Developing the web contents so as to meet the guidelines specified in the WCAG2.0 makes the content accessible to more audience.

…more about WCAG.

• Firmware: It is the software / OS of your iPhone. This hack is for 2.2 version.
• Jailbreak: It simply means that to enable your iPhone to be able to install third party applications. In laymans terms it makes your iPhone to install application which are not form the Application store.
• Unlock: It means that your iPhone can accept SIM from any mobile provider.

PS: Please note, this hack will only work on iPhone 3G with firmware version 2.2. If you don’t have the latest firmware then upgrade it using iTunes. The catch with this hack is that you can only use one unlocked SIM card. In other words, if you ever want to use another SIM, you have to do the entire process again.

1. Upgrade your iTunes to 8.0.2 by launching it and clicking “Download iTunes” below. Or download it and install it manually.
   
2. Allow iTunes to upgrade your iPhone to the latest 2.2 firmware. Don’t worry about the implications (losing jailbreak, unlock) as QuickPwn will take care of this for your. This step is necessary because QuickPwn doesn’t actually upgrade your iPhone. Instead, QuickPwn expects to be pwning the same firmware that your iPhone is on. If you don’t know anything about baseband versions, you can ignore this message. Otherwise, make sure you’ve updated your iPhone to be running on 02.28.00 baseband firmware, which should have been included in the 2.2 firmware update.
3. Download QuickPwn 2.2 for Windows or Mac. Extract the file and launch the QuickPwn 2.2 application. Then follow the prompt and connect your iPhone to your computer via the USB cable. When the blue arrow button lights up, click it.
   
4. QuickPwn is smart enough to detect the firmware ipsw file you downloaded via iTunes (something like C:\Documents and Settings\coderetard\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates\ on Windows XP). If it can’t find it for whatever reason, download the 2.2 restore firmware ipsw file for 3G iPhone1,2_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw directly from Apple’s servers. Then browse to the or restore firmware ipsw file you downloaded. After the green checkmark appears, click the blue arrow button.
   
5. On the next page, make sure you select the “Cydia” checkbox. You can check “Installer” and replace logo as desired. Click the arrow button after making your selections.
   
6. Now get ready to rumble…
   
7. READ THIS STEP THROUGH COMPLETELY FIRST, lest you be caught off guard: Click on the Blue arrow button which will bring up a screen with some instructions (below). Follow them exactly to a tee. Just to prepare, here are the directions: 1) Hold Home for 5 seconds, 2) Hold Home and Power together for 10 seconds, 3) Release Power but continue to hold Home for 30 seconds. Throughout the process these three steps, you DO NOT LET GO OF THE HOME BUTTON until after the third step. I didn’t have to hold it anymore after it counted down to 21 seconds left.
   
8. Then sit back and relax while QuickPwn does all the hard work for you, you’ll see some activity on your iPhone screen and hear your computer beep a few times, but when it restarts finally and says it’s waiting for activation, it’s ready to use. Now you can close QuickPwn.
   
9. It’s now a good time to set up your wireless network settings on your iPhone 3G so you will be able to connect to the software repositories in Cydia.
10. Now Launch the Cydia app, which will reorganize then restart. You’ll need to launch it again afterwards.
11. When prompted at the “Who Are You” screen, just choose the first option “User (Graphical Only).”
    
12. Click on the Manage tab on the bottom menu bar. In the Manage tab, click on the Sources button in the middle. You will need to add the source to the yellowsn0w repo to utilize the soft unlock.
    
13. Click on “Edit” on the top right, then “Add” on the top left. In the URL, type: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/ as shown below. When you are done click “Done” and then “Browser.”
    
