Tech Update

The download counter here at Mozilla headquarters shows that Firefox 3 has passed a million downloads. Ars reports live from the official release party.

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“Mark your calendar, wrap a ribbon around your finger or write a little sticky yellow note. Download Day will start on June 17, 2008.”
As received in my Inbox.

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Straight from the mouth of Steve at WWDC 08!

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We have it from a reliable source that a version of the 3G iPhone’s firmware has been released — possibly for carrier partners currently field-testing the device — and has since been dissected. While nothing is ever guaranteed, we think we got more than enough information the low-level hardware and drivers that run the device to make some informe

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By enabling the iPhone to run on so-called third-generation, or 3G, networks, Apple makes the device more appealing to a global wireless customer. Within months, the phone will be officially available in key European markets like Italy, Spain, and the Scandinavian countries. Countries as varied as Australia and Uruguay are also on the docket.

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Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability.

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Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in May that is worth your time.

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In part three of our special multi-part feature, Peter Bright takes a look at the Apple development experience and why it’s so appealing. What’s Apple doing that’s so enticing, and why is Apple’s house in much better order than Microsoft’s?

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Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android “Android”, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.

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I have spent the last several days searching for a redirect script to use in this blog. Since I could not figure out how to use javascript in the posts, I instead altered a different code that I found online, and put it into the sidebar. It works great and you can test it out by clicking on Music at the top of this page. Instead of going to the Music page which has only one link on it, it goes to the New Releases Page which has many posts on it. Hope this script is what you are looking for.

if(top.location.href.substring(0,37) == 'http://techupdate.blogvis.com/music/') {
top.location.href = ‘http://techupdate.blogvis.com/category/new-release/’;

In order to use this code, highlight the http://techupdate.blogvis.com/music/ inside the quotes and place the page that will be redirected. Place it inside the quotation marks and do not alter anything else. Then count how many characters there are in the url including the http:// and the /’s. On the second line of code, replace the other url with your page the will be redirected to. Simply place this altered code into the sidebar of your blog, and it will only affect the page that needs to be redirected. It worked like a charm for me and I hope it will for you to. If you have any problems, please post the in the comments.