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 version after a little snafu with the iPad version of the software last week. 4.2.1 [...]
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 update 2.3 (Gingerbread) for the next few days ” While this isn’t as authoritative as [...]
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 animations — in an HTML file. The tool will also tell you which elements can’t [...]
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 visitor’s interest or managed to get your message across within those three seconds, you did [...]
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 for months. This release means Edit’s older brother, Komodo IDE, also made it to version [...]
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 used by Apple’s devices (and almost every phone on the market) are not compatible with [...]
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. Functionally, it’s very simple. Instead of generating Lorem Ipsum text for testing your new website [...]
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 write a blog post with formatting that can’t be expressed in Markdown you’re putting too [...]
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 comprehensive table, too; it contains both existing elements (such as the hyperlink tag, a) and [...]
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 involved — Gallium3D just acts as a ‘very thin wrapper’, allowing developers easy access to [...]
