There has recently been a number of Firefox releases prior to Firefox 9. After quite a while, I have finally upgraded to the latest version and it had a good first impression. It’s a sweet and simple browser specifically designed for surfing Internet with ease.
According to Mozilla, Firefox 9 is significantly faster than the older versions. I previously mentioned about optimizing Firefox with Tabloc add-on, there is no need for this here. Similar functions are readily available in this version.
I just wish there were not so many releases so often, I’m too lazy to update so often 
. So, have you upgraded your Firefox browser yet? What do you think of it?
Here I am in mid-January, wishing all my readers a belated Happy New Year 2012 
. Better be late than never, yeah?
It’s been already 6 months since my last post on this blog, wow I really need to kick myself in the ass to post here more often. But there are so many things to keep me busy everyday that I just forget about posting here, especially during the New Year period. I guess I should make posting on my blog one of my New Year’s resolutions .
So what’s new on the blog?
Notice the panoramic banner at the top of this site, well it used to be the random banners that originally came with this theme as you can see in this snapshot taken when I first installed it:
Blog Theme
Now you can see a banner of my beautiful island, Mauritius. If you click on it, you will be taken to my new site where I will be talking a lot about the island. I will add more banners as soon as I get them ready.
Do tell me what you think about my sites by commenting on my posts.
What the heck is a QR code? Even I had no idea what it is, until a few weeks ago. And since then, I see the QR code phenomenon becoming more and more popular. We all know what a bar code is. Well, it’s something similar, but consists of black modules on a white background enclosed in a square area. When scanned, it will reveal a message, a URL, contact details, etc…
The smart people in Japan are the ones who came up with this QR concept and is actually very commonly used over there. Thanks to phones that are no longer dumb (smart phones!), scanning and reading the code has become quite easy. All you need is a QR reader application, and you scan it with your camera phone to reveal the text. As I said before, it doesn’t just hold a text, it can have a URL that will automatically open in a browser when scanned. That is how, many businesses are now using it as part of their website marketing.
By the way, it’s not hard to get a QR code for yourself, you can generate one from a free QR code generator on the web. Here is mine.
Long time, no post
Anyways, the last few weeks I have started learning Android apps development for mobiles and tablets. I have had the chance to do quite a bit of programming in Java at RMIT University, but never really used the skills in the real world. So, now I will be re new those skills when developing my android apps.
As with any new programming platform, I started with a ‘Hello World’ application and ran it on the emulator for an Android phone. Currently, I reading some books and working on a simple application that will post and retrieve status updates from a Twitter-like site.
For anyone wishing to get started developing apps, I recommend going through all the resources available on the Android Developers Guide for a start and then start reading some books. But above all, it’s very important to get your hands dirty and actually practice. It may all seem so complicated when you are just reading, it’s only when you get started doing it and with some practice that you will get familiar with all the stuffs.
The hardest part at first would probably be to setup your programming environment. As suggested in the Android Developers Guide, I’m using the latest version of Eclipse with the ADT plugin. I will be posting more about Android apps development soon…
I have been a Firefox user since a very long time, but I rarely install new plug-ins and add-ons unless I really need them. Recently, I came across the following two Firefox add-ons that I made my experience with Firefox much more pleasant. Wish I had come across them before.
FaviconizeTab
This extension allows you to minimize the size of a tab to the size of a favicon. This is perfect if you usually open a lot of tabs in your Firefox browser. It also has an auto faviconize feature, whereby it will automatically faviconize URLs that you specify.
Tabloc
This add-on allows you to lock, shift lock and protect tabs. Whenever a link is clicked in a locked tab, it opens up in a new tab, whereas a protect tab prohibits the closing of a tab.
Use the above two extensions together and you shall optimize your Mozilla Firefox experience!
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