Apparently, there have been 1 million iPhone activations since the start of sales last Friday. This (of course), would imply 1 million units sold, but doesn’t necessarily mean that. Hmm. Still, impressive figures.
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Happy Birthday, America!
We in Zibland wish our neighbours, The United States of America, a happy birthday! 🙂
(Still in Cape Cod, no internet…gotta spend what time I have keeping up-to-date with tech news :3)
iPhone is out, world still standing
So the iPhone is officially out. People out there have one. People out there have 2, but that’s the most you’re allowed to buy, so yeah. The “first” unboxing video is this:
Cool stuff. Wirelessinfo.com, apparently. Yeah, I’m über-jealous. And I’m on the Cape now, so I don’t even get to see one of these suckers up close until the 9th. Goddamn. I wonder if there’s a Cingular AT&T store around here somewhere…
iDay (Guess which phone comes out today?)
So yeah, in about an hour (here on the East Coast, at least…it’s being released at 6 PM local time) the iPhone will be unleashed upon the masses. Reports of what the lines are like are somewhat disappointing, the longest being The Cube in New York at about 200 people (The Cube is the 5th Ave. Apple store). There’s some buzz about who’s in line in different cities, for instance the Mayor of Philadelphia is waiting in line, fully decked in his rain poncho and a fold-out chair. The Woz is #1 in line wherever he is, and apparently there’s a troupe of circus people with a mini golf rig in line in San Fransisco (No, the prize is not an iPhone).
iTunes 7.3 was released earlier today, adding iPhone support, since it’ll be managed like an iPod…I took the liberty of constructing a paper iPhone which I think does justice to the real thing:
No, I’m not buying an iPhone, I can’t pull off $599 at the moment. Plus the data plan, and I’m completely screwed over. Oh well. I did take the liberty of laughing at each Sprint and Verizon store as I walked past them today to check out the line at our AT&T store. There was actually a little 5 person line outside it! 😀 Made me feel so cool.
How to Unify Firefox (On Mac) (More Details)
Ok so after some prodding on my dad’s part, I’ve decided to (try to) show everyone how to unify their Firefoxes like I have.
First off, if you’re not using a mac, you’re on your own. I’m almost positive the base skin I start with is not windows-compatible, so you’re screwed.
So here’s the grand list of all modifications I’ve made to Firefox:
- The base theme to install: GrApple (UNO). This gives you the basic Safari buttons and everything.
- The contents of my UserChrome.css are here (just save that file to ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxx.default/chrome).
- Place these 3 images in the above folder:
- Place this search plugin in the ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxx.default/searchplugins folder. This adds the Google Image Search plugin to the searchbar, and hopefully uses the magnifying glass as it’s icon…
- Install Fission (for the address bar loading, safari-style) and Stop-or-Reload Button (to swap the stop and reload buttons, safari-style).
If you do all of the above, you should get my unified Firefox. I also did a few things in the about:config window, but they were all performance things. Check it out
So try it out (at your own risk), and tell me if something is broken! 😀
Happy Birthday, Eve!
Today (June 27th, 2007) is the one-year anniversary of Eve’s arrival! Yay! Since then I’ve had a ton of fun with her, and I worked out most of the problems. I’m a total machead now, thanks to her.
Sadly, she’s showing her age a bit…I have a bit of degradation where my right palm always rests, the ‘open’ button on the front is no longer shiny, and the bottom is as scratched as hell. I still love her. I cleaned off her screen today 🙂
Anyway, happy birthday Eve, and many more!
Oh, and here’s a picture of her in her natural environment 🙂
Cleaning Out the Bookmarks Menu
In preparation for Eve’s 1st birthday (this Wednesday), I’ve been doing some cleaning up. One stage of that is getting all my programs to match (thus the craziness with skin modification in Firefox, etc.). Another part of the cleaning was wiping out all the stuff I never use from my bookmarks menu in Firefox. Before cleaning, the menu almost touched the bottom on my 1680×1050 monitor, and had one of those scrollies on my 1400×900. Now that I cleaned it out, I have 10 items on the list, and 2 folders. Impressive, I think.
Speaking of bookmarks I never use any more, anyone know what happened to Chugworth, the awesome webcomic I used to check loyally daily? It’s been down for like a month but I’m reluctant to remove it from my bar because I love it so much…
Windows Safari Gathers a Bajillion Users in 2 Days
(The above amount is an approximation)
Apple claims that since its release, Safari for Windows has already had 1 million downloads. In 48 hours. Wow. Plus, they released v.3.0.1 to fix the major security issues in it. Impressive, no?
Pirates of the Carribean 3 Released
So yesterday (actually, the first shows were on Thursday at 8pm, but it was advertised as Friday), Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End (which I’m going to call PotC3) was released. I saw it at 4pm yesterday, at Fenway 13 (for those of you who don’t know, Fenway 13 is one of the largest screens in Boston. Awesome. Fun fact: the Fenway cinema was sold to Regal by AMC, and now the prices are crazy high. The sale was because of anti-trust laws. Who knew?
Anyway, a review. One word: Awesome. There was a ton of action, lots of plot twists, backstabbing (literally and metaphorically), and just the right amount of comic relief (remember that crab-head guy in the second one? Too much. Remember Jar-Jar Binks, C-3PO, and R2-D2 in the new trilogy? Too much. Jack Sparrow hallucinating about copies of himself? Hilarious). My favorite scenes were pretty much the entire Davy Jones’ locker segment, and the ending. I’ve always loved watching crazy people in movies, so the Locker scene with Sparrow was awesome.
There were some low points (Calypso=Same woman but giant? Nope. Fail.), but all in all, ’twas a great movie.
PS: Stick around after the credits, there’s a little thing at the end. Check the 3rd comment on this post for a description.
I don't like USPS (AKA Mystery Package 5 part 1)
I’m waiting for a package to arrive via USPS, and it turns out that they only update their electronic package tracking system in the evening, meaning I have to stop myself from going crazy when I don’t know if my package has moved until 6 pm. I have a tendency to obsess over my packages, so this is a really, really annoying defect.