Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on April 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

Apple definitely has reason to celebrate after their 100 millionth iPod was sold. It took them a little over five years to reach this milestone, and since the very first iPod was introduced, 10 different models have been released.

According to Beta News, there are over 4,000 different accessories available for the iPod which has helped make it the most popular, and fastest selling music player in history. It has changed the way we listen to music,and the way we get music with iTunes. The iTunes catalog contains over 5 million songs, and has sold over 2.5 billion of them!

In January of 2007, when Apple announced their first quarter results, their revenue exceeded $7 billion with a record profit of $1 billion. They have the iPod to thank for a whopping 48% of the 7 billion in sales!

With the iPhone getting ready for its big launch, I’m left to wonder whether or not it will have the kind of success that the iPod has. And along the same lines, will the iPod continue its growth, and when will they reach the next 100 million?

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This article was written on September 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

I just came across a Firefox extension that is one of the coolest I’ve seen in quite awhile. It’s called Tab Scope and it brings real-time tab previews to the Firefox browser. Well, it’s actually a step beyond just a preview because you can fully interact with the page (click links, scroll, etc…).

After using this for just 10-minutes I feel that it has made me more productive, and I now consider it to be a must-have extension. Here are the features that Tab Scope brings to the table:

• Real-time tab previews of the page contents — you can watch the page load right from the preview!
• Navigate (Back/Forward/Reload/Stop) directly through the tab preview
• Scroll pages or frames in preview with mouse wheel
• Use the magnifying glass to enlarge the tab preview for easier navigation
• Click links or buttons directly in preview

In the options you can configure things such as the size for the tab preview for both before and after you click the magnifying glass. Depending on the preview size that you choose this can drastically keep you from switching back and forth between tabs! Throw on the ReloadEvery extension and you’ve got a killer combination!

Tab Scope Homepage

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This article was written on August 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

Opera is taking the mobile market by storm with its mobile browser. In July Opera Mini users browsed their way to nearly 1 billion pageviews, and it currently occupies about 0.24% of the total browser market according to Net Applications. That’s not too shabby since it’s being ranked among desktop browsers.

It’s not surprising that Opera continues to work heavily on the Opera Mini browser to pack in even more great features. Now Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 was just released earlier this morning, and with it comes dozens of improvements and bug fixes.

Two of the more notable features with this release is the ability to browse sites horizontally (pictured to the right), and the option to change your search engine. Now you can use Google as your default search engine instead of Yahoo. Here’s a quick look at everything that’s new, and it appears that there was some tender love and care given to Blackberry devices:

• Customized search engine – now you could put Google Search on the start page. You can also create a search from any search field.
• Shortcut keys
• Browse in landscape mode – view the Web on a wider screen (hit "*" then "#" on your phone)
• Native menu for BlackBerrys and several other optimizations.
• Content folding – Collapses long menu lists (like those found on sidebars of webpages), so you don’t need to scroll through them to get to the page content. Note: This only works in “Fit to width” mode, not desktop.
• Supports secure connections for banks, eBay, etc.
• Small fonts have been enabled
• Improved image quality
• Added ‘Full screen’ mode
• Web-2.0 looking dialogs
• Fixed a ton of bugs

For those of you wondering there will be at least one more Beta release before it hits final form. I also received some good news today, and it’s that the problem rendering our site’s navigation bar has been confirmed as a bug. Now they are working on a fix for it. 🙂

Kudos to Opera on yet another fine pre-release, and I can’t wait to see what Opera 9.5 Alpha will bring on Tuesday.

Get Opera Mini 4 Beta 2
Sources: Opera Watch & Opera Press Release

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This article was written on October 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the new things in Ubuntu 7.10 is the one-click enabling of restricted drivers (a.k.a. proprietary drivers). This is important because it will give users the best experience possible, and I’ve received several inquiries in our Ubuntu 7.10 from people wondering how they are supposed to enable these drivers in Ubuntu.

After you install Ubuntu 7.10 it will check to see if there is any hardware on your computer that has a corresponding restricted driver. If a match is found, you should see a little icon and balloon pop up in the tray notifying you of the available drivers:

If you happen to close out of the balloon, or you lose the icon there is still an easy way for you to get it back. You’ll find a menu option for enabling the drivers by going to System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers Manager:

From there you can enable restricted drivers in Ubuntu, or you can also disable them by using the checkbox next to the respective device. When I tried to do this for my ATI X1400 graphics card I got hung up with an error message saying “xorg-driver-fglrx is not enabled“. I didn’t really have any idea what this meant, but I quickly found out that I had to enable a few more settings before I would be able to proceed. If you go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources you will see a checkbox that you can tick for “proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)“. I checked that box, and then I started receive an error “Could not apply changes, Please fix broken packages first“. So out of desperation I checked all of these boxes:

• Canonical-supported Open Source software (main)
• Community-maintained Open Source software (universe)
• Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)
• Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse)

Low and behold I was able to go back to the Restricted Drivers Manager, and enable the proper drivers for my ATI graphics card (click screenshot to enlarge):

There were multiple reasons that I wanted to get the proprietary drivers installed, but the biggest one was that Ubuntu doesn’t recognize my native widescreen resolution without them. The other reason was to get the 3D support so that I could have some fun with Compiz Fusion, but that opened up another can of worms! I ended up getting Compiz Fusion to work, but I’ll save that story for another day.

Hopefully this solves any issues you may be having with trying to install the restricted drivers on Ubuntu. I was hoping that it would be a one-click solution, but it didn’t quite turn out to be that way. Luckily the workarounds necessary were not all that tedious.

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It’s not a huge update, but today Dropbox gains the ability to automatically save your computer screenshots. Next time you immortalize that Gchat, your screen-cap will be saved to your Dropbox account and copied to your clipboard as a link for sharing. (You’ll have the ability to opt out of this new feature, should you feel so inclined.) In a nod to Mac users, the cloud storage service is also adding automatic iPhoto imports. Dropbox has supported automatic photo uploads on Mac and Windows machines for some time now, but today’s new feature lets Mac users copy over all locally stored images — no SD card required. Check out the source link for more info.

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: The Dropbox Blog