Archive for March, 2011
RT @slashdot MS Global Strateg…
on Mar.30, 2011, under Tweets
RT @slashdot MS Global Strategy chief: Tablets Are a Fad, that’s what they said about the ipod http://bit.ly/fgILV1
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs….
on Mar.30, 2011, under Tweets
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ holy shit google body, nice
Currently Browsing: http://is….
on Mar.30, 2011, under Tweets
Currently Browsing: http://is.gd/1eZ4J1 custom page template on WordPress, simpler than Drupals way: http://is.gd/ur9MFe
@overroot nice job with Squigg…
on Mar.30, 2011, under Tweets
@overroot nice job with Squiggle, any chance for auto-file accept [for receiving files]?
Currently Browsing: http://is….
on Mar.30, 2011, under Tweets
Currently Browsing: http://is.gd/vIDqdy Facebook allows OpenID registration, when will it provide one? #facebook #openid
A trip to Köln
on Mar.28, 2011, under Berlin
After a long ride to the other side of Germany, I arrived at night
(hungry enough to eat a horse
).the block, I had the chance to use the Rent a Bike thing, which is pretty
cool, they even have an App that lets you know where is the nearest bike.
Anyways, I think the second prettiest thing I’ve seen was the Rhein, while jogging on the side of it, it was pretty surreal in terms of just silence and relaxation.
Sadly I didn’t take pictures (silly me :I ), better luck next time!
p.s.
2 weeks from the proficiency test, pressure on! 
Currently Browsing: http://is….
on Mar.28, 2011, under Tweets
Currently Browsing: http://is.gd/utfD5i Why the fuck would I want to wear 3d glasses and view a screen the size of my hand? #htc #evo3d
Had an amazing weekend in Köl…
on Mar.28, 2011, under Tweets
Had an amazing weekend in Köln 
Currently Browsing: http://is….
on Mar.25, 2011, under Tweets
Currently Browsing: http://is.gd/6D1OVv amazing 3d video navigation from mozilla labs #firefox
Firefox 4, first experience
on Mar.22, 2011, under Technology
Firefox 4, the Fox shows who’s the king.
Today, March 22th, Mozilla have launched Firefox 4.
The new browser, supporting naturally HTML 5, is a lot
faster than it’s predecessor, as well as holding a new design,
similar to the Chrome design, but still maintaining the Firefox look.
Extensions
Many extensions are not yet supported, this is
normally a matter of the developers of those extensions, to
update them and make them work on the new version.
Although when Firebug is working – all the rest can wait.
(actually TwitterBar, Greasemonkey and Adblock are working too)
the Add-ons Manager opens now on a tab, neat, looks like Chrome.
HTML 5
As far as I’ve seen, Parsing, Canvas (really important for some of my projects!),
Video
with the exception of Subtitle and the sacred H.264 [wtf]
Mozilla chose the WebM support instead, Google seems to be
going in that direction as well, that’s mainly because H.264 is
not an Open Codec.
Audio
Ogg and WebM support, intentionally living AAC and MP3
out of the game, it seems that Mozilla is planning to force the web
to be as Open as possible (hear, hear!)
Other than that, there’s a very partial form element support
(shouldn’t worry anyone, since I personally don’t see the idea of these
new form elements anyway).
Drag & Drop, Session History, and Application Cache
and Session Storage are supported!
(this should reduce the average JS file by 80%)
Web Workers support, allowing Threading of actions
Naturally, some of those things were supported in previous versions of Firefox.
The Small Things
You can now make Tab groups, which I don’t really understand why, but ok
as well as Tab App (which means that you can have your gmail always open for instance).
I liked the fact that if I type in an address and the tab is already open – it switches to it.
How To Install on Ubuntu?
I simply extracted the tar.gz file, copied it into my /opt/ folder
(you can copy it to your /home/ as well), and changed the symbolic link
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
This way it replaces the current Firefox, you can also backup the old
Firefox link if you wish.
Surf’s Up!
