Fourth episode of Angry Birds Toons titled “Another Birthday” is now playing at the nearest Angry Birds game. Spoiler, it features The Pigs and Birthday.
Next week episode is titled “Egg Sounds” featuring The Blues.
Firefox 21.0 Beta 1 and Thunderbird 17.0.5
WordPress 3.6 Beta 1
WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 is now available. As usual, proceed with a caution before installing any beta products.
What’s new in WordPress 3.6
- Post Formats: Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions to access the structured data.
- Twenty Thirteen: We’re shipping this year’s default theme in our first release of the year. Twenty Thirteen is an opinionated, color-rich, blog-centric theme that makes full use of the new Post Formats support.
- Audio/Video: You can embed audio and video files into your posts without relying on a plugin or a third party media hosting service.
- Autosave: Posts are now autosaved locally. If your browser crashes, your computer dies, or the server goes offline as you’re saving, you won’t lose the your post.
- Post Locking: See when someone is currently editing a post, and kick them out of it if they fall asleep at the keyboard.
- Nav Menus: Nav menus have been simplified with an accordion-based UI, and a separate tab for bulk-assigning menus to locations.
- Revisions: The all-new revisions UI features avatars, a slider that “scrubs” through history, and two-slider range comparisons.
Roger Ebert, RIP
Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer.
On April 2nd, Roger Ebert announced that he’d be taking “a leave of presence” from what he loved doing for the last 46 years.
So long.
Blink and Servo
It is a back to back news on web browsers.
First, Mozilla and Samsung are working together on new Servo web browser engine for Android and ARM. Servo itself is written in Rust, a programming language developed by Mozilla.
Should Samsung ever want to fork Android, they would have their own web browser.
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Second, Google announces Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit.
In a sense that Google is in a disagreement on what direction Webkit should go.
Bring on all the different web browsers, as long as they adhere to one HTML standard.
The State of Apple in 2013, so far…
The first Quarter of 2013 is in the past, and here’s what we know:
- Apple has not held any special events in 2013
- Apple has not released any new products in 2013 so far
Capacity increase in iPad and processor update in MacBook Pro do not count as new product - It is Apple’s 37th Anniversary as of April 1, 2013
Things that analysts, investors and pundits are disappointed about, among others:
- Apple has not released any Television sets as rumored
- Apple has not released any watches as rumored
- Apple has not released “cheap iPhone” as rumored
- Apple has not released gigantic iPhone as rumored
What’s coming from Apple in 2013, assuming they would update their product lines:
- The successor to Mac Pro
- The successor to iPhone 5
- The successor to iPad and iPad mini
- The successor to iOS 6
About the next iOS and iPhone
After reading John Gruber’s The Latest Apple Scuttlebutt, I would like to add a few cents into the open discussion.
- Since Jony Ive took over the Human Interface division back in October 2012, Apple designers and engineers have been steadily working on the upcoming and presumably named iOS 7. According to firstname@apple.com, a lot them have been putting extra hours working on the next iOS.
- Key Apple employees have not been home longer than they had before; overseeing production of presumably new Apple products. The angry spouses don’t even know what they are working on.
I’d really would like to emphasize the “angry spouses” part.