Archive for June, 2007

bloodr awarded Adobe Site Of The Day

Congratulations! We’ve selected “Bloodr” as an official Adobe Site of the Day. We’ll be featuring your site in the Showcase section of the Adobe website (http://www.adobe.com/showcase/) Tuesday, June 26, 2007.
bloodr has just been awarded Adobe Site Of The Day status! “With bloodr you can record and analyze your blood pressure, pulse, and weight. Access and [...]

Mono Silverlight implementation emerges after epic hackathon

After 20 days of “intense” programming, Novell’s Mono development team has successfully produced a functioning prototype of Moonlight, an open-source Mono-based implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight rich-media application development framework. In a blog entry, lead Mono developer Miguel de Icaza describes how his small team of globally dispersed developers managed to conjure up their entire Moonlight [...]

Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have created a model teleportation system using quantum dots. PhysOrg reports that ‘tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots may be excellent media for quantum teleportation, a physics phenomenon in which information — in the form of a quantum state, a very specific mathematical signature of an [...]

Apple snatches 14 percent of May notebook sales

The Mac maker climbed almost two full percentage points in mid-spring, securing 14.3 percent of all notebook sales in the U.S. versus 12.5 percent in April. The spike represented a 14 percent step up compared to the earlier period and lifts Apple to fourth place in the notebook sphere, putting it just behind HP, Gateway, [...]

Perfect Silicon Sphere to Redefine the Kilogram

‘The Age’ reports optical specialists at CSIRO are helping create a new standard for the kilogram, based on a precise number of atoms in a perfect sphere of silicon. This will replace the International Prototype, a lump of metal alloy in a vault in Paris.
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Apple Unable to Find iPhone Partner in Europe?

A Vnunet.com article claims that European mobile operators are unwilling to concede to Apple’s iPhone partnership demands.
“Operators consistently told us, not for attribution, of course, that they had spoken to Apple and found the company ‘unbelievably arrogant’, making demands that ’simply cannot be justified no matter how hot the product is’,” Avi Greengart, a principal [...]

Safari 3 runs on windows XP/Vista

Steve Jobs has just annouced at WWDC that Safari 3 will run on windows XP/Vista. Public beta today download from here.
“Didn’t see that one coming!”

Apple to use Sun’s ZFS in Leopard

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz may have let the cat out of the bag on Apple’s plans for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard’s file system.
While showing off the Zettabyte File System in Sun’s “Thumper” hybrid storage/server platform at a company event in Washington D.C. today, Schwartz let it drop that Apple too has big plans for the [...]

Bloodr Hypertension monitoring Flex style

Bloodr is a hypertension monitoring, analysis and reporting application.
Developed in Flex 2.0.1 bloodr makes extensive use of the flex charting components, allowing users to record data and produce professional reports for their health care professional.
Here at frogameleon we subscribe to the release early, release often mantra, hence bloodr is currently in alpha form. However [...]

Emacs 22 has been released

After keeping users waiting for nearly six years, Emacs 22 has been released and includes a bunch of updates and some new modes as well. In addition to support for GTK+ and a graphical interface to the GNU Debugger, ‘this release includes build support for Linux on AMD64, S/390, and Tensilica Xtensa machines, FreeBSD/Alpha, Cygwin, [...]