Muse-like Tools for Fast Website Development
Adobe’s new Muse website design tool has garnered attention as Adobe invades the website design market. The tool has some real attractive features but also some big gaps as seen in the preview here. So this post looks at two tools that have occupied the same space and their features. First, there is Xara Web […]
Adobe’s new Muse: Website Code Generation
Adobe has been given a death notice by Steve Jobs – improve or die with a little help from Cupertino. Adobe appears to be taking that message seriously with a rash of improvements to the Flash Player, the Flex+ Air development system, the new Edge HTML Animator, the more agile yearly update schedule for most of […]
Java as a Legacy Language
Can you believe that Java has become a legacy language? The writing has been on the wall – attacked early and viciously by Redmond after Bill Gates and company reversed themselves and instead out innovating Sun’s Java; they attempted to kill it by not updating the JVM on Windows and creating a rival .NET runtime [CLR] […]
Who Has The Biggest Tech Money Bags – Update
Update-I missed some big players in the US Tech Sector The Google Buyout of Motorola is all the news in the Financial Press; so here is the top 3 IT Money Bags: 1)Microsoft – $52.8B – not yet showing? $8.5B for Skype 2)Cisco – $43.4B 3)Apple – $28.4B 4)Google – $38.1B – not yet showing […]
Why Google Bought Motorola – Day Later Update
Well right off the mark, TheOpenSourcery.com got the principl reasons for the buyout – right on Denmark. See here – 1)Google is going to operate the company as is and not bring Mototrola into the Google fold – this means minimal disruptions and has later advantages; See here – 2)Google has got its major other […]
Why Google Bought Motorola
Motorola Atrix 4G The initial reaction of the stock markets to Google buyout of Mototrola Mobility was a 3% plunge in Google stock value. But ye Editor thinks the buy makes a lot of sense for Google for the following reasons: 1)Google is going to operate the company as is and not bring Mototrola into […]
IBM Missing from Forbes List of Top 100 Innovators
There is a great hue and cry that IBM was not on the recent Forbes list of top 100 US innovators. eWeek led the protest among IT publications – citing the treasure trove of patents, the great inventions of a decade ago, and the promise of Watson and other new patents. And that is the […]
HTML5 Evangelism: Adobes The Expressive Web
What might of gotten lost in Adobe’ s announcement of its HTML5 development Tool, Edge, was the equally important release of Adobe’s HTML5 Evangelism site, The Expressive Web. Adobe appears determined to seize the lead in HTML5 development. As the screen shot below shows the Expressive Web is certainly HTML5 snazzy. The Expressive Web has a […]
HTML5 Developer Tool: Adobe Edge
Adobe Edge HTML5 Animation Tool Adobe has just made two significant announcements this week on its support for HTML5. First, there is the new HTML5 tutorial and evangelism site, The expressive Web, which is chock full of examples of HTML5 +CSS3 code with comments, links, and Complimentary resources – see here for a review. Next, […]
Whither Goes Adobe?
