Technology is improving at an amazing pace and it’s all we can do to keep up. So it angers me to no end when I encounter what I term “lazy development” in terms of content delivery. Let me explain.
Symbian’s New Web Tool Kit
The Symbian Foundation has announced the availability of its web application development toolkit for the open-source Symbian^3 mobile platform. The new platform allows programmers and web developers to augment their skills with the use of “just a few more JacaScript APIs” in order to access capabilities like contacts, camera, location etc. on a symbian powered handset.
According to a statement from the foundation, anyone who can create a web page can create an app for Symbian^3, as coders only need standard development tools including HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Watch Out: Copyright Lawsuit E-mail Scam
So I received an email from a very perceptive user the other day. The request was to look into a suspicious e-mail that accused this user of copyright infringement:
“To whom it may concern,
It has come to our attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. We have reserved all rights in the Work, which was first published in 2008, and we have registered the copyright.
Create and Link to articles without a menu in Joomla!
For Joomla! users, I am sure it is a little frustrating sometimes when you write an article and try to reference it with simple URL-friendly titles only to be greeted by a 404 not found error.
The iPad Hype: Much Ado About Nothing?
Apple Computers (yes, that is what it originally was) recently announced a new iPhone-like mobile computing device called the iPad. Unless you live in the most remote of Islands, I’m sure that is all you’ve heard or read about in the past week.
Astaro Releases Free Edition for Small Businesses
Astaro Corporation, a leading network security vendor, recently announced the launch of the Essential Firewall edition of its flagship security solution Astaro Security Gateway (ASG), available for free to all organizations worldwide. The Essential Firewall edition is claimed to include all the necessary functionality that all organizations need to secure their networks and operate a successful business, but we found some limitations.