If you’re comfortable with installing applications on your Mac and are reasonably familiar with MySQL, installing MySQL on Snow Leopard should be relatively simple. Here are the simple steps you need to do to get MySQL up and running on your local machine.
Smartphone applications are predicted to overtake the desktop software market. So who will win the multi-billion-pound [dollar] application economy, and what are the new rules?
Tags: Android, App Store, Appcelerator, Apple, Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Brushes, CSS, documentation, ebay, Google, GPS, HIG, HTML, HTML5, human interface guidelines, iphone, IPhone OS, iPod, iTunes, JavaScript, Mobile, Mobile Development, Mobile operating system, Multi-touch, Nokia, Ovi Store, Palm, paypal, PhoneGap, Qik, RedLaser, Rim, RjDj, Smartphones, StreetCar, Symbian, The Guardian, User interface, web-based application, WebOS, Windows Mobile
Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design. Many of Rams’ designs — coffee makers, calculators, radios, audio/visual equipment, consumer appliances and office products — have found a permanent home at many museums over the world, including MoMA in New York.
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Crossed between quasar and a game of tag, QR-kill is the new phenomenon spreading around the mobile community. Utilising high-end mobile phones like the Nokia N95 and Applie iPhone and 2-dimensional barcodes called QR-codes, this game is best played in public places like shopping centres or department stores for added amusement.
Tags: 2d, 3d, Apple, barcode, extra devices, games, Gaming, iphone, Mobile, mobile phones, mobile tagging, Nokia, Nokia N95, QR-kill, QRcode, SMS
With the advent Google Chrome there has been a lot of media coverage regarding the browser’s uptake and how it will compete with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. This is where the User Agent becomes most valuable.
Tags: Apple, Browsers, Chrome, Chrome's address bar, encryption, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Google Inc., HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol, Internet Explorer, Internet users, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, mobile phones, Mozilla, Official Build Google Inc., Opera, operating system, Safari, United States, url, User Agent, web crawlers, Web Standards era, webmaster, windowing system, Windows NT, X11
Since getting the new iPhone 3G I’ve been downloading ‘useful’ applications like there was no tomorrow. I now have the very useful Vicinity app, various social networking apps and the best of all, a Light Sabre.
Tags: 3G, Apple, Apple App Store, Asides, iphone, pence, social networking apps, wordpress
The Web Standards Project (WaSP) is to expand its scope of collaboration with Adobe to advance web standards. Having successfully completed its initial goals for assisting Adobe’s Dreamweaver team in supporting Web standards, the Web Standards Project’s Dreamweaver Task Force will be renamed the Adobe Task Force to reflect its widened scope. The Adobe Task Force will collaborate with Adobe on all of the company’s products that output code or content to the Web, and will continue to advocate compliance with Web Standards and accessibility guidelines by those who use Adobe’s products to design and build Web sites and applications.
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Rich Internet Applications are just the beginning. A key trend taking place throughout the Web industry is the urgency to integrate disparate systems and software tools to reduce costs, increase developer productivity, reduce the need for manual processing and intervention in transactions, and decrease time to market. To achieve these objectives, organisations have endorsed the adoption of standards-based systems combined with the migration to Web Services and Service Orientated Architecture. This has led to a requirement to create a consistent and intuitive interface to applications, data and services. The immediate goal of these efforts is to provide simpler, quicker and more efficient access and processing of information.
Tags: Adobe, AIR, Apple, data, disparate systems, Flash, Flex, future, gears, Google, HTML, integrated applications, Internet Applications, Internet Applications Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, LinkedIn, manual processing, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, performance solutions, quicktime, RIA, Rich Internet Applications, SaaS, Service Orientated Architecture, services, Silverlight, soa, Software as a Service, software orientated architecture, software tools, sun, Web 2.0, web applications, Web industry, web services, Web Standards, XAML, XML