Posted by on under snap judgment, lifehacker, siblings, gadget, new features, developers |

Our gadget-obsessed siblings at Gizmodo got a chance to walk through Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference, highlighting a heaping serving of nice new features. Keep reading for a quick...
Tagi: snap judgment, lifehacker, siblings, gadget, new features, developers
Posted by on under aggressive business, wall street journal, business tactics, school computers, slashdot, poor countries, wall street, operating system, presence, linux, microsoft, africa |

ThousandStars writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft has been making a concerted effort to promote Windows in Africa, pushing Windows over Linux in very poor countries that haven't been locked into a single operating system. From the article: 'To that end, it has established a presence in 13 countries, donated Windows for thousands of school computers, and funded programs for entrepreneurs and the young. It also has used aggressive business tactics, some aimed at its biggest threat in the region: Linux ...'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


Tagi: aggressive business, wall street journal, business tactics, school computers, slashdot, poor countries, wall street, operating system, presence, linux, microsoft, africa
Posted by on under phes, creatis, mixed blessing, new bug, phe, bug fixes, sdk, firmware, new features, peoe, developers |


Okay, so I've finished my preliminary examination of the iPhone 1.1.4 firmware. And what's new?
Bug fixes. Like three of them. No new features, no new apps, nothing.
Not even any significant changes that would render the current jailbreak methods unusable.
So it looks like the official iPhone SDK and the hacked SDK will live in harmony, at least to begin with. That seems like a mixed blessing - on the one hand we will have developers and iPhone users remaining free to do with their phones as they wish - something I am very passionate about.
However, it will likely also mark the rise of the market for pirated iPhone applications - bought through iTunes, then copied off using one of the many ways to get files off the phone. Then shared through various channels, as usual.
I for one am hoping that the developers of paid applications will get their dues - for people like myself who make a living off of their creations it's...
Read the rest of this post
Tagi: phes, creatis, mixed blessing, new bug, phe, bug fixes, sdk, firmware, new features, peoe, developers
Posted by noreply@blogger.com (Zibri) on under th project, 3g, panorama, developers |


We're near to the event everyone is expecting.As soon as the final 2.0 version will be outI will start working on it.Shortly after receiving my 3G iPhoneI will also start working on it.If you upgrade before I say so, please don'tcome here crying for help.It will also be useless to upgrade to 2.0 untilall developers will recompile and test their applications.If you speak italian you might want tocheck http://it.ziphone.org/(check the second Panorama link)Keep donating if you want ZiPhone to be free.Till now, only 1/1000 donated.And I hereby thank whoever did or helpedthis project (like the translators).Namaste!Zibri
Tagi: th project, 3g, panorama, developers
Posted by on under iphe, spicy chicken, user interface, rsbt, apps, peoe, developers |

Customize 2.0
From the developers who brought us such useful apps as DockSwap, rSBT, and iStudy, the people at The Spicy Chicken now unveil their greatest app yet: Customize 2.0.
Customize 2.0, a revamped version of Customize 1.0, integrates all of the most revolutionary features in iPhone and iPod Touch User-Interface tweak-ability. The newest version of this [...]
Tagi: iphe, spicy chicken, user interface, rsbt, apps, peoe, developers