I’m complete with Firefox now. I used to like it, but didn’t love it. It didn’t feel like a real OS X application. Now it does (mostly). It adds tonnes of new features, such as HTML5 spec components, such as the “video” tag – where you don’t have to require Flash to play a movie (finally). CSS3 elements such as shadow, rounded corners, and a killer JS engine.

One of my big-little gripes was that you couldn’t drag the app from the bottom of the window. In all other OS X apps you can. I frequently do it. Now it does! And it’s just as fun, if not more fun in Windows!

Go treat yourself to a lovely new Firefox
today and stick the finger to IE8. Available for both PC and Mac.

p.s. One gripe… It still doesn’t implement the OS X dictionary.

New viral adverts, promoting Microsoft’s latest browser IE8 are actually a little bit funny.

At first i thought it was going to be another Seinfaild, but this one actually made me snigger:

I think it’s the act of making it look like it’s been poorly edited which got me.

There has been so many posts around the internet about Michael Jackon’s death that it actually made the internet dip into a grave of 404’s, 504’s and even 509’s. One site affected in particular was, google news due to an extraordinary amount of search requests for “michael jackson” – the server thought it was a virus or DOS attack so it shutdown temporarily. The server was repaired within the hour.

But that’s not what I’m talking about. Michael Jackson was certainly a hero to many, as there were so many people with & against him during his lawsuit cases – but now the internet is overwhelmed with RIP notices and “oh he was so great” this that and the other.

It seems to me that his death was so sudden for people that they’ve automatically let go of previous feelings (or gained new ones). I dunno. I think many people thought (and have even said) that he’s a “weirdo” and laughed and scoffed at his return to the stage. Now these people are jumping on the RIP bandwagon and are up voicing their opinions (again) about him. Somewhat of a hypocrisy there.

The only thing i have to say about Jackson is “Sorry, I feel I’m apart of piracy because I once bought a cassingle from a store and they accidentally put your full album in the cassette case”. Plus, “Your death was the only news on this morning’s radio news and googling binging the legitimacy of the news i happened to miss the weather report. Thanks a lot.”

RIP wacko jacko

(enjoy some dark humor via contractor.co.uk)

Using a GUI to MySQL is so much more fun than using command line!

link via http://www.sequelpro.com/

MS Entourage is an annoying little bugger. Typical bloated software from MS which has so much going on, on the interface its quite frightening to realise that it’s “just an email/notes/calendar” application.

But I tried to receive an email with a JS attachment and was immediately blocked. Hmph.. i thought. Must be able to save the file somehow.

NO! MS Entourage just blocks the attachment altogether, and there’s no solution… or is there? This is MS help, at it’s best:

Second time lucky. The first portable battery charger i bought for the iPhone 3g turned out to be a lemon. It sucked. Could hardly hold a charge. That lucky australian somehow got his to work, but mine is a piece of junk. So, in it goes to the junk draw for the next 14 years.

In the meantime, however, I’ve just purchased THIS!

It’s a small device charger (not just for iPhone, but most mobile phones, game toys, etc – runs out 5v). It’s made by XPAL and is called XP2000. It fully charges in about 4 hours and can recharge your iPhone (1st gen, 2nd gen – and i’d say 3rd gen) – as long as you use your iPod cable (USB to iPod jack). Great for traveling or if you DO have an iPhone, great for keeping in your bag in case your iPhone runs out of batteries, like it does every GOD DAMN HOURZZRSZZZZOOOHHH-I’M-MAD!!! lol?

But it is lovely and does just what it says. Nice.

For the past month or so I have been co-developing a new site for Sony Ericsson called The Pulse. The website is intended for reseller staff to learn about the handsets and how to sell them to customers in store. It is also available for the general public.

I’m proud to be a part in the development as SE is a great client to have, and the production went very smoothly.

Lots of geek trickery in the background too, and we’ve tried to use as little Flash as possible. The only instances of Flash being used is in the 3D demos and some videos. Otherwise it’s all jQuery (JavaScript) friendly animation and effects.

Kinda makes me wanna go get a new Sony Ericsson phone!

Link via Sony Ericsson

I’ve been discovering the joys of Geektool (an extensible command output utility) which outputs information on the the Desktop.

I’ll write a post on how to achieve the simple modules soon.

I love this kind of stuff. Science fiction ftw!

Don’t really have any details about this, nor can i find any. All i know is that it’s created by Matthew Santoro.

O F F L I N E from Matthew Santoro on Vimeo.

There are two major players in the iTunes desktop controller arena’s.

I’ve been using Coversutra (with an “extended” demo license) for about a year now and only really use it for displaying the artwork on title on the desktop. I’ve no other use for it. Don’t care about searching, or controlling as iTunes already handles that.

Now, I’ve just noticed that there is a FREE app that does pretty much all of that anyways, and has an easy to skin interface (uses CSS, HTML, JS).

Bowtie £FREE

Coversutra £12

But which one is better?