Thanks nswef
Peeve for today: if you are sick, stay home - or at least don't come to my library! It's like a fracking flu clinic in here with all the coughing and sneezing and sniffling. Ick!
Thanks nswef
Peeve for today: if you are sick, stay home - or at least don't come to my library! It's like a fracking flu clinic in here with all the coughing and sneezing and sniffling. Ick!
Contractors who Say they will come out and quote...then never show. Or one shows but does not want the job, so no call back with estimate.
Lately this has been happening and it is really ANNOYING!!!! Today I was on a blog by Shalom Mama and she had a recipe for how to make your own natural coffee creamer. As I was about to write the recipe... a pop up asking if you wanted to sign up for her blog. HOWEVER, there was no way to get out of it... you had to sign up or not continue reading. Anyone find a way around this? pffftttttttttttttt
That would depend on what your using for a browser. Not all plugin's are compatable with all browsers, and even then, some of those type of pop ups, must be manually shut off (dealt with one today that the x didn't close it).Originally Posted by frugal-one
http://www.computerworld.com/article...r-privacy.html
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The cost of everything, lately!
Use safari for our Apple.....
I actually use two browsers. Safari is one of them and I leave it wide open: no anti-ad software, no cookie monitors, nothing. It's the browser I use when I encounter a Web site that insists on how I should use it.The other browser is Firefox, and it's pretty well bolted down. It has the ad-blocking software and cookie monitors, and I have not installed Flash on it (Flash is evil; another thread). Nothing happens on that browser unless I want it to.
For sites like Shalom Mama, that insist on information like an email address before doing anything useful, I have a couple of choices. One is giving it a not-my-real-email address; a free one from Yahoo that is only given out to non-critical sites. Nothing important is sent to that account. The other choice I have is to just walk away. In this case, maybe copy the name of the recipe and see if I can find it on a site that behaves a little better. And, if not, decide that my privacy is worth more than they're offering in return.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
I have several browsers too, mostly a well bolted down Firefox, also a fairly well (not as many add-ons available) bolted down other Mozilla browser (Firefox occasionally but rarely releases editions that don't seem to work period - yea they fix them eventually but that's why another Mozilla browser). And then I have IE. Why IE? Because it's the browser that work VPN is designed for and I need to enable stuff for that to happen as well, so it's wide open. In theory work VPN should work with any browser, but in reality I've never had any success with that, bolted down or not, just easier to use IE as is most recommended. I've played with Chrome but I don't need another browser so it's not installed now.
Trees don't grow on money
daily peeve: rolls of quarters from the bank. EVERY SINGLE TIME there's at least one foreign coin in there that may look a little like a quarter but is not, Can I use them to do my laundry? No of course not, they are completely useless. It's a rip off.
Trees don't grow on money
One thing I've found. Hit ctrl and then the - sign. it reduces the size of the image onscreen, and sometimes there is an "x" button for these stupid popups lurking where you couldn't see it. Of course, sometimes not! (ctrl + will enlarge your image again.)
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