. I simply click on Tools --> Compatibility View menu. When I click the OK button the whole browser gets closed, including all tabs. I thought this was supposed to run in different processes like Chrome. If Chrome crashes, it simply allows you to close the individual tab. I haven't had it crash the whole browser.

 

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Monday, July 28, 2008

Apparently not so Cuil after all...

One of the top stories on Google News this morning was a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced "cool") that is supposed to have a larger search index than Google. Although the search results come out in a pretty Web 2.0 looking layout, I will probably still opt for scrolling down a list of search results. I also found a few other things that raised a few eyebrows.

Broken Contact Us Link - One thing that kind of surprised me was the fact that the Contact Us page resulted in an "Oop! We couldn't find that page." error. I recently saw the same thing on a web page of a company I was being interviewed. Of all the page links that could be broken, you'd think that this one would be pretty important.

No Address Recognition - I also tried typing in my current address, but the search engine simply hung for a few minutes after finally displaying a message that it couldn't find any results.

No Detailed Preferences - The preferences are simply Safe Search (on / off) or Typing Suggestions (on /off). I'd like to see more choices than this.

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You can also visit my post labeled "A Few Reason's I will keep using Google Search over Windows Live Search."

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

MSDN Webcast Portal - Seven Deadly Clicks!

First let me say that if you haven't checked out the WPF Soup To Nuts Webcast Series, I highly recommend it. My only problem here is that it takes a total of seven clicks to get to the content! Come on...where's that Web 2.0 experience?! If only they could throw these on MSDN Channel9.








Monday, December 17, 2007

Experts Exchange - Officially Banned!

This used to be a great site, but is now full of pop-ups and annoying ads.


http://www.experts-exchange.com/

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Windows Vista - Windows Update reboot prompts during separate installation.

Dear Windows Vista,

Why do you ask me to reboot when I'm in the middle of installing something? What's confusing here is that I don't know if this is related to the Visual Studio 2008 install or something else that was being installed in the background. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of the silent updates, but it would be nice to understand what's going on here. Alas, the VS installation progress bar is still moving...