Australian Technology

Archive: 10-2011

• Set-up an environment for Android, Eclipse and PhoneGap

  PhoneGap is the cross-platform framework that allows developers to create mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript — but getting going with the platform requires a few hoop jumps.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 31, 2011, 6:25 PM PDT

• Around the Grounds: Bleeply, PDF.js, and Ubuntu Phones

  We take a quick look at a new Australian start-up called Bleeply, Firefox gets the ability to view PDFs, and Ubuntu aims up at tablets and smartphones.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 30, 2011, 6:28 PM PDT

• Watch HTML5 intro to Web Directions

  Take some WebGL, a little Canvas, with CSS transitions, CSS 3D transforms and CSS masks thrown into the mix and you get this year’s introduction montage for Web Directions South.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 27, 2011, 3:20 PM PDT

• The trouble with Bing

  With one simple example, Bing shows why it is not ready to overtake Google.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 26, 2011, 9:17 PM PDT

• Update apps, get malware

  From the “Wow that’s cool, hope it doesn’t happen to me” files comes news that F-Secure has discovered an Android application that will update itself and install malware...

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 25, 2011, 6:16 PM PDT

• Vale John McCarthy: Lisp creator and AI pioneer

  The computing world lost another giant overnight with the death of John McCarthy, the creator of Lisp and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, at age 84.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 24, 2011, 5:49 PM PDT

• Windows 8 ups minimum resolutions

  The 800×600 resolution’s final demise on the desktop will be accelerated by Windows 8 requiring a minimum resolution of 1024×768 for Metro applications to run.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 23, 2011, 8:27 PM PDT

• BlackBerry Java devs need to change

  The clock is starting to tick for Java developers that target the BlackBerry platform.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 20, 2011, 8:21 PM PDT

• RIM bets on BBX

  RIM announced BBX at Blackberry DevCon today, a future operating system that will power its handsets and tablets, which is a merging of its Blackberry OS and QNX.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 18, 2011, 1:58 PM PDT

• Using Google+ API on your website

  The first round of Google+ APIs released allow read-only access to public data only, but even with that small amount of access, we can build a contact page and activity feed for your website.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 16, 2011, 3:31 PM PDT