It seems like ages, but just one year ago I had very high hopes for the relaunch of Palm; the OS was based on Linux, the UI seemed great (multitasking done right from day 1) and their Mojo-framework would allow applications to be developed with nothing but html, css and javascript. But the Palm Pré … Read more
Google likes fast! Visitors like fast! So why don’t you go make your site really fast? Suppose you just bought yourself hosting and you just installed WordPress for blogging or lightweight-CMS-purposes, how can you improve your site’s performance in that case? Easy! speed up PHP: use a caching optimizer (I use APC) to significantly speed … Read more
Posted Apple Taps ITC to Kneecap Google. Published 5 tips to tackle the problem with iframes. Frank mobistar adsl kaput (een kink in belgacoms koperdraad?), wilde android’s "mobile connection sharing" gebruiken om op m’n winxp laptop naar buiten te gaan, maar dat zou te makkelijk geweest zijn, niet? inderdaad: windows kan geen dns resolven, dus … Read more
Posted Intuitive UI for Android learns & predicts use. Published The devil in Ms. Sandoval & Massive Attack (NSFW). Posted Opera CTO Sees Open Video Formats as Key to Web’s Future. Posted Mozilla Developer Preview (Gecko 1.9.3a1) available for download. Posted Google Buzz: Privacy nightmare. Posted Google Buzz and the fabric of the social web. … Read more
Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler recently rocked the boat when telling readers to use Bing instead of Google because of a shortsighted statement on privacy by Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO. The discussion that followed Asa’s blogpost was interesting on occasion, but harsh and even rude at times. While we’re all Google fanboys one way or the other … Read more
1. Mobile browsers; not all is WebKit: Although webkit-based browsers dominate the mobile web with Mobile Safari on the iPhone, the Android browser on e.g. the HTC Hero and in the future also the Blackberry browser, there are other browsers around as well: Opera published the first beta of Mini 5 (which is a powerfull … Read more
In spite of my almost religious view on the ideal mobile phone, I bought a HTC Hero last week. But let there be no doubt; it’s a great handset! My Hero sports a beautiful touch-screen, a nice -albeit young- Linux-based OS and a top notch webkit-based browser (with Adobe Flash 10, a first for a … Read more
Freedom comes in many shapes and forms, but give me a computer which is not burdened by corporate software and enforced group policies and give me internet access that is not limited by proxies that prohibit you from using half of the web and I’m a happy little futtta. I cracked the proxy thingie problem … Read more
As every boy could tell you, it’s our toys that keep us kind of young. Because of that and as I work for a telco, I can’t but regularly buy a new phone. Over the years I’ve had a.o. a Nokia 7110, a Sony-Ericsson T68i, a Qtek 9100 and I currently own a secondhand Nokia … Read more
With all the continuous Iphone 3G and HTC Touch buzz, one would almost forget how much truly awesome software there’s out there for Symbian-based handsets. Just look at my Nokia e61i: it’s not just a phone, but also; an online streaming video-camera when i use QIK a wifi-hotspot allowing me to share my 3G connection … Read more