Last time Microsoft developers were dancing like crazy because of the large penetration of IE7. Now the party will even get further with the Silverlight download rate hits the 1.5 Million downloads a day and increasing… Hell, now they gonna host a strip party in their offices! What’s next?!
Microsoft, if you had read my last few post you’ll know they are dancing, has announced the launch of the first beta release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. More support for semantic web structures, therefore, web developers will find this beta version very useful especially if they want to keep up with latest technologies and weeding out the fads. Grab the browser here and add more tests in your testing environment arsenal!
A post in phpguru got my attention after showing the statistics from TheCounter. IE6 is now overtaken by IE7 and both browsers are used by 78% of connected computers. That’s an astonishing penetration percentage for Microsoft. I’m sure they are dancing in their office right now!
Cool search engine that is in beta right now. Check out this video
Sign up for the beta if you are interested. I heard that this project costs around $31 million.
This a video review of MacBook Air by macWorld.
Finally Apple has released its long awaited iPhone SDK. You can download it from here. Unfortunately, contrary to other blogs that reported the announcement, the SDK is not free even though you are using it for nonprofit projects. That just great Apple… why not suck all our credits in our bank account?!
The MIX08 conference has ended and now you can see all the sessions online for free. If you are one of those geeks out there who feel sad missing MIX08 stop that feeling right now! Watch all sessions for free online here.
YouTube is experimenting HD video casting in addition to the standard video we are watching in YouTube. To watch an HD version of any video you will have to add “&fmt=6” without the double-quotation at the end of the URL.
Here an example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0&fmt=6
I have heard recently that Angelina Jolie recently revealed that she doesn’t know how to turn on a computer although she acts as the famous Lara Croft, an adventurer and sadly a computer hacker.
Anyway, I found out this great article on how to make a good web design. The article also explains how users interact with different web site design styles and it also gives 10 Principles of Effective Web Design… I don’t really have time to write more about it :p
