5 posts tagged “internet”
I recorded my first podcast (using the Talkshoe network) and, I think I totally bombed. There was many time I fumbled words and lost my train of thought; resulting in dead airspace. I don't know what is with me today, I have never had a problem with public speaking.
Oh well my show 3.0 Ideas, is supposed to be a think tank for crazy ideas that just might work, and explore revolutionary concepts could change the internet as we know it. I really want to extend it to taking things we have learned form the web and applying them to older media such as tv, and print.
If you would like to listen to me crash and burn you can do so via iTunes aor direct download by vising my showes talkshoe profile page.
So, where does this leave my show, and my future in respect to podcasting? Well, although I crashed and burned. I am not one to give up easily. I am currently searching for a co-host, and entertaining different show ideas.
Let me know what you think of it.....
You can get the offical release of Firefox 2 now at : www.getfirefox.com
I noticed tow things about Firefox 2.0 since I first blogged about this...
- Google's
spell check is still better. I typed a word I knew was totally spelt
wrong, and Firefox could not detect as spelt wrong because it wasn't
close enough to a word in the spell check dictionary. The second I
typed it in the Google search box it suggested the correct word. I know
that PHP has a function for searching for things based on what they
would sound like if you were to pronounce the phonetically. I imagine
Google is using something very similar, and I am wondering why this
kind of technology is yet to be implemented in desktop applications.
- I also noticed that extensions is now officially called "Add-ons" just like IE7. Although, I am glad Mozilla didn't try to implement a pay for Add-Ons model like Microsoft did.
Hot on the heals of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 is scheduled for release tomorrow, (Tuesday) but thanks to the cyber sleuths at Ars Technica you can download it today. I updated both my PC and my Mac and the process seems to run quite smoothly. It even detects the extensions you were using in Firefox 1.5 and downloads and installs the new 2.0 edition (if available) for you, witch is nice if your a design geek like me and have a thousand extensions.
I haven't had much time to play around with the new version but the the first thing I noticed was the built in spell checker. If you are dyslexic like me, and on a good day can hardly spell your own name, you will agree this is much needed feature.
I know safari and other browsers have this feature but it's nice to see a good spell checker built into a browser I use daily. Since I haven't had much luck with the spell checkers build into web pages such as Vox and Gmail. If sure I will have a ton of other things to report on this new version of Firefox once I have a chance to play around with it a bit more.
Yes its true, Internet Explorer 7 released yesterday. I have been playing around with the beta version for quite some time now; because as a designer you want to stay on top of the browser development.
It is drastic improvement form its predecessor and now sports many of the same features as Firefox. Such as: tabbed browsing (I actually like IE's tabed browsing better), built in search box, and even third party extensions (called add-ons in IE) except IE give the creator the ability to sell extensions.
The on feature I love about IE7 it the built in rss reader. It is not the most full featured rss reader out there but it is the easiest to setup and use out of any I have tried. It automatically detects that the page you are on has an RSS feed and lights up the feed icon at the top of the page. Then all you have to do it click it and it will give you a preview of the RSS feed inside the reader. (the photo to the left is a screenshot of my Vox blog previewed in the IE 7 RSS reader)
Although IE tas much better CSS support there is still drastic diffrentces between the way IE and firfox dispaly webpages so it looks like designers will still have to use javascript hacks for some time.
If it wasnt for the fact that I use a Mac at work and a PC at home I would probably switch to IE7, (mostly beacuse of the RSS reader) but since I like constitancy I will be using Firefox for now.
