So it's been roughly five days of living in Firefox. I installed and synced the browser successfully across my two laptops, tablet and phone and was ready to get to work. During the last two days, I went about using Firefox for my daily needs: email, writing google docs, content management for a website with WordPress, note taking and more. I can't report that everything went well. But I'll ... »
So last Friday I decided to see what life on the web would be like if I ditched Chrome as my daily browser to go with Firefox. See here. Before I set out to really test what Firefox could do I needed to look into Firefox’s sync capabilities. The best part about Chrome is the seamlessness of syncing across desktop and mobile. I have two laptops — a System76 Lemur Ultra (my work mach... »
Mozilla’s new smartphone OS, Firefox OS isn’t due to be released until 2013 but it is already running on the Raspberry Pi. In a post on their blog, the team behind the project show us a video in which Firefox OS is running on the Raspberry Pi. In the video it showcases the running of some HD animations at 60fps. There is also an early iteration of the new home screen and some of the ... »
I always like those tech series where a writer does something brave: Use nothing but Chrome OS for a week or (gasp!) Ubuntu for a month. As much as I like these pieces, I’m not all that crazy about putting myself through social experiments. I’ve already tried living in Fedora and I don’t last much longer than a week. I didn’t last more than 10 minutes in Windows 8. I don&... »
Although I do nearly all of my news reading online, I've never been a big fan of Google Reader. I developed a habit long ago for simply bookmarking my favorite sites and visiting them when I had the urge to check in. For regular news I use Google News and have lately mixed into that routine Pulse Reader. Google reader seemed like a good way to organize all my favorite sites, but I was never craz... »
Linux sucks because it can’t play Netflix. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this said or seen this written. Not to be pedantic or anything, but there’s nothing about Linux that makes it so that Netflix can’t work. Netflix doesn’t work for a very specific reason. Microsoft. Netflix CAN Work in Linux First of all, it’s quite obvious that Netflix... »
Windows 8 will be released on the 26th October of this year and the frustrating thing for open source lovers like me is that Windows 8 makes it very difficult or if can say, impossible to run my Ubuntu OS alongside Microsoft Operating System. Windows Secure Boot if you don’t know, is controversial UEFI based feature developed by Microsoft to prevent unauthorized firmware, operatin... »
The wait is now over. Samsung has just released some new details about its upcoming tablet named Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1; based on the Galaxy Note smartphone model. Finally, the Korean company tells more about the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. As every one is thinking, the tablet comes with 10.1 display with 1280×800 resolution, an S Pen to provide an endless possibilities of creativity as Sams... »