Category | Applications

One-Click Online App-Installer from AllMyApps. Your Feedback Will Help MID/UMPC users.

Posted on 10 December 2009

AllMyApps, with the support of Intel, have launched a helpful one-click online app installer for small-screen windows devices which looks like it might make a nice stop gap during the wait for the real applications store.

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Intel Application Developer Store SDK (Alpha) Released for Windows and Moblin

Posted on 10 November 2009

Back at IDF in September we heard a lot about how Intel would be bringing an app store to Windows and Moblin-based netbooks. The Apps store is due to launch early in 2010 but if you want to get a…

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N900 Web Browsing (+Video)

Posted on 11 October 2009

One of the key focal-points of the N900, and one it does better than any other smartphone I’ve seen to date, is the browsing experience. Fast, reliable and supporting a full flash plugin on an 800×480 screen with finger-focused controls…

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Update on Fennec from the Maemo Summit

Posted on 09 October 2009

Mozilla are here at the Maemo summit and are presenting information on Fennec, the weave, plugin and awesome bar-enabled mobile version of Firefox.

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Video: Intel asks me (tough questions) about the IADP.

Posted on 07 October 2009

Talk about being put on the spot! Just hours after the announcement of the Intel Atom Developer Program, Ajay Mungara, the Community Manager for the program, asks me about the type of applications we might see on netbooks, the compelling…

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Intel announces an app store for Moblin (better news than it might seem)

Posted on 24 September 2009

Chippy wrote about it not long ago and it looks like he was right on the money. At IDF 2009, Intel has announced the Intel Atom Developer Program, the ‘app store’ framework for mobile atom products.

Don’t…

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Intel Atom Developer Program (app store framework) Announced.

Posted on 22 September 2009

At last, after keeping away from the idea of an app store, Intel have announced the Intel Atom Developer Program for the Moblin OS.

This is something I wrote about last month.

Opera Next. The next generation of mobile browsing?

Posted on 14 September 2009

It’s a question that Opera is going to answer very soon. The next generation in mobile browsing. There are few clues from Opera as to what it could be but Will Park of Into Mobile has had a preview and he says that the headline will soon make sense. The puzzle is gradually being completed (the image is being completed) as time goes on at the Opera teaser site.

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Crayon Physics Deluxe video demo [touchscreen friendly game]

Posted on 12 August 2009

I know its been a while, but I’ve been waiting to get my hands on a full tablet PC so that I could do better demos than simply using my Sony VAIO UX180 and showing you what’s happening using…

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Fennec. Beta 2 for Maemo. Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile

Posted on 29 June 2009

If I was running the Fennec project, I’d be thinking carefully about accelerating development for more than just the Maemo platform too! Its not that Maemo is a dying OS (although at this point you could say that Maemo…

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Thoughts on proxy browsers.

Posted on 31 March 2009

This post is based on some notes I made in 2008. Following the release of the Opera 10 ‘Turbo’ preview client and the announcement of Opera Mobile 9.7 with ‘Turbo’ (Proxy) option I thought it would make sense to publish the notes.

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Turbo-Enabled Opera 10 Preview Available

Posted on 27 March 2009

I love the community we have here.  Just 60 minutes after posting about Opera Mobile 9.7 and mentioning that it would be interesting to have a desktop version with Turbo, Hrundik drops a comment in to say “Opera Turbo…

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Opera Mobile 9.7 with ‘Turbo’ option announced.

Posted on 26 March 2009

The Opera 9.6 SDK, released last year, included a little feature that a lot of people missed…

Also worth mentioning here is that Opera have announced the 9.6 SDK which supports some cool new stuff including the…

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Will server-side computing turn our netbooks into gaming machines?

Posted on 25 March 2009

An interesting story over at Kotaku talks about a new service called OnLive. The vision of OnLive is to bring processing intensive gaming to low end hardware, a sort of on-demand gaming service.

The way it works is…

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3-years ago. A Look Back at the Origami Buzz.

Posted on 24 February 2009

Three years ago today, Microsoft’s Origamiproject.com went live as a teaser website. [See original teaser page] One of the people to spot it was ‘Designtastesgood‘ who appears to have lit the fuse by sending a link…

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Opera. Turbo-Charged and LiMo luvin!

Posted on 16 February 2009

I just wanted to round-up a couple of Opera-related news items that have come through the wires over the last few days. The first is an announcement about a ‘Opera Turbo’ and the second is an announcement that Opera are…

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Amazon Game Downloads and millions of ‘No-CD’ netbook owners.

Posted on 05 February 2009

Well done Amazon. At last an easy to-use selection of ‘no-CD’ games that you can download, test and buy from your mobile PC.

Amazon launched their Game Downloads section on Tuesday. It’s a new section of Amazon.com that allows…

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