Russell Beattie, the eminent mobile / tech blogger, has sadly hung up his blogging gloves over the weekend. Well informed and articulate, Russell has decided to call it a day and has written his last post on his notebook. He says he hasn’t necessarily gone for good and I certainly hope this to be the case.
Russell was probably the first blog that i started reading and for the last two years have enjoyed ‘hearing’ his thoughts and opinions on the cutting edge of mobile design, ui and technologies (and Yahoo!). While I am sad to see him go I really do want to say thanks for all the effort he put in making it among the first headlines I’d Rojo and even making it to my netvibes homepage (gasp!).
Its fair to say that my posts have been becoming les and less frequent in the last couple of weeks. Blogging hasn’t fallen out of favour with me, far from it in fact, its just I have decided to give this site a makeover of epic proportions. Well, a little bit more than a lick of paint anyway and I want to be happy enough with it that I can concentrate on blogging and other commitments in my life. I have got some great ( I hope) posts up my sleeve and I will be going on an all out blog offensive when I go live.
The second annual FireFox Flicks contest, a promo competition for Firefox, has just two days left. The project description is, “Create a 30-second ad, in any style (live action or animated,) that brings Firefox to life for the millions of Web users who have yet to discover Firefox and the better Web experience it delivers”. Unsurprisingly, there is your fair amount of crap but at least there are some talented directors out there who havent yet burnt themsleves out from uninterupted youtube submissions! Just kidding, alongside some blatent ripoff’s, sorry homages, there is some originality on show and its certainly worth checking out.
My All Peers beta invite arrived today, the FireFox extension, utilising BitTorrent, which allows me to share files with friends from directly within my browser. The downside is I now have to wait for my activation keys to arrive….. Watch this space!
For those who haven’t heard, Apple yesterday sensationally announced their Boot Camp software, allowing you to dual boot to Windows XP (Home or Pro). The software is available in beta form at the moment though it is scheduled for an official release in the next version of the next major version of Mac OS X, Leopard.
It might be worth all you gamers from holding fire just yet though. Michael over at Binary Bonsai has got the system up and running on his Mac Mini and as suspected this clearly isn’t gonna be the Mac gaming rig of choice. Early reports on the iMac are proving to be much better and when the video drivers are optimised results are likely to be much improved.
