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Apple iGroups—social networking or yuppie club?
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Linux Magazine, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Android, iPhone, Palm on March 29, 2010
Imagine, a single provider for your hardware, your software, and even your friends. I think Apple may have missed their calling — they should have gotten into the healthcare debate! That's how I feel after reviewing some materials on Apple's iGroups offering. Read more @ Linux Magazine
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Just how valuable is Titanium?
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Linux Magazine, Software Development, Technology, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Windows on March 08, 2010
Mobile development continues to move at break-neck speed. VC backed startup Appcelerator has just announced version 1.0 of their Titanium development environment which allows developers to create applications for multiple platforms including Mac, Linux, Windows, iPhone and Android. All development is done via "web technologies" such as JavaScript and CSS. They have recently updated their tools to move beyond the "use WebKit" for everything model to actually translate javascript code into native code. I take a closer look at Titanium and the path taken to get there in the market in this week's installment of the Upward Mobility column @ Linux Magazine.
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Tired of lugging your laptop? Me too. Some day, we won’t have to
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Fun, Linux Magazine, Technology, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Windows on December 22, 2009
I am presently putting (back) together my day to day computing environment. Fortunately for me, my Dell laptop gave up the ghost just a few weeks outside of its warranty. It really didn't owe me anything -- its taken a beating and many many miles in the past three years, one month and 17 days.. but who's counting? I wish I could just plug my phone into my keyboard and mouse... You guessed it, that is the topic of this week's Linux Magazine Upwardly Mobile column.
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
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Palm continues to innovate
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Software Development, Technology, Palm on December 18, 2009
Palm just announced the availability of the beta their Ares development environment for webOS. In a word: "WOW". It is such an improvement over the Eclipse environment. I sure hope Palm gets some traction, because this environment has got some real potential. I spent just a few minutes dragging controls from the palette -- very cool. The only problem I have seen so far is that the new scene I created was not added automagically to sources.json. That's what betas are for, right? Learn more here.
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Mobile Web Application Development
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Linux Magazine, Software Development, Technology, Android, iPhone, Palm on November 24, 2009
I have been doing a bit of mobile web development of late for iPhone, Android and Palm webOS. I wrote about it over at Linux Magazine this week.
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Customizing BlackBerry Applications
Posted by: Frank Ableson in C12, Linux Magazine, Software Development, Technology, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm on November 18, 2009
This week's Upwardly Mobile column at Linux Magazine demonstrates a simple, yet powerful technique of extending the built-in BlackBerry applications with custom menus. We use this technique for some of our client's applications with success.
BlackBerry is perhaps not the most glamourous device, but it is the choice of long-time mobile "power users". Virtually everyone in my C12 group carries a BlackBerry, though there is at least one confirmed iPhone sighting -- but that is excusable as that fellow's company actually does some work with iPhone related hardware.
iPhone, Android, BlackBerry -- all viable and growing platforms. Palm... that is another story. They just launched the Pixi. Hopefully it proves magical for them to win the right to proceed to the next product. Time will tell -- most likely the Christmas shopping season this year.
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Will fragmentation kill Android, or will it help Android over-take the iPhone
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Linux Magazine, Technology, Android, iPhone, Palm on November 10, 2009
I wrote a piece for this week's Upwardly Mobile column @ Linux Magazine that has gotten under the skin of some readers. Android just made its 2.0, Verizon and Motorola debut this week with the launch of the Droid device. Aside from a rather non-original name, the device looks pretty promising.
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HTML5 Databases - storing data in the browser
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Linux Magazine, Software Development, Technology, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm on October 26, 2009
One of the big challenges with web applications over the years has been the inability to store data locally -- until now. The HTML5 Database object is an SQL based database that can be used from within the Javascript environment. I have written an article for Linux Magazine entitled: HTML5 Databases; better than sliced bread? which covers this topic using webOS as a vehicle to deliver this content.
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Widgets widgets everywhere
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Linux Magazine, Software Development, Technology, Palm on October 21, 2009
Learning how to use the built-in widgets in Palm WebOS is an essential step for working with the platform. This article on Linux Magazine adds to a previous project by demonstrating the TextField, IntegerPicker and ListSelector. I hope you enjoy it and actually learn something about WebOS.
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Is Apple’s App Store evil? Is Google’s any better?
Posted by: Frank Ableson in Linux Magazine, Software Development, Technology, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm on October 13, 2009
Mobile software deployment is changing. Depending on where sit this is a good thing or a less than good thing. Here are my thoughts, posted at Linux Magazine. Enjoy.
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