Apps, operating systems, and the software tools I use across my computers, phone, and home setup.
My top 20 iPhone apps, in no particular order, sorted by price. The free picks include TweetDeck, Facebook, WordPress, Skype, SG Buses and Wikipanion, while paid favourites cover BeejiveIM, FTP On The Go, Byline and Bejeweled 2.
WordPress 2.8 has been released! As Matt announced, version 2.8 'Baker' is now available to download. It's a nice fit-and-finish release, with improvements to themes and plenty of under-the-hood polish that make it well worth upgrading to.
As mentioned previously, Nokia Messaging makes mobile email easy, mobilising consumer email across a range of Nokia S60 devices. It lets users quickly set up, access and use their email through a service optimised specifically for mobile messaging.
I got this press release in my mailbox yesterday. Nokia Messaging makes mobile email easy, mobilising consumer email across a range of Nokia S60 devices, optimised for mobile. SingTel now brings it to Singapore consumers.
Apple has announced iPhone OS 3.0, arguably the OS the iPhone should have shipped with. Expected features include in-app purchases, peer-to-peer connectivity, custom apps talking directly to hardware, turn-by-turn navigation, push notifications, and finally cut, copy and paste.
Apple has announced Safari 4. Built on advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine, it runs JavaScript up to 30 times faster than IE7 and over three times faster than Firefox 3.
Right after Adobe Flash Player 10 launched, Adobe announced that Creative Suite 4 has begun shipping. Woot! The highly anticipated release of the CS4 product family is now immediately available, bringing major updates across Adobe's design and development tools.
Microsoft has released Silverlight 2, available to download tomorrow. I've been waiting for this, as Silverlight 1 and 1.1 felt in their infancy. Microsoft calls it one of the industry's most comprehensive and powerful solutions for creating rich applications.
It's confirmed: Windows 7 will simply be called Windows 7. Since development began, Microsoft had been referring to the next Windows client by the codename Windows 7, and now they've decided to keep it as the official name.
Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4, a milestone release of its industry-leading design and development software spanning virtually every creative workflow. A major update across the Adobe family that creative professionals have been eagerly anticipating for some time.
Google has jumped onto the web browser bandwagon with Chrome, an open-source browser. Highlights include the auto-completing Omnibox address bar, the speedy V8 JavaScript virtual machine, a privacy mode, and the ability to launch web apps standalone.
PHP 4.4.9 has been released, the very last PHP4 update, as PHP4 reached end-of-life on 8th August 2008. PHP 5.3 is due between mid-September and mid-October 2008. So for goodness' sake, nag your lazy server admin to upgrade to PHP5!
It's Friday, 11th July 2008 in Singapore, and the iPhone 3G has launched in New Zealand and Australia, with more countries following by time zone. Here there are rumours the iPhone 3G will come later than the expected September 2008.
I've used Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit for over a month now and I'm quite comfortable with it. Aside from the GUI, there's little change from Windows XP, but it supports DirectX 10. Just one Blue Screen so far.
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 is due out tomorrow, 29th April 2008, but the file is apparently already on the Windows Update server. If you're wary of authenticity from third-party sites, here's the link straight from Microsoft itself.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 will support 64-bit operating systems on Windows, but remain 32-bit only on Mac; full 64-bit Mac support waits until Creative Suite 5. Adobe says it's giving customers this guidance on Photoshop as early as possible.
What's up with the internet today? So much major news at once: Microsoft has released the long-awaited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows Update, Apple has released Safari 3.1, and Intel has announced its six-core Dunnington processor.
Some new features in IE8 Beta 1. Activities are contextual services offering quick access to external services from any webpage. WebSlices let sites expose portions of a page that users can subscribe to.
Nokia is bringing Microsoft Silverlight to S60 on Symbian OS later this year. Now we just need Adobe Flash Lite 3 delivered to our phones; impatient developers can already grab the Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition in the meantime.
I got a shock arriving home from school today: a package from Adobe Singapore containing Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. I was shocked and overjoyed beyond words; Adobe's online shop lists it at a whopping US$3,200.
I went to Adobe's Singapore office at Suntec City Tower Three for an hour of Photoshop CS3 tips. The workshop, Exploit Photoshop CS3, was run by Shirley Tan, an Adobe Evangelist, and covered six handy tips in total.
Here are some post-install details on Windows 7 M1, originally posted by Kenipnet in Neowin's forums. Over the weekend he finally tried the build but was disappointed, as his primary machine asked for a SATA driver.