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Archive for March, 2012

If you are getting the error message

beta wow

Failed to download a required installation file (http://ak.worldofwarcraft.com.edgesuite.net/wow-pod/installdata/win/wow_enus_web_unencrypted_win.blob). Please check your internet connection and try again.

then simply rename your installation file WoW-5.0.0-Beta-enGB-Installer to World of Warcraft Beta Setup

This works for enus, ruru, engb, dede, frfr, itit, and so on.

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Have fun playing the new World of Warcraft :  Mist of Pandaria .

Yes, this is the leaked Beta client 😛 No, I’m not sharing any info (yet). Hint: Russians!

A guide on how to fix the annoying grey background and center image in Firefox 11

When you need to see an image better you right click and choose View image. Since 2007 we were seeing the image in the top left corner on a white background. Now ever since Firefox 11 that got changed to a centered image with grey layout. Personally I hate that this. Why should I see everything with a grey background (#333 to be exact, it may be seen as black on a non-well calibrated monitor)? Instead they should have placed an option at the Firefox options.

While we browse the internet we sometimes forget that we are also downloading a file or a number of files and we exit Firefox. By default we see no warning that we are currently downloading something. Again, by default upon re-opening Firefox it will resume any downloading operations.That would be great, but sadly it’s not always helpful, since a lot of hosts do not allow to pause and continue downloads (rapidshare, megaupload, fileshare, etc.).