If you’ve just installed Adobe CS3/4 you may be wondering why your Safari on OS X can’t display PDFs anymore.

It’s because Adobe mucked up the plugin which tells Safari to choose an application to view the PDF files.

To fix the problem go to:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/

and delete the file:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin

Restart Safari and you will be looking at PDFs in a snap.

I’ve always had the headache of trying to multiselect in windows and have now finally sorted it. Follow the screengrab to fix the CTRL+CLICK madness!

Sorry but this has really suddenly annoyed me. Just *everyone* wants to wear the latest in cool and neat desgin, Superdry…

Superdry clothing is then new Bench.

They need to go on http://www.latfh.com/

When I arrived in London at the start of August 2006, the pound was 3.2x the NZ dollar.

Now, November 2009, three and a bit years later, the pound is 2.2x the dollar.

Check out this graph from fxstreet.com:

I made the decision to drop my iPhone and go with a phone that i can actually use. The Nokia E71 has many benefits over the iPhone, such as a physical keyboard, longer battery, actually make and receive calls.

It should be arriving within the month, so i’ll post how great it is then.

Until then, check out the review

Updated:
Ali asked me, no.. Ali slandered me before leaving work this evening saying how much i’ll miss the iPhone. Well here’s some reasoning to my decision:

Nokia does everything the iPhone can but has;

• Physical keyboard
• Dual modes (work/personal) to separate work from fun
• Faster 3g hsdpa
• Camera with autofocus & flash
• Flash (lite?) support
• Zip/Unzip
• Java apps
• Longer battery life (6 days heavy use)
• Fully customisable alerts (SMS/mail appear on sleep screen, light glades every 10sec for unread message waiting)
• Proper mail formatting
• Read, Edit save documents

Things I like about iPhone that I’ll miss;

• iPod
• Google Maps (but Google Maps & Ovi is available for the Nokia
• Safari (best mobile browser ever to date)
• Apps, app/music store – but hardly ever use 3rd party apps, purchase over the air
• Interface is awesome

Things I don’t like about iPhone;

• Heavy lag in cold boot (startup time is about 1min 30sec, then about 10sec resting/freeze before login)
• Some lag when multitasking (listening to iPod while composing this message, keys freeze/can’t answer calls about 1/10 times)
• It’s stupid auto orientation (sometimes I don’t want it to go landscape)
• Not very accessible (have to look at the screen to type, have to turn on and unlock to check mail/messages)
• Camera sucks and no flash
• Reception is rubbish for wifi/voice/data
• Can’t save/edit/format documents from mail
• Touchscreen is easy to navigate but cumbersome at times
• Battery life suuuuucks (iPhone can’t sleep to save battery when in standby!?)
• Looking like a bellend typing with one finger, uncontrollably focused on the iPhone

Maybe some of these issues are because my iPhone is jailbroken and or it needs a reset. I accept that. But I end up getting more upset with the iPhone, expecting it to do something which i suppose it’s not really supposed to do.

Things that won’t be good on Nokia:

• Media player won’t be as good as iPod
• Camera is 3.2 but some uploads on flicker look blueish

These reasons made me make my decision.

In summary, i think the iPhone is a great toy/media/web tool. It’s fancy looking and does neat tricks – but when you actually need to do something that YOU want to do, it fails on so many levels.

I’m supposed to be attending a friends party tonight, but she only announced the details on Facebook. This is a bit of a problem as Facebook has currently undergoing “maintenance” apparently.

Yes, most people have a Facebook account, and it’s a great way to announce mass-audience messages – but it shouldn’t be confused with email/invitations. Now why is sending email more difficult than a Facebook invite? Is it the visibility of seeing who’s attending? Is it the avatars/facial recognition? Or is it the open-ness which makes Facebook differenciate from regularass email?

Facelark sucks. Now i’m late, probably.

Someone at work has been secretly posting cartoon dead birds on the windows and a colleague has made a photoblog about it. Pretty funny stuff.

http://totalbirdcarnage.tumblr.com/

I despise lazy people.

Royal Mail have failed as a company, and their workers have been pushed to the edge of reason and strike against the company. However, this hurts the consumer greater than the hurting the Royal Mail head honcho.

And in addition to the strike which has been going on for the past two weeks, Royal Mail “cuts prices” on – no longer employing a team to answer phones, but to utilise a voice recognition system (which is fruitfully repugnant) and has no option to speak to an ACTUAL HUMAN BEING. I spent 6 minutes speaking to the female version of HAL, having to repeat everything at least twice. And why the hell do we require voice recognise in these days, especially with the quality (or lack of) of the voice stream on a mobile phone (probably similar to mono 8bit, 11025hz) and then there are the dropouts. I understand that some people don’t have the ability to press buttons, such as dudes who’ve lobbed off their arms.. but why isn’t there the option at the start to say “Say, ‘voice’ to hear options using your voice or press 1 to continue”.

Back to my inital point. I’ve bought something online from the UK and have been waiting for it since the 7th of September. It has been in the Royal Mail deposit centre since the 9th. Now it is the 17th of September and the status on the track and trace website says it’s still in the depo centre. Seriously you guys, you suck.