So a dear friend sent me a screenshot of his desktop just now. It was a screenshot of Firefox with a Mac-look interface. Something that is obviously do-able with UNO in the old Tiger days.
“look at the its firefox and now it looks totally mac,” he said, “alot faster and smaller code overhead now it uses the native graphics engine”.
Apparently he was referring to the latest Firefox 3 beta release for the Mac.
While I am not exactly convinced by his arguments that “Firefox 3 with extensions will put an end to Safari usage”, I did decide eventually to do a little bit of digging around on the Internet for the beta.
Eventually I downloaded the beta, played around with it, and can say that I am impressed…… that Firefox behaved like a Mac app…… which it should have been doing ever it appeared on the Mac.
Seriously, what’s the big deal? Extensions? I’m not exactly a fan.
One big problem with the old Firefox 2 was its crazy memory leak problem. And it appears that Firefox 3 didn’t exactly “kick the old habit of sucking up system resources that it didn’t need”.
On a side note, thanks to his article now Flock has completely replaced Firefox as my backup browser on the Mac. So long Mozilla, I hope I never see you again.
TUAW is reporting that someone has successfully attached a mike to the iPod Touch and make it able to receive and record audio, suggesting that a iPod Touch-based VoIP device is possible, which will (in theory) eliminate the need for the iPhone.
To me this all sounds like the not-so-strong cult following of people who modifies their 1.6 TS Imprezza into aa Imprezza WRX, despite the fact that it will cost a lot of time and a lot more money than if you buy an Imprezza WRX in the first place.
Posted November 22nd, 2007
by Ryu
at 7:15 pm in Humor.0 Comments
A friend of mine sent me the link to this ridiculous video. While I think it is an attempt by the All-Powerful Media Development Authority (MDA) to show that they can be “creative”, seriously will you watch a bunch of old folks in office wear (who can’t rap for god’s sake) try to act cool by rapping without laughing at the whole bunch of them for being the idiots they are? (Wow that’s a long sentence)
This is yet another clear sign that old media in Singapore is dead, and while the “Media Industry” in Singapore is nothing more than a joke.
The MDA and “MediaCORK” Mediacorp is exactly the reason why the “creative industries” in Singapore aren’t so creative after all.
While most Mac fans probably can get such news elsewhere, second-tier reporting here does help some of the fellows who don’t read other Mac blogs to get their Mac news, so yeah I will continue the second-tier Mac news reporting. 😛
Posted November 20th, 2007
by Ryu
at 2:22 am in Links.0 Comments
Oh my I have just found some great readings from a site that I never knew about: RoughlyDrafted. Apparently it’s extremely popular and I have no idea why I never read these before.
Anyway skimmed through a few of the articles and decided to share these with everyone reading this blog.
So 10.5.1 is finally out. Just installed on my iMac and am looking forward to see how it goes.
An update that the rest of the Mac sites have yet to report on so far is yet another firmware update for the 4th Gen Aluminum iMacs’ Ati Radeon HD2600 Pro Graphics. Installed it as well, and ran Openmark to see if there’s any diff in OpenGL performance.
This is great news! Adium, the IM of choice for most Mac users, has announced today on their blog that video/audio chat is now available on Adium via a plugin.
Now there is absolutely no other reason to use any other IM application.
P.S. As it turns out it uses a web-based service called MeBeam to do the video chat through your browser, which some users do not approve of as a full solution. Adium commented that this will be a stop gap solution until they come up with the real solution.
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