Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Microsoft posts Windows 8 app porting guide roundup, forgets to include BASIC]]>http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/27/microsoft-posts-windows-8-app-porting-guide-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/27/microsoft-posts-windows-8-app-porting-guide-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/27/microsoft-posts-windows-8-app-porting-guide-roundup/#comments Microsoft posts Windows 8 app porting guide roundup, forgets to include BASIC

Let's say you're a developer eager to convert your apps for Windows 8 as soon as possible. Where do you start? Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jennifer Marsman is very much aware that you might be at a loss, so she has done the rather large favor of rounding up every porting guide the company has to offer in one handy place. Some of these are pure design guides, like a previously spotted iPad-to-Metro layout article, but others dig deep into converting code for the land of home tiles and charms. The focus is on porting from the web and Windows Phone 7, so we wouldn't work up hopes of bringing your high school computer class project to Metro. Still, Marsman is looking for more guides from readers; if you've developed just the technique to convert 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO 10 into a tablet-native Windows 8 app, return the generosity and leave pointers at the source link.

Microsoft posts Windows 8 app porting guide roundup, forgets to include BASIC originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 May 2012 02:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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At one time the Enyo app framework was supposed to help webOS run faster and on a wider variety of devices, but as HP continues to struggle, reports have surfaced from The Verge and AllThingsD that much of the team behind it, including leader Matthew McNulty, has been hired away by Google. Numbering a half dozen or so, the immediate danger is the effect this might have on HP's efforts to open source webOS, but in a statement the company indicated it remains on track and will stick to the roadmap it announced in January. Less clear is what these employees might end up working on for Google, although Enyo's focus on web apps and HTML5 suggests the possibility they'll end up working on ChromeOS projects.

Update: The remaining members of the Enyo team have also chimed in now, with a blog post indicating yes, some "key members" have left, but that "the majority of the engineering and leadership team remains." Of course, while it continues work on the product there are some job openings now, so interested coders are encouraged to toss an application HP's way.

Google snags the webOS Enyo team, HP says open source plans are still on schedule (Update) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 May 2012 02:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google just launched its Knowledge Graph, a tool intended to deliver more accurate information by analyzing the way users search. Of course, with a desire to provide better search results comes a need for improved site-reading capabilities. JavaScript and AJAX have traditionally put a wrench in Google bots' journey through a webpage, but it looks like the search engine has developed some smarter specimens. While digging through Apache logs, a developer spotted evidence that bots now execute the JavaScript they encounter -- and rather than just mining for URLS, the crawlers seem to be mimicking how users click on objects to activate them. That means bots can dig deeper into the web, accessing databases and other content that wasn't previously indexable. Looks like Google is one step closer to success on its quest to know everything.

Google bots learning to read webpages like humans, one step closer to knowing everything originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 May 2012 00:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mozilla demos WebRTC integration, browser-powered video chat (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mozilla is flexing its HTML5 muscles today, with a new game called BrowserQuest. Designed specifically for browser-based gaming, BrowserQuest brands itself as a "tribute to classic video games with a multiplayer twist." The game's plot is relatively routine -- warriors, hidden treasure, etc. -- but what's most interesting is its underlying architecture. Its 2D tile graphics engine is powered by HTML5 Canvas, with browser-to-server communications handled by WebSockets. Sound effects, meanwhile, are powered by HTML5 audio APIs, and each player's progress is saved using localStorage. The game also supports lots of simultaneous players, thanks to a JavaScript-coded backend that runs on Node.js. You can keep track of the player load in real-time at the BrowserQuest Dashboard (linked below). For more details, check out the source link at the bottom of the page, or click past the break for a brief demo video.

