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- The debacle of the BBC's iPlayer
- Tim Anderson has a writeup of his experience with the BBCs new iPlayer and it isn't pretty. If you aren't familiar with the iPlayer, it's a desktop player that the BBC rolled out to allow users to watch BBC programming up to 7 days after the air date. All in...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Lots of motivation for creating rich internet applications
- Matt Voerman, a colleague of mine at Adobe has been running a series titled RIA Motivators where he dissects the reasoning behind wanting to create rich internet applications. This is something I think a lot of people are still struggling with. James Governor has mentioned often that he likes del.icio.us...
- Tags: User Interface, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- The desktop OS will still matter, just not which one
- There is some discussion today about the future of the operating system. Specifically, David Berlind and Zoli Erdos both raise the question of whether or not any desktop operating system will mater by 2010 when Windows 'Seven' ships. It's been a popular question but even at the speed with which...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Extending SalesForce.com and SOA with rich internet applications
- The team at Nitobi have been working on a contact management application that's built in Adobe AIR and hooks into the SalesForce.com API. They did it to show off some of their components but the actual demo is a good example of where rich internet applications can really start to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Rich Internet Applications, Rich Enterprise Applications, Ajax, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex
- I just caught that Bubblemark, which is quickly becoming the RIA benchmark source added a test for JavaFX. So now with the Bubblemark tool you have the source and the applications to compare a variety of RIA technologies. According to the post, JavaFX is really slow, but it's still in...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, Flex, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Where Microsoft benefits from the Rich Internet Application developer problem
- Rich Internet Application developer is kind of a loaded term. Youre not just writing code, you have to know how the interactions all fit together, and even if youre not creating design-side of the user interface, you often wear many hats as you build out the UI, wire the...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Should Rich Internet Applications be cross platform by definition?
- The RIA world is still kind of a wild west of ideas, and as a result of that people try to define what "Rich Internet Applications" are. I think thats great, and I dont expect to be the one who creates the definition, but I wanted to throw my two...
- Tags: RIA, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- yourminis - Widgets and a Rich Internet Application
- If you track the ever-profound blogosphere, you know that Widgets are the new black. In fact, on Monday there was even an entire conference to talk about the resurgence in Widgets - Widgets Live! The widget obsession is something that baffles me in many ways; Im not sure I...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Flash
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- The beginning of an era - Windows Presentation Foundation ships
- The .NET Framework 3.0 has been released which means that Windows Presentation Foundation is now fully available as a development platform for Rich Internet Applications. The .NET Framework blog has a list of the various downloads. If you use Vista when it comes out, the .NET Framework 3...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
Additional Resources
- iPhone gas application roundup
- On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup
- Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1
- The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.
- Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Diagnose your hard disks, free
- Hard drive acting kinda funny? Free application HDDScan is a utility that diagnoses your hard drive's ills. The app allows you to analyze drive temperatures, conduct S.M.A.R.T. tests, export and print reports to document changes in your hard drive's health, and works on ATA,...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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