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Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, January 05, 2007

Hey, look at this, the first UDD of the new year. Im sorry Ive been slacking this week with these but Ive been swamped with work. I still have a lot of fun doing them so hopefully you enjoy a few of the links from time to time. ...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flex, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Universal Desktop Daily, Rich Media, Mix07, WPF

Blog posts 2007-01-05

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 22, 2006

Richard Leggett has an excellent breakdown of Flash and WPF/E. Well worth checking out Tony MacDonell adds two more good predictions to my earlier post about 10 predictions for RIAs in 2007. Marco asks whether Microsoft is betting on .NET or JavaScript and brings up the Sidebar and WPF/E....

Tags: .NET, Scripting languages, Application servers, WPF/E

Blog posts 2006-12-22

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, December 21, 2006

Ted Patrick has put together a Flickr account that shows off a bunch of applications written in Flex. I think this is a great way to showcase applications, especially those that are behind the firewall. If youre curious what you can do with Flex this is a pretty impressive...

Tags: Universal Desktop Daily, Flex, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Steve Borsch has an interesting post about Assembling a Rich Internet Application. Steves got an excellent blog and I always enjoy it when he talks about RIAs. Thanks to John Dowdell for the link. TechCrunch has some info on Gotuits new service which allows users to "cut and tag...

Tags: RIA, Microsoft .NET, WebORB Blog, Gotuit, Rich Media, Universal Desktop Daily, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, December 7, 2006

Update: Its Thursday today, not Wednesday. Im trying to squeeze extra days out of the week. Ive been remiss in my UDDs and while Ive been silent people building RIAs seem to have gotten much bigger spurred by the release of WPF/E on Monday. Its great to see...

Tags: Ive, WPF/E, SAP, Universal Desktop Daily, Ajax, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Flash, Flex, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-07

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 1, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 1, 2006Chines openlaszlo community pays great attention to your reportswe're always watching your blogs, and translating your article about latest indurstry news to chinese, wish your blog keep updated every day and bring more surprising to us!thank you.lwz7512 from beijingwww.openria.cn

Tags: Blogging, Friday December 1, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop

Discussion threads 2006-12-01

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 21, 2006

There is a beta 2 version up for the Linux version of the Flash Player which fixes some audio issues. Emmy Huang, Mike Melanson and Tinic Uro all have information. There is an Apollo session online by Luis Polanco, Sr. Apollo Product Manager that gives some interesting information on...

Tags: Fireworks, Apollo

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006Laurence Moroney, I presumeIt didn't take long for Laurence Moroney from Mainsoft to get blogging from the MS cammpus.From http://www.philotic.com/blog/?p=97 to http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2006/11/15/welcome-to-web-next.aspx.Sounds like MS could be serious about cross platform development.Yes, that's me...But it would be innaccurate to say that I am from...

Tags: Blogging, Web browsers, Thursday November 16, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-11-19

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006

I saw that we have a new Microsoft blog, Web.Next which will cover the next generation of Microsoft technologies starting with WPF/E. From the post: "I know that there are a lot of questions on this technology, and there isnt a lot that I can talk about right now...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Universal Desktop Daily, Microsoft Corp., Mono

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Sorry Im late this morning, but hopefully better late than never. I just have a few quick items A new version of Flash Player 9 has been released. This supports full screen mode, includes Windows Vista support, and has some bug fixes. A good post by John...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flex, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation, Universal Desktop Daily

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 14, 2006

A few random items from the past few days. Im skipping the graphic for tonight because Im in a hurry, but it will be back tomorrow. Thomas Nicholls pointed me to this walkthrough to get set up using OpenLaszlo over on XML.com. Its a pretty thorough step-by-step and...

Tags: Instant messaging, Blogging, Adobe Connect, mobile-Web

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 7, 2006WidgetsI think they work well as an adjunct to web apps - I used 37 Signals 'TaDa List' through both it's web interface and a desktop widget - ditto ebay the widget beats logging into ebay to track my auctions. Basically, I think...

Tags: Channel management, Tuesday November 7, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop, Widget

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Flash Player 9 penetration statistics are out. It is at 35.9% in the "mature markets" which, according to Emmy Huang, is on pace with Flash Player 8 (which is at 89.1%). I expected this number to be higher, because MySpace began requiring FlashPlayer 9 for all of their visitors....

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Apollo, Kevin Lynch, Atlas, Ajax, Universal Desktop Daily

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 2, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 2, 2006Google ...[url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=375]... may be inching towards using RIAs.[/url]RE: Google ...I saw this, and it's pretty cool. I need to get more info, but good for Google!

Tags: Thursday November 2, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, October 17, 2006Janus looks cool..as long as your creating for Windows. It sounds like a great solution for a controlled environment intranet and using .net as the engine will definitely give it power. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.Cell phone video editingI never thought about...

Tags: Corporate communications, Cellular phones, Tuesday October 17, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

Universal Desktop Daily - Monday, October 16, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Monday, October 16, 2006Read/Write Web?Since the dawn of computing there have been essentially four operations that the programmer needs to consider - create, read, update, and delete CRUD. It's the one thing I think is missing from Ted's summary - the read/write web. As...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Office, Monday October 16, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop, Ted, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-16

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, September 19, 2006AdobePlease take care of macromedia's products!http://opendomain.blogspot.com/NYTimes ReaderIt worked for me after I uninstalled all the previous CTP versions of WinFX (.NET 3). Including the apps that depended on it.RE: AdobeI think they're doing a pretty good job of that. Which products are...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Tuesday September 19, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily

Discussion threads 2006-09-19

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, September 8th, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, September 8th, 2006Nice round-upThese are good summaries. This blog is becoming the 'BrowserWatch' of the RIA world. BTW - spelling mistake. Persueing == Pursuing.RE: Nice round-upJoe, thanks for the comment and the fix. I knew it was kind of dangerous to be doing...

Tags: Friday September, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop

Discussion threads 2006-09-08

Additional Resources

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 (Windows)

Visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 is a powerful tool for managing and accessing multiple servers and desktops. It is simple to administer Windows, Citrix, Linux/UNIX and Macintosh systems via the integrated connection protocol. vRD2010 is a command and control center, where you can drive any type of system remotely. We call...

Tags: Server, Tool, Visionapp, Visionapp Remote Desktop 2010, vRD2010, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-20