Adobe finds itself in a dangerous place. The most popular platform for its graphics software, Mac OS/X, is becoming more hostile to Adobe software as Apple and Steve Jobs wage what appears to be a self-fulfilling war against Adobe. For examples, Adobe Flash is unfairly banned from iOS and thus iPad, iPod, iPhone; Adobe Photoshop, […]
With the Help of Apple, Windows Gets Another Reprieve
Apple has been very clever in the release of its new Macs. They are creating a PR perfect storm:1)release of astoundingly good quarterly results with annual sales rates now dwarfing Microsofts and many of the other IT pindustry players like Dell, IBM, and HP, 2)annoucment of the new Mac laptops and MacMini with first hints of […]
The OS Mess
The primary reason ye Editor is NOT an admirer of Apple and Steve Jobs is his relentless drive to establish a monopoly equal to or greater than Bill Gates’ Microsoft. Steve is out to prove that 30 years ago, he was the real deal, the real innovator in personal computing – and Bill …. Bill […]
HTML5 Web Browsers:Benchmarks and Market Share
HTML5 is rapidly coming of age as a)the major browser vendors move to implement more of HTML5 and b)Web developers, especially for mobiles, add more HTML5 features. So theOpenSourcery will be producing a quarterly report on the latest HTML5 Web Browser performance and market share numbers. Also commentary on Web Development related to the browsers […]
Bing and Baidu Hookup
A year ago January Google got hit with high caliber hack attacks from Chinese sources rumored to be Baidu and a regional university know for its hacking program. Steve Ballmer pooh-poohed and came to the rescue of the Chinese saying that Microsoft would be glad to replace Google with Bing as a major player in […]
jQuery Trends and Resources
The Chart of JavaScript usage on top 1 million websites tells the story jQuery has over the past 5 years become the essential JavaScript framework to know. Yes, there are many other good JavaScript frameworks like DHTMLx, EXTjs, mootools, and dojo/dijit among many others. But jQuery has 5 characteristics which set it apart from other […]
Swiffy: Google’s Flash to HTML5 Converter
Since Larry Page took over at Google, the Googleplex appears to be trying to do a remake of the movie The Fast and the Furious. Google Plus, Google Sites for Mobile and now Swiffy, “Swiffy converts SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player.” -all of this […]
Google Plus – Best Software of 2011
Google Plus/Google+ has provoked a lot reactions among Social Media users. After all Google+ is deemed the best challenger to Facebook for all those consumer eyeballs [700 million worldwide and growing for Facebook]and Web time [a Facebook session average 4-5 times longer than a Google session].Yet ye Editor has been cagey after the disasters that were […]
Google Apps Versus Microsoft Office 365
Two reviews catch the changed landscape for Microsoft in the Cloud. Information Week sees Google Apps ahead of Office 365 on 4 telling counts, Gartner is more cautious about the features but sees some problems; and the Guardian sees improved features over BPOS, the proceeding Microsoft Office Suite available on the Web. But no one clearly answers […]
The Making of Google Plus
If you think like ye Editor that Google Plus is a breakthrough product just awaiting final polish and trim; then you will want to read Steven Levy’s article at Wired on the baking/making of Google Plus.
Google Plus is ++
Dave Winer is yawning at Google Plus, the new social sharing service offering from Mountain View[what happens to Google’s Orkut??]. Dave says it is just a personal peeve between Google top brass and Facebook top brass. Ye Editor has moved from MySpace to Flickr to Fotki to Facebook never quite satisfied among existing Web/Social Sharing […]
Whose Post PC-Era?
Steve Jobs and Apple are getting headline stories about the declaration of the Post PC Era; but the reality is that Post PC era started at least 10 years ago. The catalyst has been the fact that Microsoft with its ironclad monopoly wiped out a creative ecosystem around the PC [just look at the software […]
Chromebook is a Miss by Google
Google’s CEO Larry Page is famous for saying that Google prides itself on misses as well as hits. Well Larry has a big ChromeOS/Chromebook miss on his hands. In the past year, ye Editor has found himself disagreeing with MarketWatch’s John Dvorak on a number of his editorials. But on his recent review of Google’s […]
Very Good Apple Mac OS/X Lion Is Hobbled
Okay lets get the bad news off ye Editor’s chest – a very good update to Apple’s Mac OS/X is hobbled by the fact that multi-touch and gestures are still not brought to the Mac’s full screen. They are still confined to the trackpad and “magic mice”. Steve Jobs insists that touch screen operations would […]