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Mozilla releases BrowserQuest for HTML5 gamers and warriors (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>browserbrowserquestcodegamegraphicshtml5html5 canvasHtml5Canvasjavascriptmozillamultiplayernode.jsvideowebWed, 28 Mar 2012 06:28:00 EST<![CDATA[Marvell launches Kinoma Play app platform for Android]]>http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/13/marvell-launches-kinoma-play-app-platform-for-android/http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/13/marvell-launches-kinoma-play-app-platform-for-android/http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/13/marvell-launches-kinoma-play-app-platform-for-android/#comments Almost a year has passed since we last saw Marvell's Kinoma platform in person, but the time has finally arrived for its release. We got the chance to sit down with Peter Hoddie, VP of the Kinoma Platform, to learn a little bit more about his software and what Kinoma can bring to your smartphone experience. First, a quick refresher. Kinoma Play is technically an app, but in reality it serves as an entirely new UI for your Android device running versions 2.1 and up. The platform currently has 50 of its own apps -- written in Kinoma Play Script, a Javascript language -- that are obtained through the Kinoma store, and these apps can be accessed on their own or through Play's unique dashboard system.

There are currently five dashboards: Play, Search, Places, Music, and Send, with more to come as users ask for them. These dashboards group related apps and allow you to access them simultaneously in a truncated, list form -- for instance, the search dashboard returns results from Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Bing, and any other Kinoma app you choose to add. In addition to those useful dashboards, the software improves the UX by simply speeding things up. It's a lightweight platform with small apps (many are only 100 - 150KB in size) that launch quickly and run smoothly. Still not sold? Head on past the break to see Peter walk us through a little bit of what Kinoma can do, and read on to learn more about the platform.

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Marvell launches Kinoma Play app platform for Android originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Been keeping up with Mozilla Labs' Apps project? Today the company's focused on developers, with pleasing news if you've been looking to get your app's feet wet in it. In the coming weeks at Mobile World Congress, the Firefox maker will finally open its self-titled Marketplace's doors for app submissions. If you're unfamiliar, Mozilla's been working to create an "operating system- and device-independent market," which will rely on the likes of HTML5, CSS and other open source materials -- Mozilla also plans to introduce its own APIs for apps, pending W3C approval. The end result will be the ability to use said apps without being locked down by your devices and their respective app stores. The store is set to open up for consumer consumption later in the year, so now's your chance to reserve your software's spot and name on the list. More details await in press release after the break and at source link below, while you get your code ready.

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Mozilla Labs Apps set to allow developer submissions for Mozilla Marketplace at MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google's Dart lands in Chromium tech preview originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Outlined during Microsoft's CES keynote earlier this week, gaming app Cut The Rope has had its journey to the world of HTML5 published for the masses. Tying together features like CSS3 styling and canvas-rendered graphics, the blog post details in cheery technical detail how creators ZeptoLab and Pixel Lab (not related) transferred the game from Objective-C to Javascript. Check the game for yourself down at the source and expect to see some extra levels designed especially for the browser platform. We'd love to play through those new levels, but we're all a little busy here...

Cut the Rope gets ported to HTML5, gets chronicled on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PhoneGap v1.3 brings better cross-platform app coding to Windows Phone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox 9 now available, boasts speedier JavaScript handling, Lion optimizations originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yifan Lu jailbreaks Kindle Touch, uses a special MP3 file to do so (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google's Native Client focuses on apps and games, brings Bastion to the browser (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony's latest Xperia update brings WebGL support to 2011 smartphone lineup (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S only began shipping this week, but a handful of early owners have already taken Apple's first A5-based smartphone for a test run, and they've got the benchmarks to prove it. The results, obtained by AnandTech, are hardly what we'd call shocking. In terms of Javascript performance (pictured above), the 4S measures up rather nicely against the Tegra 2-based Honeycomb competition, while out-dueling the iPhone 4 in overall CPU muscle. Geekbench results, meanwhile, clock the 4S at around 800MHz, with a score of 623. That's about 25 percent lower than the A5-based iPad 2, but notably higher than the iPhone 4 (see graphic, after the break). When it comes to GPU performance, GLBenchmark 2.1 tests in 1280 x 720, off-screen render mode place Apple's new handset well above the Galaxy S II, with scores of 122.7 and 67.1, respectively. It still trails the iPad 2, not surprisingly, but the 4S' scores show a major advantage over the iPhone 4, which registered a score of 15.3. For more statistics and graphics, check out the source link below.

