Recovery is to delete the plugin, something like this:
...
Ouch,manual removal of add-ons:(
Simpler way is to start Firefox in safe mode which has an option to disable all addons on startup, after which it can be uninstalled from within firefox safely.
I do a fair amount of Flash development, and even I don't like the idea of Flash on my iPod Touch. If not having Flash on a mobile device is wrong, baby, I don't wanna be right.
Flash apps seem great for mobile development, flash video may be a different question but a vector-based format is ideal for low data interchange and rendering on small, variable-sized screens (between devices). It's standard websites, with bitmap (albeit compressed) graphics that are wrong for mobile devices.
That's the theory anyway, in practices Flash Lite sucks and Adobe don't seem to be working at its adoption
This method of development is a great idea. However, I find that most of the IE bugs that trip me up only occur in IE6. It isn't possible (at least not without some black magic, three virgins, and a goat) to run both IE6 and IE7 on the same computer, though. I have IE7 installed on my computer, because that is how IT set it up when I was hired. In order to test in IE7, I need to use a virtual machine, which is extremely slow and frustrating. So, as a result, I generally write my code, and get it working in Firefox. Then I test in IE7, and then in IE6. I think I will install IEtab when I get to work, though, I like that idea a lot.
The easiest way to get multiple versions of IE running is to use IE with WINE on Linux! It allows multiple version sof IE to run concurrently. The irony, of course, is simply beautiful.
Honestly I'm not sure how smart it would be to invest in Google Gears. You may want to deploy a Yahoo app.. and then what? Google's also known for their ton of search-unrelated projects which they abandon the next day.
Um, are you not aware it's Open Source! Yahoo, you, me and everyone can use it. Google could stop supporting it if they want and the community will continue to build it!
More to the point, since Google are using it themselves (see below) I doubt support will stop anytime soon. Open source + used & supported by a major 'net company seems like a winning formula.
or Google, Gears is just something they did for fun in their 20%.
They don't consider it a bit of fun but a serious way to make their Apps work offline - Google Reader is already Gears enabled (I used it on my way to work this morning) and I have no doubt all the rest of them (Docs, Gmail, Calendar) will follow soon
Is that really a fair comparison, though? Google's email is great, but their Spreadsheet and Word Processor solutions are nowhere near as sophisticated as MS Office. And in an office environment, many of those differences do matter.
I haven't played with Google Calendar enough, but would it be a workable replacement for the Outlook calendar? i.e. Can you schedule meetings with a simple invite rather than telling everyone to put it on their calendar?
When you make an event there is a sidebar to "invite guests" - this option even allows you to invite non-GCalendar users who get a unique link to a page about the event where they can confirm attendance and even add comments and have a discussion with other invitees! IMHO this is far better than Exchange let alone Outlook. And the event page shows a summary of who has/isn't sure about/hasn't accepting.
Can other users see your unavailable periods when scheduling?
Yes, when creating an event there's an option to "check guest availability" which provides parallel timelines showing guest's availability - furthermore it's faster loading other's calendars in my experience than LAN-based corporate calendars such as Oracle.
I hate to give Microsoft props, but there are features that are critical to the office use of software. If Google doesn't provide those features, they will not be able to compete at all. Which means that the supposed "leverage" with Microsoft would be nothing more than hogwash.
Google's overall offering is far more-collaberation friendly and I personally have found it as responsive if not faster in use across a regular DSL link than even desktop offering. The coolest option is to publish any calendar as an iCal calendar, RSS feed or a public link to your GCalendar which means it can be integrated almost anywhere!
As a Symbianophile (and a former Symbian employee) allow to point out some mistakes the author of the TFA has made:
"Nokia's POS/OS. Sources close to Nokia say that Symbian is secretly regarded inside the company--even among high level senior executives--as a "peace-of-shit-OS," explaining that "Finnish people usually have a very coarse language.""