Apple iPad Visualized in 1994
I vaguely remember this idea being demoed at Comdex or some other IT convention or presentation: And of course there was Apple’s many tries at portable computing devices during the 1990’s as described in this also precocious report: Apple has a miserable track record in consumer electronics outside of computers — and it’s not for […]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Update
This blog has been predicting great things for the the Asus Eee Pad Transformer – see our April 17th review which rates the machine as the best dockable tablet. Now the machine has become available on April 25th in the US and canada for $399.99 for the tablet only 16GB version. And as noted on […]
Android/Linux Triumph II
Update: WSJ’s All things Digital has a story in which Nielsen not only confirms Android ascendancy as the number one smartphone OS in the US but also indicates that Android has taken a commanding 50% lead in new buyers intentions: Here is what John Paczkowski at All things Digital noted about the trend: The mercurial […]
New Look for Keep an Open Eye…
If you are a loyal reader, you will notice a dramatic styling change to Keep an Open Eye Eye, Sir. There are three motivations for these changes. First, the change is designed make the blog more readable through slightly larger type plus a wider and more comfortable line spacing. Second, the change is also to accommodate using […]
The Best Dockable Tablet: Asus Eee Pad Transformer
Readers may know that ye Editor has been looking for a dockable tablet and it is fitting that Asus [creators of the Eee Linux light and portable Netbook phenomena of 4 years ago] are the first to bring the dockable form factor to fruition with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. This is a brilliant naming […]
A Look at Scala
As a programmer who cut his teeth on Assembler [various MT4,UR,HEAD versions] and Fortran, ye Editor is not fond of new programming languages. Having wondered how the Tower of Babel produced so many spoken languages, Babel must have been Ancient Academia where NIH-Not Invented Here ruled the roost and thus so many tongues proliferated. And […]
Is There a Solar-ThinFilm Recharging Future?
WYSIPS-What You See Is PhotoVoltaic Source is a French start-up which appraently has a major breakthrough for solar power to electronic devices. The lenticular skin is transparent but generates serious power for directly charging anything electronic from smartphones to GPS systems. because the film is not only transparent but very thin and highly flexible it […]
4G Performance: 3 Hoaxes vs 1 Real Deal
A number of benchmark test have just become available on the performance of 4G networks in the US. And the major vendors are all tested – AT+T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. And the results speak much louder than any press releases or WormTongue Mobile Phone Company advertisements. There is the real deal , Verizon, and […]
Google Gmail Motion Mocks Microsoft Kinect
After taking a slap on the face from Microsoft with Redmond’s antitrust complaint yesterday, , Google returns fire with its superior GMail Motion on April 1. The Redmond UI experts who are working feverishly on a Wii to get Kinect into the Windows UI will be weeping and gnashing their teeth – or just LOLing […]
Switching to Chrome Browser from Firefox
The strip above tells a good part of the reason this Web Developer is switching. First important note, ye Editor barely bothers to use any Firefox or Chrome extensions/plugins nor Firefox themes – so loyalty is not effected by these important factors in favor of Firefox. But during any day there is a gravitational pull […]
Steve Jobs Ballmer
Steve Jobs Ballmer look more and more like twins separated at birth or highly sympathetic fellow travelers. Look at the evidence. Both have tried to kill Java. Steve, oops, Steve J has banned Java from iOS4 and is now saying Apple’s Java support on Mac OS/X is deprecated and will be subject to termination. Hey who uses Java on […]
Waiting for a Dockable Tablet Phone
With the launch of the iPad 2 and Motorola Xoom the tablet wars are starting to really heat up. Just check out the stridency of the comments on Engadget. And despite my lust for GarageBand on the iPad2 or the GPS Navgation on the Motorola Xoom, ye Editor is still not budging. I want my […]
Chrome Debugger Overview
Lurking in the bowels of the Chrome browser is a JavaScript Debugger which is as as good as Firebug for Firefox or the Visual Studio tool in IE8 and IE9 if not better. CTRL+SHIFT+J is the key shortcut to use to get at the debugger. Or use the Tool Icon + Tools + JavaScript Console. […]
Adobe Wallaby Benchmarks
