I’m stuck with a old Nokia N95 8GB, and it’s definitely time to get my hand on a smart phone soon.
Two of the alternatives is HTC Desire or IPhone 4. I’ll most likely go for one of them, but the question is which one?
I’ve heard a lot of good reviews and comments from friends and colleagues with HTC Desire, but it’s hard to say when IPhone 4 hasn’t been released here in Norway yet.
But I’m yet to hear someone complain when going from a IPhone 3G to a HTC Desire, I’m afraid I don’t know about anyone going from HTC to IPhone.
I’m a bit sceptical about the policy that Apple runs on their devices, they run their business like Microsoft did some years ago, everything closed and impossible to use for anyone else. I feel Google, with it’s Android has a lot more to offer when it comes down to flexibility and user control. Some say Google got too much knowlegde about us now, that they control too much.. Demand and supply, that’s what it’s about right?
So I guess that’s the way the wide world is turning, towards a more open place. And I think I like that… and HTC Desire.
Have you ever heard about cloud computing? If not, you will get familiar with it very soon. It’s the new hype on the web, and basically takes us back to the old times with only a few large computers. The difference now is that “everyone” has access to them.
One of the services that is based on this is icloud.com
They give you 3 GB of storage and your own desktop online, so you can access your desktop anywhere anytime without dragging your laptop around.
You also get:
- 50 free applications
- a public profile
- a free email
- and much more
iCloud currently support Internet Explorer and Firefox, and if you want to try it out, go to their website today and register for free. A activation email will be sent to your email address shortly after you have registered and you may then log-in with your user name and password.
After the campaign to remove Internet Explorer 6 from computers worldwide started, there have been a lot of feedback saying that the users that still struggles with IE6 is users on company computers, without admin rights and then unable to upgrade or install an other browser.
But there is a solution to save them as well, while their IT departments are sitting on the fences watching, not doing anything about it. What you can do, if your sorry ass is affected by incompetent technical staff, is to get a portable version of a better browser.
I’ll guide you to two different browsers that works from a USB stick, Opera@USB and Firefox Portable . None of these are official versions of the browsers, but both runs the newest versions of the browser.
If you don’t have a USB stick you can install Google Chrome, that don’t require administrator rights to install.
It’s your choice.
Mozilla has decided to rename their next version from 3.1 to 3.5 because of the major changes that have been done for this release. This was confirmed by the VP of Engineering for the Mozilla Corporation , Mike Shaver, in a comment to the newsgroup mozilla.dev.planning. Some of the major changes that are released in this version is the new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey, Private Browsing, support for HTML5-elements as canvas, video and audio, as well as support for W3Cs Geolocation API Specification.
I have been testing Windows 7 for about 1 month now, and I have to say that I am impressed. At least compared to Vista, that I personally don’t like at all. Yes, I’m still using Win XP on my work laptop, and enjoying it. I guess I will upgrade to Win 7 when it’s released, but for now I am enjoying my copy of the beta version on a old laptop.
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