Well from the POV of a SymbianOS developer, it's Nokia that have screwed things up with a very buggy "middleware" S60 layer where (the rumours have it) much of the functionality has been implemented by summer interns and there are some long standing bugs with S60 that make SymbianOS look bad
"And of course UIQ has never been source code nor binary compatible with S60. But still you get the impression from analysts and media that 'Symbian' is one stable OS."
Although they aren't binary compatible, the fact that they both sit on a X-windows-esque Eikon windowing layer means that their Windowing systems are in fact very similar and it's easy to cross-compile for both. Remember that UIQ is for the most part Pen-based whereas S60 is numeric-keypad-based (broadly speaking) and it in fact impressive that these two separate systems can be so easy to port between thanks to them both sitting on SymbianOS for most core tasks.
"Symbian Signed... makes shareware and hobby programming almost impossible..."
... I'm sure/. readers understand the necessity for signed s/w on mobiles. Also the point (unquoted) about needed full certifcation is misleading - it just means the user gets are warning dialog like many modern OSs. The situation with J2ME midlets is much the same.
"Some operators are requiring the phones to be locked for any apps not carrying a 'Symbian Signed' certificate"
The biggest issue all of us in the industry have is the power of the network operators customising and locking users in/out of features - this will occur with any OS (and does already with PocketPC) due to he unfortuant power of the networks who control the industry.
"Crippled C++ support They made their own home-cooked version of exceptions called Leaves"
SymbianOS v9 (S60 v3+, UIQ v3+) can use exceptions (although they are Leaves under the hood) - happy now? The point TFA makes here is very uninformed as Symbian jumps through hoops to make it difficult for apps to leak through the combination of CleanupStack and Leaves
"Limited support for multi-threading That was hardly even a relevant argument in 1993 but it meant that Symbian uses 'active objects' instead of threads in almost all applications."
In fact, the cost of a OS context-switch is still high when every bit of battery power matters - battery technology hasn't changed that much since 1993
"Bad development environment... need to install Visual Studio 2003 to make it work..."
Carbide.c++, which is based on Eclipse and CDT, is the only IDE Nokia is supporting from now on and it's great and stable. The author admits "My first installation a few years ago"... nuff zed.
and there's more... but I don't have that much time
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Recovery is to delete the plugin, something like this:
...
Ouch,manual removal of add-ons :(
Simpler way is to start Firefox in safe mode which has an option to disable all addons on startup, after which it can be uninstalled from within firefox safely.
firefox -safe-mode if my memory serves
Flash apps seem great for mobile development, flash video may be a different question but a vector-based format is ideal for low data interchange and rendering on small, variable-sized screens (between devices). It's standard websites, with bitmap (albeit compressed) graphics that are wrong for mobile devices.
That's the theory anyway, in practices Flash Lite sucks and Adobe don't seem to be working at its adoption
This method of development is a great idea. However, I find that most of the IE bugs that trip me up only occur in IE6. It isn't possible (at least not without some black magic, three virgins, and a goat) to run both IE6 and IE7 on the same computer, though. I have IE7 installed on my computer, because that is how IT set it up when I was hired. In order to test in IE7, I need to use a virtual machine, which is extremely slow and frustrating. So, as a result, I generally write my code, and get it working in Firefox. Then I test in IE7, and then in IE6. I think I will install IEtab when I get to work, though, I like that idea a lot.
The easiest way to get multiple versions of IE running is to use IE with WINE on Linux! It allows multiple version sof IE to run concurrently. The irony, of course, is simply beautiful.
Just Google IEs4Linux
Honestly I'm not sure how smart it would be to invest in Google Gears. You may want to deploy a Yahoo app.. and then what? Google's also known for their ton of search-unrelated projects which they abandon the next day.
Um, are you not aware it's Open Source! Yahoo, you, me and everyone can use it. Google could stop supporting it if they want and the community will continue to build it!
More to the point, since Google are using it themselves (see below) I doubt support will stop anytime soon. Open source + used & supported by a major 'net company seems like a winning formula.
or Google, Gears is just something they did for fun in their 20%.