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Benchmarks clock iPhone 4S' A5 CPU at 800MHz, show major GPU upgrade over iPhone 4 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google has brought its arm up, narrowed its focus and let Dart fly. The new programming language focuses on web apps, and the internet giant is hoping that Dart will feel "familiar and natural" to developers raised on a diet of rival programming languages. The ability to execute code in either a native virtual machine (which emulates how it'd work in real-life) or a JavaScript engine means that anything can be compiled to run on current web browsers. Dart devs are also exploring the idea of cramming a virtual machine inside future versions of Chrome. Eager coders can now get their teeth into all of Google's open source development tools by targeting the second source link below.

Google takes steady aim at web programming with Dart originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ChromeDartDart programming languageDartLangDartProgrammingLanguagegoogleGoogle Dartgoogle productsGoogleDartGoogleProductsjavaJavaScriptjavascript virtual machineJavascriptVirtualMachineprogrammingProgramming Languageprogramming languagesProgrammingLanguageProgrammingLanguagespythonspotstructured web programmingStructuredWebProgrammingMon, 10 Oct 2011 15:53:00 EST<![CDATA[Google set to introduce Dart, a new structured programming language]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/google-set-to-introduce-dart-a-new-structured-programming-langu/http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/google-set-to-introduce-dart-a-new-structured-programming-langu/http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/google-set-to-introduce-dart-a-new-structured-programming-langu/#comments It's a bird, it's a plane -- it's Dart, Google's soon-to-be-released computer language for structured web programming. Having hoarded dart-related URLs for the past couple of months, Google's confirmed the (previously) secret project on the Goto International Software Development conference website. A couple of Mountain View's finest will make the announcement official in the keynote at the event on October 10th, when presumably we'll find out what it can do. Dart makes a nice addition to Go, JavaScript and Python in Google's coding bag-o-tricks, but there's room for one more -- we're looking at you, Spot.

Google set to introduce Dart, a new structured programming language originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: Oops! Looks like WP7 is included! Our apologies, and feel free to celebrate accordingly.

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PhoneGap 1.0 lets devs write apps for seven platforms (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sun CEO's deleted blog post to help end Oracle vs Google patent dispute? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Staring at your smartphone, you realize that there's something missing. It does everything you want it to -- very well, we might add -- but what hole is left to fill? We'll help you out with this one: you want bragging rights. There has to be a way to face your friends with confidence, right? All you need is a little nudge in the right direction, and in this edition of Engadget Primed, we'll give you that much-needed shove by explaining benchmarks.

Perhaps you've seen us talk about benchmarks in our product reviews. We'll typically use them to gauge the relative performance of various devices, but discussing a Linpack score doesn't mean much without going deeper into what it actually means. What aspects of performance do these benchmarks measure, and what techniques do they use? How much can we rely on them when making purchasing decisions? Read on after the break for the full scoop.

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Engadget Primed: Using benchmarks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gallery: Vellamo

