FNN Issue 8
No. 8 Fortnightly Nerd News - Issue 8
Friday, 11th September 2009
Hello everyone,
Yes, I know, it's about time!
I know I have other things to do, we all do, but I cannot sleep knowing that Apple and Google isn't sleeping. I have to keep at this, there are so much happening in the world of nerds and it's not funny. By the time <censored client name> got around to their sites, Facebook had like 4 "face-lifts", so to speak. So, we have to keep moving forward.
Welcome the new members
Okay, as we know we had Jay and Zoran join our development team and YES, yet again, we are an AME - <clarification here> - mad!!
I would like to Velcome them to the Visiontech Team. No, the "V" is not a typo.
Move over key loggers, we can log a lot more!
Internet is a scary place, I tell you! Just when you though Google Analytics was awesome...
check out this thing. http://clixpy.com/demo
Browser will be your everything
Gmail is cool, inbox in a browser, but Photoshop in a browser is so cool its freezing!! This just blew me away.
Mac and Apple
Snow Leopard, the next update of the Mac OS X stream was released recently.
It's the little things that Apple changed that made it a worthy upgrade for $39 bucks.
New frame-less quicktime (with movie and screen recording), 64 bit, updates to Finder and a lot more "under the hood" updates. They even upgraded the PHP version - that comes built in - to 5.3, I welcome closures, finally, anonymous functions are real.
iTunes and iPod
Apple updated iTunes, iTunes store and iPhone OS 3.1 came in, oh wait.. more importantly, Steve Jobs returned to present the keynote. He received long standing ovation, yes I watched the keynote.
With iTunes, there are some very cool things you can do, including managing your iPhone pages right within iTunes. They didn't stop their, as I mentioned earlier, they don't sleep, keep coming back with new things and updates to everything.
iPod nano got an update yesterday, that includes a video camera, larger display, voice recorder, FM radio and a pedometer!! Yes, a video camera - YouTube is going to be a lot busier.
Google just got bigger..!!
One other mob that don't sleep is Google.
I thought I accidentally pressed "cmd" + "+" on Firefox, but then, "cmd" + "0" didn't fix it. So I restated and installed the Firefox 3.5.2 update. But it was still broken. Then it hit me, it's not the browser, it's Google!!
They got bigger, not that they were small before, but they upgraded their main search interface. So subtle, you can almost miss it. A quick Googling revealed that few others noticed this too (how quick was that indexing).
Useful domains of the fortnight
We are all crazy about domain names, I thought this deserves its own segment.
Here is a few domains that are simple but very effective.
Do you think the internet is slow? Check the site you doubt.
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Do people ask you obvious questions? Time to teach them how the inter-webs work.
http://lmgtfy.com/
Trim (literally) that long winded URL that breaks everything you paste it in to
http://tr.im/
That's a clever domain name isn't it?
Do you want one?
http://domai.nr/
And finally
http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/
That's all folks.
No, wait ..
One more thing..
Since we are talking about domains, I will share the next nerdiest thing since the beginning of nerd news.
Nerd news will get its own website, eventually, so we need a really nerdy domain name.
We got one! http://ne.rdne.ws
Have a great fortnight!