Archive for “2004”

On this page the following entries were made in the “2004” time-frame.


The Castle and The Sea

Posted Dec 21st, 2004 by Rich

It was my sons birthday recently and he received the usual crop of presents. but this time there were one or two things that stood out.

The Castle.

Obviously this wasn’t any old castle, otherwise it would be pretty pointless mentioning it. This one came flat packed. 500 pieces. That all had to be put together when [...]

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Firefox and Flash

Posted Dec 9th, 2004 by Rich

After recent discussion on the GAWDS it has been found that Firefox has a problem with Flash.

Firstly find a pge with Flash on it, there are a few listed in the GAWDS sites of the month. Then try tabbing through the links. It will appear that you cannot tab past the link before the flash.

This [...]

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GAWDS site of the month pt 2

Posted Dec 1st, 2004 by Rich

December sees another batch of nominations for the GAWDS site of the month.

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Firefox Screen Reader Emulator

Posted Nov 24th, 2004 by Rich

I know a lot of us are using Firefox…
I came across this little addon that may, or may not, be useful.
Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator Extension
I haven’t tested it as yet, but it does look useful!

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Firefox Quirks

Posted Nov 17th, 2004 by Rich

I quite often visit web pages where I need to save the source, with images and CSS etc., to tweak and find solutions to problems. The easiest method of doing this was by using the Save Web Page complete. IE used to mess this up. I had assumed, and hoped that firefox would be better. [...]

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Why not to use UK2.net

Posted Nov 10th, 2004 by Rich

Updated: UK2.net 2 years on on 10/11/2006

Some years ago I received a birthday present in the shape of a domain name. That was when www.elfden.co.uk was born. At the time it was purchased through uk2.net because they were relatively cheap.
Everything went well, for a while, and I extended the domain name to a small hosting [...]

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