Tuesday 15 December 2015

BgInfo on Windows 10

After the recent Windows 10 update to version 1511, the bgInfo wallpaper wasn’t refreshing, which meant that fields such as the snapshot date rapidly became illegible:



The solution is to open BgInfo, and load your .bgi file.

Click on the Background button.



Mine was set to Copy user’s wallpaper settings, which I assume is the default. 

Change that to ‘Use these settings’ and set your preferred background up.

Click OK on this dialogue, then Apply on the main BgInfo screen; all will be well again.

Thursday 10 December 2015

Automatically hyperlinked numbers on iPads

The Safari browser on the iPad has added a ‘feature’ where numbers are automatically hyperlinked, so that the number can be phoned just by clicking on the link.

All well and good, until you display a number that isn't a telephone number, such as a serial number or a customer identifier.

To stop this irritating behaviour put the following tag in your master page or page header:


    <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">