They don't consider it a bit of fun but a serious way to make their Apps work offline - Google Reader is already Gears enabled (I used it on my way to work this morning) and I have no doubt all the rest of them (Docs, Gmail, Calendar) will follow soon
Is that really a fair comparison, though? Google's email is great, but their Spreadsheet and Word Processor solutions are nowhere near as sophisticated as MS Office. And in an office environment, many of those differences do matter.
I haven't played with Google Calendar enough, but would it be a workable replacement for the Outlook calendar? i.e. Can you schedule meetings with a simple invite rather than telling everyone to put it on their calendar?
When you make an event there is a sidebar to "invite guests" - this option even allows you to invite non-GCalendar users who get a unique link to a page about the event where they can confirm attendance and even add comments and have a discussion with other invitees! IMHO this is far better than Exchange let alone Outlook. And the event page shows a summary of who has/isn't sure about/hasn't accepting.
Can other users see your unavailable periods when scheduling?
Yes, when creating an event there's an option to "check guest availability" which provides parallel timelines showing guest's availability - furthermore it's faster loading other's calendars in my experience than LAN-based corporate calendars such as Oracle.
I hate to give Microsoft props, but there are features that are critical to the office use of software. If Google doesn't provide those features, they will not be able to compete at all. Which means that the supposed "leverage" with Microsoft would be nothing more than hogwash.
Google's overall offering is far more-collaberation friendly and I personally have found it as responsive if not faster in use across a regular DSL link than even desktop offering. The coolest option is to publish any calendar as an iCal calendar, RSS feed or a public link to your GCalendar which means it can be integrated almost anywhere!
As a Symbianophile (and a former Symbian employee) allow to point out some mistakes the author of the TFA has made:
"Nokia's POS/OS. Sources close to Nokia say that Symbian is secretly regarded inside the company--even among high level senior executives--as a "peace-of-shit-OS," explaining that "Finnish people usually have a very coarse language.""
Well from the POV of a SymbianOS developer, it's Nokia that have screwed things up with a very buggy "middleware" S60 layer where (the rumours have it) much of the functionality has been implemented by summer interns and there are some long standing bugs with S60 that make SymbianOS look bad
"And of course UIQ has never been source code nor binary compatible with S60. But still you get the impression from analysts and media that 'Symbian' is one stable OS."
Although they aren't binary compatible, the fact that they both sit on a X-windows-esque Eikon windowing layer means that their Windowing systems are in fact very similar and it's easy to cross-compile for both. Remember that UIQ is for the most part Pen-based whereas S60 is numeric-keypad-based (broadly speaking) and it in fact impressive that these two separate systems can be so easy to port between thanks to them both sitting on SymbianOS for most core tasks.
"Symbian Signed ... makes shareware and hobby programming almost impossible ..."
... I'm sure /. readers understand the necessity for signed s/w on mobiles. Also the point (unquoted) about needed full certifcation is misleading - it just means the user gets are warning dialog like many modern OSs. The situation with J2ME midlets is much the same.
"Some operators are requiring the phones to be locked for any apps not carrying a 'Symbian Signed' certificate"
The biggest issue all of us in the industry have is the power of the network operators customising and locking users in/out of features - this will occur with any OS (and does already with PocketPC) due to he unfortuant power of the networks who control the industry.
"Crippled C++ support They made their own home-cooked version of exceptions called Leaves"
SymbianOS v9 (S60 v3+, UIQ v3+) can use exceptions (although they are Leaves under the hood) - happy now? The point TFA makes here is very uninformed as Symbian jumps through hoops to make it difficult for apps to leak through the combination of CleanupStack and Leaves
"Limited support for multi-threading That was hardly even a relevant argument in 1993 but it meant that Symbian uses 'active objects' instead of threads in almost all applications."
In fact, the cost of a OS context-switch is still high when every bit of battery power matters - battery technology hasn't changed that much since 1993
"Bad development environment ... need to install Visual Studio 2003 to make it work ..."
Carbide.c++, which is based on Eclipse and CDT, is the only IDE Nokia is supporting from now on and it's great and stable. The author admits "My first installation a few years ago" ... nuff zed.
and there's more