Oilman

Laptops and Desktops and Treos OH MY!

I do a fair bit of travelling and to help pass time in airports as well as to have something to work on when I get where I’m going I have accumulated some portable gadgetry: Dell 700m (12.1″ widescreen laptop) Treo 700w Creative Zen Vision:M - which has nothing to do with this post at all it’s just [...]

FireFox Error

I keep getting this error in FF and it basically crashes the browser. It only happens on the laptop and not on the desktop at all. Both systems are running V 1.5.0.4. It seems to be happening when a page is running a remote script to something like Google Analytics or some other ad server. Any [...]

SearchStatus 1.16 Release

The boys over at Quirk have been working hard and have delivered a new release of SearchStatus. We’re up to Version 1.16 now and it just keeps getting better and better. From the Changelog: 2006-06-12: ver 1.16 - Show backward links expanded (Thanks to Todd “Oilman” Friesen!), new link report showing internal and external link counts, [...]

Microsoft Buys FolderShare

FolderShare - File Transfer & Remote File Access FolderShare is a fantastically cool application that you can use to, well….share folders. It’s a P2P application that has about a zillion different uses. I use to synchronize my work documents and email between my laptop and desktop for travelling. I never have to worry about transferring stuff [...]