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Qualcomm launches Vellamo browser benchmark for Android devices originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>androidAndroid MarketAndroidMarketbenchmarkbenchmarksbrowserbrowsersGoogleJavaScriptmobile browsermobile browsersMobileBrowserMobileBrowsersNeocoreperformanceQualcommVellamovideoThu, 14 Jul 2011 18:59:00 EST<![CDATA[Google code reveals inner Circles, a social secret weapon?]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/23/google-code-reveals-inner-circles-a-social-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/23/google-code-reveals-inner-circles-a-social-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/23/google-code-reveals-inner-circles-a-social-secret-weapon/#comments Nothing livens the day like a blurry screen grab of some Javascript, especially when it hints at the ghostly form of a social networking tool that doesn't officially exist. The code was spotted hiding in plain sight at Google Profiles by Austrian blogger Florian Rohrweck, who fortunately enjoys browsing computer-speak more than playing in the park. Rohrweck noticed the word "circles" used repeatedly in the context of people adding and maintaining groups of contacts, and made the connection to the Google Circles social networking platform that was feverishly rumored and then vehemently denied earlier this year (a saga fully recapped at the More Coverage link). It's impossible to know whether these few lines of code represent a forthcoming service, another social layer on top of existing services, or just pure experimentation on the part of Google devs. In any case, the circular references have apparently now been zapped, leaving us with nothing more than that screen grab -- oh yeah, and Facebook.

Google code reveals inner Circles, a social secret weapon? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, you could use your printer to spit out spreadsheets, but how about hooking up a DualShock 3 to play it like a video game? That's exactly what Joshua Noble and the undef duo did during a workshop related to OFFF last week, and the result is stunning (if not hilarious). The trio coded a game in openFrameworks, titled Receipt Racer, which uses a thermal receipt printer modded with a "light beamer" to display game info and represent a car, a DS3 to control it, and a laptop to connect the devices and run the software. A random track with obstacles gets rapidly printed while a player attempts to navigate it without crashing -- sort of like Lane Splitter -- or until the paper roll runs out after 164 feet. There's a tree-loving web browser version and the full details of how it works in the source link below. We scored just over 1,400 1,752 points; let us know how you do in the comments.

[Thanks, Jesse]

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Receipt Racer makes printing fun, wastes more paper than you ever thought possible (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mozilla's Webian Shell interface will cloak your OS in a browser (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tired of playing around with Android apps in your web browser courtesy of Amazon's virtual machine? Well, thanks to super hero programmer Fabrice Bellard, you can now try your hand at something a little more challenging. "For fun," he built a complete PC emulator in JavaScript, and then used it to run a fully functioning version of Linux in a web browser. How did it turn out? You can hit up the source link below to try it out for yourself.

[Thanks, el burro]

Fabrice Bellard builds PC emulator in JavaScript to run Linux in a browser originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 May 2011 13:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>bellardbrowseremulatorfabrice bellardFabriceBellardjavascriptlinuxpc emulatorPcEmulatorprogrammerprogrammingweb browserWebBrowserFri, 20 May 2011 13:53:00 EST<![CDATA[Web apps found to be lacking Safari's speed bump in iOS 4.3]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/16/web-apps-found-to-be-lacking-safaris-speed-bump-in-ios-4-3/http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/16/web-apps-found-to-be-lacking-safaris-speed-bump-in-ios-4-3/http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/16/web-apps-found-to-be-lacking-safaris-speed-bump-in-ios-4-3/#comments Well, it looks like you weren't imagining things if you thought in-app browsers or web apps saved to your iPhone's home screen seemed slower than Safari itself. Ars Technica has now confirmed that pages or web apps loaded using those methods aren't receiving the JavaScript boost added to Safari in iOS 4.3, which the site found to be about 2.5 times faster than Safari in iOS 4.2. The problem is that those apps don't have the necessary permissions to execute dynamically generated native code stored in writeable memory (as Safari does), which basically leaves them running at the same speed they did in iOS 4.2. Not surprisingly, that has prompted some to speculate that it's all part of a grand plan on Apple's part to force developers to use full-fledged apps instead of mobile apps, but Ars Technica points out that it could just as easily be due to some technical problems. Hit up the source link below for all the technical details.

