This is really cool. There’s a wordpress plug in that allows easy blogging to your wordpress blogs with a cool mobile interface that’s best viewed on your iPhone.
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”.
One particularly interesting article is by Duncan Riley of TechCrunch, who basically said, “The Memory Use Says It All”. And you know what? I agree with him.
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.
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.
Enjoy the comedy.
Freezing MacBook Keyboards… Just in time for the Christmas Season
Posted November 22nd, 2007 by Ryu at 7:06 pm in MacBook, MacBook Pro and Notebooks. 0 CommentsMore second-tier reporting here.
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. 😛
So guys, any freezing problems for you people?
….for Leopard. Hope all of you like it.
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.
WWDC Secrets Paul Thurrott Hopes You Miss
Apple’s NeXT Server Offensive on Microsoft
Steve Jobs and 20 Years of Apple Servers
Apple’s Open Calendar Server vs Microsoft Exchange
Updates and more updates
Posted November 16th, 2007 by Ryu at 4:07 am in Leopard and Updates. 0 CommentsSo 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.
Notch.
This sucks manz.
Here‘s the link for the update.
When will the iPhone 1.1.2 be unlocked fully?
Posted November 13th, 2007 by Ryu at 1:20 am in iPhone. 1 CommentWith the jailbreak already possible, how long more does everyone waiting to buy the iPhone have to wait?
I’ll say a few more days.
Adium can now video chat!
Posted November 10th, 2007 by Ryu at 11:41 pm in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThis 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.
