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  • Firefox 3 On-track for June Release

    Mozilla announced that Beta 5 will be the last beta for Firefox 3, the next release will be Release Candidate 1 (RC1) which should be out in early May. Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering also noted that they are currently on-track for a June release of Firefox 3.0 Final.

    Firefox holds a 17.83% market share according to Net Applications latest report, with Internet Explorer taking 74.80%, and Apple’s Safari trailing with just 5.82%. Both Firefox and Safari have seen significant gains in market share over the past 6 months, while Internet Explorer has seen a nearly 4% decrease in market share since October 2007.

    When Firefox 3.0 hits final, I believe it will have a very postitive effect on Firefox’s market share.

  • Apple Repair – The Fun Continues

    I called Apple for about the tenth time today, and they once again informed me that physical damage isn’t covered under my warranty. However, I did eventually talk to a customer service rep named Geoff who looked at the photos of the damage and called the Apple Store in Omaha and talked to them, even though the guy who originally looked at my computer wasn’t working, they did take a look at his notes which had no mention of physical damage to the machine at the time he sent it off to the repair depot.

    I’m supposed to take it to the Apple Store on Monday to have them assess the damage and make a list of the parts that need to be replaced and try and get them to cover it, if they won’t cover it, I’m supposed to call Geoff back and he’ll try and get the repair covered. Hopefully the repair will be something that they can take care of at the Apple store.

    Even if they have to order parts it’s better than not having a computer for two weeks, though it does mean at least two trips to Omaha.

    We’ll see how the trip to the Apple Store goes, I’ll post an update Monday.

  • GrandCentral is Down

    I use GrandCentral as both a business number and as a filtering system. When I fill out a form online that needs a number, I give them my GrandCentral number, that way if they start stalk calling me I can send them straight to voicemail or block them completely.

    Imagine my surprise when I found out that GrandCentral has been down all morning, with no information posted on their blog or on Google’s main blog. Their website was down earlier today, but it appears to be up now. Though none of my three GrandCentral numbers are currently working.

    For more info, hit up TechCrunch.

  • Goal Line Blitz

    Before I begin, let me take a moment for a self indulgent plug. If you click this link and go sign up, I get free points. Go, do it now! Fred signed up for me and all he did was log in a couple time in the following two or 3 days and that’s all that I needed to get the points. Easy right? So why haven’t you done it yet? 🙂

    Alright, now that that’s over, I wanted to take a moment to talk about my latest football addiction, Goal Line Blitz. It’s an american fooball mmorpg. The idea is that you sign up (it’s free!) and you get 400 Flex Points. With these flex points, you can create players. QB, RB, and WR cost 300 points each, TE, FB, and Defensive players cost 200 points each, and Offensive linemen, K, and P cost 100 points each.

    After using these points, you allocate skill points to create the player in the way you see fit. At the end of the creation process, you get offered a couple contracts by cpu controlled teams so that you can get into the action right off the bat. That’s a great idea, but the problem is, they got too big too fast, and all the teams have been purchased by human players, so until they expand (which they are working on as we speak) you have to keep posting on the forums in order to get a team to give you a shot, which can be kinda boring and drawn out.

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  • Improve Google Maps on the iPod touch/iPhone

    This mostly applies to the iPod touch seeing as the iPhone also has cell towers to rely on, but apparently Skyhook has setup a page for users to submit their access points. No word on how quickly they’re added to the database, or if they even actually make it in, but it at least makes me feel like I’m contributing.

    You will need the MAC address for your router in order to complete the submission.

    [ Submit your AP to Skyhook ]

    I live in the middle of no where, which currently yields “Your location could not be determined” on both my iPhone and iPod touch, so I’ll let you know if Skyhook ever adds my AP to their database.