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| Posted on: May 10, 2012 23:03:22 IST |
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It seems Microsoft is making it difficult for third parties to create browsers for Windows 8 tablets. A blog post on Mozilla’s website claims that Firefox will not be able to bring a proper version of Firefox to Windows 8 tablets due to restrictions by Microsoft. Since then Google has also chimed in with the same concerns.Restrictions on tablet platforms aren’t unheard of, but this move is still a little odd. It is due to restrictions on iOS devices that the only browsers available for it use WebKit, so why is Mozilla concerned about Windows tablets but not the iPad? Turns out there are some very good reasons. Before we go into those, let us see how these restriction affect Firefox in the first place.Two KindsIt is well known by now that there will be two kinds of...
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| Posted on: May 10, 2012 18:06:20 IST |
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Even as Google and Oracle are involved in patent litigation over the use of Java in Android, Xamarin showcases an experimental version of Android build on C# rather than Java.Xamarin is the company currently working on Mono, an open source toolkit that is compatible with Microsoft’s .NET Framework. Xamarin claims that their implementation of the .NET runtime is more mature and performant than Android Dalvik JVM. Xamarin created tools for creating Android and iOS applications using .NET and C#, however they also decided to experiment with the possibility of going much deeper and completely replacing the use of Java on Android with C# instead. This has lead to what they now call the XobotOS.Since Android uses Java heavily, this was no easy task, and Xamarin used automatic,...
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| Posted on: May 05, 2012 21:33:09 IST |
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Tizen is now the child of three parent distributions; Maemo, Moblin, which merged to form MeeGo, and bada, Samsung’s own mobile OS. The pressure on this OS created by giants is now quite high.After a long convoluted history, as Tizen stands now, it is a mobile operating system that is focussed on web applications — although it is possible to create native applications for Tizen. It is similar in many ways to Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko mobile OS.Now we have the first release of the Tizen SDK and source code, both of which can be downloaded from the Tizen websiteThe Tizen SDK includes an IDE for developing Tizen applications, the SDK framework itself and an emulator for testing Tizen applications. Like most other mobile SDKs, the Tizen SDK includes QEMU, an open source...
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| Posted on: May 05, 2012 19:30:26 IST |
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For its PlayBook tablet device, RIM decided to create an entirely new operating system rather than adapt its mobile OS. The new tablet OS was based on the QNX real-time embedded OS. Now with the release of the BlackBerry 10 OS, the same QNX-based core will now power their mobiles as well.What the new OS offers doesn’t seem to be far from what we have come to expect from the other popular modern mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS. RIM is effectively playing catch up. How successful they are, and whether this will be enough, only time will tell.What is interesting about this new OS is the new Cascades SDK that RIM offers for developing for the BlackBerry. It seems that the new SDK is based on the cross-platform Qt toolkit. Now Qt has effectively gained...
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| Posted on: Apr 30, 2012 05:14:30 IST |
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There is no dearth of free and paid presentation tools available today. From the tried and tested PowerPoint to the unique Prezi. There are a number of free, and paid, presentation solutions out there, such as Google Docs, SlideRocket, and Zoho Show, however impress.js is something different. It is not a software for visually creating presentations, rather it is a presentation “framework” that utilizes new browser standards such as CSS3 transforms and transitions to create presentations. If you ever wanted to make unique presentations that ooze with style, impress.js is the tool for you.Of course since impress.js is no visual design tool, you need to be quite familiar with HTML and CSS in order to make any kind of presentation using it. This also means that your...
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| Posted on: Apr 15, 2012 09:58:17 IST |
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jQuery Mobile is a powerful jQuery-based framework for building websites for mobile devices. It is quite impressive in that it allows one to create a fully interactive experience with integrated Ajax support, navigation theming etc. without writing any code at all. Rather one can build quite powerful interfaces using just HTML5 with information about the presentation and interaction added as data attributes.The latest release of jQuery Mobile 1.1.0 brings a number of improvements to the framework, particularly in the areas of toolbars and animations.With this release, jQuery Mobile uses the much more elegant position:fixed CSS property to enabled fixed toolbars rather than the older buggy JavaScript-based solution. While this new approach doesn’t work on all platforms...
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| Posted on: Apr 15, 2012 07:57:53 IST |
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Adobe recently released a new tool called Adobe Shadow, that make it easy to test web applications and sites across a spectrum of devices.The Adobe Shadow tool has multiple components, one running on your mobile device, on your computer, and one integrated in your browser — currently only Chrome is supported. It allows you to link multiple devices (iOS or Android) running the Adobe Shadow application with a computer, and offers synchronized browsing between these devices. So as you open a page on your desktop / laptop browser, it opens on all linked devices. This has obvious benefits while testing applications.Adobe Shadow is currently an Adobe Labs technology, which means that while it has been released for the public to play it, it is still in development, and public...
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| Posted on: Apr 15, 2012 07:04:08 IST |
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OpenOffice isn’t the only open source office suite around, Calligra has nowreleased a stable version.Calligra is a descendent of the KOffice suite which is part of KDE’s collection of software. Like KDE it was based on Qt and was open source and free. Calligra is essentially a continuation of KOffice, in fact the previous stable release was KOffice 2.3.Which isn’t to say that this is a minor release. Over two years in the making, Calligra comes with a number of new features, and new user interfaces that make it an exciting release.First of all, there a number of new applications added to the suite in this release; a diagramming application called Flow, and a note-taking application called Braindump are entirely new. Secondly, the text layout engine has been...
