Firefox has been a part of my browsing-life since it was still in pre-1.0 beta stages and went by the name of Phoenix. The reason clung so to this new browser (at the time) was due to the fact that I had become frustrated with the much lamented Internet Explorer Microsoft that was developed to sweep Netscape off the table. Back then, Firefox only held a modest percentage of the browsing market-share, its’ main selling point being its open-source nature and security.
Browsers, much like everything else in the computer software business, started to evolve into something much more sophisticated and complex than first envisioned. It seems to me that while Firefox 3.0 was vast improvement over its predecessor, it has lost a lot of its attractiveness, a direct consequence of its increasingly intricate nature.
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The third wave of Microsoft’s online services called Windows Live has leaked to the internet today. Grab the combines installer at Softpedia. Some screenshots:
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11
September, 2008
Posted in General
A lot of Apple news today:
- A showdown of the new Microsoft Zune versus the new iPod Nano and the Classic;
- iFixit finds an undisclosed Bluetooth chip in the iPod Touch;
- The freshly released iTunes 8 turns out to BSOD Windows Vista machines;
- A gallery of the new iPods
Footnote is the Facebook for the dead. RIM (Blackberry) announces it’ll partner with Live Search and the Ubuntu Team has started the development of their next incarnation of Ubuntu Linux, ‘Jaunty Jackalope’ (9.04).
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Mostly Google in the news again with the release of its first slew of [security] updates to it’s newborn baby Chrome. Also, Intel came out with the best performing hard drive on the planet (for now), and it’s an 80 gig SSD. Lastly, eBook lovers can finally eat their hearts out with Plastic Logics’ pretty — almost malleable — e-Ink touchscreen.
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7
September, 2008
Posted in General
I’ve finally put out the minor layout adjustments I’ve been working on during the past few weeks. When I first released the Wordpress theme some time ago, I left some unsightly holes in the UI. The theme has been rewritten from the ground up to patch up these inconsistencies and improve usability. This is the first iteration of the new layout and I’ll be continually tweaking it over time to achieve what I ultimately envisioned for this website.
If you have any comments and/or suggestions, feel free (as always) to drop me a line using the comment form below. I’ll be getting to the About-page ASAP.
– Ace
