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Adobe releases Apollo

I just had a first look at Apollo, and in its first look it feels like a glorified version of HTA (HTML Application). Something that Microsoft built like years ago. Not that I hate HTA or Apollo but I just hope they don't leave it midway. I really like the concept of HTA applications but in the end I hate the fact that they just don't look native. I would rather develop a Java based application today rather than make something in Apollo. Like I said earlier the reasons to not use Java are no longer there. If you make an application in Apollo today the major problem is getting the runtime on the consumers computer. Unlike flash its not really a small little download but quite a huge download. Apollo is based on webkit and the webkit dll alone is 12 MB for the windows platform. Its still an alpha version so a lots going to change. I am not very hopeful that it just might work in the long run but then again it just needs one killer application and people will line up and start usi

SimpleXML for Javascript available for download

If you've used SimpleXML in PHP5 and higher you can use the same functionality in javascript using this library. Its just a single file and you can convert nearly any XML file into javascript object which you can use in your javascript web page or application. The code is hosted on Google Code . You can either check it out using svn or download the zip archive. Download the latest version

Invitations for Joost beta

Earlier The Venice Project™ and its Joost ™. Imagine having infinite choice, and TV that is truly interactive. TV anywhere, anytime. Thats what it says on the website. I have two invites and if you are looking for an invite leave a comment and I will send it across. Personally I have been unable to use it 'cause of my slow internet connection these days. I will try and post a how it is once I try it out. Till then if you are looking for an invite just leave a comment. UPDATE : I only had two and have given them out. Technorati Tags: joost , invite , tv

Java or .net - What makes sense today?

Its been a while since I have been thinking about it and finally I get to write about it. If I had to start any project today I would choose Java over .net because it just makes sense today. If I had to think an year back I would think native and then .net but never Java, over the past few years things have certainly changed a lot for Java. Though we still don't see a lot of mainstream Java applications on the desktop but its just a matter of time and about that one killer application that makes that difference. The only applications that I would even see on the desktop are azureus and eclipse beyond that I don't see any other application that is in Java. If I had to think of a Java application the biggest problem was getting the JRE on the system, today things have changed dramatically for Java. It comes preinstalled on a mac most Linux distros and most windows based machines from the top five computer vendors have Java preinstalled on the systems. So the one of the biggest

Gmail is down

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Wow this is like the 4th post today but this one has got more to do with being addicted to checking my mail every few minutes. Not that I am waiting for any mail but given the fact that I know that GMail is down right now is not very good. Just goes to show how many times I check my mail in a day. But lets see if this is just a normal outage or they are adding some new features to GMail. Its been more than an hour since it has been showing me the same error. Hope they have not closed my account, not that I am doing anything illegal :D. Technorati Tags: gmail , server error

After tabbed browsing we have tabbed Yahoo! Messenger

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Guess it was about time now you can open multiple conversations in tabs using yahoo messenger. You don't need to download anything new just make this slight change in the registry and you have yahoo messenger with tabs. Though it does not work perfectly at least the one I have installed has problems refreshing the window. But then again these problems could possibly be solved in the next version. Turn on tabbed yahoo messenger Turn off tabbed yahoo messenger Download and run the first file when you want to turn on tabbed messenger and use the second file when you want to return back to the normal mode. So whats inside the reg files. Actually nothing much just a registry entry needs to be added that tells the IM to use tabs for conversations. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager] "Tabbed IM"=dword:00000001 To go back to the normal mode change the 00000001 to 00000000. The code is there if you know how to tinker with the registry for most other people download and and

Twitter seems like a great tool

If you have a look at the top of the blog there is a What am I doing right now? which shows you what I am doing right now. Not that you would be interested in knowing what I am doing but if you have a group of friends you want to stay in touch with using IM, SMS or just the web its the perfect tool to do that. To update the message on top I can use my IM (GTalk, Yahoo!, MSN or AOL), SMS or the website to update in realtime what I am doing right now. So the messages you see on top are live. I am not really sure till when I will keep updating it, but it sure does look like a really cool concept. If I was still in college I would have loved to stay in touch with my friends using it. The real cool part is that incase you are not online you can still get the updates using SMS. So if you like to be updated about anything you can follow news about it using twitter. I am just waiting for digg to have a twitter account and I can get the latest promoted digg news using twitter. Technorati Tag

What is zonkdogfology?

Just came across this nice little experiment by Greg Bulmash . He is trying to figure out if JavaScript generated content is indexed. It is quite possible that eventually it just might be, but as of now its not being indexed. I will sure keep an eye on this one. Seems like a really cool way to figure out things. If ever the javascript content is indexed it would certainly change a lot of things, I really have to check out these search terms after 2-3 years. Search for zonkdogfology on google , yahoo , msn Technorati Tags: google , javascript , ajax

Revival of Java Applets...

I have been planning to write about Java for the last couple of weeks but every time I plan to do it something or the other tends to come up and I am back to square one. I have/had been fascinated by AJAX for quite sometime. Its just been over 2 years since I started using AJAX or remote scripting as it was previously known. I have seen it grow from a fad into many massive frameworks in JavaScript. Though AJAX has its place but I somehow feel Java Applets might make a comeback sooner than you can think. There are may reasons why Java Applets makes sense today. Many people who have developed in Java previously might think I am crazy thinking that Java can work on the client side. But there are many compelling reasons today which just make sense today than they did some 4-5 years back. Earlier whenever I thought of Java Applets all I could think of was a gray little box which would bring my computer to a grinding halt. I hated Java Applets and would rarely visit back a site with a Jav