The best Flash blocker yet

Friday, April 1st, 2011

We at PC Pro don’t really do April Fool’s jokes – largely because we’re still getting the letters from distraught Dell employees, after Jon Honeyball mischievously suggested the PC maker was about to be bought by Microsoft a couple of years ago.

But the very same Joker-in-Chief has just sent me a screengrab of the rather wonderful Click to Flash add-on for Safari, which has added a suitably cheeky animation to its Flash blocker for one day only.

And if you click on the window, you get to see this little fella:

Microsoft buys Dell: the truth

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Okay, I will come clean – the piece about Microsoft buying Dell is an April Fool piece. Slightly in advance it’s true, but that’s because the column was automatically taken from the issue of PC Pro that’s out now (see left), and it’s that issue that will be out on sale on the 1st of April!

To be crystal clear – I have no knowledge of Microsoft intending to buy Dell, or Krispie Kreme doughnuts or NASA either. (more…)