Monday - January 5, 2009
Building an application for today's Web is a balancing act. Potential users use several competing browsers. Yet the user experience must be uniform for everyone, regardless of his/her browser of choice. And you can't support one or two browsers because you'll cut out major portions of the market. The problem is further compounded if your application is social. Not only do you have to support your direct customers, but you have to ensure that anyone they communicate with is also supported.
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Wednesday - December 31, 2008
For Internet junkies with high-speed access, there's a growing set of options for viewing online TV shows and movies. Sites like Hulu.com, Joost.com and even YouTube.com are showing full-length TV shows online. While YouTube is far behind Hulu and Joost in that regard, at least iPhone owners can watch YouTube videos on their mobile screens.
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Tuesday - December 30, 2008
Am iDrunk? It's a question that rains down during the holiday party season, especially with New Year's Eve just a couple of days away. Checking your sobriety is now just a reach away to an iPhone. A number of downloadable iPhone applications, or "apps," are ready to test your sobriety through blood-alcohol calculators and balance tests.
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Wednesday - December 24, 2008
I'm not usually a big spender when it comes to iPhone games. Due possibly to past experiences on other phones, I'm often doubtful that any game playable on a cell phone would be worth $10. However, Electronic Arts' release of "SimCity" on the iPhone was enough to make me take a chance.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
HP has introduced a new application for the iPhone and iPod touch that leverages its diverse product line of inkjet printers. HP iPrint Photo is available for free at the
App Store. As the name suggests, it allows users to print photos from their Apple devices using a local WiFi network and a nearby printer.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
Way back in 1950, science fiction giant Ray Bradbury wrote a short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains," about a smart house that did just about everything for its resident family -- including cooking breakfast and keeping track of the bills. Unfortunately, all members of that family, along with all inhabitants of the town, were obliterated by a nuclear explosion. The house, though, kept right on going.
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Monday - December 22, 2008
A wall here, a door there. A sunroom stretching out from the back of the house, just so. Recessed lighting in the kitchen. A custom-designed fireplace in the living room. And outside, a deck, a curving walkway, and a strategic planting of a few yews and Japanese maples. If playing with such details of home, interior and landscape design sounds like a good time to you, you're not alone.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Shopping online for DVDs, CDs, books or video games makes it easy to do a fair amount of research before you click "buy." Reviews, Wikipedia entries and price comparisons are all within arm's reach, so if you stumble upon something completely new, you can find out a lot about it before deciding whether or not to pay for it.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Apple has released its latest update for Mac OS X, bringing the version numbers up to 10.5.6. Depending on a user's destination Mac, the update ranges from 190 MB or so up to a staggering 668 MB "combo" update, which tends to be used in organizations that plan to update multiple different Macs. The update includes dozens of general operating system fixes that enhance stability, compatibility and security.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
There was a slight kerfuffle in Mac-land as December began, when Apple released -- and then withdrew -- a technical note suggesting that Macintosh owners should get and use multiple versions of anti-virus software to protect their systems. The "KnowledgeBase" article was removed from Apple's online services within 24 hours of its gaining media attention.
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Monday - December 15, 2008
Microsoft has released its first application for the Apple iPhone. While this news may be somewhat surprising on its own, there's an even bigger surprise: The app has been made available for the iPhone before it's been made available for Microsoft Windows Mobile-based devices. The app is Seadragon Mobile, and it lets iPhone users browse super-large giga-pixel images on an iPhone screen.
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