Sony Ericsson releases 2.1 update
SonyEricsson just released the promised Android 2.1 update for Xperia X10, X10 mini and Xperia Xperia X10 mini. The installation is done by either the included PC Companion or through Sony Ericsson Update Service, which is why you can not update the phone as previously explained by the fact that the update is so large. Sony Ericsson recommends using PC Companion to perform the update.
Update resets the phone
Be sure to download the latest version of Backup & Restore before if you can. It describes the wizard in the PC companion how you do. Direct link to download it is
Good luck!
Intel and Nokia’s mobile Linux can now be used for phone calls
The new version of the mobile Linux variant MeeGo is now ready and have added an important feature: Phone calls and SMS messages. Nokia and Intel’s joint mobile Linux effort MeeGo is now available in version 1.1. The new edition has MeeGo example been a stack of new features that support mobile telephony.
Course it is right essential for an OS to be used, inter alia, mobile phones, but the first version of MeeGo had no support among other phone calls or SMS messages.
Critics: Adobe Flash costs two hours of battery on Macbook Air
Apple’s new version of the Macbook Air comes without Adobe Flash, and it may be good reason to. The difference was two hours of battery life with and without Flash, writes reviewers.
Apple has fallen out with Adobe to Adobe Flash technology, which Apple accused of being responsible for most crashes on the Mac, and Apple also claims that flash will ruin the battery life and performance on iPhone and iPad.Now it may seem that Apple will be supported until at least the last claim from reviewers at Ars Technica. They’ve tested Apple’s new Macbook Air with 11-inch screen, which Apple promises five hours of battery life. It also proved to be true during normal use, according to Ars Technica.
There is too much flash on websites today. Flash is an excellent product if you want to make small online games or interactive programs. CPU usage is also thereafter.It is clear that Flash works inefficiently when it instead be used to display banner ads with hidden links that do not use a standard cookies and therefore can not be easily blocked, but actually seems that could be replicated with simple HTML links and image.
So it’s probably not Adobe’s fault, nor can you raise a finger at Apple. There is too much flash on websites today. Flash is an excellent product if you want to make small online games or interactive programs. CPU usage is also thereafter. It is clear that Flash works inefficiently when it is used to display banner ads with hidden links that do not use a standard cookies and therefore can not be easily blocked, but actually seems to be replicated with simple HTML links and images.
It’s like running 7 programs in the background.You can direct blame at poor web developers and ad agencies.
Flashblock can be used for Chrome and Firefox. https: // addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 / http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/flashblock/
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 gets limited mulitouch
Sony Ericsson has long ago announced that Xperia X10 would not get multi-touch , due to hardware specifications. (more…)
Customers plaintiff Apple: iOS operating system stinks
Apple, on purpose, made the operating system iOS 4 so bad for iPhone 3G users that they had to buy the new iPhone 4th That is the accusation in a new class action lawsuit against Apple in the U.S.
Since Apple launched version 4 of Mobile Platform IOS in June, it was not a happy day for the owners of an iPhone 3G. The new control system gave the tens of iPhone customers problems with lower speed and poor battery life. Matter drowned then suffered in the simultaneous launch of the iPhone 4, then the highly publicized antenna problems, but now it pops it back up.
In the U.S., namely Apple, now withdrawn in court by disgruntled customers who accuse the company to display all the problems within IOS 4 was launched. The writes PCmag.com .
Android Gingerbread 2.3 released soon
There has been speculation about when Google chooses to release the newest version of Android. Rumors have been particularly vehement, since the arrival of the Gingerbread statue at building 44 at the Googleplex.
Some have guessed at the 8th November, in connection with Samsung’s next news conference in New York (where they presented a new Android device), but now the date moved again. According to Android sources, we can expect a presentation of Android Gingerbread 2.3 on 11 November 2010.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 multi-touch
There has been much talk back and forth about multi-touch at Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 . Sony Ericsson has even been out and refuse to X10′en should be able to multi-touch, due to hardware limitations. It now has not stopped people from trying to get it to work. And now it might seem to be succeeding. There are certainly appeared more videos by X10 ‘is with multi-touch.
JavaScript – the world’s major language?
JavaScript or ECMAScript, the real name, is the programming language many developers have learned to hate. But JavaScript is maybe starting to become the main programming language if you want to create online services.
