Posts Tagged ‘development’
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
The Opera Beta version 10.50 for Mac has been released to the public. This comes on the tail of a recent release for Windows, and shows a more aggressive move into the Mac OS by Opera.
Some of the new features include: minimalist design interface, fastest JavaScript engine currently on the market (claimed Opera and published by CNET), new search field, new Opera widgets, better standards compliance including HTML 5 and CSS 3, a “smart” address field, better graphics rendering, and private browsing.
Updates to Opera for version 10.50:
- Cocoa support
- Unified tool bar
- Growl notifications
- Multi-touch gestures
- Happy Easter! Well almost, but multi-touch users should look out for the egg
- 10.4 (Tiger) support returns
- Widgets fixed and panel enabled
- Fixed Bug DSK-282851 (Slow typing)
- Fixed Bug DSK-276782 (Hangs on NYT and Reuters and other sites): Page Freezing Bug
Tags: browsers, development, web
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Google, two days before the announcement of the iPad by Apple, put mock-ups of a new product that would ride on the hype of the device–a browser-based Chrome OS for tablet computers.
Chrome OS was designed primarily for netbooks. Netbooks will not be the extent of it’s use however–it will work with an array of web enabled devices–each with very different input methods, available screen space, and processing power.
Stephen Shankland writing for “DeepTech” at CNET believes that Chrome OS may be a better sell for tablet computers than netbooks, because netbooks are often used as a primary computer which may make a browser-based OS a less appealing option.
Tags: browsers, design, development, web, web design
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Google will be teaming up with Neustar UltraDNS to work on a proposed extension to DNS. The concept of the project would make it so that the first three quarters of a user’s IP address would be included in a DNS request. Each DNS request would then have a built-in geographic awareness, which would improve the responsiveness and accuracy of the Domain Name System.
Tags: development, IT, technology, web, web design
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Since Vista, Microsoft has included “GodMode” settings to give developers shortcuts to numerous internal settings of a PC. GodMode functions can give quick access control to a range of items such as identifying biometric sensors, changing the mouse icon or managing power.
Most of the GodMode functions are largely undocumented for the general public. The first step is to create a new folder. Then give it a name, and also include a text, godmode string.
To create the Godmode folder:
{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
List of strings:
{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}
Tags: design, development, engineering
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Microsoft is trying to use the popularity of Facebook to boost its Silverlight and WPF products. The giant just released a web development kit for Facebook that allows for the building of applications using ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, and WinForms. The kit also gives access to source code for Microsoft based APIs, components, controls, and samples for use in developing Facebook apps.
Tags: design, development, social, web, web design
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
The US Department of Defense is making a serious effort to improve open-source adoption. It will be issuing new guidelines to make it easier for the department to use open-source software. The department has stated that open-source meets the purchasing requirements set forth by the department and will help them better identify and eliminate threats and become more agile to changing requirements.
CNET noted the irony of such efforts since Linux was one identified by the US Department of Defense as one of such threats in the past. (Source of remarks: CNET: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10384067-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20).
The Defense Department stated that open-source software will also bring some clear advantages that proprietary software may not be able to offer. Such benefits of open-source software include:
– suitable for rapid prototyping and experimentation
– a cost advantage
– unrestricted ability to modify software source code
– reduction of proprietary restrictions
– identification and elimination of defects through peer-review system
Tags: collaboration, design, development, engineering, intelligence, software, technology, web, web design
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Mozilla is planning on releasing Firefox 3.6 BETA this weekend or coming week.
One of the expected features to be released with the new version is the Personas add-on, which allows users to customize the look and feel of the browser to their tastes. Although this is an entirely cosmetic, it is very popular with users. Tabs will also get an update–new tabs created from clicking on a link will open to the immediate right of their parent page rather than opening far right on the tab strip. Firefox 3.6 will also support Open Web Font.
Tags: development, engineering, software, web
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Web designers have a lot of great tools at their disposal thanks to Google. Recently, Google added another tool to the menu. Language translation functionality can now be added to web pages allowing web visitors to have their home language auto-detected and translated from the source content. All a web designer will need to do is add a little bit of code to their pages for the tool to become available. The system will support fifty one languages.
Top: Source Google. Shows a page after translation using the service. This page was translated from English.
Above: Installing the tool will be simple and easy. Web designers and developers will be able to set some basic preferences and generate a code snippet to paste into their builds.
Tags: design, development, web, web design
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Users have long wanted a feature to group Twitter friends together for easy filtration. The feature will allow for the creation of both public and private filter lists. Users may even be able to subscribe directly to a list of a Twitter user. Lists promise to be a very interesting way to discover new accounts.
Developers will be able to use an API for the lists feature and invent new tools.
Tags: development, social, software, web, web design
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Dell is not know for being an innovator for laptop engineering. It comes as an interesting surprise that Dell is releasing a new business laptop that has a feature not found on any other laptop in the market currently.
The Latitude Z, a very thin business notebook, charges wirelessly.
Now, this wireless charging isn’t as portable as your cell phone. There is an inductive pad that’s built into a laptop stand. The speed of the charge is good though. It can fully recharge in about the same time as a regular, wired laptop.
Tags: business, development, engineering
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