MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Sep 15 2008 - The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit public benefit software development organization, is pleased to announce Firework, its upcoming office suite. Firework makes documents, spreadsheets and presentations, and like existing successful Mozilla products such as the award-winning Firefox and Thunderbird, will support open standards, ease of use, and innovation.
Ubuntu’s goal is to be the most popular desktop OS for humans. But new versions of Ubuntu, like most Linux distros, are still marketed towards Linux geeks. They’re concerned with technology, trumpeting version numbers and drowning out the actual things you can do with their software.
We’re picking on Ubuntu specifically because it has higher goals than most distros - it’s Linux for human beings, not Linux for hackers. Unfortunately, the release announcements have forgotten what humans care primarily about: themselves.
Let’s fix that, by looking at how the 7.10 announcement could be improved.
You may have noticed most iPhone apps (actual apps, not transvestite websites with hairy HTML poking out behind ill-fitting iPhone lingerie) are poo. Specifically, most iPhone apps are dog poo that’s been eaten by a particularly nasty dog, then been pooed again prior to being set on fire. Here’s twelve that aren’t.
Another great format war ended this week, with Blu-Ray to 70% of released films and, according to the Financial Times, HD-DVD left with one major studio. HD-DVD owners are either mildly put out, or happy they can now pick up HD movies for a few dollars as they’re tossed out by major retailers.
We’ve been here before: whether RealPlayer versus Windows Media, BSD versus Linux, or boxers versus briefs. Let’s take a look back at some of the great format wars of our time.
iPhone 1.1.2 is the current iPhone firmware. If you’re running something older, you’re missing out on: a bunch of bug fixes and improvements to Safari, seeing your battery charge in iTunes, ringtones, and if for those outside the US, vastly improved international support. 1.1.3 isn’t out, much less cracked. If you’re still running old firmware, now’s the perfect time to upgrade to 1.1.2, because the new iNdependence makes it damn easy.
The following guide allows you to wirelessly sync an iPhone with Amarok in Ubuntu 7.10, including:
It takes less than 10 minutes, and is completely graphical. Read the rest of this entry »
The question above is the only question on Google Labs Aptitude Test that relates to an Operating System. It’s a good question: it immediately gets rid of fanboys who can’t see anything wrong with any tool they love, and allows people who are passionate and knowledgeable enough about Unix to demonstrate the can either:
This is part one of a multipart series, published over the next two weeks. This week: text processing.
Need to access your Mac files from Linux? Downloaded something on one OS and need to put it on the other? Sharing files between OS X and Ubuntu is easy. The following guide takes 10 seconds and doesn’t involve any terminal usage or extra software.
Oktoprep, a program to unlock the latest iPhone 1.1.2 firmware update, was released today.
Bash, the default shell in Linux and OS X, loses history data after running multiple shells at the same time - for example, using multiple tabs in the terminal. The fix is simple, but not widely known.
VentureCake covers emerging trends in technology, including Open Source, mobile computing and startups.
It's created by Mike MacCana, who has worked purely in Open Source for 9 years. A former columnist for PC Authority, APC magazine, and co-author of two Linux Pocketbooks, Mike has also trained RHCE and RHCA courses for Red Hat, and consulted as a Linux specialist for a wide variety of clients.
VentureCake is his first web site.
The rest he’s keeping quiet for now.
