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Twitter apps now have people search, thanks to a new API

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Social Software, Microblogging Third-party Twitter apps have access to nearly all of Twitter's functions. Even the new lists feature and the new retweet format can be supported by any ambitious developer. It's sort of strange then, that Twitter's people search is just now getting an API. Now that this missing API is finally here, the ability to search for users should be po...     11-18
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A list of dumb things to check

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Blogging, TroubleshootingWe've all been there; we've got a problem with our server, laptop, PC, website, or blog, and have tried to solve it for hours with no success. At some point, we reach that point where we're absolutely certain that it's just some dumb thing that we're overlooking or forgetting to check. If you've ever found yourself in that situation, you'll probably...     11-18
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Kiosk mode added in Chromium nightly build

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Google, Open Source, Beta, Browsers Developers have a number of features they still want implemented in Google Chrome. In a recent nightly build of Chromium, one that I've seen requested numerous times on the official mailing lists has finally landed.Kiosk mode has arrived in Chromium, though it's an awful lot like full screen mode. In fact, Mohamed Mansour says as much in ...     11-13
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Tutorial9 offering free icon sets, Wordpress and Tumblr themes

Download Squad -- Filed under: Design, Developer Freebie downloads are always welcome. By a happy coincidence, Tutorial9 is offering a 25Mb download until November 26th, 2009 which contains four Wordpress themes, three Tumblr themes, and a whole slew of icons.Better still, the whole package can be used for commercial purposes. There's plenty of good quality stuff inside, from the grungy sticker icons above to the c...     11-11
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Mobile Minute: Open GL and Flash support coming soon to your Blackberry

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, OS Updates, BlackBerry, Mobile Minute Not being pretty and white, nor slender, shiny and fashionable, the BlackBerry devices don't get as much attention as its SoCal sister the iPhone. But that doesn't mean the clever folks over at RIM aren't busy developing and releasing exciting new technologies for their latest OS 5.0 devices! You just don't hear about them quite so ofte...     11-11
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Unreal Engine developer kit now freely downloadable

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Games In BIG news -- really, this is the kind of thing that could change the landscape of casual and indie games for ever (and for good!) -- the Unreal Developer Kit (UDK) is now available from Nvidia.The Unreal Engine has historically been very hard to get your hands on with large license fees and other barriers to entry. And now, just like that, it's being made freely ava...     11-07
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Facebook Chat gets XMPP, catches up with AIM, Google Talk and MSN

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Social SoftwareFacebook Chat has been a bit slow to catch on. Since it's been relegated to being opened from the web in a Facebook Tab, it hasn't been able to compete with chat services that have their own dedicated clients, like AIM, MSN and Yahoo. Although some third-party apps - like Adium - have made the extra effort to support Facebook Chat, it's not widespread. That's...     11-07
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Flickr collects cool photo apps in its new App Garden

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Photo Flickr has an open and very powerful API that's been around since 2004. Five years later, developers have built an enormous number of great apps and cool toys for Flickr. Now you can browse and discover Flickr apps in one central location, the new App Garden. Apps in the garden range from stats to importing/exporting to integration with other sites. Although Flickr ha...     11-05
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FeedDemon no longer owned by NewsGator

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Blogging, Google, Commercial, Freeware, Analysis, iPhoneThe story of how NewsGator attempted to corner the market on consumer RSS has taken another strange turn. In an interview with Steven Hodson published on Hodson's Shooting at Bubbles site, Bradbury admits that he is no longer employed by NewsGator, but has retained the full rights to his popular FeedDemon RSS reader. N...     11-02
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Adobe AIR 2.0 will hog less memory and add multitouch support

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Adobe If you use Adobe AIR apps on a regular basis, you have a lot to look forward to in AIR 2.0. The next version of Adobe's cross-platform app framework adds a bunch of little tweaks and a few major ones, including support for multitouch and gestures. Maybe even more importantly, AIR apps now won't suck up your CPU cycles and memory at such an absurd rate. A full list of ...     10-31
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Google Wave will have an App Store too!

