Apr 22 2010

Flash on the iPhone is officially dead

Posted by Ade as Software

Apple released a new draft of their iPhone developer program license, and it contained the following clause: 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited). The thing is, Adobe has been, for a time, trying to find a way to bring Flash or ...

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Feb 03 2010

We can expect to see Symbian ^3 soon

Posted by Ade as Cellphones, News, Software

Nokia seems to be pushing ahead with Symbian even though rumors abound of Nokia's move to switch the entire N-Series from Symbian to Maemo. Right now, there's new of Nokia skipping development of Symbian ^2 so that they can go ahead and proceed with Symbian ^3. And the good news is that we might be able to see Symbian ^3 this year, as Nokia is aiming to release v3 by the third quarter of 2010! According to Digitimes: The Symbian version 4 is believed to be based on the Qt cross-platform application development framework developed by Trolltech, which Nokia acquired in June 2008, said industry sources. The Qt ...

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Dec 30 2009

Google Goggles: First Peek

Posted by Ade as Google, Handheld, Software, Sony Ericsson

If you need any more proof that Google Android is definitely going to step up to take the iPhone down, Google is coming out with Google Goggles. Okay, that product name kind of reminds me of a website that used to infect unsuspecting users with loads of malware, but trust me, Google Goggles is different. Way different. Google Goggles basically is mobile search taken to a different level. Instead of using words, use your Android phone's camera to take a picture, and Google Goggles will process and attempt to recognize the image, and will return relevant search results. Okay, since Google Goggles is still in its infancy, we're going to definitely run ...

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Nov 06 2009

S60 gapless playback for your music files with FolderPlay

Posted by Ade as Software

I've made the move of dumping my iPod (at least temporarily until the iPod touch gets a 100+ gig iteration) and put my music on my Nokia E63. It's got a decent playlist maker, a great equalizer (better than the iPod's I must say), it even supports audioscrobbling (with Mobbler), and carrying around one device instead of two saves me a bit of space. One disadvantage to using the built-in S60 player is that it doesn't support gapless playback. This usually isn't a problem, but when I'm playing an album such as Brian Wilson's SMiLE, it can get pretty annoying. Thank goodness there's FolderPlay for the S60. folderplay_001

FolderPlay is an audio application ...

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Aug 24 2009

Apple Snow Leopard ships this Friday: August 28, 2009

Posted by Andy as Apple, Software

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Apple Mac fans get ready, and make sure you have $29 to spare, because the next version of Mac OS X (version 10.6) codenamed Snow Leopard goes on sale this Friday, August 28.

If you're into Apple's Server operating systems, then Snow Leopard Server also goes on sale on that day.

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Aug 18 2009

Shazam being given away on Nokia’s Ovi Store

Posted by Andy as Music, Software

I've made no secret of my lackluster feelings towards Nokia's Ovi Store, which is supposed to make it easy and pleasurable to find applications for Nokia cellphones like the new N97, but I do think the Shazam music discovery software is worth pushing, so I'll let this one through.

After all, Shazam is available on most other mobile devices, including the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android phones, so it's about time Nokia got some of the love.

Until 30th November, and purely on a first-come-first-served basis, Shazam will be free to download from the Ovi Store.

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Mar 10 2009

Laptop yells S.O.S.

Posted by Jim as Software

This is perhaps one of the sensible solutions out there to avoid laptop theft. Sure.. the usual laptop chain would at times suffice, but there are clever thieves who would bring industrial wire cutters to clip away. What is there to do then when you're yards or miles away from your precious machine? A company called "Front Door" has developed a "nuisance" application called "Retreiver" for laptop owners. It works by emitting an irritating alarm with phrases like "help I'm a stolen laptop" or "help I was stolen, bring me back to my owner". This occurs every 30 minutes, just enough time interval to prevent ...

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Mar 20 2008

Simple Accounting for the… Simple. :p

Posted by DummyGeekGurl as Mac, Software

I had always abhorred spreadsheet software; more so basic accounting. But it was not until I had started to live a life of my own did I realize that there is a reason why accounting is a cornerstone in the corporate world. Yet even though I needed to account for my budget, payments schedules, and all that dizzying “adult stuff.” I never, ever, ever could take to Microsoft Excel. Not even OpenOffice Calc could make me feel better about blank cells that would need for me to figure out how to make them tally up my entries.

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Mar 20 2008

SugarSync … Oh baby!

Posted by Jim as Software, Windows

The best sync program for Windows Users. I’ve stumbled upon this blog post from CNet blogs, talks about a sync program called “SugarSync”. Catchy name right? Well after reading the blog, I feel that it is rightfully named. For windows users who haven’t really had this easy tool, It does taste like sugar… stress free sugar… zero (!) as Coke and Pepsi would call them. Standard sync programs require both PCs to be turned on. SugarSync has something like a “clearing house” that accepts data from the online PC. Once the other PC goes online (even while the host is off-line), it gets the data from the “clearing house” and syncs it from there. Too cool ...

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Dec 21 2007

The Gimp: My Image Editor of Choice

Posted by DummyGeekGurl as Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

I had been doing a lot of twitter account setups because I wanted to have twitter accounts dedicated to the many blogs I’ve put up for AdSense monetization. So since when I was setting up my DummyGeekGurl twitter account, I had reached saturation point for tweaking the design, plus, I wanted the wallpaper background kick-butt in a big way, I decided to put off tweaking the design. That, and I was pretty sick over the past few days, only to find out that I may really have diabetes (type 2) now. But last night, I felt okay enough to make this kick-butt (in my own not-so-humble opinion) wallpaper for my DummyGeekGurl Twitter.

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