OK, so you have a Mac, but you want to use other keyboard types besides US keyboard! Unfortunately, out of the box, you have made a mistake of assigning Mac to use US keyboard only! Now you’re regretting! You’ve a document which needs to be typed in another language such as Chinese! Obviously, on the keyboard, you don’t see how you can do that! You’ve checked everywhere on the Internet for clues of how to type in Chinese on your Mac. Well, you’ve found it here!
What you need to do is go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources, and put a check-mark next to a language that you want to type in. After that, make sure you look at the top right corner where you find the date and time, and you should see an American flag. Clicking on the American flag allows you to change to the other language that you’ve checked in the System Preferences few minutes ago.
Each language other than English has different macros which allow you to type in such specific language. For an example, in Vietnamese using VNI input type, the macros should be from number 1 to 9 on the keyboard. These numbers allow me to put special signs onto the alphabet letters. Vietnamese language in writing looks very similar to French! Here is an example, “Bạn có khỏe không?” means “How are you doing friend?”
There are rumors that Google is in deep negotiations with popular movie studios to bring more rental movies to everyone! Rumors or not, Apple is doing the same thing! What is the fuss? Not much, really! All I can see is that Netflix still rules the world! Why? Rumor has that Google’s will charge $5 for streaming a movie to you! Good luck with that price Google! I’m looking at Apple too with my eyes rolling in the sockets! Come on, Netflix has outdone everyone here! Netflix is only charging people $10 a month or $12 a month if you throw in Blu-ray DVD in the mailbox, but the coolest thing is that you get to stream unlimited instant play movies on your TV (through the uses of PS3, set top boxes, Wii, etc…), computers, and laptops! Apple and Google are going the AOL Time Warner route? Source.
Many investors and iPhone users think Apple will not be affected by the plethora of news about iPhone 4′s defective antenna. Think again! The smart phone market is a very competitive one. Everybody will try to take down the leader of the market. Unfortunately for Apple, right when Apple has all the trust from its fans, the defective antenna infects many iPhone 4(s) to a very visible degree.
Powerful competitor such as Motorola and Google use Droid X to combat iPhone 4(s) shrinking popularity. From this blog post, it appears Motorola has an ad out that is subtly making fun of iPhone 4 by saying Droid X doesn’t need a jacket! How about the news of Mark Zuckerberg has picked up an Android smart phone as a replacement for his iPhone? Other people complain how they experience weak signals or no signal from AT&T network when they’re using iPhone(s). Combining the complaints about the AT&T data network and iPhone 4′s defective antennas, some people may still have faith in Apple, but many other people may switch to other popular smart phones!
The smart phone market has many players, and each player has all the motives to outsmart everyone else in the smart phone market. Apple has been in a full defensive mode as it tries to tell its fans that not only iPhone 4 has a defective antenna, but its competitors’ smart phones are also having the same exact problem. It could be a bad move for Apple and backfire against Apple for making more enemies. Luckily for Apple, iPad is still going strong and free of problems! iPad’s still leading the way, but for how long?
The technology market is a volatile market by nature. To advance the quality of life and create better entertainment and provide answers for curious minds and everything else, new waves of discoveries have often drowned out the old waves of discoveries, and this is why technology is such a volatile market. Apple has proved that it’s one of the new waves, but for how long?
DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has rules that many people think it does more harm than good! For an example, ATT has been using DMCA as a mean in preventing people from switching to another network on iPhone(s). Today’s DMCA is much better as its rules have now changed to make more sense for consumers. With the modifying rules of DMCA, people can jailbreak new devices such as Apple’s iPhone(s), copy clips of films for educational purposes, use software to switch service providers such as from ATT to another network when using iPhone(s), and so on. The details of the new rules can be found here. Source.
Sometimes taking a bold, unconventional method, one can bring in untold rewards. Samsung has decided to attack its competitor, Apple, in unconventional way by giving out Galaxy S phones to frustrated iPhone users for free. Recently, iPhone 4 has made plenty headlines as the phone with antenna problem; people have been complaining that their iPhone 4(s) drop signal like crazy! Some commentators here have described how Samsung’s Galaxy S is way better than iPhone 4 in features and signal reception. Samsung is betting on doing thing unconventionally to gain an edge in smart phone business against Apple, but untold rewards remain to be seen. What do you think? Source.
Everyone wants a bite of Apple! Researchers of Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Science in India are looking for a manufacturer that can produce their $35 tablet in abundance. They boast that the cheap tablet can do everything that an iPad can. The OS will be Linux. A $35 tablet will undercut all American tablet players! So far I have not heard any other tablet that has a price this inexpensive! India promises a cheap tablet, but can they keep the promise? If the $35 tablet becomes real, I sure hope American people can get some too! One thing for sure, nothing can go wrong with a Linux OS. Excuse me for being such a Linux fan! Source.
