FIREFOX ON OS X: JAVA NOT WORKING?

<img class=“alignright style=“margin: 5px;” title=“Mozilla Firefox” src="/images/2011/01/firefox-logo-wordmark.png” alt=“Mozilla Firefox” width=“200” height=“76” />With recent Firefox versions (3.6, 4.0 beta), I was unable to view any kind of website that uses Java on my Mac.

Browsing through the about:plugins{.liinternal} page I found out that I had three different versions of the Java Embedding Plugin (MRJPlugin.plugin) loaded in Firefox — two of them in addition to the one that already ships with Firefox!

The additional add-ons were found in

• /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
• <user>/Library/Internet Plugins/

After deleting those and restarting Firefox, I was able to enjoy the beauty of Java applets again!1

AMAZING HTTP 404 ERROR PAGE: GITHUB

This is one heck of a great 404 error page. 🙂

YIELD FOR IOS RECENTLY COMES WITH AD BANNERS — THAT SUCKS!

Quite a while ago, I purchased the iOS game Yield1 from Apple’s app store. Playing it is a lot of fun, although there could be more than 13 levels. But my wife enjoys playing them over and over again.

With the recent update to version 1.43 the author, AN Grupa, decided to include ads (banners) in the game. No, not in the lite/free/appetizer version of the game, but in the one that I actually already paid for.

Furthermore, they did not go for nag-screen advertising, e.g., when loading the game. Instead, ads are displayed on top of your screen while you’re playing, distracting you from the game, and — worst of all — hiding one of the most important pieces of information in the game (“How many cars need to pass the intersection to complete this level?").

The only workaround to hide the ads on a non-jailbroken iPhone seems to be activating the iPhone airplane mode, i.e., disable network traffic via WiFi or 3G.

I’m not angry enough to completely remove the game from my iPhone (I’m using the workaround for the few times I play it), but I’d really like to go back to the previous version. Unfortunately, Apple’s App Store doesn’t allow you to download/install an older version of an app, and due to a recent HDD upgrade in my Time Capsule, my oldest Time Machine backup only includes the current Yield version. 🙁

PROJECT 365: AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE

<img class=“aligncenter” src=“http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5002/5377622115_86168f2fd6.jpg” alt=“At the doctor’s office” width=“500” height=“374” border: 0pt none; />

The doctor has a legacy computer… with a CRT monitor and a floppy disk drive!

PROJECT 365: FAREWELL, MY DEAR!

Thanks for serving me for 14 years. Farewell, little Corsa, wherever your journey on the car trailer may bring you to.