Apple releases iOS 4.2.1 GM, still no public release of iOS 4.2

Apple customers who are clamoring for iOS 4.2 shouldn’t have much longer to wait. Today, Apple released a gold master of iOS 4.2.1 to developers, which should get the gold master software for iPhones and iPads back on the same … Continue reading

Android 2.3 Gingerbread available to Nexus One users “in the next few days”

In a tweet yesterday, a leader of the Open Handset Alliance, Alvaro Vasquez, said that Android 2.3 will be coming “in the next few days”. Roughly translated, the full tweet reads: “Prepare your Nexus One (Developer version) for Android OTA … Continue reading

Adobe Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool now in demo stage

Adobe engineer Rik Cabanier put on an extremely interesting tech demo earlier this week, showing off a Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool called “Wallaby,” that would allow Flash developers to reuse many elements of their Flash projects — including graphics, masks, and … Continue reading

Clue helps you find out what’s memorable about your page

One of the first things you learn about writing for the Web is that you have an incredibly short amount of time to make a first impression; it’s usually said to be around three seconds. So, if you’ve grabbed your … Continue reading

Komodo Edit 6 is now out, based on Firefox 3.5 sources

I’m a big fan of Komodo Edit for editing PHP, HTML and other code. And now, Komodo Edit 6 is officially out! Komodo Edit 6 has been in Beta for quite some time, and I’ve been using the Beta versions … Continue reading

Intel working on ARM-to-x86 tool to bring iOS apps to Atom-powered MeeGo phones

In an interview with the news service IDG, Intel’s vice president of Software and Services says that the company is developing a tool to port iPhone applications to Intel’s Atom-powered MeeGo smartphones. Without getting into too much detail, the processors … Continue reading

Fillerati is a wonderful generator for filler text

Slick, sexy and suave are just some of the adjectives that came to mind when I was testing Fillerati. This beautiful little toy is a testament to what one developer can do with modern Web technologies in just 48 hours. … Continue reading

elRTE is a comprehensive, free rich text editor for the Web

Formatting text for the Web is an ongoing quest. HTML has a fairly steep learning curve, but people still need to blog, comment, and somehow format text. Personally, I’m a huge Markdown fan. In my opinion, if you’re trying to … Continue reading

Periodic Table of the Elements is a quick, slick HTML5 cheat sheet

HTML5 is here, which means Web developers now have a whole bunch of new tags and elements to play with. The Periodic Table of the Elements is an effective visual map of what the “new HTML” looks like. It’s a … Continue reading

Direct3D 10 and 11 API now natively supported by Linux via Gallium3D

In one fell swoop, it seems like proper, contemporary 3D gaming could be coming to a Linux distro near you. Unlike Wine, this implementation of Direct3D under Gallium3D is an actual, native port of the DirectX APIs. There’s no emulation … Continue reading