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Mozilla surpassed the goal. They got more than 8 Million downloads of Firefox 3. 15% of visitors to GeekBrief.TV have upgraded. 30% are still using Firefox 2. 22% are using Safari and 20% are using IE. The rest are using much, much older browsers.
Optoma is the first company to release a projector based on the Texas Instruments DLP Pico chipset. Their projector is smaller than the average smartphone, but it won’t be available in the U.S. until next year.
Texas Intruments is also working on an lamp-free projector. It combines a PhlatLight LED with a BrilliantColor chipset that will use 30 percent less power and deliever a much better picture.
The Panasonic HDC-HS100 is an HD consumer camera with 3 CMOS sensors the yeld unprecedented low-light performance.
Rick MacMerc alerted us to an amazing array of Bacon goods from Archie McPhee.
Apple is opening the first Australian Apple store Thursday. It’s at 367 George Street, one block North of the Queen Victoria Building, if you’re looking for directions.
Thanks to Beck’s for taking a chance on a little show called GeekBrief.TV. On the rare occasions I have a beer, it will be a Beck’s.
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Hey Cali,
Australian Apple store in Sydney is not the first retail store just the first “flagship” store.
(unless that iMac I was stroking at the Apple store in Chapel St. Melbourne is not an iMac in which case I would feel cheated)
Jim
June 19th, 2008 at 5:35 am
You don’t list Opera 9.50 in your stats. It is as new as FireFox 3.0 and a h*** of a lot better.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Ordinarily, I avoid upgrading to X.0.0 upgrades of anything. Especially since I knew from experience that it takes a while for themes and add-ons to catch up….and sort out what to do about the ones that won’t catch up.
But, the claims of faster and less memory were compelling enough that I at least tried it out on an older machine where I want these. Plus that install had less dependence on themes and add-ons than other installs.
That upgrade went too easily….so before long, I was upgrading everything in sight. The only one left is Solaris 10/x64 … or machines I no longer use to surf from.
So, now I have to deal with stuff broke by the new release…instead of waiting to see if they resolve on their own. Kind of like at work where they said ‘No Vista’, and already knew it wouldn’t work with our servers…but then administration upgrades all their systems to Vista and complain that nothing works anymore. Of course, reportedly the problem is fixed in SP1, but the groups that ignored the ‘No Vista’ rule seem fine with the no new SP right away rule…..
Kind of tempted to do SP3 on XP at work…though can’t risk that not working. And, I don’t want to do it at home, until I’ve tried it at work first. ;)
June 19th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Did you want show notes typos too? project => projector. The first one was right.
Is that zero day exploit in FF3 a Windows only exploit, or cross platform?
June 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Very few people in the upper blogosphere really care about Opera 9.5 – like the iPhone keyboard, it takes a little while to get used to it, but after that you can’t let go of its productivity boosting features.
First there was bacon salt, and now we have bacon floss and mints. Maybe somebody will come up with a bacon-scented Mac next…
June 19th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Just FYI, the bug in Firefox you talked about is not a zero day bug. “Zero day” means the exploit for the bug has been put to the wild before the patch is available for it. This is not the case, it’s not out in the wild. The confusion comes from the name of the security firm who reported it, “Zero Day Initiative”. That’s just their name, it’s not a description of the bug they reported. :)
June 19th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Texas Intruments => Texas Instruments
June 19th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I think I’ve fixed all the spelling mistakes in the shownotes. I think… :)
June 19th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
You were so close. The ‘o’ in Rheinheitsgebot is a long ‘o.’ Imagine saying it as Rhein-heights-ge-boat. Brewers that still follow it will not put preservatives in the beer to keep it fresh longer.
Dave
Kaiserslautern, Germany
June 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Can we have a vegetarian feed of GeekBrief?
June 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I’m going to miss the Becks ads *sniff*
June 19th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I love Camera Cakes! They’re quite yummy. :D
June 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I must confess it’s both cute and a tad funny how you pronounce “Reinheitsgebot”… =)
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
I am running Mac 3.3.9 and the new Firefox does not work. It wiped out my old one, so now I an using Flock.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Hi Cali,
I think you need to stop talking about Bacon flavored anything, unless it’s bacon. I think that’s so gross. I like bacon, but it’s kind of the “embodiment” of the fat US. It maks delicious things even more delicious, and fatter things even fatter, but toothpics aren’t supposed to be fattening or delicious. So gross. But I must say, they most be making a lotta money on the gag market…
Cheers, Hans
July 7th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Cali,
Nice story about the lamp free projectors. The PhlatLight technology in the TI demonstration is from our company Luminus Devices. We’re looking forward to these projectors coming out beginning later this year, so that people will have a projector that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to run and you don’t have to worry about disposing of the mercury arc lamps used in other projectors either.
Thanks,
Paul
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:16 am
Interesting blog post. What would you say was the most important factor in using NLP?