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Mozilla collecting all web tools together in one directory

Sam Symons — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:46:51 +0000

If you're a web developer, you'll hopefully be aware that there are many helpful (and free) tools designed to progress your quest for an epic website; the only problem with this, though, is that you have to find them. There is currently no centralized directory for all such tools, but Mozilla's fed up of this, and has set out to build one of their own, according to MoMB (via the folks at TechCrunch). Mozilla has posted an entry on their official blog regarding the new site, with Ben Galbraith saying, "There are an immense number of tools that have been created to help web developers. Unfortunately, you might never know this; there's no central index of these tools.

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Netflix coming to Sony

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:49:05 +0000

Some consumers might be happy to hear that Netflix is finally coming to Sony BRAVIA HDTV's in the fall of 2009. Most Sony BRAVIA HDTV televisions made in the last two years will be compatible with new Netflix integration using BRAVIA Internet Video Link, sold separately. Fans will be disappointed to hear that there is no announcement that Netflix will be coming to PlayStation 3 any time soon, but owners can rejoice that Sony is making headway into Netflix to bring streaming video to some of its products. Currently, Microsoft has an exclusive deal with Netflix to stream TV shows and movies directly to the Xbox 360 console without any additional hardware (U.S. only).

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EA officially announces Command & Conquer 4

David Corris — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:16:03 +0000

Today Electronic Arts (EA) has officially announced the development of Command & Conquer 4 for the PC platform with a shipping release date sometime in 2010. The Command & Conquer (C&C) franchise started back in 1995 designed for the PC which was then ported to numerous platforms including the Sega Saturn, Playstation, Nintendo 64 and multiple other systems. The franchise as a whole is made up of multiple story lines across the different Command & Conquer games, the original started the Tiberium arc which has been continued across 3 games so far, and has been announced to be concluded in C&C4 next year.

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New iPhone patents, object identification and more

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:11:18 +0000

Apple has filed new patents today for its iPhone. Some of the items in the new patents include real world object identification, face detection and recognition, text messaging filtering, smart text messages and voice changer. The patents filed today may not be seen for awhile, possibly in the next 4.0 upgrade or in the next iPhone, something we could see next June or July, if the pattern of iPhone releases stay true. Real world object identification will let users take video or snap shots of places around the world, for example The Pentagon, and then the phone would check a database of similar photos and give detailed information about the landmark.

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Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0

Ryan Rea — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:41:37 +0000

Today Microsoft launched its latest effort to "Light up the web", Silverlight 3 which is now available for download. Silverlight has come a long way since its version 1.0 launched in 2007. It has even attracted big players like Netflix who use it as their primary video player. 3.0 brings a host of improvements such as "Smooth Streaming" and "out of browser experiences". Web developers will also appreciate the built in support for GPU acceleration. Silverlight 3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin.

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Microsoft is planning an Office party on Monday

Tom Warren — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:16 +0000

Microsoft is planning to announce Office Web Applications and the Office 2010 beta at the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans next Monday. Neowin hinted at the announcements yesterday but insider sources have confirmed that the company will be demonstrating the delayed Office Web Applications and announcing its plans for the Office 2010 beta. Office Web Applications Microsoft officials originally announced the applications at the company's Professional Developers Conference back in October 2008. At the time the main focus was on Windows 7 and no-one was able to use the applications themselves so they were somewhat overlooked.

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South Korea slowed by third wave of cyber attacks

Sam Alderwick — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:58:32 +0000

Several of South Korea's biggest websites and organisations have been victims of a huge cyber attack, taking down many of them, and leaving others with access issues. The attack also targeted several American organisations some of which included the Pentagon and White House, according to an article by The Independent. Many suspect that the attacks were started by North Korean hackers claiming that the latest missile launches may be related to the attacks. Others, however, have said that it is too early to tell where the attack originated from.

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Possible Chrome OS shots leak out [Fake]

Brad Sams — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:49:46 +0000

Article updated please see updates below It didn't take long after Google announced its entrance into the operating system wars that the first photos have leaked onto the net. What you are able to see below are shots of the Chrome desktop with one application installed, Google Talk. It's not yet clear whether these screen shots are 100% legit. The author cites that it took approximately ten minutes to install the OS on a Acer Extensa 4620Z laptop and it required only 1 restart. Approximate reboot cycle time from desktop to desktop took about 25 seconds and was described as "amazingly fast" but this was a stripped down beta to show off to developers.

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Notepad++ 5.4.4

Marcel Klum — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:47:16 +0000

Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. Notepad++ supports the following languages: C, C++ , Java , C#, XML, HTML, PHP, javascript , RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP , VB/VBS source files , SQL , Objective-C , CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua. What's new: Upgrade Scintilla from 1.77 to 1.78. Fix XML syntax highlighting bug while presence of the Script tag (Yes, finally). Fix Find in files/Find in all open files bug in non western languages (ie. Russian, Chinese, Hebrew...). Fix the find in files crash issue if find what field contains 0x0A or 0xD.

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Chrome OS may push Google CEO off Apple's board

Sam Symons — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:01:58 +0000

You may be aware that the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, is currently positioned on the board of directors at Apple, helping oversee the workings of the company. You may also be aware that the search giant just announced an operating system based on their Chrome browser. You may finally be aware that Apple is well known for their iPhone device, and that Google has their Android operating system respectively, two technologies which go head to head against one another. This last fact, when tied with the fact that Google's new operating system would compete with Apple's OS X, means that Google's CEO may very well be kicked off the board of directors that he currently sits on.

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