One of the advantages of any software going open-source is that in a short amount of time, you begin to see spin-off and forks, customized versions for all tastes. In less than a day after Google announced the availability of Chrome OS source, there were already builds which were floating around the internet. Since then we have seen many other build of Chrome OS become available. A build by "Hexxeh" trimmed down the space requirements of the OS -- which required at least a 4GB pendrive -- and made is possible for people with 1GB pendrives to test out the OS. We have also seen a build by Dell for their Mini 10v. Google might have intended for Chrome OS to be a lightweight operating system for netbooks, but the community need not restrict themselves to that. Now we are beginning...

During Adobe MAX this year, Adobe revealed a surprising new feature that was to come with Flash CS5, the ability to target the iPhone. While Apple seems to have declined to work with Adobe to bring the Flash Player to the iPhone OS, Adobe found a way around it. It is important to note that Flash content will still not work on the iPhone browser as there continues to be no version of Flash Player for the iPhone. However what will be possible come Flash CS5 is the ability to create native iPhone application from the Flash IDE. A new tutorial by Lee Brimelow -- who is a Platform Evangelist for Flash, Flex, and AIR at Adobe -- is now available at gotoandlearn.com which showcases the workflow for creating iPhone application in Flash CS5, and demonstrated a simple application which uses uses...

In Google's continuing effort to speed up each and every part of your internet experience, Google has now launched it's own DNS service. The new service allows you to use Google specified DNS servers to speed up you internet access by resolving names faster.DNS, or Domain Name System servers have the important job of mapping names to actual internet addresses. For example, when you enter http://microsoft.com the microsoft.com bit is the domain name of the website. Your browser does not directly know which server on the internet is supposed to provide content for this website. This is where DNS resolution comes in, DNS servers act like telephone directories, where instead of finding a telephone number from a given person's name, you fine an IP address from a given domain name. All this...