David Fredh : Blog and Pictures

It’s time again for new versions of our web browsers. Last time the focus was on speed.. . This time the focus is on speed as well as better compatibility to web-standards (for example the ACID3-test).

I have been reading a lot of comparisons between the new web-browsers but most of them have forgotten one player, Opera.

Tested: Chrome vs IE8 vs Firefox 3.1 vs Safari 4

Which Is The Best Browser: IE8, Chrome, Safari Or Firefox 3.1

Opera released its alpha for the upcoming version 10 a while ago and it had a few interesting features. Higher speed of course but also 100% score of the ACID3 test. Recently Opera also announced another interesting feature, the Turbo mode Read the rest of this entry »

A netbook is a small notebook that are ideal for internet-based applications such as mail, web-browsing and instant messaging. You can buy them with both windows or linux. The windows version is dominant. Since Windows Vista is too demanding for the hardware, they are shipped with Windows XP.

If you think it’s boring to use the computer at home all the time I recommend you to buy a netbook. A bus ride or a coffee at a café will never be the same again. But i would recommend you to subscribe to a 3g-internet service as well. A netbook without the net is not that fun…

Netbooks prove that we finally know what PCs are actuallly for. Which is to say not all that much. – Wired

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Today Apple made an announcement that iTunes will be totally DRM free from April 2009. DRM stands for Digital rights management and is a “nice word” for copy protection. Already today most of the music on iTunes is available without DRM. The DRM-free music (called iTunes+) has a lot better sound-quality as well.

Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music. – Steve Jobs, February 6 2007

Last year when I read this I did not believe him. When iTunes used DRM, the songs could only be played on iPods. This made people stick to their Apple-player in favor of other brands. I choose an iPod instead of the beautiful and cheep iRiver only because of all my DRM-protected music on iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s time to wrap up the year 2008. It has been a year of change with Obama, Olympic games and fincancial crisis.

• It is also the year when Yahoo said no to Microsoft.
• iPhone really rocked it’s way into the market and changed the focus from Hardware design into Software. The application store now contains more than 10000 applications which is very unique and the os and ui is beautiful. The first iPhone competitors has been released from other vendors and they seems really cool.
• The commercial breakthrough for mobile internet. 3 Sweden has announced that they will gear up to 21mbit during Q2 2009.
• Small cheap $400-notebooks (so called netbooks) got really popular since Intel finally released it’s power effective atom CPU’s.
• The small and cheep netbooks (above) originally came with linux (or a linux-option). Linux had to step back in favor of old Windows XP (Microsoft’s joker-card).

Maybe 2008 was the year when Technology finally became trendy? It’s not about the phone, it’s about the possibilities and user experience. It’s not about having the internet in your computer, it’s about how!

So, finally, what about 2009? Read the rest of this entry »