Posted by YILKA in Misc, TechApr 30th, 2010 | 3 Comments
Being famous as one-liner CEO, today Steve Jobs surprisingly wrote an open and lengthy letter to clear up some of the controversy over Apple’s relationship with Adobe and its unwillingness to incorporate Flash capabilities into its iPhone OS devices.
If everyone still remembers, during Jan 2010, Apple announced its latest hot product – the Apple iPad – and also put an end to Apple’s support for running Flash on its iPhone OS. In other words, Adobe Flash will be no longer run in any iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Simple and straight to the point! Although since 2007, some still hope to see...
Posted by YILKA in Software, TechMay 23rd, 2009 | 6 Comments
I’ve recently upgraded my blog to WordPress version 2.71 and did intensive changes to the look and feel. iCouple now portraits a new sleeker, simpler, cleaner, and more elegant Black-White theme, thanks to original free ‘Smoky‘ theme by SkinPress studio.
After one week of full attention to both back-end database and font-end GUI plus plugin-compatibility, I must say I’m satisfied with the new theme, knowing the tables and queries behind running just fine enough.
Let’s start with the summary on factors that contributed to the newly painted house
Posted by YILKA in Software, TechJul 3rd, 2008 | No Comments
Part of 6,707,035,007 people [Earth population till July 1st, 2008] and 85,262,356 [Vietnam population till July 2007]; I’m now part of 8,002,530 people who downloaded FireFox 3 Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record on June 17, 2008 for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
… So together we did it surprisingly outnumbered the expected 5,000,000 count!
Safari, Firefox 3, Opera 9 and we fly
Posted by YILKA in Software, TechSep 7th, 2007 | No Comments
Being a blogger and a Mac user, I was wondering how my website looks like in an iPhone. Thanks to iWPhone WordPress plugin, I’m now able to reformat my blog’s content for optimized viewing on iPhone. iWPhone detects the iPhone’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with current theme.
However, iPhone is only sold in US this time, so my hands are still tight. Worry no more, iPhoney, the briliant software made free from Marketcircle, gives me a pixel-accurate web browsing environment to preview...
Posted by YILKA in Hardware, Software, TechJun 12th, 2007 | 6 Comments
I’m not going to copy and paste the Keynote from WWDC 2007 here, instead I’ll sum up what things in WWDC 2007 have fascinated me an hour ago. Just in case you are not familiar with the term, WWDC stands for Worldwide Developers Conference, the Apple’s most important annual event for hardware and software developers, including in-house developers, computational scientists, IT managers, and system administrators. This year, WWDC takes place June 11-15. And the most anticipated moment during WWDC is the Keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, it’s always been
End-users like me are expecting...