Tag: WTF

Sure, Google Chrome has a rapidly-growing repository of extensions -- but Firefox's add-on platform is a bit more mature and robust. That enables developers to do certain things that just aren't possible yet in Google Chrome. Say, for example, creating an add-on for Firefox which allows you to install and use Google Chrome's extensions. Yep. It's called Google Chrome extensions manager and it ...

Oh Ed Bott, what would we do without you? Seriously. Amidst the 1.3 trillion "black screen error" posts recently published on every blog in the Milky Way, Ed's breakdown today was the first to really dig in to the reality behind Prevx's claims that recent Windows 7 patches were rendering systems totally unusable. You might have wondered why you didn't read about the "story" earlier this ...

Ever have a few drinks and nod off while watching a DVD? I'm pretty sure almost all of us has been there at one time or another. If you've ever longed for that feeling you get when you groggily wake up to the DVD's menu playing over and over again, head on over to You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD. You can choose from a selection of DVDs to "fall asleep" in front of, including: Pride & ...

And now, as the kids say, for something completely different. Really, really, different. What do you get when you combine a bunch of mega-tech-CEOs (Michael Dell, EMC's Joe Tucci, Oracle's Larry Ellison, AMD's Hector Ruiz and Intel's Paul Otellini), JibJab-style animation, musical theatre and possibly Quaaludes? Dell: The Journey. I don't know what it is, or who thought it was just the good idea ...

The latest post at the Ask.com blog begins, "For a long time people have wanted the ability to search for terms and phrases on the web using non-letter (A-Z) characters. Put another way, searching using non-alphanumeric characters." This is a promising start--I've occasionally been annoyed by the fact that Google interprets almost all non-alphanumeric characters as spaces--but then things go off ...