Tuesday, April 20, 2010

IPHONE!!

You are now reading about Apple's next iPhone. Yes, it's true, it was found lost in a bar in Redwood City. Gizmodo bought it and disassembled it. The question that you're all probably wondering is what's new? What's so great about this new iPhone?
  • Front-facing video chat camera
  • Improved regular back-camera (larger lens).
  • Camera flash
  • Micro- SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
  • Improved display. It's unclear if its the 960x640 display thrown around before.
  • Secondary mic for noise cancellation at the top
  • Split buttons for volume.
  • The back is entirely flat.
  • An aluminum border going completely around the outside
  • More squared
  • 3 grams heavier
  • 16% larger batter
Watch the video(s) at:
http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

Thursday, April 15, 2010


Twitter has more than 105 million registered users. The tally: 105, 779, 710 is significantly more than outside analysts had estimated. The company also says it's adding 300,000 accounts per day with much of its growth coming from outside the United States. The number doesn't address how many of those accounts are active. It comes after month of outside speculation that the number of monthly visitors to Twitter's main page had peaked after astronomical growth in early 2009. Twitter is a social networking service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Take any celebrity. Take John Legend, he has 1,808,572 followers on Twitter. His most recent tweet was:

When you put '@' in front of something and you type in the name of another account, you tag them in a post which notifies the user. There is even a Twitter page for Twitter itself. So, if you want to know what your favorite celeb is up to, join Twitter today, and tweet away!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

REALbasic was created by Andrew Barry. It was originally called CrossBasic due to its ability to compile the same programming code for Mac OS and Java. In 1997 CrossBasic was purchased by PYI Software which renamed it REALbasic as well as renaming the company REAL software. At this time they dropped the Jave target, later replacing it with a Windows target and database support. The IDE is now available for Microsoft and can compile applications for Windows, Mac OS X.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Want a personalized web browser? Here is a way to do it, with REALbasic 2008 (Note that this won't work on versions of REALbasic that don't have a HTML viewer)

  1. 1
    Drag a editField, a PushButton, and a HTML viewer to the window editor
  2. 2
    Put the editField in the Top Left corner of the window
  3. 3
    Put the pushButton in the Top Right corner
  4. 4
    Put the HTML viewer in below the editField and pushButton
  5. 5
    Click on the editField and look to the right of the window, change EditField1 to Location
  6. 6
    Click on the pushButton and change its name to LoadPage
  7. 7
    Click on the HTMLviewer and change it's name to Browser
  8. 8
    Check all four of the "Lock" checkboxes on the HTMLviewers properties
  9. 9
    Check LockTop and LockRight on the pushButton properties
  10. 10
    Check LockLeft, LockTop and LockRight on the editfield settings
  11. 11
    Change the PushButton caption from "Untitled" to "Go"
  12. 12
    Enter the following code into the "Go" Button (Double-Click on it): Browser.LoadURL Location.Text
  13. 13
    That's it! You're all done! Personalize your browser by putting pictures on the window!