The most interesting parts of Microsoft’s Mix conference have come to a close, leaving us with two steaming news lumps: One for Windows Phone 7 , and one for Internet Explorer 9 . Here’s what’s in them! More
March 17, 2010 - 12:51 am
Tags: appling-apple, good-job, iphone, least-on-paper, microsoft, none-solid, phone, rant, windows, windows phone
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Dear Microsoft, you did a good job at out-Appling Apple with the Windows Phone 7 . At least on paper
Filed under: Peripherals There are a few features that I’d love to see added to the iPhone’s hardware ( an IR transmitter would be nice, for one thing), but first and foremost among those is probably an induction charger .
March 16, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Tags: blackberry, bump, credit-card, ebay, entry, money, movies, payment, paypal, review
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Filed under: App Review Never before in human history have there been so many ways to part with your hard-earned cash. The spotlight might be on credit card acceptance tools from Square & Verisign , or the beta Venmo service’s SMS-based trust network — still, don’t forget about the cagey veteran. Paypal is 12 years old now (and in Internet years, that’s…
March 16, 2010 - 9:41 pm
Tags: Browser, Browsers, competition, desktop, during-the-mix, graphics, mind-the-slight, mix, web developers, windows, windows 7 news
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This week, during the MIX 10 conference, Microsoft will unveil many things regarding its new mobile platform, but on the desktop OS level there are many holding their breath for news about the next version of Internet Explorer. Will it be fast? Will it be compatible
March 16, 2010 - 9:41 pm
Tags: browser-as-long, Browsers, competition, desktop, during-the-mix, html5, internet, microsoft, through-the-cpu, windows, Windows 7
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This week, during the MIX 10 conference, Microsoft will unveil many things regarding its new mobile platform, but on the desktop OS level there are many holding their breath for news about the next version of Internet Explorer. Will it be fast
March 16, 2010 - 9:30 pm
Tags: country, entry, GPS, include-the-new, individual, iphone, ipod touch, live traffic, navigon, north, price, regional maps, user
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Filed under: iPhone If you’ve been lusting after the Navigon apps for your iPhone, the company has just released lower-priced regional versions that divide the country into three sections and let you add other parts of the U.S. with an in-app purchase.
March 16, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Tags: Browser, compatibility, competition, find-innovative, how-comfortable, internet explorer 9, internet-explorer, microsoft, platform-review, power, review, uses-the-power, windows, Windows 7, windows-vista
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Okay, not literally ‘cos you can’t really do that, but Microsoft today announced that you can indeed try its forthcoming IE9 browser, at least the guts of it. They’ve made a Platform Review available to download here . In short Microsoft want to show off the new technologies in the browser, including support for HTML5 and a rendering engine that uses the power of your PC’s graphics processor to load pages faster than ever before. In practice this really works too, in the unscientific tests I ran, pages loaded about 33% faster than in IE8, this is good and will certainly help make browsing more pleasurable for people.
Filed under: iPhone You might think you’ve got some PowerPoint skills, but check out what Screenr user slhice of Ice Ltd . has created . With some graphics work that might impress even a veteran Photoshop user, she’s assembled a great-looking iPhone template from scratch on a PowerPoint slide (she’s working in PPT 2007 on Windows, but you can probably replicate her steps in PPT 2008)
March 16, 2010 - 8:56 pm
Tags: Browsers, explorer, get-unexcited, internet, internet-explorer, internetexplorer, microsoft, mix10, morning, none-solid, posts-tagged, windows, windows-xp
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If this morning’s news of Internet Explorer 9’s support for HTML5 and video acceleration got you excited, and you happen to run Windows XP , prepare to get unexcited: You won’t be able to install it on your OS. Sorry! [ IE9 ] More
Anil Dash has
described how to run
Windows 7 on a Mac running OS 10.6 — as a virtual machine — for free (after you buy Windows 7, of course). It’s not very tricky and, according to Anil, works well. Start by installing Windows 7 in
Boot Camp and wait while it grabs the necessary drivers (the duration of this process will vary). 