OK, this is not really fair for me to make fun of the “I’m a PC” stuff.
I thought that it is funny when searching for certain keywords yielding some sites that triggered this warning:
Apple Recommends Amazon Mobile
Drumroll please. Apple App Store Pick of the Week is: Amazon Mobile.
This is something refreshing since Amazon MP3 Store is the closest and best competition to iTunes Store. At this point, Amazon Mobile does not allow direct MP3 download on the iPhone and iPod touch yet.
Let’s see if Apple will let Amazon sells MP3 direct to iPhone and iPod touch.
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is in, Shiretoko is out
Release date: December 8th, 2008
Mozilla.org has officially dropped “Shiretoko” as name for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2.
The good folks at Mozilla.org has just released Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Don’t worry because Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is still free (seriously, has anyone paid for Firefox upgrade/updates?)
Mozilla Firefox is available for Linux Mac and Windows.
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
- This beta is now available in 54 languages – get your local version and let us know if it looks right.
- A new Private Browsing Mode that allows you to browse without Firefox storing any traces of where you’ve been – perfect for online holiday shopping!
- New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.
- New support for web worker threads.
- The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Removed the new tab-switching & preview behavior based on feedback from Beta 1 users
- Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.
Get Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 from:
Dear Mozilla.org, WHAT?
Mozilla Firefox is one of applications that I use on regular basis. I have been using different incarnations of Mozilla Firefox since its first inceptions. Anyone remember “Phoenix” browser?
I read this headline on Mozilla.org site and I am so confused.
FREE UPGRADE!
I don’t really remember the otherwise.
The Apple and Anti-Virus “Debacle”
This one is a laughable non-story news. I bet Paul Thurrott was jumping up and down when the news was out. Even the MacBreak Weekly crew missed the whole non-story.
“Oh noes, Apple now recommends Anti-Virus for teh Mac OS Ten!”
“Wait a minuet, they took the article down.”
Seriously, I am pretty sure that starting Thanksgiving day, it would be a slow news end of the year for technology.
Apple bundled Virex Anti-Virus with .Mac subscriptions on the first half of this decade. As a matter of fact, Apple stopped bundling Virex back in 2005.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/vrx3.html
This is not really news.
iPhone Applications: Amazon Mobile
“Good news, everyone. Now you can spend your money on Amazon even faster with the new Amazon Mobile app on the iPhone.”
This 1.0 release is still missing tons of Amazon.com feature, notably the MP3 download.
“This mobile application does not currently support digital downloads. Add this item to your Wish List and you can view and purchase it from your computer.”
Now, if only Apple would PLAY FAIR, then they should let Amazon Mobile download MP3 straight to the iPhone.
Canon Vixia HG10 Raw AVCHD Sample
It took me a while to get to it, but here it is as promised, Canon Vixia HG10 raw AVCHD sample. The jitters in the movie is from the vibration of the car and the speakers as I placed the camcorder on the dashboard. The Image Stabilizer in this camcorder does work some wonders.
http://37prime.com/CANON_HG10.zip
Inside the ZIP file, there is an mountable ISO file.
For Mac OS X users, if the ISO does not mount, use Toast or any other programs until I upload a DMG file.
I will be posting Canon Vixia HG20 raw AVCHD sample soon.
UPDATE (2009.02.01):
I’ll be posting Canon Vixia HG21 raw AVCHD sample instead.