Hijinks Inc.

Category: News

  • Firefox RC3 is Live

    If you’re sneaky like me, you’ll already know that RC3 is live on Mozilla’s servers as of this morning.

    But for those of you who are not sneaky, here’s a link to the Mac version.

    Everyone else can grab a copy here.

  • Farewell iPhone

    I sold my iPhone. Yes, it’s true. But that’s not the insane part, the insane part is that I’m not planning on getting an iPhone 3G.

    Not only is the monthly plan more expensive for the iPhone 3G, but I’d be paying for a service that I couldn’t use. There is no 3G coverage in Nebraska. At all.

    A friend of mine who has connections at AT&T said that 3G was supposed to roll out this fall in Nebraska. If it does maybe I’ll reconsider.

    Anyhow, I guess I’ll be switching back to an iPod touch for the time being.

  • ACU Theme Released

    I’m pleased to announce the release of ACU Theme, the latest and great from reader Ed Jim.

    As always, you can grab a copy from the repo.

  • Samsung tech support

    I’ll be the first to recommend Samsung’s LCD monitors and TV’s for their quality and life span, but there’s a rotten egg in every hen house.

    I use a Samsung 906BW 19″ widescreen at work and love it, but the other day it developed a pesky horizontal white line about a half inch from the top. So I call Samsung tech support, they said it was still under warranty and sent me a refurb. I picked up the refurb and swapped for the bad screen at the UPS store on Friday, and just got around to hooking it up yesterday and to my delight, no signal.

    That’s perfect… Samsung sends me a replacement screen that doesn’t work? So now I have them sending me a replacement for the replacement…. I’ll let you know if this keeps going in circles.

  • iPhone 3G has landed

    iPhone 3GSports a black full plastic back! Thinner at the edges, flush headphone jack, solid metal buttons.

    3G on the iPhone is 36% faster than on other leading smart phones (likely because of Safari).

    Battery details: 300 hour of standby time, 10 hours of 2G talk time, 5 hours of 3G talk time, 5-6 of browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio.

    Built-in GPS.

    Cost: $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB (comes in white and black).

    Launch: July 11th