http://www.alanhart.co.uk web design... and other stuff Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:02:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's right, Facebook Lite, a stripped-down version of Facebook that shrinks Facebook down into its core features, making for a much smoother facebook experience. This new version of the site is much more simple and cleaner in appearance and appears to be a better site for Facebook newbies or for anyone ... http://www.alanhart.co.uk/archives/2010/01/28/facebook-too-slow-try-facebook-lite/ People are following the usual activity of updating their facebook status to inform others of scams etc but again by trying to warn others they are in fact doing exactly what the "scammers" want. Here's the latest, an "UnNamed App Internal SpyBot Hoax"... ALERT >>>>> Has your facebook been running slow lately? ... http://www.alanhart.co.uk/archives/2010/01/27/facebook-un-named-app-is-not-a-spybot/ I might be a bit slow on this but thought it was interesting enough to blog about. Google have gone off-road with their StreetView camera and captured Stonehenge. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="460" caption=" Google Street View goes off-road to add Stonehenge Photo: GETTY "][/caption] See stonehenge streetview below or View ... http://www.alanhart.co.uk/archives/2009/12/17/google-maps-streetview-stonehenge/ So, this year marks the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. I used to watch it mostly when i was at school and occasionaly college. I love the show and was therefore very happy to be greeted by some of my favourite Sesame Street characters on Google's Logo this week. 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Easy right? Just use Vista's SyncCenter? Well you can't. Sync Center is only for network folder synchronisation and other "compatible" devices not most USB hard ... http://www.alanhart.co.uk/archives/2009/04/09/sync-usb-hard-drive-to-folder-in-vista/ I'm disgusted at the changes that will be made to Google Checkout fees after 5th May. The only reason I chose to use Google Checkout over PayPal for transaction processing is because of the transaction fees being considerably lower and now i find that Google are making them EXACTLY the same ... http://www.alanhart.co.uk/archives/2009/03/11/google-checkout-fees-same-as-paypal-after-5th-may-2009/ Today i had the problem of eroneous email addresses appearing when auto filling the To, Cc and Bcc in Outlook. More of an annoyance than anything else, but still something i'd rather not have to put up with when using Outlook on a day to day basis. Anyway below are the ... http://www.alanhart.co.uk/archives/2009/01/21/outlook-auto-fill-problem-clearing-and-removing-individual-emails/