So Lion has been released. Like the vast majority of every living soul on this planet (fine, excluding those that have been living under a rock for the past month) I couldn’t wait to get it on my MacBook. Headed right to my App Store and hit that Buy button!
As much as I love how Mac OS X looks, I sometimes hate how some applications decide to just do things their own ways and make things look out of place. Whether it be in terms of app UI, dock icon, or sometimes even menu bar.
If you’re anything like me, it’s hard to settle for this menu bar:
Google+ vs. Facebook reminds me very much of Social media in Egypt vs. Egyptian mass population. Let me add some details: Google+ (adopted by socially active people), vs. Facebook (adopted by almost everybody.)
Google+ Hangout vs. Facebook Video reminds me of the Yes vs. No (pretty heated) online debate Egyptian people used to have, online, regarding what, people, should be voting for when it came to whether or not they agree on the constitutional amendments. Although online it seemed No had it all wrapped up, actual votes came in at 70%+ Yes.
Google+ can win the debate all it wants amongst some of the cool kids of the online block. But in reality, let’s just remind ourselves we live in a world with 749,000,000 other people. Actually, in reality, it’s dumb to even consider comparing which will break new grounds.
I’m not a big fan of Facebook, in fact, I once actually deleted my Facebook account. (No, I don’t mean deactivate. I mean actually deleted it.) But I re-registered. I re-registered because it is the social network of the era and I needed it to socially connect.
Firefox has adopted a faster release cycle. This basically means instead of us seeing new versions every, say, six months, we’ll be seeing them on a far shorter period of time (probably 16 weeks intervals.)
More versions in less time means less (more frequent) changes. These changes may not be very big or major, and may very well be in the back-end (performance enhancements and so forth.) So you might be told Firefox has bumped to version 5.0 overnight and you see zero changes at first glance. I personally don’t mind that.
What I do mind however, is my addons compatibility.
I’ve been looking for a very simple XML reader to use for my bachelor project. I didn’t want a complex reader that manipulates the entire DOM (parse the attributes, etc), or one that is complicated to use. So I’ve come to implement my own.