When the iPhone was scheduled for release in Australia, Optus (Arguably the second largest carrier in Australia) launched a dedicated website where potential customers could pay a $100 deposit to register their interest in the iPhone. You were prompted to complete a form, including providing Optus with your credit card to make pay the deposit. I shit you not, the form *wasn't* encrypted. To this day, I wonder how many clueless individuals actually completed the form? The offer finished a few days after I first noticed it.
Australians also had the option of completing the 2006 census online, using their web browser. The process was straight forward and was completed in under 15 minutes. At the time, I was using GNOME and Firefox on my desktop and didn't encounter any compatibility issues. In fact, if I recall correctly; the site even went as far as to list compatibility with IE, Firefox and Safari.
As a Mac user, I've been eagerly anticipating the release of Firefox 3. For too long, the browser has felt like a foreign application that doesn't integrate nicely in to the OS X UI (Among other issues). With the abundance of third party extensions that greatly assist my general browsing and development experience; it's difficult to switch to an alternate browser.
Now, Firefox feels like it's apart of OS X utilising native widgets and dialogues. More importantly, the proposed Firefox3 themes for OS X look fantastic.
PS: This post was brought to you from Firefox 3 Beta 1.
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When the iPhone was scheduled for release in Australia, Optus (Arguably the second largest carrier in Australia) launched a dedicated website where potential customers could pay a $100 deposit to register their interest in the iPhone. You were prompted to complete a form, including providing Optus with your credit card to make pay the deposit. I shit you not, the form *wasn't* encrypted. To this day, I wonder how many clueless individuals actually completed the form? The offer finished a few days after I first noticed it.
You ought to take a look at Arch Linux which have released their binary packages for KDE4 (They've been in testing previously).
Australians also had the option of completing the 2006 census online, using their web browser. The process was straight forward and was completed in under 15 minutes. At the time, I was using GNOME and Firefox on my desktop and didn't encounter any compatibility issues. In fact, if I recall correctly; the site even went as far as to list compatibility with IE, Firefox and Safari.
As a Mac user, I've been eagerly anticipating the release of Firefox 3. For too long, the browser has felt like a foreign application that doesn't integrate nicely in to the OS X UI (Among other issues). With the abundance of third party extensions that greatly assist my general browsing and development experience; it's difficult to switch to an alternate browser.
Now, Firefox feels like it's apart of OS X utilising native widgets and dialogues. More importantly, the proposed Firefox3 themes for OS X look fantastic.
PS: This post was brought to you from Firefox 3 Beta 1.
You could check out Smultron. It's a nice tabbed based GUI editor with syntax highlighting. It's GPL.