14. Now click on the “Search” tab and type “yellowsn0w” and install the app “yellowsn0w.”
    
    
15. For US T-Mobile users, you will need to disable the “Enable 3G” setting in your network settings.
16. Now restart your iPhone 3G with your SIM card inserted. Wait for the slide to unlock screen and then wait 15 seconds more. If you don’t see the SIM card working, reinsert the SIM and wait another 10 seconds. Now try and make some calls with your newly unlocked iPhone 3G!
17. For T-Mobile users, continue reading if you have problems:
18. Download and install BossPrefs and via Cydia
19. Disable all functions with BossPrefs (don’t worry if you can’t disable EDGE)
20. Reboot your Phone with BossPrefs (not the normal manual way – this is important!)
21. Wait a minute and a half when you see the slick to unlock screen
22. Take out your T-Mobile SIM card and insert it again
23. Wait for 10 seconds
24. Go to Settings and turn on Airplane mode, then turn it off again
25. Take out your T-Mobile SIM card and put in any AT&T SIM card and wait for a minute. Ignore the “Waiting to activate” prompt
26. Now take out the AT&T SIM card and put in your T-Mobile SIM card again
27. After a moment you will see the activation succeeded prompt. Now you should be able to pick up a T-Mobile signal

Find Original Post at:  http://www.coderetard.com/2009/01/01/how-to-fully-soft-unlock-iphone-3g-22-firmware-yellowsn0w/

As CEO, Yang had the task to turn around the company’s dwindling fortunes. However, the rejection of the Microsoft offer and a failed advertising partnership with Google marred his brief tenure. Here’s tracing the rise and fall of Yang.

The company has been suffering from dropping share prices. However the news of Yang’s resignation caused shares to soar. Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, will revert back to his previous role, focusing on development. He also will remain on the board.

In my opinion he did the right thing for open source and free software. Microsoft would not like to give anything for free. If you remember Hotmail was planning to make Hotmail paid when our beloved gmail came in and saved our souls. Had I been in Yang’s shoes, I would have done the same. Google was a better option at that time (before recession).

I think, Microsoft is not the answer, it is the question, NO is the answer

Zend To Collaborate With Adobe To Accelerate Rich Web Application Development Using PHP and Open Source Flex Framework

New Collaboration Combines the Flexibility, Reliability and Productivity of PHP Technology with the Powerful User Experience of Adobe Flex and Flash Technology

Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 16, 2008 — Zend Technologies today announced a collaboration with Adobe Systems Incorporated to bring together the flexibility, productivity and enterprise reliability of Zend’s PHP technologies with the user experience benefits of Adobe Flex. The two companies will deliver technologies, content and services to make it easy for enterprise developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) using Flex on the client and PHP on the server. These RIAs are easier to use, speed real-time decision-making and increase employee productivity.

A key deliverable of this collaboration is the integration of Action Message Format (AMF) support into Zend Framework. AMF is an open, binary, high-speed format enabling Adobe® Flash® Player and Flex-based client applications to easily and rapidly exchange rich media and other data with servers. Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently across all major browsers and operating systems using Adobe® Flash® Player and to the desktop via Adobe® AIR™. Zend Framework is an open source PHP application framework best known for its support for flexible, efficient creation of web applications. AMF support in Zend Framework delivers optimized communication between server-side Zend Framework components and client-side Adobe Flex components. Now PHP developers will be able to leverage the fast, reliable transfer of data between the server and client tiers of their web applications. More information about AMF support is available at http://framework.zend.com and http://developer.adobe.com/flex/

In addition, Zend and Adobe plan to optimize the experience for developers using their respective development environments. Zend Studio and Adobe® Flex® Builder™, both built on the open source Eclipse platform, provide robust coding, debugging, and testing tools for professional developers. Today, the two environments enable greater productivity, simplified deployment and end-to-end debugging of applications. Moving forward, Zend and Adobe plan to identify and implement cross-product integration points that optimize developer workflow and reduce development time.

“Since bringing Flex to market, we’ve seen strong uptake among PHP developers, and we’re pleased to be collaborating with Zend and the PHP community to deliver deeper integration and increased productivity,” said David Wadhwani, General Manager, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “The collaboration with Zend furthers Adobe’s commitment to open technology initiatives. Together, we will enable developers using Flex and Zend Framework to rapidly deliver highly engaging applications to both the browser and the desktop.”

“Zend’s mission is to enable companies investing in PHP technology to deliver world-class experiences using internet-standard technologies,” said Andi Gutmans, chief technical officer and co-founder of Zend. “By working more closely with Adobe, we believe our customers will be more equipped to deliver the performance, reliability, and engaging user experience that will differentiate their products and services.”

