Mobile Mainframe

Adobe have launced an online version of Photoshop that is Flash based. It's actually quite good for casual use and a good example of what Flash can do. It would be more than fine for many peoples needs and great for education where you may not have a photo editing tool installed on the computer labs PC's. You can give it a test drive here.

Sometimes I like to kid myself that I have some spare time and Dans Simple RSS Reader is the result! While there are a ton of RSS readers already out there, I always end up being frustrated with them, because they have a feature missing or more likely too many features! So I decided to create a simple RSS Reader that I could use across my intranet, that was database driven and had a simple, but effective group of tools for keeping up to date on the blogs and websites I like to read. Nothing fancy, just something quick and easy to use, that would synchronise my feeds across multiple PC's.

Well today it came to life for the first time! Ok it has some rough spots and needs a few more features put in the code, which becomes rather obvious when you see I only have a file menu! :), but it does work and progress was good over the last couple of days. I reckon another couple of solid days work should see it in good enough shape that I can use it as my daily reader. When it gets to that point, I'll make it available to anyone who might want to try it.

Anyway here is a screenshot I took of it today. More news when I get a chance to work some more on it.

The BBC Micro or 'Beeb' wasn’t widely known in Australia, but it certainly was an important story in the adoption of the PC. It was a unique product that came out of a unique cooperation of a British microcomputer maker, the national broadcaster and hundreds of school teachers across the UK. The goal was simple – to educate people about what a PC was and teach them how to use one through television shows and schools across the country, using an affordable microcomputer that parents could buy for their children and themselves.

I don’t think any other country had such an organised and frankly clever program such as this. You can read more about the reunion and see a video here.

Just watching the videos from Mix 08 and in particular the demo's for Silverlight. Microsofts Flash/Flex killer.

Wether you like MS or not, this technology is going to be huge on the Internet and the WPF equivalent on Windows will be just as big. Whatever Web 3.0 is suppose to be, you can guarantee that Silverlight will be a big part of it. It's that significant.

Dan