Items tagged askmetafilter in 2006

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How is Google giving me access to this page?

Google have an open URL redirector, so you can craft a link that uses that:

2:38 pm / 27th December 2006 / askmetafilter, authentication, google, security, web

Sending a postal letter via the internets?

Thanks mycapaciousbottega. It looks like there’s still a business opportunity here because emailbypost.com doesn’t work! I got through the create-your-letter step, but when I hit the “pay” button I got an error from the payment service stating that their user account didn’t exist.

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4 pm / 26th December 2006 / askmetafilter, post, uk, letters

What is the physically smallest and cheapest laptop capable of running OS X?

Apple rumors are worth approximately nothing, but there’s one going around that a ultra-slim 12“ MacBook Pro is going to be announced at MacWorld Expo some time in the second week of January; might be worth holding on until then to see if there’s any truth to it. There’s certainly a 12” sized hole in the line-up at the moment.

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4:08 pm / 25th December 2006 / apple, askmetafilter, osx, laptop, shopping, size, computer

So long Safari?

All browsers have bugs—especially relating to fancy JavaScript stuff. Any truly complex web application is likely to run in to browser bugs, and fixing them takes a whole bunch of time. Bugs in IE and Firefox are pretty well understood, as are the workarounds for them.

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12:34 pm / 10th May 2006 / apple, askmetafilter, browsers, mac, osx, safari

Patching Windows XP from burned CDs?

antifuse: that’s perfect, thanks. Unfortunately slipstreaming isn’t really an option—or at least I’d rather avoid it (I’d have to take her laptop home with me and return it another time).

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7:28 am / 16th February 2006 / askmetafilter, windows, patching, aunt