Web apps found to be lacking Safari's speed bump in iOS 4.3 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Alternatively, paste the following Javascript into a bookmark, and then click it when you're tiring of a page.
javascript:var i,s,ss=['http://kathack.com/js/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];
for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);

Katamari Hack rolls across your favorite websites, leaving swath of HTML5 destruction in its wake originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Internet Explorer 9 RC causing Netflix errors in Windows Media Center? Here's a fix originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe outs experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool, calls it Wallaby originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTML5, JavaScript and a tiny pinch of Flash. Those are your ingredients for building one of the neatest, simplest websites we've come across in a long time. Conductor, as its maker Alexander Chen dubs it, is a visualization built on New York's publicly available subway schedule API. It shows the progress of the Big Apple's underground carriers throughout the day and garnishes the experience with a delightful musical trick every time two lines cross. You can see it on video after the break or just hit the source link and experience it for yourself.

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New York subway schedule turned into a beautiful, musical visualization (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple iAds Producer helps you produce iAds for iOS devices originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTML5 prettifies fan-made Tron trailer... in real time! (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: If you're willing to step outside of the developer-friendly borders of open-source software then you'll want to check out Evoluce's gesture solution based on the company's Multitouch Input Management (MIM) driver for Kinect. The most impressive part is its support for simultaneous multitouch and multiuser control of applications (including those using Flash and Java) running on a Windows 7 PC. Evoluce promises to release software "soon" to bridge Kinect and Windows 7. Until then be sure to check both of the impressive videos after the break.

[Thanks, Leakcim13]

Continue reading Kinect hacks let you control a web browser and Windows 7 using only The Force (updated)

Kinect hacks let you control a web browser and Windows 7 using only The Force (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>computer visionComputerVisiondepthjsevolucefluid interfaces groupFluidInterfacesGroupgesturehackhomebrewjavascriptkinectmedia labMediaLabmicrosoftmitmit media labMitMediaLabmultipersonmultiplayermultitouchMultitouch Input ManagementMultitouchInputManagementmultiuservideowindows 7Windows7xbox 360Xbox360Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:56:00 EST<![CDATA[Game Boy emulator being developed in JavaScript by a very smart person]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/game-boy-emulator-being-developed-in-javascript-by-a-very-smart/http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/game-boy-emulator-being-developed-in-javascript-by-a-very-smart/http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/game-boy-emulator-being-developed-in-javascript-by-a-very-smart/#comments Sure, it's one thing to build a Game Boy emulator out of what is typically viewed as a limited-purpose language for enhancing website interactivity for the usual emulator-building reasons: you like video games, you're trying to impress the ladies. But just to prove a point? Imran Nazar is building a Game Boy emulator out of JavaScript to show how far the language has come, particularly with the fancy new stuff HTML5's <canvas> tag allows for, and to see if it would be possible to fully emulate a Game Boy from the CPU up. Sure, HTML5 has already proven useful for straight games, but an entire architecture? Turns out, it's pretty possible, and Imran has an excellent multi-part tutorial for how he's doing it. Right now there's a nearly playable version of Tetris, and pretty soon we'll all be playing Zelda in our web browsers and that time when we tried to build an HTML table from scratch to show a few of our favorite animated GIFs on our GeoCities page will only be a distant memory...

Game Boy emulator being developed in JavaScript by a very smart person originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>browserbrowser emulatorBrowserEmulatorcanvascanvas tagCanvasTagemulatorgame boygame boy emulatorGameBoyGameBoyEmulatorhtml5javascriptWed, 10 Nov 2010 11:44:00 EST<![CDATA[The story behind the Twitter worm]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/22/the-story-behind-the-twitter-worm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/22/the-story-behind-the-twitter-worm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/22/the-story-behind-the-twitter-worm/#comments
When we heard about this malicious JavaScript code that hit Twitter yesterday, we were kind of relieved: perhaps it was nature's way of ridding us of celebrity micro-bloggers. But as the day went on, it seemed that even if this were the case, a sordid tale was emerging: apparently the whole thing began with a Norwegian programmer named Magnus Holm, who had experimented with a flaw in Twitter's website that let users execute code on a mouseover. His version of the code simply replicated itself: "The purpose was simply to see if it was possible to create a worm," he told The New York Times, adding that he was surprised it had spread as quickly as it did. "Because it was very easy to delete the Tweet that contained the worm, I expected that everyone would just delete it the moment they realized that they've been 'infected.'" But soon enough, folks were updating the code for malicious purposes, including redirects to spam sites and, perhaps worst of all, Rickrolling. By 8:30 AM President Obama's Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had inadvertently sent the thing out to his followers, and by 10:00 AM (when Twitter had patched the hole) an estimated 200,000-plus users had been hit. Fortunately, it looks like things are back to normal, which reminds us: @justinbieber hasn't tweeted for over twenty-four hours. We hope he's OK!

