The Raggedy Edge

Google ChromeThe Browser wars are expanding and Google has just launched its foray into the war - Google Chrome.

I am posting this message using Chrome and I think I like it. It's fast and has a minimalist style.

It also seems to import all the settings from Firefox.

It has a few nice bells and whistles too - you can drag a tab to the desktop to open a new browser, and you can drag tabs between browsers. It is also supposedly better with web applications.

The url/address/omni bar is a little ugly with the large font and slight greying out bits of the url, but it is usable. Not as good as the Firefox "Awesome Bar".

Mashal Radio - Screenshot Mashal Radio is an online radio broadcasting during the month of ramadan, both online, and through a more traditional FM Transmission on 106.7 FM for the local community.

The project was to create a simple website from where people could get information and also listen to the radio station. No real complicated functionality was needed, the client did not even want a playlist on the site - however some bells and whistles were set up such as live chat, an updates mailing list and a contact form.

The radio streaming is provided and handled by a third party through the client so it had no real impact on the site development.

After my recent interweb troubles, I have decided to move away from 1and1 and have chosen the hosting services of eUKHost - they seem to offer a lot more for a similar amount of money (after using a discount code).

The new set has around three times as much guaranteed RAM, 4x as much Burstable and almost 4x the bandwidth as before. (which I don't really need. yet.), two ip addresses as standard, and fast help, either as live chat or over the phone 24/7.

So far the new service has been excellent - they even transferred the data and settings over for me!

After the troubles with 1and1, this is a massive relief and I would recommend them very much for hosting.

This post is brought to you in conjunction with hotspot shield (because the access issues are continuing) and 11 heavens through which I found a simple fix the the bounding issues with the ablock theme.

According to the 11heavens link, Drupal supplies a css class to fix the bounding issues I was experiencing on this site with the current theme. I have now filed an issue for it to be fixed.

Apparently this site (and others I am hosting) are not available to a lot of people in the UK.

Problem seems to be focussed on the Virgin Media/Cable & Wireless network with time-outs taking place on the hop after atlas.cogentco.com.

VM are not accepting that the problem is on their end, which is bonkers as users of other ISP's can connect.

I myself am posting this using a VPN connection via Anchorfree's Hotspot Shield. (they deserve the free advert as they are saving my proverbial backside).