Song of the Day (SOTD)

Francis and the Lights produced 'Karaoke' off the new Drake album 'Thank me Later', you'll definitely be hearing about them in the next few months ....

Never again

Mobile OS Guide

A simple guide to the many mobile operating systems available

Android, Symbian, Bada, WebOS. The list goes on. The list of smartphone operating systems is growing by the day. Many are open source, a good number are proprietary and some are barely out of beta.

Android

Like many things from Google its Android operating system has gone from nowhere to being one of the biggest smartphone operating systems almost overnight. Most commonly seen on HTC and Motorola phones, Android is now popping up on the likes of Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones as well as tablet devices from Acer and others. Android is open source software.

Bada

Not a great deal is known about Samsung's Bada operating system except that it is open source and based on Linux. To date Bada has only been shipped on one phone, the Samsung Wave. In a world now crowded with Linux-based mobile phone operating systems, Bada's future is uncertain.

Blackberry OS

The Blackberry OS is a proprietary operating system created by Research in Motion for its range of Blackberry phones. Blackberry OS is specifically engineered to cater for things such as push mail.

iPhone OS

iPhone OS is the default operating system on Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It is derived from Apple's Mac OS X operating system and is proprietary, although originally based on Unix-like BSD.

Maemo

Maemo is Nokia's other mobile phone operating system. Based on Linux, Maemo is specifically designed for the N900 smartphone. Maemo was recently merged with Intel's Moblin operating system to create MeeGo, an operating system mostly targeted at the tablet and smartbook/netbook market.

MeeGo

MeeGo is the result of Nokia and Intel combining their respective Maemo and Moblin operating systems. Maemo is Linux-based, open source and primarily targeted at the tablet, netbook and set-top box markets.

Symbian

Symbian is Nokia's mobile phone OS and the dominant operating system on smartphones with around 44% of the overall market. Earlier this year Symbian held more than 50% of the market but newcomers such as Android have made strong inroads into Symbian's share. Nokia has released Symbian as open source software but it doesn't have as much momentum among developers as many other smartphone operating systems.

WebOS

WebOS is a Linux-based smartphone OS developed by Palm, one of the early innovators in handheld devices. Recently, however, Palm fell on hard times and was bought by HP. HP isn't specifically active in the smartphone market but it is working on tablet devices which could be expected to run WebOS.

Windows Mobile

Microsoft's proprietary mobile phone operating system used to be among the most popular mobile phone OSes but was recently knocked down to fifth place with just 7% market share. Microsoft's Windows Mobile version 6 was originally released in February 2007 and, while it has had updates since then, is falling behind the competition as far as features go. Windows Mobile 7 has been repeatedly delayed and although it has been announced it hasn't actually featured on any phones yet.

Song of the Day (SOTD)

I never met a girl like you, that makes me want to settle down .....

The Future is Open Source

So I finally made the switch to Fedora. I've been flirting with it now for a few years but I've always had a fall back machine running a Windows OS.
This time I'm going all in, a complete format of my HD and a full installation of Fedora 13. I chose Fedora out of all the Linux distros because it offers a wide range of support options and it's sponsored by Red Hat, a company that leads the way in open source software development.

Some of the features in Fedora 13 are:

• Automatic printer driver installation
• Automatic language pack installation
• Redesigned user account tool
• Color management to calibrate monitors and scanners
• Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards
• A new way to install Fedora over the Internet
• SSSD authentication for users
• Updates to NFS
• Inclusion of Zarafa open source edition
  
• System rollback for the Btrfs file system
  
• Better SystemTap probes
• Support for the entire Java EE 6 spec in Netbeans 6.8
• KDE PulseAudio Integration
• New Command Line interface for NetworkManager

Spent the better part of my weekend trying to get a few essential features working, tried the forums, but getting responses pertaining to the problems I was encountering was like pulling teeth, I finally decided to try the IRC option and was able to chat with a few knowledgeable individuals that definitely put me on the path to eternal Fedora love and loyalty. I'm wowed by the programming possibilities Fedora offers and plan to explore them fully.

I will be keeping y'all informed as the journey continues......

Song of the Day (SOTD)

One again Gaga hits us with a visually stunning and breathtaking video.

Voldemort

Weekly Address: Speaking from Louisiana on the Oil Spill

Caught in a Quagmire

So I've resisted the urge to get too personal so far in the history of this blog, but I've always found writing to be a tad bit therapeutic, so here goes some self therapy.

It's always easy to find fault in others but self introspection is a road less travelled by most people, been doing that for the past few days and my findings were both scary and hopeful, mostly scary though.
I've had the opportunity of meeting some awesome women in my life so far (some fillers too), and I've been wondering why I always seem to keep the fillers longer. I like and love hard, I can say I've only felt the latter for 2 people, don't really talk to one as often as I should and I speak to the other a little too often.
I recently had the unfortunate opportunity of feeling an emotion that I usually inflict on others, being in limbo. Met a wonderful individual that to me was both beautiful inside and out, didn't really want to convey too much mushiness to her as she was what I considered a strong willed and pragmatic individual, I didn't really see her as the emotional type. The time spent was short-lived though as everything ended as abruptly as it began. Why it ended will forever be a mystery to me as I find myself asking, what if?
I'm beginning to think I have too much faith in certain people, yet I ask for them to have none in me. Making time for those I care for has never been my strong suit, and I was told by an older friend a few years back that as I got older it would change, but here I am in the 24th year of my life and I'm still as selfish as ever.
I will stop here as I've started rambling, things might be a little too fresh to fully evaluate, but this was helpful nonetheless........

Song of the Day

Michael Buble - Haven't Met You Yet

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE WEEK

Book - The God Delusion (Christopher Hitchens)

Movie - Unthinkable

Music - Thank me Later (Drake)