The story behind the Twitter worm originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>codeexploitflawhackhackingjavascriptonmouseoverredirectscriptscriptingsecuritytwitterxssWed, 22 Sep 2010 18:42:00 EST<![CDATA['Rainbow tweets' start hammering Twitter after onMouseOver exploit discovered]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/rainbow-tweets-start-hammering-twitter-after-onmouseover-explo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/rainbow-tweets-start-hammering-twitter-after-onmouseover-explo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/rainbow-tweets-start-hammering-twitter-after-onmouseover-explo/#comments Oh dear. Some wise guys have discovered a JavaScript exploit in Twitter's web interface, which uses an onMouseOver instruction to hijack your own tweeting voice and force you to say things you don't want to say. Simply put, hovering on some of these colorful new tweets can result in you tweeting out the spammiest spam you ever did tweet. So, as with Tetris, be wary of those blocks of color, they are the harbingers of doom. And until the Twitter crew wrap their brains around sealing this vulnerability off, we'd recommend just using any of the cornucopia of Twitter apps floating about in the webosphere.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: The Twitgineers are already dealing with the issue and are rolling out a patch that should span the entire Twitterverse before too long.

'Rainbow tweets' start hammering Twitter after onMouseOver exploit discovered originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>codeexploitflawhackhackingjavascriptonmouseoverredirectscriptscriptingsecuritytwitterxssTue, 21 Sep 2010 08:43:00 EST<![CDATA[Opera gets serious about TV widget content, releases CDK]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/opera-gets-serious-about-tv-widget-content-releases-cdk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/opera-gets-serious-about-tv-widget-content-releases-cdk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/opera-gets-serious-about-tv-widget-content-releases-cdk/#comments Norwegian software company Opera first waded into the TV app game when they released an SDK for widgets back in 2008. Now they've taken another serious step by releasing the Opera Devices Content Development Kit to help HTML, CSS, XML, and Javascript savvy developers create content using technologies they're already versed in. For those who don't live and breathe in The Matrix, Opera's hope is to lower the barriers of entry for bringing online content into the living room, since the software eliminates the need for physical devices to test on. It also supports W3C, HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV), OIPF, and CEA-2014 specifications -- meaning it's capable of running on a wide range of hardware from variety of manufacturers. For more details read the PR after the break or watch Opera's video from 2009 on the subject, which unfortunately isn't on par with its previous potato boiling jabs at Google. Still, learning about "Oprah's" new widgets makes it definitely worth a watch.

