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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
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
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
30 Mar 2015
9 cutting-edge programming languages worth learning now
9 cutting-edge programming languages worth learning now Credit: Thinkstock These strong alternatives to the popular languages are gaining steam — and may be the perfect fit for your next project The big languages are popular for a reason: They offer a huge foundation of open source code, libraries, and frameworks that make finishing the
28 Mar 2015
Ten VPN Services You Should Know About
Ten VPN Services You Should Know About VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are no longer just for work. VPN prevents snoops from eavesdropping on your online activity, whether that’s marketers, someone malicious, or even the government. People just want to be able to surf the Web or access remote services without worrying about attackers and rogue
28 Mar 2015
The 6 Best Media Streamers
The 6 Best Media Streamers There are many ways to watch online content on your HDTV. Your television itself might have apps, or you might have a Blu-ray player orgame system connected with built-in streaming services. If neither case applies, or if your HDTV, Blu-ray player, or game system doesn’t have the exact media features
28 Mar 2015
Google Cloud Launcher deploys VM-based apps in a snap
Google Cloud Launcher deploys VM-based apps in a snap Google’s latest enhancement to Cloud Platform is not a new feature but a repackaging of an existing innovation. But it’s a downright useful offering all the same. Cloud Launcher is a gallery of applications that can be deployed to Google Cloud Platform with one click. Many of the