Firefox

New design ideas for Firefox look really interesting.

Trinidad

I kind of guessed it that Nokia is planning to enter laptop business. After acquiring Trolltech, it makes a lot of sense. Mobile phones, laptops, and internet should work well together. In a sense, Google, Apple, and Nokia are doing the same thing. They all think that this is the future and they want to lock their users to use their services. At the moment, Google is strong in the internet, Apple is strong in laptops/software, and Nokia is strong in mobile phones. Microsoft hasn't been very succesfull in this regards yet, but it is interesting to see what will happen.

Newsflash

Qt goes LGPL.

Backup

During the holidays, I though about backupping. I wanted to have a simple backupping system that works automatically. That excluded RAID (too complicated) and DVD's (not automatic). Applications that seem to be useful in this regard include Simple Backup Suite and Unison. There is also a possibility to make a backup of the whole disc by using the dd command. However, my solution was to buy an USB disc and do some rsync+cron magic. Pretty much similarly as described in here.

Themes

I very much like the idea of those Gmail themes which change their appearance depending on the local weather or the time of the day. This idea should definately be applied to the desktop. With Compiz, it shouldn't be that difficult to make effects (or themes) that behave like this.

Tabbing

I have actually always thought that tabs should be handled by the window manager, not by the program itself. Of course, this is one of the fundamental ideas behind Ion. It seems that Google is taking a step into this direction with its Google Chrome browser. A quick mockup of how the mentioned idea might look in Chrome:

Ubuntu theme

The new theme for Ubuntu Interprid is simply awful. It's even worse than the previous one. This mockup should be the way to go.