Paul Jacobson

Category: Creative expression

  • Why Firefox 4 will have tabs on top by default

    The Firefox User Experience Team has published a video explaining why Firefox 4 will have tabs positioned above the location bar by default (it will be a choice, you can switch to the more common position below the location bar). Like me, when I first noticed aspects of the Firefox 4 UI becoming available, you…

  • Preview of MeeGo for tablet devices

    I came across this video preview of a pre-alpha MeeGo version which looks pretty exciting: MeeGo is the love-child of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin operating systems. I was hoping that Maemo would develop further after spending some time with the Maemo 5 powered N900 last year and was disappointed to discover there would be…

  • Lest we forget about Nokia

    If you are taking a casual look ahead at the smartphone landscape in the coming months you would be excused for thinking that its really about the next generation of Android devices and the iPhone 4. These two platforms are benefitting from increased competition between the two and the newest devices emerging from both camps…

  • WordPress 3.0 releases and I'm trying a new theme

    I noticed that WordPress 3.0 released and I upgraded my blog immediately using the fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants-don’t-try-this-at-home-kids method of just upgrading automatically without making a complete backup first. Fortunately it worked and I didn’t lose almost 6 years of blog posts. I decided to change my theme on the blog and I adapted the default Twenty Ten…

  • Mashable's Pete Cashmore seen through Lisa Bettany's eyes

    I think I am on a Lisa Bettany kick this afternoon. I just watched this brief video profile of Pete Cashmore when he was in San Francisco recently for a Mashable event around the time of Google I/O. Interesting perspective of a man I have only encountered through Twitter and the occasional podcast:

  • Camera+ takes iPhone photography to exciting places

    I’ve just been listening/watching MacBreak Weekly 198 and one of the apps the panel discussed is photographer Lisa Bettany’s new app, Camera+. Take a look at this video: I am envious of iPhone users generally because they have these sorts of apps available. I still love Android but Android doesn’t have these sorts of apps…

  • HTC Desire and the Motorola Milestone

    The local Android smartphone marketplace is about to become even more exciting with a number of new Android phones from HTC and Motorola entering local channels. I was invited to both the HTC/Leaf and Motorola launch events and was pretty excited by what I saw and was told (well, with a couple exceptions). HTC devices…

  • Broken taps

    We had lunch at my mom’s house on Valentines Day and arrived as a broken tap was being repaired. It looked like an opportunity for some interesting photos and I think they came out quite nicely. I haven’t been spending a lot of time on composition. I think that is going to be a pretty…