Technology
H.264 vs. Theora (Software Patents)
The H.264 video codec requires a license to use, the same way the Mp3 codec requires a license to use. While the Theora and Vorbis codecs do not require such licenses, companies like Apple don’t like to use them because they have their hands in other codecs (H.264 or AAC in Apple’s case).
My Thoughts on All Things Apple/Flash/HTML5
Over the weekend I was involved in several discussions regarding Apple, Flash, and HTML5. I was quite opinionated on the subjects to the point of getting marginally upset at times because I feel that some people don’t understand the influence that Mr. Steve Jobs has on Apple fan boys who then spew his half truths around the internet without really understanding what they’re saying and how much they don’t really know.
gEdit Color Themes
I’ve been using gEdit (the default text editor in Ubuntu) to do some Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming the last few weeks. I was using the RadRails plugin for Eclipse but for some reason my computer slows down considerably when using Eclipse. The thing is, gEdit comes with a couple of nice color themes by default but the darker Oblivion theme wasn’t quite to my liking. So I a quick Google search later and I found a repository on GitHub that contains several nice gEdit color themes. I’ve currently settled on the DarkMate them (see screenshot below).
The Apple Tablet & Internet Hype
Over the past 2 weeks or so the tech news websites have been all the rage about two things: Google’s Nexus One and Apple’s tablet computer. The Nexus One exists, people have seen it, handled it, taken pictures of it, written reviews on it. Apple’s tablet however continues to be nothing more than rumor.
OpenOffice – Autosaving to Microsoft Formats
Anyone who follows this blog regularly knows I’m a huge pusher of open source software (especially free, open source software). Recently, I had to set up a neighbor with OpenOffice because they were doing their resume in Microsoft Works and they had received a request for their resume to be in the Microsoft Word format (.doc).
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Thoughts on the “Google Phone”
Over the weekend, what many people have been touting as “the Google phone” became real (Engadget article). Or at least it seems that way. While many people are arguing if 1) this is actually the Google phone and 2) if this phone can even bring relevance to the mobile industry, I want to share some of my thoughts.
