Entries Tagged as ‘Free Software’

April 17, 2008

Update to Safari 3.1.1. Now

Apple have released an update to Safari 3.1 which patches a security hole.

If you’re using Safari on Windows you can get the latest update by going to Start > All Programs > Apple Software Update.
You’ll be required to reboot your machine.

April 10, 2008

Doomi - To Do List

Today’s Adobe AIR application is Doomi. I chose this example as it shows you what can be done with a custom chrome settings in AIR. In fact Doomi uses no chrome at all. Ordinarily, the complete absence of chrome can make an application very annoying to use and most developers opt for a custom chrome [...]

April 8, 2008

Snippley - A Demonstration AIR Application

The second AIR application we’ll be looking at this week is Snippley created by .
I’ve chosen this as it’s aimed at developers in two senses. First of all, Snippley is used for storing and organising code snippets and secondly the source code is available which makes it an excellent candidate for deconstructing and learning more [...]

April 8, 2008

Changes in Lightning 0.8 Tasks

Some of you may be experience some problems with not seeing your tasks pane in Thunderbird now that the new version of Lightning has been release.
The key things to know about tasks are:

Tasks must be stored in a local calendar. They cannot be synced to Google Calendar.
If tasks have no date information, they will not [...]

April 8, 2008

Did Web Hosting Just Become Free? Google Launches App Engine

Google have just further opened up their resources to developers with the introduction of Google Application Engine. Essentially it’s a web application hosting environment built upon Google’s network so it’s robust, distributed and scalable. If you’re familiar with Amazon’s S3, EC2 and SimpleDB, this is Google’s offering.
However, Google have gone further than Amazon and other [...]

April 7, 2008

Lightning 0.8 Release

I’ve been out of the office all day at the Adobe AIR On Tour Event in Brussels, but given the way the stats have rocketed for Lightning related articles on this blog it looks like Mozilla have finally released v0.8 of Lightning for Thunderbird and there might be the odd problem with tasks
I’ve been using [...]