Think we’d all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn’t exactly a clear winner. The tests weren’t completely scientific, but they did find that HTML5 clearly performed better than Flash 10 or 10.1 in Safari on a Mac, although the differences were less clear cut in Google Chrome or Firefox.
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HTML5 vs. Flash comparison finds a few surprises, settles few debates
Not too long ago , David Finland built a device capable of communicating with just about any model of iPod via the dock connector using an Arduino Nano , PodGizmo breakout board, an old USB iPod connector, and a momentary switch. While it may not sound like a big deal, there is more to it than one might think: namely programming a device (in this case the Arduino Nano) to be able to receive, interpret, and respond to messages sent from an iPod.? This means teaching it to speak Apple Accessory Protocol and, although proprietary in nature, it has been fairly well documented around the Internet .?Finland?slung some code so that his iPod touch was hooked up to one of the famous Staples Easy buttons in his car.
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Code library gives homebrew iPod remotes chance for awesome
SAN FRANCISCO — At a GDC event today, Sony showed off its new PlayStation Move controller, along with a number of games.
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Hands-on with Sony’s new PlayStation Move motion controller
By now, it’s practically a mantra that the biggest problem with corporate IT security is the employees themselves. However, we usually assume that’s due to ignorant users or poorly enforced policies
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Bad employee! 12% knowingly violate company IT policies
Street Fighter IV is now available on Apple’s App Store; you can pick it up right now for $10 if you’d like to see what Capcom can do with Apple’s hardware. Capcom also threw quite the party at GDC, allowing the press and community some hands-on time with the game.
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Street Fighter IV: as good as you can expect on the iPhone
A paper published in Nature Materials this week details a new method for using nanotubes to generate significant amounts of power, at least for their size. When multi-walled carbon nanotubes are covered with a material that produces an exothermic reaction, the nanotubes help conduct the heat in one focused direction. To the apparent surprise of the researchers, this created an electrical pulse, a quick surge of power, that could be put to a number of uses
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Nanotubes help create thermopower waves
Filed under: Gaming , Software , iPhone , App Store Tonight at GDC 2010 , I went out and stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here in San Francisco, and while there, Capcom projected the actual App Store interface for sending their Street Fighter IV app to the App Store on various screens around the room. We actually got to see them press the button on the release live and in person, and sure enough, the game is in the App Store right now for $9.99.
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GDC 2010: Street Fighter IV for the iPhone out now
Apple subsidiary FileMaker has released version 11 of its flagship FileMaker Pro database. The updated software purports to make building and maintaining databases even easier, while acknowledging that many users are accustomed to using spreadsheets for database purposes by including pivot table-like reporting and Excel-like charting features. FileMaker Pro Server has also been updated, dropping the simultaneous client access limit for the Advanced version
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FileMaker Pro goes to 11, admits people like spreadsheets
