Google has violated my trust and changed my homepage without authorization. There’s a reason why I use Safari instead of Firefox, and that reason involves proper UI elements on webpages. I will not tolerate Google deciding to use asinine -webkit-appearance CSS styles to make them appear the wrong way. Also, the obnoxiously large search text was novel for about 5 minutes until it just got…annoying.

To fix this problem, add the following to your custom style sheet in Safari:

.lsb {  -webkit-appearance: push-button !important; }

.lst { font-size: 12px !important; }

You can do this by creating a file, custom.css somewhere on your Mac and then adding these lines to the file in your favorite text editor. Once that’s done, open up Safari > Preferences… > Advanced  and select that file as your “Style sheet.”

Google should be back to it’s normal self again. Now just to fix that horizontal bar that seems to have solidified…

EDIT: To re-fluidize the horizontal bar in the search results, just put this little guy in there too:

#cnt {max-width:none !important;}

The -webkit culprit!

After writing yesterday’s report, I woke up in the morning and took another look at TELUS’ fine print. Sure enough, it turned out that Picture & Video messaging is NOT included for free with My5 people. At first this seemed like a big deal, but then I realized that the question that needs to be answered is:

Suppose I send a picture or video message to a friend on the My5 list. Since I have 250 “Anything” messages, does this mean TELUS will just deduct that as a used message out of the 250, or try and charge me extra because I do not get free Picture/Video messaging to those 5 people?

Of course I would need to find this out first, and I don’t think it’s fair to assume either way.
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Finding a new and better cell phone plan has been a very long-time activity for me. While wandering around WalMart I picked up brochures from EVERY provider and try to make sense of it all. They seem to be offering some improved plans for prepaid (Such as My5 and other unlimited options for texting) that were previously unavailable. Even TELUS, which has been notorious for offering their excessively simplistic prepaid plans has gotten on the band wagon of offering some prepaid auto-deducting options.