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30 Mar 2015
Google and SPARK are putting notable women on the map
Google and SPARK are putting notable women on the map Google and the SPARK movement have teamed up to put women from history back on the map. SPARK stands for Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance and Knowledge. It’s an organization that encourages healthy sexuality and promotes gender equality in all areas, including on the Web. Did you
30 Mar 2015
Google’s new Data Saver extension for Chrome compresses pages to save on bandwidth
Google’s new Data Saver extension for Chrome compresses pages to save on bandwidth Google recently launched a new Chrome browser extension in beta that reduces your data usage. Dubbed Data Saver, the extension uses Google’s data compression proxy service to optimize pages before serving them to your browser. It doesn’t work with SSL and incognito
30 Mar 2015
Google Maps for Android now lets you view custom maps
Google Maps for Android now lets you view custom maps ogle Maps for Android now lets you view your customized files from My Maps more easily. To view your saved maps, launchGoogle Maps, tap ‘Your places’ in the menu, and scroll down to find your maps, highlighted with red marker icons. Google’s My Maps tool — available
30 Mar 2015
Microsoft pursues Android users, preloading Office on Samsung, Dell tablets
Microsoft pursues Android users, preloading Office on Samsung, Dell tablets Credit: Mark Hachman The company’s eager to extend its services beyond Windows, but some users may see this freebie as bloatware If it can’t sell customers on Windows, Microsoft’s Plan B has been to bring its services to other platforms. Today, it did just that,
30 Mar 2015
Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders
Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders Credit: Shutterstock Alpha Anywhere, AnyPresence, and Salesforce1 lead a rich field of low-code mobile development tools Over the last six months, I’ve been examining and testing a variety of mobile app builders and mobile back ends. In some cases, the app builders and back ends were part of a
30 Mar 2015
Wanted: Easy database app dev tools for the Web
Wanted: Easy database app dev tools for the Web Credit: Pixabay Building database apps for a workgroup used to be a simple task. All we need is a new, modern set of Web tools to make that task easy again A friend of mine needs a simple database application to support his team. It’s fairly
30 Mar 2015
The 5 best new features in Android 5.1 Lollipop
The 5 best new features in Android 5.1 Lollipop Google fixed a ton of bugs, and it also pushed through a few helpful features that should have been bundled with Lollipop from the start Android Lollipop 5.0 was supposed to change everything. It was supposed to inspire a revolution, a better — and betterlooking —
30 Mar 2015
What Google Code’s end means for Bitbucket, CodePlex, and SourceForge
What Google Code’s end means for Bitbucket, CodePlex, and SourceForge Credit: Signum Comminatio Vitae With most of its projects migrating away to GitHub, Google Code is shutting down; how will other competitors fare? For a time, Google Code was where many open source projects made their home. Then came the rise — and rise andrise — of
30 Mar 2015
Java: The once and future king of Internet programming
Java: The once and future king of Internet programming Built for embedded computing and streamlined for real-time, here’s why Java is the language of IoT What is Java to you? A programming language you learned in college? The lingua franca of corporate IT? Would you believe that Java is poised to dominate the next explosion
30 Mar 2015
Microsoft brings Node.js debugging to Visual Studio
Microsoft brings Node.js debugging to Visual Studio Credit: Galina Pankratova Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio supports deploying Node.js applications in Microsoft Azure With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE. NTVS is a free, open source extension for