Ahead of the upcoming Tizen Conference in San Francisco, Tizen 1.0 (Larkspur) SDK and Source Code has been released: Today we are excited to announce Tizen 1.0 Larkspur, including the addition of new complimentary components, as well as source code that focuses on enhancing stability and performance. We...
Don't know whether your visitors are going to be able to use Flash or HTML5 for video and audio playback? Don't guess, take a look at the jPlayer project. jPlayer is an HTML5 audio/video library for jQuery that supports real cross platform audio and video.Me? I'm a fan of HTML5...
There will be two battles fought simultaneously in defense of Megaupload, the cyberlocker site accused by the U.S. of hosting and publicizing illicit copyrighted material. One is in the public arena, where we can expect the defendant to portray itself as Robin Hood, not so much stealing content from the...
Hi all, I have released a PRERELEASE of Mer, meaning that the latest/ symlinks does not yet point to this release. The intended release date will be late Friday 20 January 2012, hence the timestamp of 20120120 and that final version will be 0.20120120.1 (or .2 or .3 depending on...
This industry moves fast — really fast! If you’re not careful, you’ll be left in its dust. So, if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with the coming changes/updates in HTML5, use this as a primer of the things you must know. 1. New Doctype Still using that pesky, impossible-to-memorize XHTML...
So the it was finally time for release of the first alpha version of QSpot for MeeGo / Harmattan.. This version only includes playlist functionality (e.g., search is not yet implemented, even though the UI elements are in place). In the following I will outline the steps necessary to install QSpot...
While much of the emphasis on multimedia content on the web involves playback, Mozilla is working to extend recording capabilities in the browser as well. Today Mozilla Labs has released an early version of a new add-on for Firefox - Rainbow - that will enable web developers to access local...
Today WebM introduced a developer preview of its open Web video format. Described as "a broadly-backed community effort to develop a world-class media format for the open web," WebM is backed by Google, but includes Mozilla, Opera, Skype, Logitech and dozens of other partners.The developer set includes the following.VP8, a...
There is no dearth of streaming music services on the web today, so it takes quite a bit for a new service to stand out from other popular services like Spotify, MOG and Lala. Today, we came across Bitspace, an online music player and backup service for your music files...
Early this morning PicApp announced a partnership with Automattic and integration with WordPress. More than 7.5 million publishers on WordPress' hosted service will gain access to 20 million stock images from services like Getty, Corbis and Jupiter Images. The one caveat with these images is that there is advertising embedded...
The Associated Press is set to create a news registry to protect their online content from copyright violations. The organization amassed critics on the issue after a number of DMCA take down notices were issued to bloggers who had linked to the AP, used their headlines or paraphrased AP stories....
Seventeen years ago, on April 10th 1991, a plane landed in John F. Kennedy airport. That plane had just crossed the Atlantic carrying, amongst others, passengers escaping the crumbling Soviet empire. One of whom was me. I walked off that plane with a first ever taste of Coca-Cola in my...
GumGum is a new license management solution for content owners that its founders say solves a serious problem with online content distribution. "Offline, content is licensed for a finite period of time to a predictable audience. These parameters enable content-owners and publishers to come up with reasonably good pricing arrangements,"...
Big blocks of text just aren't very interesting. That's why we usually dress up our posts with images, diagrams, or videos. It's a fairly common occurrence, both on this blog and in other web development work I do, that I need a stock photo of something specific. Searching Google Images...
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