JavaScript was developed in 1995 by Brendan Eich – now the CTO at Mozilla – and put in Netscape Navigator 2.0. The prelude was that Netscape wanted a programming language that could bring more interactivity in the browser and Brendan were told that management wanted something that looked like Apple’s HyperCard . I think Brendan borrowed box including a good deal from / Scheme and in the course of ten days came Brendan up with a prototype specification for what was to be JavaScript and management of Netscape liked what they saw. The prototype was implemented right in Netscape 2 and sent out to the masses a few weeks after. JavaScripts maternity lasted no more than a bare month.
so fast birth is not without problems. Like all other programming languages have JavaScript bad and good sides. But peels Excluding the real bad pages in JavaScript, is actually left with a small and nice language. It is also true that the things we programmers have disliked using JavaScript to a small extent, problems related to language, but due to differences between implementations in browsers, and not least the interaction with what is called the Document Object Model (DOM). DOM is a web browser is designed after it has read and parsed an HTML document and it’s DOM JavaScript largely makes the interaction.
Browsers have not until recently been particularly good at making sure that the speed of JavaScript has been on top. A slow execution combined with differences in implementations between browsers led unfortunately, many put the JavaScript in the stall for the nonsense language until a few years ago.
One can debate back and forth about what is good and bad with a programming language. It can with JavaScript too. The reality however is that JavaScript is extremely widespread and it spreads even more. The browser you’re reading this in the guaranteed ability to execute JavaScript the mobile phone has most likely a browser with JavaScript support, read the disc you may own as well as and Web-enabled TVs with a JavaScript engine in it starts to come.
HTML5 and its sisters are perhaps most likely to see at first. We shall deal with HTML5 specification and peels away the piece that is only intended for browser developers, including tokenizing ‘one, we are left with a small number of new semantic elements and a good dose of new JavaScript APIs. Audio video canvas are new elements in HTML5 with rich JavaScript API can be programmed against using JavaScript. Web Storage Geolocation IndexedDB , WebSQL / Web Database , WebSockets Drag and Drop File API Server-Sent Events is pure JavaScript APIs that now exist or come into browsers. Web Workers is an API to help with the execution of the heavier and more JavaScript consuming operations.
In addition, we also Device APIs to provide JavaScript Web browser access to hardware resources on the device it runs on. Soon the JavaScript via these APIs have access to, among other things, camera and USB ports on the device. JavaScript is getting access to hardware, we have actually already today; WebOS is an operating system where all the hardware resources are available to JavaScript, and all applications on the device is written in JavaScript. Palm has already deployed this on a few of their devices and after that Palm was bought by HP, HP has worked hard to get the WebOS into new devices they produce. Google Chromium OS built around the same thought.
The speed of the execution of JavaScript is also shot in the air dramatically in recent years. Hard optimization of JavaScript engines and the introduction of techniques such as JIT-compile , where the JavaScript is compiled to native code, and hardwareakseleratorer has led to the execution of JavaScript functions start to come in line with many other languages.
Last year, the 5-ECMAScript specification, which among other things, remove some of the really bad things in JavaScript , and give us greater security when running JavaScript.
More or less all browser vendors are working today without doubt, very hard to improve their JavaScript engines and this has major implications for the spread of the language. But, it’s not just the browser since it’s exciting stuff on the JavaScript front.
HTC is planning its own “app store”
HTC is currently recruiting new employees, said to be given the task to build a “ HTC App Store “. From here it’s supposed to be sold applications and e-books.
With e-books go HTC itself into a market that is already being pressured from all sides. Not least of Apple’s iBook Store but also Amazon , which also recently announced an” Android App Store, “with primary selling e-books. In addition flourishes rumors that Google is coming out with a large online bookstore, with over sixth million. titles at startup.
About HTC can get as much success with an “Android App Store,” as they have it right now with the development of Android devices to be seen.
World’s best lectures are free
Do you want to be inspired, surprised, amused and impressed? I keep being surprised that many have not heard about TED, and all the wonderful speeches that are freely available. We have mentioned the TED before, and were particularly impressed with the project that has made many of the presentations are available with subtitles in multiple languages. So this is just a little reminder.
See a couple of TED talks and you have content for conversation and impressive short stories for lunch, dinner and the coffee machine. A wonderful cross between professional know-how and entertainment. Most presentations are about 20 minutes, but you’ll also find shorter and longer ones. They can be viewed on TED.com – download or subscribe via podcast.
