I’ve recently traded my trusted Blackberry 8330 smartphone for a HTC Droid Incredible and I have to say the name truly fits this tiny powerhouse called a phone. The biggest feature that I’m loving right now is an usable app store, if you’ve every used Blackberry’s app world you’ll know what a painful experience that can be.

I’m also loving the camera, 8 megapixels is as same as my Canon DSLR. Browsing the web is now a dream as well, the included browser even supports Flash albeit in a lite format. Another handy feature is the speech recognition is very good and very well integrated into the built in Google search, allowing very quick searches via speaking rather than typing.

Although I did have some doubts with the onscreen keyboard, I have fat fingers and always struggled to type on the tiny Blackberry keyboard, but the key recognition is spot on. The predictive text is also very good and eases some of the typing. Battery life can be a bit iffy for a full day of use, but as powerful as the phone is I’ll certainly trade having to charge it more often for the power. (more…)

Tags: HTC, phone

I’ve just setup proper project management for my Techozoic Fluid theme using Google Code. I have also designed a logo for my theme. If you would like to always have the latest version of Techozoic you may now use Subversion to checkout a copy. If you are like me and keep up with the latest WordPress nightly releases then you’ll know how to checkout code using svn. I use Linux but I’m sure svn works the same for Windows as well.

View the Techozoic Fluid project page.

Svn Checkout Instructions

Tags: development, php, svn, theme

Google’s Chromium browser (open-source Chrome) has been released for Mac and select Linux Distros, but the release page warns not to download unless you like incomplete software. Keep in mind this isn’t even beta yet, for Google that’s something. Pretty soon though Mac, Linux, and Windows user will get to enjoy Chrome. Me personally I’m waiting for an extension system like Firefox before I’ll use it solely as my browser of choice.

Tags: browser, chrome, Linux, open-source

Google Chrome is no longer beta, yes you heard right a Google product that isn’t beta. After only being beta for 3 and 1/2 months Google removed the beta tag with the release of 1.0 Thursday. It appears that Google has been busy improving their browser, it’s now 1.4 times faster processing JavaScript. Many popular plugins are also said to run faster. Another area of improvement was with the bookmark management, this was a sore area with some users who like to export and organize their bookmarks which now they can. The privacy options have also been improved.

Source: InformationWeek
Download Chrome: GoogleBlog

Tags: browser, chrome, Internet, software

The first vulnerability of Google’s new browser has been announced and fixed. The bug is a buffer overflow when the user tries to save a web page containing a very long title tag. Now I’m sure it’s because of all the attention the browser is getting that this vulnerability was even discovered and more so that it was patched so quickly. The side affect of all the attention is more bugs and problems will probably arise but also that these will be patched and a excellent browser will emerge.

Side Note: I just can’t figure out why that decided to use Apple’s WebKit instead of Gecko for the engine. I have a problem with my computer at work with my mouse wheel scrolling not working correctly in Safari for Windows and the same problem occurs with Chrome.

Source: PCWorld

Tags: apple, browser, bug, chrome, google