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iPhone 1.1.1 AppTapp Manual Install

October 13th, 2007 · No Comments

For those who cannot wait for an AppTapp 1.1.1 Update
See our Install AppTapp 3.0 beta in iPhone 1.1.1 without Command Line tutorial←
Certainly, at this moment, we can only assume that Nullriver is busy updating their AppTapp installer to integrate the revised jailbreak and install procedure required with the iPhone 1.1.1 software update. Only in [...]

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Will iPhone Ever Run Flash?

August 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Specula-palooza
Risking iPhone coverage overexposure, today we ponder one of the most interesting questions about the future of Flash, iPhone and web standards. Despite assurances by Uncle Walt that Apple and Adobe are hard at work on a Flash Player for iPhone, plenty of naysayers, skeptics, and player-haters have voiced strong speculations that Flash will never [...]

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Adobe DevNet Article Publishing Soon

August 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Article to be published on Adobe Developer Center
Packing Lite: Getting Started Designing Interfaces for Mobile Media
I wrote an article/tutorial for Adobe’s Developer Center to be published at the end of August covering how to get started designing interfaces in Flash Lite on Nokia Series 60 devices. It details how to get equipped for mobile media [...]

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iPhone 1.1 Software Update Imminent, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 Bug Fixes and Improvements Emerging

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

iPhone 1.1?According to Apple’s VP of iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, via AppleInsider→, the first free software update for the iPhone should be available shortly.

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Memex, The Dawn of Informatics

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

“AS WE MAY THINK” BY DR. VANNEVAR BUSH

Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly→,As We May Think→” (July, 1945), a member of the Manhattan Project proposes the [tag]Memex[/tag]↔, a sort of microfilm-based knowledge desk. Many consider the Memex to be the pre-digital precursor to the idea of the Web and Internet as we know it today. It may reflect the dawn of the information age.

Memex diagramDr. Vannevar Bush, creator of the MemexMemex camera diagram

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