Wow, usually when people talk about insecurity, they talk about Microsoft! Not anymore, we have a new champion in the arena of being the worst security offender of the software world! According to Secunia, Apple ranks first in software insecurity! Surprisingly, Microsoft is now dropping down to the number 3 spot. Mozilla Organization, Firefox browser’s creator, ranks last in software insecurity. To be fair, Mozilla Organization has less software than Microsoft, Apple, and other players in the field, and this is why I think Mozilla Organization has less security vulnerabilities. More software == more codes! More codes == more bugs! Microsoft’s fans now have something to make fun at Apple! What do you think? Source.
People spend money as if it’s a Christmas season as many of them have gone and get themselves an iPhone 4. People wait in lines in US and around the world to get an upgrade to a newer iPhone, and some of these people are first time iPhone users. OK, so we have got it, iPhone is one hot gadget! Nonetheless, even an iPhone should not be an end to all gadgets, because there are so many choices out there! What about Windows Phone 7 Series? The OS’s user interface for Windows Phone 7 Series looks really sweet, sleek, and fresh. It’s very different from the OS that is on earlier mobiles from Microsoft. Windows Phone 7 Series may release around October this year.
Windows Phone 7 Series is cool, but here is another contender that we cannot just ignore which is Google’s Droid X. This baby probably is more powerful than iPhone 4 and Windows Phone 7 Series. Droid X has 8 megapixel camera which is more than what iPhone 4 has, iPhone 4 has only 5 megapixel camera. Again, Droid X, the device itself does not look bad at all, and if you set it side by side with Windows Phone 7 Series and iPhone 4, I’ve to say they all look gorgeous and Droid X isn’t shy to be just as cool as the other phones. Android 2.1 is going to be Droid X’s OS.
Someone from Mobileburn used Droid X to shoot a video in 720p HD format. It looks great!
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Flash has recently released Flash version 10.1. The newer version is now working with devices that are running Android OS as this article has claimed. Android mobile devices can now use Flash 10.1 to play browser games and watch web videos. This is something that iPhone and iPad and iPod Touch cannot do.
Everyone knows YouTube, and YouTube is using Flash to play web videos, HTML5 is still in testing mode here (that’s, beta mode). Flash is also famous for allowing people to play browser games. Web designers have often used Flash to create beautiful looking websites, but other people have also argued that Flash websites are not friendly to search engines — search engines can’t index Flash websites as easy as regular websites using HTML. Fortunately, Google can crawl and index Flash contents as this article here has claimed so!
So what’s the big idea? Although Flash is widespread, more people are beginning to want something else! Large amount of people are patiently waiting for HTML5 to be officially released! HTML5 is in the work to replace Flash, it’s what many people have been hoping! The people who are wanting Flash to be faded out have their reasons, one among many reasons that Flash is in the negatives is that Flash has been well known for being vulnerable to various security exploitations. Maybe Flash 10.1 has patched up most of those security flaws?
People are arguing that HTML5 is going to be the standard for all browsers when it comes out. For Flash, you have to really download Flash and install! HTML5 is going to come with many browsers by default, no installation of HTML5 will be necessary, the only necessary step for a user to be able to use HTML5 is to install a browser that is supporting HTML5.
I can see few shortcomings when comparing HTML5 against Flash, but time may change my mind! As of now, I think Flash is the only way to go! Why I prefer Flash over HTML5, for now? HTML5 isn’t available yet, but Flash already has a huge chunk of presence on the web already; nothing is yet comparable to Flash! Adobe is the creator of Flash, and this company may not want to see Flash becoming outdated by rolling out newer features that may make Flash far more advanced technology than HTML5. Although Flash can never beat HTML5 in browser adaptation (HTML5 may be in many browsers by default), but Flash is a proven technology that people know they can always rely on if HTML5 fails to rise to the expectations.
Time may change my mind on which technology is better! The HTML5 developers may code HTML5 so well that may jeopardize Flash’s presence in the web market! Unfortunately, the real product is not yet out to sway my mind away from Flash!
Here is something hopeful about HTML5:
- It seems that HTML5 has the capability to allow web browser game developers to develop games using HTML5 as this article has claimed.
- HTML5 allows users to play web videos just like Flash!
- More unknown capabilities may prove that Flash is redundant!
HTML5 may be just as vulnerable as Flash in security. When a technology that designs to support a wide variables of functions, it’s obvious that the software (code base) has to be huge, and the bigger the software, the higher the chance for bad codes to be coded into the software. The developers are human, you know! This is why I hardly recommend HTML5 over Flash yet, because there is no concrete evidence that when HTML5 rolls out, it will work better than Flash! Hold your horse on HTML5 until it can be proven that Flash is unnecessary!
It’s smart for Android to adopt Flash so easily! It’s smart for Flash to expand its market base by making Flash works better on Adroid devices! It’s not so smart for Apple to bet all of its eggs on HTML5! I think, the more choices people have (that’s, game developers, Internet users like you and me, etc…), the better for all! Personally, I think Apple needs to support Flash until HTML5 comes rolling, but the company has decided that it wants to wait rather than willing to adopt Flash. When will HTML5 officially release?
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