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What’s new with iPhone OS 4.0

Apr 11

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iPhone OS 4.0 Preview

iPhone OS 4.0 Preview

On April 8, Apple unveiled plans for the biggest and most exciting iPhone software update yet. iPhone OS 4 will include over 100 new user features for iPhone and iPod touch owners to enjoy. And for developers, a new software development kit (SDK) offers over 1500 new APIs to create apps that are even more powerful, innovative, and amazing.

iPhone OS 4 will ship this summer for iPhone and iPod touch, and for iPad in the fall. A developer beta is available now.

The most exciting feature to me is multi-tasking ability; I remember when Apple iPad was launched, the biggest critics were not having ability to multitask. I am happy that it would not be a nag now. Some people commented that Apple should have used downgraded version of Mac OS X instead of building on iPhone OS. But now it seems that it was all well planned by Apple. :)
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Preview available for Download

Apr 11

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 - Preview has been made available for download. Though you won't be able to use it in your day to day browsing as of yet as it is in quite row format without any navigational/address bar. We have to click Page > Open > Type in the Web URL to open. Beta series should start in couple of months once things are better managed for end users. Currently it's for enthusiasts who wants to see and test their website/web-app behavior in IE9.

Internet Explorer9 is supposed to be a new breed of browser from Microsoft which would complies with Standards, Faster Javascript in comparison to previous IE versions, HTML5, CSS3, SVG and much more..!

Here are some snaps, I have taken:

Internet Explorer 9 Preview

Internet Explorer 9 Preview

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Apple iPad launched

Jan 29

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in News | 1 Comment

iPad from Apple

Apple launches iPad

After Macintosh, iPod and iPhone Apple has created new waves in a market where there was lot of scope yet literally no competition if we consider with Apple's standards. It seems like it will have big impact on consumers who are looking for something like this and who really like to read and publish. I mean it has all the goodness of iPod and it offers so much other than e-books; it has movies, music, photo albums, apps, email/browsing and more.. all this with powerful 1GB Apple processor and Flash storage up to 64GB. (For detailed specs.)

Amazon's Kindle find itself nowhere when you compare features; and there is always Apple's great magic in everything they do..!

Pricing starts from $499 (16GB ) and is up to $699 (64GB) for WiFi model, while there is $130 extra for WiFi+3G models. Which is very good when we see value for money with keeping it's feature-set and usage in mind. (For more on pricing.)

Though it seems like Multitasking and Web-Conferencing with Camera would have made it unparallel but let's hope it would be in future revisions of iPad.

The WashingtonPost has posted Top 10 Reasons The Apple iPad Will Put Amazon's Kindle Out of Business: (which is interesting to read)

1) The multi-functional capability. Buy a Kindle and you get a reader. Another dedicated device to carry. Buy an iPad, and you get a whole new companion that can do pretty much anything. Games, movies, browsing, documents, and more all in one. And zillions of iPhone apps. It's sooooo much more than a reader, it's a whole-life device.

2) The screen. Full color, multi-touch screen, gestures, and more. It's a pleasure to look at it and we all can rely on Steve Jobs? aesthetics to know that it's a pleasure to hold as well. Read the rest of this entry »

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NetBeans 6.8 is out

Dec 14

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in News, Software | No Comments

NetBeans 6.8

NetBeans 6.8

NetBeans 6.8 is released last week on December 10, 2009 and it is on the door with many new exciting features. I am developing Web Applications with PHP, XML, Javascript, HTML and it has been great experience using NetBeans. Other than NetBeans I am using Eclipse for some of the projects and NotePad++ and EditPlus are handy for some quick-fixes where you don't need to open up or create a new Project.

EditPlus was my first Editor when I started my career and after that Eclipse PDT and later NetBeans has taken their place. For majority of projects I am using NetBeans while for some specific projects where goodness of some great Eclipse Plug-in drags me towards it. For anything quick I have always EditPlus on hand, which is really handy if you want to see some formatted code on your Windows Servers. The beauty of EditPlus is it's very light-weight (only 1.3MB) and damn fast. Though it is not Free you can use it for evaluation period as long as you wish if you can click "I Agree" at start-up.

One of my most most favorite feature of NetBeans is Quick File Search through File/Project Navigator Pane. It is the most beautiful feature..it's so coool one can't live without it once we get used to it. You don't need to type through live Windows file-listing, it just opens up tiny search control just as you start typing and it stays with character you input even after you pause for few seconds. I think this feature should be there in every IDE.
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Oracle buys Sun

Apr 21

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These pictures from the Oracle and Sun's official home page says it all.

Oracle to buy Sun - News on Sun's home

Oracle to buy Sun - News on Sun's Home

Oracle Buys Sun - News on Oracle's Home

Oracle Buys Sun - News on Oracle's Home

I think above 2 pictures, which are sliced from home page of Sun and Oracle says it all. While Sun says "Oracle to buy Sun", Oracle has made a statement on the deal..$

I hope this marriage leads to a win-win situation for both Customers and Oracle-Sun duo as well.

Hope that Java will keep doing better and better but not sure about MySQL as now MySQL is also owned by Oracle.

"World's most famous open source database is now owned by World's biggest Enterprise database..!"

Now, not sure what will happen with MySQL? Wish good-luck for the future of Netbeans as well, as it has turned out really well and now is support whole bunch of dynamic languages. Read the rest of this entry »

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Offline Gmail on the way – Thanks to Google Gears

Jan 29

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Gmail Offline on the way

Gmail goes Offline

One of Gmail’s most requested features – offline support – is now available in testing. In other words, you can now use Gmail without an Internet connection, just like you can with desktop mail clients like Outlook.

The offline support is made possible by Google Gears, which you’ll need to download in order to utilize the feature. Here’s how it works, according to Google’s Andy Palay: Read the rest of this entry »

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BlogRush shutdowns

Nov 6

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Before a week probably I got mail authored by "John Reese" / BlogRush, about it's shutdown news.
I was one of the user of BlogRush and had BlogRush widget on my blogs. Although I was not sure that whether that widget was able to bring more traffic or not, it was just a nice addition on the blog. Although many times the related blogs were not actually close to the topic of my blog but..anyways. I didn't thought of removing it from my blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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