Posts Tagged ‘applications’

Top 5 Applications for your Android phone

It’s been almost 2 weeks since I got my HTC Magic running Google’s new mobile operating system: Android. It’s been a great two weeks, I’m positively in love with the device and Android is just superb. All the things that used to frustrate me about Windows Mobile 6.1 (I had...

6 Applications that made 2008 special

I wanted to list a couple of applications that made a difference for me in 2008. Some of these have changed the way I work on my computer, some of them have been instrumental to my knowledge and online experiences. I thought I’d share them here for others to learn...

FireFox 3 RC2 now available

I’ve just upgraded my browser to Release Candidate 2 of FireFox 3 which has some bug fixes over the previous version. I had some problems with Beta 5, but have been using RC1 without any issue ever since it was made available. It seems like there’s quite a bit of...

Application Virtualisation

I came across a great post on Adam Hall’s blog talking about aspects of application virtualisation. I’ve only come across this recently to tell you the truth, with the rollout of SoftGrid here at IOMG, and have been pretty impressed with what the package achieves. So what is application virtualisation you...

AJAX attacks and how to mitigate against them

Excellent post on The Register entitled Reduce your exposure to AJAX threats, which talks about three pieces of advice you need to keep in mind when developing AJAX applications. There’s nothing new in terms of security principles, just an application to the fact that a good portion of AJAX applications...

Facebook to get an IM

I read with interest this morning that Facebook was going to be getting an Instant Messaging client (IM). It would be fun to have something that was integrated into the whole Facebook experience and the feature list included: No Registration No Initialisation No Download All your friends in one IM Sounds too good to be...

Google Gears hits the street

Google is making a move into the offline application space (you know, traditional Windows applications) by releasing Google Gears, a browser add-on that lets developers take online applications offline. The first app to take advantage of this will be Google Reader giving you the ability to catch up on your...

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