Apple’s CEO says that Android is fragmented and that the open vs. closed dilemma is not important as long as Apple’s proprietary mobile operating system manages to provide a better user experience. via googlesystem.blogspot.com My point on this: Steve Jobs may be right; i.e., […]
Author: mcastel
Testing browsers on Mac OS X
From a quick and (admittedly) naive comparison between Firefox 3.6.11, Chrome 7.0.517.41 and Opera 11.00 alpha (all loading the same page), it seems clear that Firefox is still the most hungry of memory… …anyway I'm too addicted to its extensions, to get rid of […]
Ubuntu One Buzz
Well it seems that Ubuntu One is moving its first step into the social web; you can easily obtain a link for the song you're listening to. At variance with Apple's Ping, in Ubuntu One you can propagate this link to the (social) web, […]
Mark Shuttleworth talks Project Harmony, Unity, Windicators and more
I do love the kubuntu community, and spend what some would consider an unreasonable amount on doing certain things twice but there is no philanthropic benefit to having TWO free desktops out there, that won’t help more folks embrace free software neither is there […]
Apple.com reveals iLife upgrade, reaffirms MacBook Air refresh ..
A little bit of URL manipulation has revealed separate forums for a new iMovie ’11, iPhoto ’11, and GarageBand ’11, all three of which are core components of the iLife suite, leading us to go ahead and presume that Steve Jobs will be discussing […]
GNOME 3 and KDE 4…
Interesting point of view about the developement of GNOME, in comparision with the fate of KDE4 … Amplify’d from dasublogbyprashanth.blogspot.com GNOME will emphasize simplicity, ease-of-use, and understated modernity over flashiness and over-the-top effects. KDE will be the way forward for ultimate customization, web-connected computing […]