Research In Motion (RIM), the very company that brought us the BlackBerry, has firmly stated that the company plans to push forward against Apple amidst frustrated investors who don’t see eye to eye. While sacrificing recently earned profits, the company plans on developing new products to compete with Apple’s iPhone.
Things used to be different back then, but nowadays, it seems that good things are no good at all. Apparently, making plenty of money is a bad thing for consumers in the corporate world. Quite a few internet service providers believe they should charge more and offer less. Now I might not be a rocket scientist, but I thought the price of internet was supposed to decrease with time—you know—just like the rest of the world.
Delicious, previously “del.icio.us”, has pretty much established a solid position in the social bookmarking market. Unfortunately, the company has dropped the bomb with their latest extension for Firefox 3. The Delicious blog is quickly filling with many discouraging comments. The plugin renders Firefox 3 useless at times, and, as expected, has upset many users.
What’s a great operating system without amazing applications? Well, the answer is obvious, but, thankfully, Mac OS X has no shortages in that regard. Time and time again, I end up downloading a new application that just blows my mind. Not only are there so many great applications, but they are all quality applications as well. I wanted to take this time to share with you all some of my favorites.
Zappos, a company that sells shoes, is something else. No, really, they do things that many companies wouldn’t dare do to their employees. What is this you ask? Well, they pay them to quit! Yeah, that’s right, Zappos bribes their employees with $1,000 to quit their jobs. It might sound odd, but it really does work.
I wake up, power-on the laptop, and wait, nothing unusual. Mac OS X will be loaded soon. Soon after, an alert from NetNewsWire informs me that there are new stories and blog posts which need attention. You know what, it is right after this moment when I realize that today I am in blogging paradise. The great thing about this day, it happens everyday, and you should know that I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Even though I am not particularly sure if Firefox 3 is ready for prime-time on the Mac OS X, Mozilla has decided that June 17th, 2008, will be when Mozilla attempts to break a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period. I’m not sure what the previous record is, but I am confident that Mozilla can ready the champagne.
An 8 MHz processor, 128 KB DRAM, 400 kB floppy disk drive, and 9-inch 512 x 342 monochromatic pixel display rounded out the Macintosh 128K. It was the first of its kind, and, as such, it was the first computer to feature a graphical-user-interface and mouse. All of this could have been yours for $2,495 in 1984. Well, we have all come a long way since then.
Crowds were cheering at today’s “Stevenote” during the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference. The event has revealed many truths to rumors that have been surfacing for weeks now. Steve Jobs gave quite the show, and there was even a performance of “It’s a Small World” before the most significant announcements. Not too many surprises, but still an impressive showing.
I’ve been using my MacBook for nearly three months now, and, overall, it has been a great experience. However, there is something horribly wrong when you put Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 and Mac OS 10.5.3 together. To put it simply, the combination of Mozilla products and Mac OS X is wrecking havoc on my recently purchased MacBook.
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