Adobe Wallaby is an Air app that converts Adobe .FLA files into a HTML5 group of files . The idea is another workaround to get from .FLA into acceptable code for Apple’s iOS4 and thus around the Steve Jobs blockade on Flash on his iDevices[Wallaby does nothing about the Jobs Java ban]. Having not a […]
Adobe on SW Development Fastrack
Adobe is on a fasttrack, signs of an Agile approach to development similar to Google. Here are 4 announcements indicative of that fast turnaround approach: 1)after just releasing Flash Player 10.2, Flash Player 10.3 is in beta with a number of refinements for cloud service use and user configuration of the player; 2)after promising in […]
WebOS on all HP PCs
Leo Apotheker, the new CEO of HP announced yesterday that all HP PCs will be loaded with webOS – not just HP tablets and smartphones. Note that webOS will defer to Windows 7 in the case of desktop PCs and laptops. Nonetheless, this is marks two important milestones: 1)the continued cracking of the Windows PC […]
Complete Specs – Apple iPad2 vs HP TouchPad vs Motorola Xoom
Steve Jobs said today the launch of the iPad 2 along with latest iPhone 4 and iTouch developments signals the full flowering of the post-PC era. Notably the idea of post-PC era was made by Steve at the beginning and emphasized again at the end of the presentation. And there is solid substance to the […]
Steve Jobs Post-PC Era:The Computing Divides
Steve Jobs in his announcement of the Apple iPad 2 emphasized that client computing has reached a Post-PC era. In fact, Jobs cited the complete product line of Apple iDevices as leading the way into the new Post-PC era of computing . Nowhere has this Computing Divide of the Post-PC Era been made more apparent than in a […]
New WordPress 3.1
The updated WordPress 3.1 is out and adds a lot of capabilities which will delight developers – yes, its one of those behind the UI screens updates as seen in the screenshot below: WordPress users who have updated to WordPress 2.9 will have an easy install/update to 3.1 [one of the key competitive advantages of […]
Bing vs Google Search
For all you Mad Magazine fans, Spy vs Spy is alive and well in the Search business with Microsoft Bing vs Google Search. Bing started it off with a fast and snappy background images and a sidebar of menu items. Google responded by matching that sidebar with more easily accessible Google-wide as well as search […]
Did IBMs Watson Cheat?
Most assuredly Watson … or rather its IBM masters cheated. IBM got the dispensation that Watson did not have to read or listen to the clues as Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter did. Understanding a spoken question is no mean feat -as viewers see in the annual National Spelling Bee. In fact IBM used to have […]
Technical Story: Best Chart of US Federal Budget
The NYTimes has done it again- produced the best online graphic of the US Budget available anywhere. And the Times did it one day after the release of the budget proposal by the White House. Even more interesting is how they did it. This graphic tells the story of the budget in 6 ways [click on […]
New Operating Systems Birth Pangs
Twenty Years after Windows emergence as the number one Personal Computer Operating System, who would have guessed that their would be birth pangs for new PC OSes? But in loud headlines you have all the detailed scream and angst. Mobile connected devices with ever higher battery life and CPU power[Quad core chips are coming to […]
Mobile Tablet Race Update for iPad2
2010 was supposed to be the Year of the Tablet. 2011 will truly be the year of the tablet as a)Apple and Steve Jobs have put their imprimatur on tablets with the iPad and its 15million unit sales; b)there is a dirty dozen IT players that don’t want to be iPhone-ed out of the market; […]
Tableizer: Spreadsheet Data to HTML
Tableizer is a online conversion utility that converts Excel, iCalc, OpenOffice and other spreadsheet data into a HTML table. It is online and dead dsimple to do. Just select and copy the data you want [including column and row headers as desired] using CTRL+C or your spreadsheets copy function and then paste into the Tableizer […]
Customizable Touchbook: Acer Iconia’s Dual Screen Magic
In our striptease reveal of the the Motion CL900 ye Editor implied that dockable tablets get no respect; but lets amend that to dockable tablets running Windows 7 get no respect. So what is Acer doing with one of the most innovative tablet/laptops seen on the market in the last 3-5 years? The Acer Iconia […]
The Beastly Browser Market
Depending on who is doing the counting Microsoft’s IE Browser is starting to drop below 50% market share for all its versions – IE9, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5. This has been long overdue since IE has been one of the worst browsers for the past 8++ years. Only now does IE9 comes close to […]