The Code Zone logo contest ends tomorrow. Unless I get a flood of entries in the next 24 hours, I'm going to declare the contest to be an utter flop. I'll post the entries and crown a winner and award a prize, but I'm pretty disappointed in the number of entries.
Safari on Windows is official and, ACID scores notwithstanding, it is a steaming pile. The only reason to have this thing on a windows machine is if you're a webmaster who wants to see how your page looks on a Mac and don't actually wanna buy a Mac. Otherwise it's the most jarring unintuitive thing around. Imagine for a moment the consumer backlash if Microsoft released Office for the Mac and it was a pixel-for-pixel clone of the Windows version, right down to the Vista-style titlebars. The fanboy angst would reach the heavens!
But it's not really an issue. Safari really doesn't have a reason to exist on Windows marketing-wise. Firefox is excellent in Windows, and you'll need to have more than slightly better handling of javascript esoterica to unseat Firefox's nigh-unlimited customizability and extensibility.<br><br><br>Speaking of which, the new Firefox is pretty good. Google Browser Sync doesn't work with it (and appears to have been abandoned), so I'm trying Mozilla Weave. Good so far.<br><br><br>Also I'm now using NetVibes instead of iGoogle because NetVibes has better google calendar support, go figure.<br><br><br>I might tweak the scoring for ConFusebox 2 a second time because one of the metrics is still too high. Mind you, this is closing the barn door after the cows are out, but so far only a couple of cows are out, so it shouldn't be too bad.<br><br><br>Intel/Microsoft are apparently releasing a mini-laptop. It runs Windows and is dinky like an OLPC and is $400 and I just don't get it. I bought an Acer laptop at a Black Friday sale for $350, and it beats the pants off Intel's offering at every turn except for two things -- size and lack of rotating storage. Are Flash-based mini-laptops really so compelling that people are gonna pay a price-premium for 'em? I mean, I can understand selling mini-laptops for education at a really attractive price-point, like $150-$200, but once you get your laptop into the $400 range, then you're competing against real laptops. And in an apples-apples comparison of features, the mini-laptops are gonna lose.<br><br>But at the low end of the scale, like $200 and below, the main competition is against PocketPC machines, and the tables turn. Save for phone-capabilities, a mini-laptop can beat the pants off a Windows Mobile device, and that's where they need to be.<br><br>But hey, I'm no marketer. I'm also not the target market for these critters so what do I know.<br><br><br>Speaking of which, Maggie's still having great fun with her OLPC. She discovered that, while some Flash sites are slow, <a href="http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html">Strongbad emails</a> play just fine. She likes the songs he sings while he checks his emails.<br><br>She sent Strongbad an email last week. Gotta watch that kid.<div>
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