Live Update - iPhone OS 4.0 event
EDIT 1 - Macworld says that they are switching to their backup method. Updating manually.
Geohot brings back other OS support with PS3 3.21OO CFW
According to Engadget:
Well, Geohot promised a workaround for Sony’s removal of the “install other OS” feature in PS3 firmware 3.21 and now Geohot has delivered. While it’s not available to the public just yet, Geohot’s 3.21OO custom firmware will apparently be simple to install and, as you can see in the video after the break, it works just as you’d expect and simply restores the “other OS” option to its previous place. Geohot even says that the custom firmware might actually enable the other OS feature on the PS3 Slim, but he hasn’t yet had a chance to try it out.
The video:
Have fun!
Gmail on the iPad
With the release of the iPad, a lot of popular websites like Google are making iPad-based versions of their most popular web applications.
My favorite Google service Gmail, has received a major makeover for their iPad-based site.
This is how it looks:
I must say that it looks damn good. I know for a fact that a lot of people are turned off by Gmail’s design on the desktop, I would like Google to do something like this for the main version of their amazing e-mail service.
For those who don’t have an iPad yet, there is a way to try this out on your PC or Mac. An add-on for Firefox called the User Agent Switcher that allows you to change your browser’s user agent to show as the iPads’ user agent.
How to do this:
Click on Tools -> Default User Agent -> Edit User Agents -> New -> New User Agent
and in the User Agent field copy and paste this:
Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10
Name it iPad, so you can easily refer to it later. Now change your user agent to iPad and visit the Gmail site.
Enjoy!
Experiences with Linux (Part 1)
Yes, this is a post about Linux. Maybe some of you thought with all the Windows based posts before that I was a total MS fanboy, well then sorry to delude you.
My experiences with Linux now go back a couple of years. My interest in Linux or more specifically Ubuntu was sparked by a PCWorld article. It was a full blown article on how to go around installing Ubuntu. They usually don’t do articles on Linux and other open source stuff, so I that Ubuntu must be a damn good distro for PCWorld to recommend it and do an article on it. So, I decided to go and ask Ubuntu for a disc. This disc arrived about 4 weeks later.
When I put in the installation disc and rebooted my computer, I was very excited and filled with anticipation. The installation went well, and I rebooted into..wait for it..a Ubuntu login screen.
I noticed that resolution was messed up, but that was to be expected. After I logged in, the first thing I did was check for updates. I ran into a small problem here. During the installation I chose Canada as my country. This cause my update download speed to be really really slow; the server really sucked (like 25 kb/s). I went to system preferences and changed my update server to the US one. Problem solved; downloads were going at maximum speed.
Downloading and installing those updates took some time, after I rebooted it asked me if I wanted to install restricted drivers (this means that the drivers aren’t open source i.e proprietary), I installed the NVIDIA driver. Another reboot my resolution problem was fixed; I saw Ubuntu in full 1440x900 glory.
First impressions
First, thing I noticed was the boot time (I had Vista at the time) Ubuntu loaded in about 30 seconds and was ready to go.
Now, since the resolution problem was fixed I took a closer look at the color scheme. I would like to say that I liked it but I didn’t, the brownish and orange tones weren’t really my thing. Even with all the problems that Vista caused, I must admit that it looked good.
It came preinstalled with Firefox, so no issues there. The media player Rhythmbox was great as well.
Bye..for now
After a week, I decided to get rid of my Ubuntu install. Why you may ask?
Reasoning:
- Tired of dual-booting
- Couldn’t run my Windows programs (I didn’t know about Wine until my next install)
- Games
So, Ubuntu was gone for now. It will come back in a month, but that’s a story for the next part of this 3 part story.
Do comment, I would love to hear if any of my readers experiences with Linux.
Youth Career Fair 2010 @UTSC
This Saturday, I was volunteering at the Youth Career Fair that was happening at the University of Toronto (Scarborough campus).
I just made this post to say that I really enjoyed volunteering with the Storefront. I am really glad that I volunteered 7 hours of my time. I made some new friends (one of them even had the same name as me!), found out how easy it is to get lost in that huge campus (I’m used to King.) and how university cafeteria food tastes.
