Fixing Firefox 4 on Mac to Always Search Google in English
I travel a lot and go to different countries fairly often. If I'm in Belgium or the Netherlands or (most recently) Israel, the helpful people at Google know this. If I click at the top of Firefox to my Google search box and start typing, I will get redirected to a Google page that is in the local language. In Belgium I'm redirected to google.be, in the Netherlands I'm redirected to google.nl, and in Israel I get google.co.il, which looks rather interesting.
It's easy to tell Google you want to see the web in English. In fact you can see the button to click right there ("google.com in English"). But I want it to know that I'm speaking English as soon as I submit my search from my browser. I don't want to enter my search, see the results in a language I don't speak, and then have to click a button for English.
Reusing VirtualPC Windows with Parallels
I found an old copy of Virtual PC I bought back when it was useful. It came with a copy of Windows XP Home and a valid license key. Obviously, I can't use Virtual PC any more. I wondered if I could use it with Parallels. I can. It's pretty simple, and it lets me have a legit copy of Windows for Parallels.
T-Mobile USB Broadband for Mac: Worst Mac App Evar
I'm in the UK for a couple weeks, so I got a T-Mobile GSM Broadband adapter. (This is the one from ZTE, by the way, apparently they offer several). Rather than hook into the OS in a nice, neat way, they include their own crapware that you have to install. Danger: If you install the software on Snow Leopard, it will ruin your OS and make your system unable to boot. Read on.
The suckage that is Dell Tech Support
As you may know, I bought a Dell Inspiron mini 9-Inch
to hackint0sh it. I got it running Mac OS X with only a little difficulty (mainly around trying to shoehorn OS X onto a tiny SSD). Then the Wi-Fi card went out. Now, I'm stuck in Tech Support Hell.
Entourage Rule to Filter Russian Spam
I'm starting to get a lot of Russian spam now. The good news is that I don't understand it, so I can't possibly fall for it. The bad news is that my junk email filters and even Postini are not catching it. I created a rule in Entourage that handles them.