Archive for November, 2008

The Pop-Up Blocker

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Pop-Up blockers are a standard feature of the modern web browser. It almost makes you wonder why pop-up advertisements even still exist. But they do, so someone must still be making money from them. The only problem is, that sometimes technology makes mistakes, and sites with legitimate pop-up windows get blocked. The hassle is then, [...]

The Spinning Glow Worm

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

One of my favourite features of Chrome is something very minor, and something I doubt I’d have noticed had it not been pointed out to me. As is quite common throughout computing, Chrome has a ‘Loading’ animation. In Chrome, I call it the Spinning Glow Worm, and it’s in the tab, next to the page [...]