Daily Friction #303
Ready for the fastest browser ever? You might want to check Safari soon. Is Apple planing a mobile gaming console launch? Sure looks like it. Check out Sony Ericsson’s amazing XPERIA X1, read the 10 principles of effective web design and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
- Safari is about to get crazy fast - When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more open source developers online. Since then, Apple has really run with the KHTML engine, forking it off, renaming its development version “WebKit” and making it faster and leaner than Firefox on the Mac and both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the PC. While it doesn’t have a lot of the functionality of Firefox plug-ins and the ActiveX controls of IE, more and more support has been built around the Webkit engine as it gains in popularity.
Hardware
- Apple applies for trademark extension relating to gaming - Might Apple have interest in gaming beyond its pokey iPod gaming offerings? Maybe, when you consider that the company has recently applied to expand its trademark into the realm of gaming. The new filing was made on February 5, and has not yet been assigned to an examining attorney.
- Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 QWERTY with Windows Mobile and HSUPA - It’s here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. Yes, full QWERTY to make the most of that Windows Mobile 6 operating system and so much more goodies.
Information
- Design your own desktop with Xfce 4.4 - Xfce is just as customisable as KDE or GNOME.
- The Pirate Bay and Filesharers Backed by Swedish Politicians - Two weeks ago we reported on Greens EFA launching the pro-filesharing campaign “I Wouldn’t Steal“. With new editorials in Swedish newspapers coinciding with The Pirate Bay’s charges, it seems the Green Party is looking to push the issue forward, thereby supporting The Pirate Bay.
- Nokia turns people into traffic sensors - An experiment which may make everyones commute faster and easier.
Wed Development
- 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design - Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design.
Fun
- 10 Amazing Tree Houses from Around the World - Sustainable, Unique and Creative Designs.
By writing about and linking to the articles/products/software on this page I do not endorse or testify to the reliability of them in any way or form.
