Archive for the 'Tech' Category

Nokia N800 Gets Firefox 3 Rendering Engine

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

The “Mozilla based browser for maemo” project has released a development version of the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine for the Nokia N800. This project, also known as “MicroB”, allows N800 users to replace the Opera rendering engine of the N800 browser with the same rendering engine that will power Firefox 3. Once the [...]

Safari for Windows Could Threaten OS X, iPhone and Apple’s Image

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

As you’ve probably heard, Apple has released a version of their Safari web browser for Windows. A lot has been said about why Apple would do this (my bet is that Jon Gruber is right and it’s about the $$$ that Apple will generate from Google searches), about how fast it truly is, and about [...]

VMWare Fusion: Looking Better Than Ever

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

While Parallels may have got the jump on VMWare in the Mac virtualization market, VMWare Fusion is looking better all the time. I first tried Fusion out of frustration over not being able to install the latest versions of Linux on Parallels. VMWare has a much longer history in the VM market and [...]

Microsoft confirms that it has lost its mind - announces $10,000 table!

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

The internet is buzzing today with people raving about the new Microsoft Surface technology announcement. Hopefully people will soon get over the initial hype generated by the fantasy videos on Microsoft’s website and take a more practical look at this MS announcement. Come on people, multi-touch technology is nothing new! According to [...]

Install Ubuntu 7.04 on Your Intel Mac with VMware Fusion

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

The latest version of Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn, has been getting a lot of press recently. With news that Dell will soon be pre-installing Ubuntu on some of its systems, it’s almost certain that Ubuntu will only become more popular in the coming months. If you have an Intel Mac and would like to [...]