Today Windows Live Messenger prompted me for an upgrade. I hadn’t done it in a while, so I thought it might be a good idea. I expected that Microsoft would include some sort of “free toolbar.” I was a little surprised by how they did it this time. You can see from the screenshot that … Continue reading Free Browser Toolbars – #3→
This post is more of “collecting” yet another example of a “free” and “helpful” browser toolbar that could be installed than a rant. I think that point was fairly clear the last time. The interesting thing about this one is that Sun is offering to install the MSN toolbar. The last time I posted on … Continue reading Free Browser Toolbars – #2→
Why is it that every application thinks that it needs to install a toolbar into Internet Explorer (or other browsers) to help me with my browsing experience? I’ve collected a few examples of installation programs “helpfully” offering to install a toolbar into Internet Explorer; there are, undoubtedly, many others. These are just a few of … Continue reading Free Browser Toolbars→
The installation for the latest version of Java for my Windows XP system prompted me to install a demo of Carbonite Online Backup instead of free toolbars. While this is a refreshing change from the usual free toolbar crap that lots of vendors think needs to be installed on my systems, this is still annoying. … Continue reading Demo Ware – #1→
This one isn’t a tool bar. But it is still one of those annoying things that is in an installation program that doesn’t really need to be present. WinSCP, a handy utility for SFTP transfers, decided that it was necessary to offer to install WeFi as part of the process. What WeFi has to do … Continue reading Unwanted Software Offers – #1→
Since I’ve started doing more web development over the last couple of years, I’ve become much more interested in how web sites appear in different browsers. This page article is going to show how this web site, at least a small corner of it, appears in a different browsers on several operating systems. This isn’t … Continue reading Browser Examples→
Behind the screen you hear the clatter of dice. The Dungeon Master begins to laugh. What do you do?