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Internet, Web services, Google, Open SourceIn rather exciting (though perhaps predictable) news, Google has announced that there will be an official Wave App Store! There are still very few people using Wave, but hopefully you've all watched the Wave technology demo and been suitably impressed, or even dribbled a little if you're like me. I'm sure as the codebase solidifies...     10-27
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Mockflow: web-based, real-time, collaborative wireframing

Download Squad -- Filed under: Design, Developer, Web services, WebA key part of interface design is an exercise known as "wireframing." In this design phase, elements of an interface are blocked out roughly to show relative placement, interaction, and functionality. It is a rapid way to talk through functional requirements of a project and get buy-in from stakeholders without having to waste a lot of time on visua...     10-22
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Adobe Browserlab open for business

Download Squad -- Filed under: Design, Developer, Productivity, Web services, Adobe, Web Several months ago Jay pointed to Browserlab, a very useful new service for Web developers from Adobe. Browserlab allows you to view a Web page in multiple versions of the most latest browsers. Since cross browser testing is perhaps the most painful part of Web development, any service that aids in this task is very welcome. Th...     10-22
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Troubleshooting with your Teddy Bear

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Fun, Troubleshooting, Humor My buddy Dave once shared with me a bit of computing wisdom which I've since found invaluable. "Proper troubleshooting requires a Teddy Bear."As it was told to me -- long ago in a university computer lab not so far away -- there was a sysadmin who became frustrated with the number of questions he was asked by student developers. It wasn't that th...     10-17
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Firefly is the game you control with a candle. Wait, what?

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Fun, Games, Linux I've read about using candles as a replacement for your Wii's sensor bar before, but what about the other end of the gaming input equation? Say what? The controller. How about using the candle as a controller? Who gives a crap if there's a slight risk of spilling a little hot wax on your hand during game play? No real man cares, that's for sure. In fact, t...     10-17
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Frustrated EEEUbuntu dev says "Ubuntu sucks."

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Linux, CanonicalUbuntu certainly has its fans - perhaps more than any other Linux distro. One person you can rest assured isn't part of that group: EEEUbuntu developer Andrew Wyatt. In case you aren't familiar with the project, EEEUbuntu is a customized Linux distro tailored to Asus' line of netbooks.It was a SourceForge community choice award winner this year - for best ne...     10-17
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Wolfram Alpha gets an iPhone app and a developer API

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Web services, SearchWolfram Alpha was hyped as better than Google for finding certain info, especially in the areas of math and science computation, but the hype died down a bit when people realized that it was finicky and a bit tricky to use. Wolfram Alpha hasn't gone away, though. In fact, they've just announced an API for developers and a new iPhone app. It's quite possi...     10-16
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RSS and SimplePie makes for PHP developer heaven

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Open SourceThis is definitely one for the developers amongst you, but if you're developing an application in PHP and need to handle the reading of RSS feeds, SimplePie is a god-send. Some folks will point you in the direction of PHP5's built-in SimpleXML module, however it's highly intolerant of malformed XML - and certainly doesn't have any extra features such as caching t...     10-11
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Eolas v. Everyone you've ever heard of

Download Squad -- Filed under: Business, Developer, Web services, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, web 2.0Tireless patent troll Intellectual Property holder Eolas has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against, well.. nearly everyone. The issue at hand deals with two patents in Eolas' possession -- the first of which was the subject of a successful lawsuit against Microsoft back in 200...     10-07
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Adobe Flash CS5 converts Flash to iPhone apps

Download Squad -- Filed under: Developer, Games, Adobe Flash is coming to the iPhone! Well, sort of. Adobe is showing off a new feature of Flash CS5 Professional that will convert Flash/Actionscript into iPhone apps. The public beta of CS5 with Flash Platform is due out later this year, but for now, you can test out some iPhone games that were created with the new system. For comparison, check out the puzzle game C...     10-07
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