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Opening Twhirl links in Firefox on Vista

brendo — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:58:33 +0000

So I’m sure I’m not the only one who is extremely frustrated by all links that I click from Twhirl opening in Internet Explorer, even though I have Firefox set as my default browser.

It turns out this is some little quirk between Vista and Air, but it is fixable if you follow these steps:

Step 1:

Open Default Programs from the start menu.

Step 2:

Choose “Set Program Access and Computer Defaults”

Step 3:

Click Custom, then choose Mozilla Firefox (or whatever your default browser is) and click ok.

And now you are done

Brendo

Facebook is better

brendo — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:29:43 +0000

Just tried to change my name on facebook and before it gave me this:

Before confirming your name change request, please read the following.

* Your Facebook profile must be attached to your real name.
* You must include your full name.
* Celebrity names, nicknames, or other fake names are not allowed and will not be approved.
* Obscenity, curses, and swear words are not allowed and will not be approved.
* ISn’t~ ThIs <3 AnN0YiNg 2 ReAd? Non-standard capitalization and special characters are not allowed and will not be approved.
* Do not try to combine sentences into one word; Jane Lookatmysupercoolnewnickname Smith will not be approved.
* We review all name changes, so this may take a while.

No wonder it hasn’t been taken over by the deviants yet.

i upgraded

brendo — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:45:07 +0000

I have upgraded to WP2.3 – so far so good.

As this blog is pretty young, there were no fancy plugins to convert so it was smoooth sailing.

I tagged this post just to see how it would feel.

In the spirit of change, new layout too!

the wild, wild… card

brendo — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:11:49 +0000

I need to do a Google search for: the [everything] shop, for a client.

By this, I mean I wanted it to return all results that were ‘the … shop’ it could find.

I thought I’d look up an advanced google search tips site and see if it could help me out.

The first two I found, didn’t, so I thought I’d have a go on my own and it turned out to be simpler than I thought.

“The * Shop” (quotes included, of course) returned the results I wanted, but only with one word between the and shop.

I tried “The ** Shop” and got results with two words between the and shop.

I’m not exactly sure how I would have gone about this if this stab didn’t work, but it did and the client is again happy.