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... »
After teasing users on Facebook a few days ago, ASUS updated their Facebook page in less than 12 hours to announce that the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OTA update has been released for the Transformer Pad 300 (TF300) series. It’s great news to hear this because this is the first Non-AOSP tablet to receive the latest OTA Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update (Motorla Xoom was the first AOSP tablet to get... »
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 ... »
Adobe Flash was really, believe it or not, a major selling point to pick an Android device over a device running iOS or WP7, when it had announced back in 2010 that all devices running Android 2.2 and up would be able to support Flash. Today this is not the case, as Adobe previously announced it would no longer be supporting the platform after Android 4.0, and Google silently emphasizing it... »
The Galaxy S3 is an excellent mobile phone, I actually have this phone myself, but having used Jelly Bean on my Nexus 7 tablet over the last month or so, I’m disappointed to see that the Galaxy S3 currently comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as standard. Well, my disappointment has been lifted. Yesterday it was announced on SamMobile that there is an official Jelly Bean test firmware ... »
Last month, LG had sent out a tweet regarding the availability of Android 4.0 on its Optimus 2X smartphone; that it won’t be receiving the promised Android 4.0 ICS upgrade. But now, LG Korea has reaffirmed its original statement, explaining in a korean tweet that they are still in the process of testing the software on the phone and it would be soon released to the Korean market. Even though... »
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... »