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Facebook Files for IPO – $75-100 billion

seangw — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:23:35 +0000

I don’t usually report on financial news (though I’m very interested in finance / economics).. but I had to say something about this one. Facebook finally filed for an IPO (initial public offering) which places the value of the company between $75 and $100 billion. What symbol will they be filing for? FACE? BOOK? FBK? It’s [...]

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Responsive Images in a responsive web design?

seangw — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:22:52 +0000

We’ve been hearing about “responsive web design” and layouts everywhere. It’s the new “Web 2.0″ it seems. I ran across an article yesterday, Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need, by Mat Marquis yesterday. Mat talks about the various approaches used by the famous Boston Globe website’s responsive design to address the need [...]

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jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released – with bada Support

seangw — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:07:45 +0000

In case you missed it, as I did, jQuery Mobile released version 1.0.1 a week ago. The biggest changes seem to be the addition of official Samsung bada support, along with some additional test clients. bada is an operating system for mobile developers developed by Samsung. It doesn’t sound like the team had to do [...]

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Firefox 10 Released

seangw — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:52:46 +0000

Mozilla released Firefox 10 this morning. Firefox has converted over to the Google Chrome release numbering, so browser versions aren’t as “major” anymore, but the new browser still brings some nice enhancements. The biggest addition (especially for us web developers) is the addition of extra built-in developer tools (very similar to Chrome’s): Inspect tool for CSS Page [...]

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iTunes 0xE800007F Error: Wifi Sync Problems

seangw — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:26:27 +0000

First off, I don’t have a fix. I wish I did. If you have a fix PLEASE send it (via comment or contact form). The problem has been annoying me since I setup WiFi sync. From all the research I’ve done, I haven’t found any fixes. The problem seems to be caused by the use of [...]

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Jailbreaking: Own Your iPhone

seangw — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:37 +0000

In 2010, the US Copyright Office said that jailbreaking smartphone isn’t illegal according to the DMCA. That statement will expire in 2012. Jailbreaking isn’t illegal, and it shouldn’t be. If the exemptions expire, it could be illegal to jailbreak your software (and you won’t be allowed to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone). What can you [...]

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5 iPhone App Development Tutorials/Resources

seangw — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:48:48 +0000

So you want to get into iPhone development? There are tons of great resources sitting out on the web right now. Here are some of my favorites resources and tutorials on iPhone application development: Apple iOS Dev Center Apple provides the best, obviously, resources for iPhone App development. There are many resources that are free [...]

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Gigabit WiFi: 802.11ac

seangw — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:39:45 +0000

In recent news (past few weeks) 802.11ac has been popping up quite frequently. 802.11ac is the emerging standard for gigabit wifi. The standard is still a draft, but just like 802.11n, there are already products that support this “draft” standard. 802.11ac will support up to 6.9Gbps (and in lesser forms down to 433Mbps). It is [...]

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Microsoft Apologizes for IE6

seangw — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:33:38 +0000

This has been circulating around the internet for the past few days. I wanted to post it here: From the poster: Dear Web Developers, We are so very sorry about IE6. Come, talk to us during one of the sessions, and we will show you why Internet Explorer 9 is way better. [...]

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Jailbreak for iPhone 4S / iPad 2 Untethered on Windows

seangw — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:16:07 +0000

Yesterday it was announced, that Absinthe A5 was available to jailbreak your iPhone 4S / iPad 2 on Mac OS X. An untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S / iPad 2 was just announced compatible with Windows. You can download the file: Download cinject_0.4.3.zip Then just follow these instructions: Download the file Extract it Shift+Right Click [...]

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