K-Meleon

March 13, 2007

For the past couple of months I’ve been hopping between two browsers Opera, because it’s fast and really user friendly, but doesn’t show all sites properly and Firefox because it has better performance with Youtube, GMail and others, but feels slow, bloated and unresponsive. Needless to say, Internet Explorer isn’t even worth mentioning in this debate, being old, crap and ugly (and when the hell are they going to sort out the printing engine so half the page doesn’t disappear when you want a hard copy of a page? Rant over.)

Anyway, the solution to the problem presents itself in the form of K-Meleon a browser that seems to offer the best of both worlds, in that it shows sites as they were intended, isn’t bloated to the point that it makes my laptop cry for mercy and has a general no-messing attitude that I really like. If you run Windows, you should give it a go.

The only problem is the name. Despite the penny dropping and realising it’s a bastardization of “chameleon”, it still registers in my mind as “kay-melon”, which isn’t exactly catchy. Don’t let that put you off, though. Kay-Melon is a winner.

Outlaw review

March 10, 2007

Review of “Outlaw” for Film Exposed. I didn’t like it much.

http://www.filmexposed.com/?file=review&id=461

Nick Love Interview

March 3, 2007

Interview with Nick Love, director of Outlaw, released 9th March 2007. The review will appear on Film Exposed next week.

Direct link: http://www.filmexposed.com/?file=feature&id=75

Masta Ace

March 1, 2007

I seem to be posting a lot of music links lately. Anyway, the excellent Soul Sides blog has posted some rare remixes of tracks from Masta Ace’s early 90s master (masta?) piece Slaughtahouse. The first uses samples from Minnie Ripperton’s Les Fleurs, which is great. The second isn’t so good, but still worth a listen.

Slaughtahouse

Look at that cover! “Cheap and nasty” hardly does it justice. Anyway, go here to download the tracks.

Oh, and Jonny - I would like my original copy of Slaughtahouse back some time.