Off you go… into the purple yonder!

the great patent war begins. This is the big one.

Firefox 3 has a new ‘feature’ where downloaded files are marked readonly when they are opened on the fly with the ‘open with’ feature.
The reasoning behind this is that there were many people who lost information because they didn’t realize Firefox deletes those temporary downloaded files when it closes. So Firefox 3 was patched to [...]

If you thought Facebook’s language incompetence could not get worse, you’re wrong.
I received a couple Facebook notifications today in French, from people who live in Flanders. Facebook, this is the 21st century. It’s really not that hard to see that Belgium has, in fact, three official languages, and that French is only spoken by about [...]

Facebook is apparently still sending out notifications in the preferred language of the sender instead of the recipient. The problem is worse than just that though. I received a notification in German that said:

… hat dich als FreundIn auf Facebook bestätigt.

Facebook – you are supposed to know everything. You most definitely know that I am, [...]

Facebook is now sending out notifications *in the preferred language of originator*, instead of the recipient. Someone accepted your friend request but uses Facebook in Spanish? You’ll get the notification e-mail in Spanish.
That is of couse silly. This evening I got a notification in Croatian… Facebook, please fix this.