Phase One: All the camera $55K can buy
via news.cnet.com
This is a camera, though admittedly out of my league in cost and skill required, is something I would love the opportunity to take for a spin. See the link above for the review.
Apple’s HTML5 Showcase
via apple.com
I’m sure you’ve heard the debate surrounding Flash and the future of the plugin-hobbled web. WebKit, the open source browser engine (the project’s managed by Apple) that powers Safari, Google’s Chrome, and a variety of other mobile browsers (it’s the defacto standard for mobile devices) is really leading the pack when it comes to supporting new features in HTML5 & CSS3.
To make that point and show us all what we can expect to be able to do, they created the following: http://www.apple.com/html5/
It’s obviously best in Safari or the latest nightly build of WebKit. However, just from my testing, many of the demos do work in Chrome as well. If you must use Chrome, Click the “Learn More” link to access the demos. The issue you’ll see with Chrome is that they don’t necessarily keep up with the latest WebKit updates as quickly as Apple does with Safari. That’s why you may see some differences.
About the video demo: The HTML5 video tag allows you to integrate video within your website’s code. And Safari offers HTTP streaming, so playback quality dynamically adjusts to the available speed of wired or wireless networks — perfect for viewing on mobile devices such as iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
That dynamic adjustment of the bitrate is what we’re trying to get working with Flash on Akamai. At some point, all browsers will be able to do it natively. That’s what’s so sweet about these emerging standards.
A plugin-free web. It’s time. We just need content creators (my employer is one of them) to force the issue & push the other browser makers and dev tool makers (I’m looking at you, Adobe) to make it happen post haste.
Thank You To All Who Gave the Ultimate Sacrifice
Written by the drummer, an Iraq war vet:
As Steve Would Say, “boom.”
I didn’t think it would happen this fast. It helped that Microsoft is in a free-fall.
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Google says multitasking, apps hurt Android’s battery life « The Loop
“Google co-founder Larry Page admitted during a talk at Google’s annual partner forum, Google Zeitgeist, that multitasking and some apps could drain the battery of its Android phone.”
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This is what you get when engineers focused on spec sheets design products without someone in the way to ask the critical questions regarding the user experience.
Android: designed by geeks for geeks (read: not regular people)
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