Continue reading Opera gets serious about TV widget content, releases CDK

Opera gets serious about TV widget content, releases CDK originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>CDKCEA-2014CSSdevelopementdevelopersHbbTVHTMLHTML 5Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TVHybridBroadcastBroadbandTvinternet widgetsInternetWidgetsJavaScriptOIPFOperaOpera CDKOpera Content Development KitOpera Devices SDKOpera Widgets SDKSDKtv widgetsTvWidgetsvideoW3CWidgetsyahoo widgetsYahooWidgetsMon, 13 Sep 2010 04:39:00 EST<![CDATA[Firefox Tab Candy groups your tabs, but that's just for starters (video)]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/firefox-tab-candy-groups-your-tabs-but-thats-just-for-starters/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/firefox-tab-candy-groups-your-tabs-but-thats-just-for-starters/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/firefox-tab-candy-groups-your-tabs-but-thats-just-for-starters/#comments Although Firefox already has a strong selection of tab management helpers like TooManyTabs, which gives you extra rows and memory-preserving options, or Tree Style Tab, which shifts things to a tree-based vertical menu, Mozilla has rolled up its scaly sleeves and decided to rethink the whole thing. Tab Candy starts off much like Safari's TabExposé, by showing you all the tabs you currently have open in thumbnail form, but from there it allows you to organize them into separate groups (with sub-groups promised for the future), which then act in very much the same way as opening a new Firefox window. Yes, it's folders within the browser, and it's all based on good old fashioned HTML, CSS and JavaScript, so no pesky additional downloads will be required once this Alpha-stage code gets added to Firefox's official release. If you want to give it an early spin, hit the source link below, but don't neglect the video after the break to see what else Mozilla is thinking of cooking up with Tab Candy.

Continue reading Firefox Tab Candy groups your tabs, but that's just for starters (video)

Firefox Tab Candy groups your tabs, but that's just for starters (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>alphaaza raskinAzaRaskinbrowsercandycssfffirefoxfirefox 4Firefox4htmljavascriptmozillaorganizationorganizerstackstackstabtab candytab grouptab groupstab managementtab managerTabCandyTabGroupTabGroupsTabManagementTabManagertabsvideoweb browserWebBrowserMon, 26 Jul 2010 04:14:00 EST<![CDATA[Android 2.2 (Froyo) versus iOS 4: the browser showdown (video)]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/froyo-versus-ios-4-the-browser-showdown-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/froyo-versus-ios-4-the-browser-showdown-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/froyo-versus-ios-4-the-browser-showdown-video/#comments A little while back Google boldly claimed that Froyo would have the world's fastest mobile browser, but the lack of final software back then meant we'd had to tie up our itchy hands until now. And boy, it sure looks like it was worth the wait -- Ars Technica's JavaScript benchmarks show that not only is Froyo's browser almost three times faster than its Éclair counterpart, but it also beats iOS 4's Safari by at least two-fold. That said, numbers alone don't always reflect real-life performance -- especially with Froyo supporting iPhone's much-missed Flash -- so we went ahead and conducted our own browser speed test. Read on for our videos and results after the jump.

Update: for those who were concerned about the battery affecting the Nexus One's performance, we did use Android System Info to verify that the CPU was still clocked at 1GHz. We were also able to reproduce the same results with a full battery. Either way, it's still a win for Android.

Continue reading Android 2.2 (Froyo) versus iOS 4: the browser showdown (video)

Android 2.2 (Froyo) versus iOS 4: the browser showdown (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>androidandroid 2.2Android2.2applebenchmarkbrowsercomparisonfroyogooglehands-onios 4Ios4iphone 4Iphone4javascriptnexus oneNexusOnesafarivideowebkitWed, 07 Jul 2010 13:56:00 EST<![CDATA[Apple puts HTML5 where its mouth is]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/04/apple-puts-html5-where-its-mouth-is/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/04/apple-puts-html5-where-its-mouth-is/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/04/apple-puts-html5-where-its-mouth-is/#comments Looking for even more HTML5 samples to see what all the fuss is about? Good, 'cause Apple just went live with its HTML5 showcase page. Naturally, it took a veiled jab at Flash in the process:
"Standards aren't add-ons to the web. They are the web."
Samples include video, typography, photo galleries, transitions, audio, 360 degree object manipulation, and VR implementations including the source code so devs can tinker around for themselves. Now hit up the source for a taste.

Update: Apple's offering a developer link that lets you play with the demos in Google's Chrome browser.

Apple puts HTML5 where its mouth is originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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