iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

I was prompted to update Firefox the other day and did the restart today — a dozen crashes later my advice is to not update to Firefox 2.0.0.13. It’s worse then Safari when working on a site with a lot of Java Applets. If you already have downloaded Firefox 2.0.0.13 my advice is to jump… Continue Reading Don’t upgrade to Firefox 2.0.0.13

My job at Brock as an “Educational Technologies Support Specialist” not surprisingly involves a lot of support, primarily of faculty using the web as an educational tool. I do a lot of meetings and workshops, but here is a list of the tools that I’ve found invaluable in helping people use technology remotely or asynchronously:… Continue Reading Five tools for supporting others with technology

I’ve been watching Apple’s web site hoping for an iPhone in Canada and debating getting the Wi-Fi enabled iPod Touch. Something I noticed today is that the Apple Canada web page for the iPod Touch (www.apple.com/ca/ipodtouch) reads “Music, videos, photos, and websites in 8GB and 16BG models starting at $299” but when you press the… Continue Reading iPod Touch price switching in Canada

A while ago I created the website passnerd.com as a site to suggest very secure passwords really quickly (type the address and copy the password from the middle of the page). I was looking to find a small niche for a web site that would have very little development required, few ongoing costs, and no… Continue Reading Passnerd on Citynews

As you may-or-may-not-know my soon-to-be old place in St. Catharines does not have air conditioning, and particularly in the summer of 2006, this was not easy to deal with. To cope with the heat and humidity I took a leason from Geoff Milburn, former University of Waterloo, and formally famous inventor of the home-brew air… Continue Reading Free to good home: Home brew Air Con