I’m back home again, going to see Transformers and the iPhone in the next few days, and Harry Potter after that. Basically, expect more posts soon.
A Series of Tubes
An archive of old posts.
iPhone activations hit a million?
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.
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 sells half-a-million
Heh. Hit that millionth unit yet, Zune? The iPhone sold 500,000 units in its first weekend. Cool. Yeah, it’ll probably slow down soon enough, but half a million in just over two days says something, I think.
Also the ringtones built into the iPhone suck.
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! 😀
Firefox Unification: Complete
That, my friends, is an image of Firefox. I took it about a minute ago. Firefox Unification is now complete, as I figured out how to skin the tab bar. It required a third image, but hey, it looks fricken’ sweet.
I will probably continue modding it, get that active tab more blended, remove that tab bar menu, but it’s completely unified now. 🙂
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 🙂
Leopard Videos
The developers who were at the WWDC received beta copies of OS X Leopard, so they could start developing for it. Some developers were good, and kept it to themselves. Others released screenshots that they weren’t supposed to. Others actually released the OS itself onto the internet.
This guy decided to post some videos of it in action. You can see Spaces, Time Machine, Stacks, the new screensavers (cool stuff), and a lot more.