The initial mock-ups of what Firefox 4.0 might look like are extremely promising. I love the fact they are trying to reduce the height of the bookmark/toolbar/address bar area as this is my one main gripe about using Firefox on my netbook.
After a short stint with Unbuntu’s Netbook Remix, I decided it was time to give the RC of Window 7 a go on my Dell mini9 netbook.
So I followed this guide to get the .iso onto a usb key and a bootable drive and off it went. The only problem I had was during the BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: command as described in the guide. An error message came up stating ‘The update may be unreliable since the volume could not be locked during the update:’. This was solved by closing the windows explorer window that was open on the usb key’s drive. After that it all went swimmingly. Took a while longer than I was led to believe but hey ho, it’s on there now.
Even with only 1GB of RAM in my netbook, it’s running pretty smoothly. The only thing I find slightly irritating so far is the taskbar looks really oversized on the dimiutive screen and takes up a large proportion of the screen real estate.
[edit] Media Centre crashes a lot!
Using this I quickly got irritated having to move the cursor to the top left corner to go back to the home screen, which in itself is very well designed. Also, it was far too easy for me screw it up after being shown the sudo install command and the Synaptic Package Manager. Although I should point out that this problem is completely down to me and not Ubuntu at all. I know next to nothing about Linux and will probably return to the Netbook remix once I’m bored with Windows 7.
After a couple of years of wondering what the hell goes on at a Bar Camp I’ve decided to bite the bullet and go along to one to find out for myself.
So I’ll be in Oxford on the 5th of April, and as it’s a topic that’s so very close to my heart, I’ll be sponsoring the food for the event!!
I’ve been putting off upgrading wordpress on this blog for a while now so was a few versions behind the latest. Finally bit the bullet and installed version 2.7 beta 1. I’ll be commenting as I find new features/issues.
The admin area from the three minutes use I’ve had of it is a massive improvement.
Latest information about this build is here.
Just an example of why getting your work sanity checked can be a good thing.
Mozilla has just announced the launch date for the long awaited upgrade to Firefox 3 and it will officially be released on Tuesday 17th June 2008. There is also an attempt to set an official world record.
After stumbling across the new downloads section on the Microsoft website, I followed what seemed to be an interesting section called Microsoft Videos Beta.
The preview of the new embedded media player using Silverlight was visually very impressive on the landing page.
However, clicking through to a.n.other video then took an age to start running the video I had chosen. A minute or so later my display driver crashed but my wonderful laptop recovered it and back came my screen, and then I noticed that my CPU was getting absolutely hammered. Obviously to make this a fair test I did this test in IE7. So close down IE7 and as soon as it shut down, my system returns to normal speed.
Beta it may be, but I’m not impressed by this new offering from Microsoft. Traditional Microsoft bloatware based on a technology which I hope never takes off.
I’ve recently had to create a website that needed complete flexibility in the layout of the components on the page. So basically I had to implement a solution that would give the marketing teams and CMS teams completely independent control of the layout of the website without input from the HTML team.
There were two elements to this type of page:
I won’t be dealing with point 2 in this article as that is a big write up in itself. (more…)
The long awaited first release candidate of Firefox 3 is out and available from Mozilla now.
I will be reviewing this and shouting about this in the very near future.
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