Thursday, March 20, 2008

Adobe: Flash for iPhone might be a little harder than we thought

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It seems that Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen isn't a developer for the firm -- or at the very least, he doesn't have a full appreciation for the height of the fence surrounding the iPhone SDK's walled garden. The company and on-again, off-again Apple chum solidly backpedaled on the chief's comments regarding Flash for the iPhone that were made just a day earlier, saying that "...to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it." For what it's worth, Adobe does say that it's still very much interested in doing up a Flash client, it just needs a little extra help from Apple on the side to make it happen -- so if we see this package pop up in the App Store later this year, we'll know that at least one company's been given a free pass to break the rules.

 

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Posted by Augustine at 7:40 AM

First! AMD's Radeon HD 3000 graphics cards now DisplayPort certified

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After this morning's whispered layoffs, we're digging deep to bring you a bit of good news about AMD. VESA just announced that AMD's ATI Radeon HD 3000 series (and the 780G integrated graphics chipset) are the first graphics cards in the Industry granted DisplayPort certification. About time since Dell's 30-inch 3008WFP monitor has been shipping since December. Way to go Paula AMD, way to go!

[Via tgdaily]

 

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Posted by Augustine at 7:32 AM

LG's LH2300 Touch Web phone say "Hello UI" in Korean

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Want the Internet in your pocket? Good, because that's what LG is offering to South Koreans with its new LG-LH2300 Touch Web phone. This ain't your father's baby Internet mind you, the LH2300 features a new "Hello UI" riding atop 800 x 480 pixels spread across a 3-inch touchscreen LCD. LG didn't stop with the web though as the LH2300 also packs T-DMB mobile TV, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD memory, and a jog wheel for easy page scrolling. Its 3 megapixel camera sports face recognition and anti-shake tech. No specifics on the included "high speed" data service. Nevertheless, that front facing camera's a pretty good clue that this pup won't be riding EDGE when it launches in Korea next month for a mere $600 US equivalent.

[Via AVING]

 

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Posted by Augustine at 7:32 AM

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Jupitermedia Expands Its Micropayment Business

Source: http://weblogs.jupitermedia.com/meckler/2008/03/jupitermedia-expands-its-micro.html

Today we announced that we  purchased eStock Music.  Now we have a leading position in the image microstock (used to be called micropayment) field with our Stockxpert operations as well as what could well be an exciting new micropayment area - music.  eStock Music is a leader (I am not sure we have competition) in micropayment royalty free music.  I believe that music has many of the same attributes as images in terms of being financially successful in the micropayment field.

Jupitermedia is already strong in the field of selling royalty free music with a variety of brands - notably RoyaltyFreeMusic.com.  eStock Music is yet another way for us to play in all layers of the royalty free music field.  Many in the financial community associate us with stock images, but we are much bigger than only images.  We dominate in the fields of clipart and flash animations.  We will have all of these diverse but related digital content offerings on the soon to be unveiled JupiterDigital Web site.  Needless to say we are excited about our future offerings.

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Posted by Augustine at 12:52 PM

A Hotel Wifi Hack

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AVc/~3/253719935/a-hotel-wifi-ha.html

For those who haven't been following me on twitter or my tumblog or friendfeed, I am on vacation with my family in Hawaii.

Our hotel offers wifi, but no ethernet option, in the rooms. It's $11/day for seven days, or a total of $77 for hotel wifi for the week we are here. Not terrible, but what about the fact that all five of us have laptops and want to use them this week? $385 for the week for internet for the family is not an option.

So I came up with this cool hack that I though I'd share with all of you who might find yourself in the same situation. We signed up the Gotham Gal's macbook to the hotel wifi. Then we shared that connection via ethernet using the sharing feature in system preferences. Here's a sreen shot of my laptop's sharing options:

Internet_sharing

You can share a lot of resources on a mac, but in this case, you only need to share Internet and you need to share it via Ethernet.

Airport_express Then I pulled out our trusty Airport Express which you can buy for $99. I never travel without it. It has come in handy so many times.

I connected the Gotham Gal's macbook ethernet port to the AIrport Express' ethernet port and we now have open wifi for everyone on our two hotel rooms.

It works great. The only thing is we can't disconnect Gotham Gal's laptop or turn it off or put it to sleep. Everyone is happy. Which is a good thing on a family vacation.

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Posted by Augustine at 12:50 PM

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