Month: November 2011

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Thanksgiving Day.

All of our team members are celebrating Thanksgiving day with family and friends. Most of us will be back on Friday November 25th, 2011 and partly resume our daily routines (read jobs).

Even though I am officially on vacation today, I get to speak to David Wadhwani, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media Business Unit Adobe Systems Incorporated. We talked about the demise of Adobe Flash on Mobile platform, Deblur filter, Creative Suite 6.0/6.5 and a lot more.

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VMware Fusion 4.1.1: No Snow Leopard client allowed!

After the initial excitement regarding the ability to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard client (or older Mac OS X client), VMware clarifies that only the following Mac OS X are supported to run in VMWare Fusion 4:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Server (Leopard)
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Server (Snow Leopard)
  • Mac OS X 10.7 Client and Server (Lion)

VMware knowledge base also states:

VMware Fusion 4.x includes a check to ensure that the version of Mac OS X being started is one of those listed. Any virtual machine that contains a Mac OS not listed above does not work after updating to VMware Fusion 4.1.1 or later. These unsupported virtual machines no longer boot after upgrading or downgrading from VMware Fusion 4.1.0.

Well, for those who have downloaded VMware Fusion 4.1.0 might want to keep the installer safe, just in case.

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Windows 7 on Mac mini.

When running windows on virtual machine is not enough, I fired up Boot Camp on the Mac mini to install Windows 7.

Previously I was running Windows in Parallels 7, unfortunately there are some hardware that wouldn’t interface correctly in the virtual machine.

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Kindle Fire: One week after.

It has been one week since Amazon Kindle Fire arrived and there are a lot of things to say about it.

Let’s start with the good things.

  • The 7-inch tablet form factor is easy to hold with one hand.
  • Kindle Fire interface is visually pleasing.
  • Amazon Prime video streaming works really well (with good Internet connection, obviously).
  • Good color reproduction and viewing angle. Thanks to the IPS screen.
  • The User Interface is pretty responsive, in general.
  • The ability to sideload Android apps not from Amazon Appstore.

Here comes the bad things:

  • Bad power/lock button. It’s at the “bottom” of the Kindle Fire and easily pressed by accident.
  • No hardware volume buttons.
  • On-screen keyboard feels “floaty”.
  • 1024×600 screen ratio in landscape mode is hard to look at, especially for web-browsing and email.
  • Sluggish screen redraw.

There a re still a lot to say about Kindle Fire. Amazon can easily fix a lot of the issues through software updates.

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VMware only allows virtualization of OS X Lion and Mac OS X Server.

VMware clarifies that Fusion 4.1 should not allow virtualization of Mac OS X Snow Leopard client or older per Apple’s EULA.

From VMware Fusion Blog:

Running Mac OS X client in a virtual machine continues to require Lion (purchased from the Mac App Store or a USB thumb drive.)  Users should always ensure they remain in compliance with any applicable software license agreements.

Certainly this is not the news Mac users been waiting for.

 

 

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Do.com private beta.

Do.com has been sending out private beta invites.

Do.com iPhone App is available on iTunes Store.

Do.com is owned by Salesforce.com.

Whois do.com

Registrant:
Salesforce.com, Inc
1 Market Street
Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
US

Domain Name: DO.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Salesforce.com, Inc
1 Market Street
Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
US
4159017000 fax: 4159017040

Record expires on 11-Feb-2021.
Record created on 28-Jun-2011.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS-416.AWSDNS-52.COM
NS-1617.AWSDNS-10.CO.UK
NS-1224.AWSDNS-25.ORG        205.251.196.200
NS-881.AWSDNS-46.NET

As usual details are unavailable since there’s a confidentiality clause in the private beta.

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