Firedfox
I started using Firefox as my web browser when it was still called Phoenix around version 0.5/0.6. Previously I was using Netscape Communicator which had become a bloated mess. At the time Firefox was a breath of fresh air. It was just a browser without all the mail, IRC client, web page designer that came [...]
Snow Leopard Install
Got my copy of Snow Leopard today. I’m in the process of installing it now on my Macbook. The install was straightforward as you can see from the screenshots below. I don’t expect any issues. Note there is an iPhone SDK available for Snow Leopard now (400MB download) at the iPhone Dev Center
Snow Leopard
Apple is now taking pre-orders for OSX 10.6 a/k/a Snow Leopard. It will ship on Aug 28th. It cost me $35 CDN to upgrade from 10.5. If I had bought a mac recently it would have been $9.95. Too bad Apple insists on phyical CDs. Would be nicer to just buy an ISO and I [...]
Rogers announces Android based phones
Rogers has announced they will be launching the first Android based phones in Canada. They will be from HTC. See the press release
Android Market in Canada
I received an email from Google today saying that it’s now possible to publish free applications in Canada. Still no word on when paid apps will be allowed though. In theory this should also mean that Rogers or someone is going to introduce Android based phones in Canada soon. Hopefully soon we will be able [...]
Funtoo
Trying to lookup some information about Gentoo Linux and I came across Funtoo. It seems this is a fork of Gentoo that is maintained by Daniel Robbins. Daniel Robbins was the original creator of Gentoo Linux. He did a good job too but some users were not happy and kept pushing him to manage the [...]
Blackberry App World
Today Research in Motion debuted the Blackberry App World. When first heard about there were not many details other than they planned a 80/20 split for revenue with developers (Apple, Google and Microsoft all are doing 70/30). I see now that you need to use PayPal for consumer purchases and to accept payments. For anyone [...]