Firefox, Lithium Ion, Google Docs and Linux
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Firefox 3 Beta 2 has been officially released over at Mozilla. [Improved in Beta 2!] Firefox 3 Beta 2 includes approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.
Researchers Extend Lithium Ion Battery Life 10X
Yes…I mean that if your laptop currently gets 2 hours of unplugged life, these would get 20 hours. Holy Schmoley!
73% of Americans have never heard of Google Docs
“…94 percent of US computer users have never tried a web based productivity suite. More than 20 percent say they’ve at least heard of Google Docs or other suites, but have still never tried them. And only 0.5 percent of users say they’ve replaced Microsoft Office with an online office suite.”
Switching to Linux: Desktop environments vs. Window managers
Tonight is the night you install Linux for the first time. Pretty easy until you are blindsided by the question: Which default desktop environment would you like to install? Do you know? Do you care? What in the blazes is a desktop environment, anyway? How is that different from a window manager?
For 2008 expect more Linux applications
The big technology trend of the current day is the merging of markets — mobile, desktop, server, online — into one big all-you-can-eat application buffet. Nothing serves that buffet, at every level, as well as Linux.
