Owning an iPhone was sought after for a while now..age/gender/occupation seemed to not affect the desire for an iPhone. Nowadays you find almost every other person to have one in their hands- thinking that they are flaunting what they got. Seriously, i think its time that so many owning it makes it that much too ordinary, a cry far away from cool/happening.

What makes me feel iffy about the iPhone is the fact that its from Apple! I am a huge fan of a good product, a good branding( my ASUS S6F), and i dont necessarily have any complaints with Apple..not for now..but i am not sure if i will feel differently in near future   I am not OK with iTunes & iPhone updates… I am hugely disappointed in everything that goes on with new updates.

If you are wondering if there was any recent update with iPhone, then no. The last, latest update is from January 2008. Why am i talking about it now? That kinda answers the point I’m trying to make.

I dint install the January 2008 iPhone software update just because i dint want to have to go through all this. Its April 2008, and i am finding some free time and finally get to install the update. Guess what happens? MY IPHONE CANNOT CONNECT THROUGH EDGE!

I restarted it half a dozen times( Don’t try to even suggest the same thing again people!), cleared cache/cookies/history in safari, nothing is looking good right now.

“Safari can’t open the page because it can’t find the server.” is what i get when i am trying to access Safari ( any website, even Google.com). Same kind of messages about “cant find server” come up when i am trying to access my Mail, Weather etc. .
Just great..its Friday night, and all i got to do was install Firefox 3 beta and test it..just to realize that fireftp, greasemonkey don’t work with the ff3..and now my iPhone is acting crazy.
Now i have to make an appointment with apple store( i don’t like when i cant fix my gadgets, not especially when i paid $500+ on one). I could do other important things: laundry, dishes, bathe my cat, grocery shopping, applying for summer internship positions around Louisville..nope.

I bet i wont get anything done when my head is thinking of all possible googling i could do to figure out a fix for my iPhone.

 

I bet if there is a website that just is dedicated to users aggravated with Apple iPhone, it would be running out of bandwidth in a day!!! Dude, i hope i get my iPhone working asap!

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Opera 9 – Totally slick. It sticks it to IE as it is, but the fact that they had a release event in the emerald city – like an XXL gauntlet being thrown down. The browser (if you can still call it that) will never be the same.I’ve been playing with Opera 9 beta …at work on windows/MAC. I think it sucks!
Ah Well .. here are the pros

• Fast
• Free
• Not much different on windows and Mac OS X
• Saves sessions – tabs ore reopened where they were

And here are the cons….

• Doesn’t import proxies users and password on windows
• UI sucks on Mac OS X, less on windows
• Web applets are useless
• Breaks on sites that do browser sniffing (like for Yahoo! Mail beta )
• Saves sessions (sucks when browsing for lingerie or something like that! )

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IE: a wannabe firefox?

First lets talk about the predecessor. A post about IE7 on TechCrunch generated a lot of comments complaining about the lack of innovation in the Microsoft product. The timeline between IE6 and IE7 has been unusually long by software standards, so it was reasonable to expect a decent amount of innovation.

But nothing is near to ‘innovation’. All the features, though they look like the Microsoft IE-styled integration, are what firefox has. Infact, the features are what firefox came out as foxier than IE. So all looked like imitation.

Firefox

In just a few years, Firefox has taken
the previously dormant browsing market by storm and woken the slumbering giant Microsoft.

Any browser that was to successfully challenge IE6’s market dominance would have to be far and away the best browser on offer. Netscape 6 was decent, but didn’t cut it. The Mozilla suite, on which Navigator 6 was based, is excellent but aimed at developers and unwieldy for most user’s needs. The web needed a browser that was fast, lightweight, and did everything IE does, but better. The answer to that: Firefox.

Features that i Like the MOST! :

Firefox has an open architecture which allows the installation of
themes and extensions. Themes, like ‘skins’ in many other applications,
give the browser a whole new look. Extensions are even better — anyone
can write one to make the browser do something special, like check your
Gmail account when you open the browser, or block all ads.

• I like the IE Tab, with which i open the sites which cry to
  open in firefox. Another interesting thing i do with IE Tab is to open
  two gmail accounts at the same time in two different tabs, one firefox
  tab, one ie tab.
• And ofcourse, i use Performancing, which lets me configure my blog account very easily and blog within any tab.
• Firefox uses the same powerful rendering engine (code named “Gecko”) which is found in all Mozilla products. This means it has superb support for all those things we web developers love. Its rendering is accurate and fast, and it has advanced stylesheet support up the proverbial ‘wazoo’. DOM support is present and accounted for.
• Search is probably the most fundamental thing we do online and Firefox excels at
  integrating search engines in a very smart way. With this new release, Firefox adds the
  search completion mechanism, which works just like Google complete.

• FireFTP:

FireFTP is a Firefox add-on which enables you to upload your site or
files via the FTP protocol. It is handy if you are a Firefox user
because of the idea of running it inside one of the tabs so you don’t
have to launch an extra program. I looove this feature!

This free add-on allows you to upload to anywhere on the internet with FTP ability, providing you have the password of course.

You can run multiple FTP accounts and switch between them with a
simple drop down list. It is faster than most FTP clients I have used
and includes a whole host of features as well as a very good help
website to accompany it.

The program is available through the Mozilla Firefox add on website or direct from fireftp.mozdev.org.

Pros: Firefox has a tabbed interface; includes a pop-up
blocker; built-in, multiple search tools; and built-in RSS reader. It
is stable and free.

Cons:
No ActiveX support, so not all sites work in Firefox.

Overall:
Firefox’s tabbed browsing, RSS support, security features, and overall
cool factor make it more attractive than Internet Explorer.

powered by performancing firefox

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1. You sit right next to a window but you still just look at your ForecastFox icon to see what it’s like outside.

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It was a nice gesture from the IE7 team. I guess developers don’t take these “browser wars” as seriously as the users do. And since nothing has been reported, the cake was obviously not poisoned.
IE team needs browser wars to keep their jobs. If Mozilla doesn’t keep posing a challenge, the Microsoft IE devs will eventually lose their jobs since there won’t be a reason to keep improving. They’re effectively thanking the Mozilla team for letting them keep their jobs, i think.

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