Twitter Updates for 2010-03-12

• Hit by Twitter rate limit in a project. Requested client 2 fill http://tinyurl.com/ye6zwrh Within 24 hrs got mail: 20K requests/hr in 48 hrs #
• Wish mobile phones graduate to be a PC to load up with any OS: Android, Symbian, Maemo, Windows (X) Phone Series. Note the exclusion of OS X #
• For the fans RT @wordpress WordPress personas for Firefox: http://short.to/1goju #
• RT @scottgu I'm pleased to announce the official release of ASP.NET MVC 2: http://short.to/1ghmg #
• RT @google Tune in to Indian Premier League's YouTube channel for streaming/on-demand access http://short.to/1g1ek #youtube_ipl #
• Overslept last night to keep my eyes open for a long meeting at UNESCO. But still wish to have a power nap before the meeting #
• Your brain may be overflowing with new ideas today and your se… More for Leo http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=5 #
• Install Google Wave gadgets from within it http://tweetphoto.com/14108105 More about this new feature: http://bit.ly/96LifI #
• MapMyIndia new GPS device for Rs. 7,990 http://bit.ly/92YPNa ? @sharat_j #
• @NexisBanks Wish had a G1 with Nandroid handy. Changing ROM image shud work. Try http://short.to/1g59y #

Twitter Updates for 2010-03-12

• Hit by Twitter rate limit in a project. Requested client 2 fill http://tinyurl.com/ye6zwrh Within 24 hrs got mail: 20K requests/hr in 48 hrs #
• Wish mobile phones graduate to be a PC to load up with any OS: Android, Symbian, Maemo, Windows (X) Phone Series. Note the exclusion of OS X #
• For the fans RT @wordpress WordPress personas for Firefox: http://short.to/1goju #
• RT @scottgu I'm pleased to announce the official release of ASP.NET MVC 2: http://short.to/1ghmg #
• RT @google Tune in to Indian Premier League's YouTube channel for streaming/on-demand access http://short.to/1g1ek #youtube_ipl #
• Overslept last night to keep my eyes open for a long meeting at UNESCO. But still wish to have a power nap before the meeting #
• Your brain may be overflowing with new ideas today and your se… More for Leo http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=5 #
• Install Google Wave gadgets from within it http://tweetphoto.com/14108105 More about this new feature: http://bit.ly/96LifI #
• MapMyIndia new GPS device for Rs. 7,990 http://bit.ly/92YPNa ? @sharat_j #
• @NexisBanks Wish had a G1 with Nandroid handy. Changing ROM image shud work. Try http://short.to/1g59y #

Fennec – Firefox for mobiles

We love Firefox on our desktops and now there is Firefox for our mobiles – called Fennec. Fennec is a web browser for mobiles (phones, PDAs and small screen tablets) released by Mozilla. As of this writing, it is in Alpha 1.

Fennec Alpha 1 is available only for Nokia N810 tablets running Maemo. But I own a Windows Mobile. Fortunately, Fennec is downloadable for Windows, Linux and Mac desktops – for users (like me) to see its glimpse, test it and give feedback.

I downloaded the Linux version from here. Extracted the archive (tar -jxvf fennec-1.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2). This produced a directory named fennec.  Changed to this directory and launched Fennec by issuing ./fennec.

Fennec - The first launch

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