Archive for April, 2010

YouTube Fail Again

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Well, you know what. I am sick of Chrome having issue’s with Google’s OWN video site…YouTube. I’m sick of it! SO sick of it! Why can’t they just make their browser work right with their own videos??? It’s like they purposely sabotage their browser so it fails. It’s been having issues with youtube videos since as long as I can remember….the early versions of Chrome. It’s not necessarily all the time, but it seems to randomly decide not to work at all. It’s so much fail that I blog about it’s epic fail.

So Google, can you fix your browser? Don’t tell me it’s my fault… don’t tell me my comp has some kind of virus. That’s bull crap and we know it, because I keep my comp spotless from that junk and I know because everybody getting viruses has all sorts of antivirus apps and anti malware apps, and I don’t use but one, along with virustotal.com.

If it’s anything to do with my computer, then it’s got to be due to a flaw or something overlooked with standard compatibility within the browser related to the hardware I run on. I have a pretty typical setup, but you can’t blame it on software. It was doing this back when I was running a fresh install of XP, then the same thing on Vista…now a fresh install of Windows 7 and it is STILL wacko!

Get it friggin together Google!

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OMG – My iPhone Wouldn’t Stream Audio in Safari

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Yeah. I’ve got one freaking amazing phone. My iPhone did pretty much everything almost flawlessly for a long time. I even have a great app called “Tune-In” which actually played streaming internet radio in the background by utilizing Quicktime in the Safari browser. Then it broke out of the blue!

I believed the background streaming feature broke the very day I upgraded the app to the newest version, but after emailing their support, they told me that they’ve never heard of it doing that.

I scoured for endless hours on the internet for a solution to this problem and found nothing…. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I couldn’t believe it. Something so insidious…just sitting there laughing at my every effort to fix it.

I tried a lot of different things, but in the end, the whole reason it wouldn’t play any audio in my safari browser anymore, was (unknowingly) the iPhone Safari setting (Settings->Safari) had been switched to OFF. Once I switched it to on, the feature immediately began to work again.

I hope that if any other soul out there had this issue, that some how my blog post could help them. I’ve been living with this for months now. Today I just couldn’t take it anymore, and that’s when it dawned on me to try looking for a Safari setting.

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