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Blog Entries from June 2007
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iPhone Craze
With the Apple iPhone hitting stores this Friday (29 June), Apple fans around the world are anxious to get their hands on this new, shiny device. There are already people waiting too (external link)! Never in my life have I seen so much hoopla over a mobile phone.
I am a huge Apple-fanboy; however, I do not see an iPhone in my future with the current outrageous pricing. Overall, I am quite disappointed with the pricing involved with the phone. First, the actual iPhone costs $499 (4GB) or $599 (8GB). Then you are going to have a large monthly fee for service on top of that. With no other mobile providers except AT&T offering the iPhone, they can pretty much charge whatever they want. Goodbye rebates.
The pricing is seriously going to steer many people away from the iPhone. Most people do not have that kind of money to shell-out for a new mobile phone.
Still, I want one really bad.
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Zend Framework 1.0 RC1 Released
Zend has released the first official version of the Zend Framework (external link) for PHP. For those who do not know, one of the common criticisms of PHP is that there is no de-facto framework for PHP. The Zend Framework has been predicted to fill this void.
The framework is more like a set of tools, such as the .Net framework. It is not a framework like Ruby on Rails or CakePHP.
I have not had much experience using the Zend Framework yet, but I will in the near future.
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Cool Opera Feature
After using Opera (external link) for almost two years, I thought that there were no more little features that I had not found. However, I have recently found the single coolest feature so far: dragging tabs outside the Opera window. I do not know if it is just me who has not found this feature; so do not hang me if it is a commonly used one.
This feature is really useful because if you do not have the Opera window maximised then you cannot drag tabbed windows outside the edges of the main browser window. This can be very annoying if you want to watch a streaming Diggnation (external link) video, but you also want to work at the same time. With this feature, I can drag the tab outside the main Opera window and have it sitting on its own, allowing me to work and to watch two grown men get drunk.
To drag a web page outside the main Opera window, all you have to do is drag the tab and drop it somewhere outside of the Opera window. I only know that this feature works in Windows, but it may work on OS X and on Linux versions of Opera as well.
Ethan: In OS X, dragging an Opera tab outside of the Window follows the same functionality of Safari, effectively creating a link file that you can place wherever you please. For example, if you drag a tab outside of the Opera window to your desktop, it creates a link file there. In turn, you can drag that link file back into the Opera window, creating a tab with that link. Opera on Linux (at least on Ubuntu) exhibits the same behaviour as in OS X.
One slight problem that I have isthat I cannot see a way for the window to be made part of the main Opera window again. It is slightly annoying, but not that much of a problem.
Opera continues to surprise me.
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