Archive for March, 2010

iPhone/iPad No Multitasking Myth

Mar 27th

Posted by BitBurn in Technology

6 comments

Call me an Apple fanboy, call me whatever you want but let’s set the record straight for all you iPhone & iPad haters out there aiight: YES THEY MULTITASK!

Proof:

  1. While you write an email you can listen to music at the same time (duh).
  2. While you write an email you can press the “Home” button, go watch a porn on the web, then comeback to your email minutes or hours later and it’ll still be there opened waiting for you to continue writing to your girlfriend.
  3. You can open the Facebook app, start writing something, switch to another app then comeback and resume writing.
  4. You can be playing a game, pause and answer the phone, comeback and get back to your game. Now if the game doesn’t resume well that was obviously intended by the developer.

Look, I ain’t gonna stand here trying to convince you good people that the iPhone or the iPad are the best devices in the world. They’re not. But before bashing them give ‘em a try OK?!  And if you just can’t stand the Apple brand altogether then, well, have a wonderful day…you cheap ass stubborn bastard :D

Goodbye Flash

Mar 12th

Posted by BitBurn in Technology

4 comments

As much as we see and depend on Flash everyday, well, it is becoming increasingly irrelevant as HTML5 is being rolled out across the webosphere and support being implemented into web browsers. Soon, with an HTML5-compliant browser (Currently there’s only Google Chrome and Safari that supports it), when you’ll visit YouTube the embedded media player won’t be a poky Flash player anymore but instead something speedier, lightweight and no need for extra proprietary plug-ins such as Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight to run; that’s what HTML5 will bring.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’d be an hypocrite to deny Flash entirely since my own site has a little bit of it and when used moderately its nicely acceptable but what kills me is when I see sites built entirely in Flash, taking forever to load, unstable, just freakin’ annoying. And of course there’s advertisement banners all over the web in Flash, jumping in your face or auto-maximizing inside my browser; drives me nuts!

Anyhow, I don’t think Flash will disappear overnight but it’s good to see measures are being taken to make the web faster, more accessible and without the need of proprietary crap. Amen.