The other day a family member sent a post to “Facebook” using “IE8″ (Internet Explorer 8), but then we immediately noticed a typo. Like any user can do, we went to delete the wayward “Facebook” post and re-post it with the corrected version of the post but to our chagrin, we discovered that we could not delete the last post. In fact, in “IE8,” we couldn’t fix any post. We tinkered a little bit and I found that we could do what we needed to do in “Google Chrome.” After a bit of research I found that it would seem that there is a lack of support code on FB’s end is what keeps “IE8″ from interacting with Mark Zuckerberg’s “Facebook.”
After a bit of tooling around on the web, I found the following information on how to get everything to work right once again between your Facebook account and IE8, and it has to do with IE8′s “Compatibility View.”
When you’re on your Facebook page, do the following:
- Clock on “Tools”
- Click on “Compatibility View Settings”.
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As anyone may have noticed, Google changed how it presents image results these days. My jury is still out on this one. But I’m leaning towards a “boo” on the image search effectiveness. I did a search from my computer for a particular name of an executive producer and received 65 rows of image results. But of the 65 rows of approximately 7 to 8 images each, I was stumped at how few images of the actual person showed up.
From the first 5 rows, I had 14 results of what I wanted while the rest of the imagery was merely related to the person in a round-a-bout way. Hence, 14 of approximately 40 images were for what I wanted.
It seems on the cover of this new book of searching for images, that this new methodology of image search from Google is a fail.
In previous renditions of the image search, I’d search for something and get it. Today I search for something and I’m getting pictures of Paris Hilton, obscure art, directly related art, … True Blood ?(not even remotely related)?, anime promo art and the likes. That previous search was without quotes. With quotes, I get 15 images of what I’m looking for (vs. the first result of 14).
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The other day on one of my systems, I decided to update Google Earth for the latest and greatest options, features and what not that I wanted to look into.
Now if you know me, you know that I have a very concisely controlled work environment on some of my systems. With that said, I’d like to admit that I have installed the web browser Google Chrome on my systems at work and my laptop. I WILL NOT install it on my desktop. I have the oddest experience with Google apps. It changes my mouse response speed. So rather than have my mouse cursor speed across my monitor real estate in a small flick of my wrist, it takes several swipes to get the cursor across the screen. In other words, it goes into granny gear.
So I don’t install some things onto some systems.
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Alert to all WordPress Users: WordPress 2.9.1 is out and in the wild! If you’ve made the tragic or fatal error of installing version 2.9 and have been cussing a lot lately, GO GET 2.9.1 and UPGRADE. upgrade yesterday! Or not!
To be honest, no one is at fault for the greivous existence I’ve lived over the last few weeks. S* happens!
Let’s see what my pain has been:
- Publishing, though successful, gave me a blank page in response.
- Adding links gave me a blank response page.
- My control panels would disappear from the right side.
- My right side columns would disappear.
- Images would load, but not center, if they showed up.
At times, if FireFox didn’t work, Internet Explorer would. If neither worked, then Google Chrome would work.
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