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Facebook videos not playing?

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I had this problem on 3 of my computers and thought it was a Mac issue. Well maybe it is but I have been reading online that PCs are having the problem as well. Now I am not 100% sure what is causing the issue, whether its a setting on the computer, browsers, or in facebook itself, or even in a plug in. But I do know a solution:)

In your address bar you will see something like: http://www.facebook.com or www.facebook.com

The problem is that your browser is looking for a secure connection to view the video. So to view it you need to make sure there is an (s) in that web address like so:

https://www.facebook.com

Do you see the (s)? Type that in and reload your page. The video should now play. And yea you will need to do this each time you want to view one but at least its working.

The ‘Woz’, founder of Apple computer, take on the patent wars

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The Woz (Steve Wozniak) is truly awesome. For those that do not recognize his name, he co founded apple computer with steve jobs and in fact, was the one who invented the comptuer. Steve Jobs was more of the front man. Anyway, here is his take on the patent wars:

“I hate it…I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody’s technologies.”

Source: Mashable

iPhone 5 announced..my thoughts

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iPhone 5 was announced today. The phone will be a good upgrade for current iPhone users. However, will it be an upgrade for Android users? Well here is what I thought as I watched the announcement  (i did get this list from another website but it was exactly what I was thinking) and this is comparing it to my GNex that is 8 months old:

1) LTE – 1.5 years too late
2) Widescreen – 3 years too late
3) Old apps run letterboxed – this is bad
4) Facetime over cellular – 2 years too late although skype did this on iPhone 4s
5) Maps – Google Maps/Earth knockoff
6) Navigation – 3 years too late. Well they had it you just had to buy a separate app for it.
7) Tab sharing – Firefox/Chrome knockoff – A year+ too late
8) VIP e-mail – Gmail knockoff – A year+ too late
9) Passbook – neat concept but no payment within app
10) No NFC – Year and a half too late and counting
11) No backwards compatibility of hardware (need to buy new chargers/car chargers, etc)
12) Poor battery life – this is compared to GNex and S3
13) No SD Card (mine doesnt either and i do not care about this feature but many do)

Here is a comparison of phone next to android devices

Here is a comparison against iPhone 4s

Facebook CEO: ‘Betting on HTML5 our biggest mistake’ and future of HTML5

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on record yesterday discussing their recent move to a native app in Apple’s iOS. The facebook app had been developed in HTML5. Now I am not quite sure why a company with the resources that facebook does would have even considered an HTML5 app vs a native as native is definitely better, however, they did. But why was it a mistake? Because Apple has chosen to not allow HTML5 apps to run as fast and smooth as native ones.

Article is here

So what is the future of HTML5? Well at this point APPLE does not want to support HTML5 mobile apps. Why? They lose control and money. Sure they are supporting it in the browsers but they are not supporting it in apps. Why would HTML5 apps be good for developers? Because you could develop one app and publish it to all mobile devices. So for instance, Apple has purposely made apps running HTML5 run slower than they would as webpages in their browser, citing security and stability concerns. While it might be valid it a very suspicious as Apple has been trying to tell people to use HTML5 instead of Flash for similar reasons.

Here is an article about Apple stopping HTML5 dead in its tracks on iOS (not the browser). And this has not changed with iOS5.

Here is another article about why apps should go to HTML5 but they are not being supported:

Why apps should but are NOT going cross platform with HTML5