Adobe Digital Editions is built on the Flash platform. Adobe’s solution will work on Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux. Perhaps the biggest difference though is the range of content the Adobe product supports - PDF (obviously), XHTML, and Flask SWF for rich content.read more | digg story »
I had seen a couple of innovative user interfaces but this one blew me away. In this video of a TED Talks session, Jeff Han demonstrates his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. Original TED Talks page. »
The battle to create and choose a new default theme for Drupal 5.0 has come to an end, with a collaboration by Stefan Nagtegaal and Steven Wittens claiming the prize. The Garland theme, named after the actress, features a color picker that allows you to completely change the color scheme of the theme. Demo site: http://tinyurl.com/y4to2kread more | digg story »
Google engineer Aaron Hopkins has written an interesting analysis of optimizing page load time.read more | digg story »
Firefox developer Mike Beltzner blogs about the success of Firefox 2’s launch, which had over 2 million downloads in the first 24 hours of Tuesday’s release and a peak download rate of more than 30 downloads per second. That’s some serious bandwidth. Beltzner also looks back on Firefox’s success and discusses why the browser has been so popular.read more | digg story »
The release of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks Beta has been on all the news portals lately. Yahoo! Bookmarks has 20 million users, and is available in 12 languages (and counting). But the real news about the new Yahoo! Bookmarks is that it was built with symfony; one of the most popular PHP frameworks.read more | digg story »
Fedora Core 6 Zod Final has been released.read more | digg story »
The Mozilla.com website has been updated with download links, press release, and a post from Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker about the official release of Firefox 2. Well done everyone.read more | digg story »
This is probably the most inspiring video I have ever seen. The message is simply amazing and also amazingly simple - but still, somthing we fail to see everyday. I think the video speaks for itself. Juan Mann and Shimon Moore, thank you for this truely inspiring video. Originally from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. »
Less than 24 hours have passed and there is already a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer code base.read more | digg story »