8.04.2008 г.

The hardest game in the world!

Three days ago a friend of mine showed me this game. It is awesome! Be sure to have Flash plug-in installed. Enjoy!





5.04.2008 г.

My impressions from Internet Explorer 8 beta 1

A month ago I installed IE 8 beta 1 on my PC. I was full of expectations. And Microsoft didn't disappoint me. The good thing about IE8 is that I feel it works faster. Even though IE8 looks pretty much as its predecessor IE7 there are some differences. The URL in the address bar looks differently. It is easy now to see the main domain, because all the other part of the URL is faded. I noticed also one great idea from Microsoft, namely including smart tags. Every time you mark some text a smart tag appears whith some options for you to do with the marked text(like search for the text for example)
For those who miss IE7 there is an option to "emulate" IE7, which changes IE8appearance to IE7.

As bad things I can point that it is unsuitable for developing ASP.NET projects. I tried to work with it but it was crashing unexpectedly from time to time. Also I had some strange rendering effects with some websites, but it can be because those sites are not tested with IE8 beta 1.

Anyway as a conclusion I should say that Microsoft have done good job with this beta. Yes it crashes,yes it has unexpected behaviour but it is a beta version after all. I'm looking forward now for the official release of IE8. I hope MS develop the smart tag idea and make the menu that appears customizable. Maybe it would be nice to distinguish from IE7's design.

Internet Explorer 8 uninstallation is easy. If your OS is not Windows Vista, IE8 can be removed standartly from Control Panel - > Add or Remove Programs. If you run Vista IE8 beta 1 is treated as a Windows Update. So you should remove it from the list with all installed updates. To do so from "Control Panel" click on "Uninstall a Program" link and then click on "View installed updates". Find Internet Explorer 8 from the list and click uninstall. Then your system will rollback to your previous version of Internet Explorer after system reboot.