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Apple did it again. They already redefined the way we listen to music with iPods and now they will revolutionize how we communicate with each other. An iPhone is a combination of an iPod with a cell phone with Internet and email facilities. I’ll probably get one in 2 years, when my contract ends and the price will be more affordable than $600 :)

The final version of Firefox 2.0 has been released today. Here are the great new features:

• Spell check for textareas (thank you!)
• Search engine manager
• Updated user interface
• Navigation arrows for when you’ve opened too many tabs
• Updated Add-ons manager
• And much more!

Download it now!

After several offers from many sources, Google finally closed the deal yesterday.

Google has agreed to purchase popular video sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the two companies announced after the close of the stock market Monday. The deal marks the largest acquisition for Google in the company’s eight-year history.

I’m afraid that this acquisition will be just a merger with Google Video and YouTube will lose its unique user experience. Hopefully this won’t happen:

YouTube will retain its brand name and offices in San Bruno, Calif., the companies said, and all YouTube employees will keep their jobs. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the year.

Source: BetaNews

Are you getting the following error from the W3C validator?

cannot generate system identifier for general entity “PHPSESSID”

This is because you are using sessions on your website and PHP adds the session ID to links on your page. If the URL already has a GET parameter, &PHPSESSID is added at the end. However, the correct code would be &PHPSESSID since for the validator the ampersand means that you are refering to a HTML entity. A quick way to fix this is to turn on the option arg_separator.output in php.ini. If you don’t have access to that file, you can use the following directive in a .htaccess file:

php_value arg_separator.output "&"

Advanced Micro Devices plans to acquire graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies for $5.4 billion, a move intended to increase AMD’s mobile-computing and consumer electronics capabilities, and help battle archrival Intel.

Source: ZDNet

What’s next? Intel buying nVidia?