Customers Improve Enterprise Applications With Open Source Flex, Zend Framework, and PHP

Automotive Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) provides solutions that manage data needs for automotive dealerships throughout the United States:

“By moving our dealer management system from a desktop application to a web based service, we are able to drastically cut the costs of real-time data integration, while expanding our feature set and ability to integrate third party providers,” said John Coggeshall, chief technical officer at ACS. “With this radical change to a more centralized web application for our customers, desktop-like user experience and responsiveness is a key factor for success. The AMF and Flex integration into Zend Framework enables us to more cost-effectively meet these requirements by dramatically reducing latency of service requests, giving our customers the highly responsive application they demand and the rich user experience we expect.”

Stream Energy delivers multiple energy commodities like electricity and natural gas to over 300,000 customers throughout Texas and Georgia and they are rapidly expanding into other states:

“Our need to engage and provide relevant real-time information to our customers continually accelerates in the fast-moving deregulated consumer energy markets. Our web-based customer portal provides customer account information on our services and drives revenue collections that now number over $1.2 Billion dollars over the four year life of these systems,” said Jason Forgey, Senior Director of Information Technology at Dallas-based Stream Energy. “We built our new system with PHP middleware and an API gateway using web services with an Adobe Flex/Flash front-end and an Oracle database back-end, all using Zend Solutions. The time-to-market and performance of PHP is one reason we have chosen to build with a Zend Solution that includes Zend Platform application server to manage our applications and queue up asynchronous jobs when under load, Zend Core managed PHP environment, Zend Studio in conjunction with Adobe Flex Builder for our development environment, and a Zend Framework and Adobe Flex based application portal.”

Adobe and Zend will undertake multiple initiatives to deliver product interoperability and integration, and define best practices for customers. The two companies have created dedicated areas within their respective developer portals where they will deliver a series of articles, white papers, and online seminars educating developers on best practices for delivering enterprise-ready solutions using PHP, Zend Framework, and Zend Platform, together with Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe AIR. Future product integration plans and technical documentation will be made available there. For more information, please visit Zend Developer Zone at http://devzone.zend.com/tag/Flex and Adobe Developer Connection at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

Cario

Cario notebook from Anna Lopez can be carried around by its handle, positioned like an easel or placed on a car’s steering wheel. When the car’s not in motion, the Cario can project maps, video conferences and more onto the windshield.

Being portable, MacTab is the complement to MyBook in the high-end. The thin wireless keyboard is used as a protection cover for transportation. On the back of the computer a hinge allows it to be put in a vertical position so you can use it on your desk.

Sungjut TangoX Nano UMPC has a DVI output and a detachable, integrated Skype phone. Weight: under 1kg. Unbelievable.

Dialogue is going to release the Flybook V33i series with a laptop screen which can be moved across its axis. A nice alternative to a static laptop screen we’ve seen over the last years.

The Vaio Zoom notebook takes everything we know about holographic technology and squeezes it inside a thin glass form factor. When off, the screen is completely transparent and the keyboard goes opaque. Turn it on and the touchscreen holographic festivities begin. Even the mouse buttons are holographic!

Use the pedal to turn digital sheet music or just touch the screen. It also throws in some computer functions by allowing on the fly scoring, note taking, and collaborative writing. When you need a real computer, a keyboard slides out from underneath the screen and use the foot pedal as a stereo to enjoy the music you just played. Designed by Sungho Lee.

LG introduced e-Book, an ecological laptop concept that uses fuel cell batteries and features organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology. This concept notebook received a Red Dot Award nomination for “Best Concept Design”.

Felix Schmidberger’s Compenion laptop has a OLED touch screen. The computer itself has an OLED touchscreen, where you can directly work on, much like with a umpc or pda. The whole screen is a slider, as it can be moved forward to reveal a second OLED touchscreen underneath, where you can have a keyboard or working controls, similar to a setup with 2 monitors.

Purity Notebook: right now the in thing with notebook computers are clean lines, and minimal design features. The Purity Notebook takes that to the extreme but manages to throw in a few of its own unique touches like the high lacquer finish.

MacBook 0801 is a laptop concept by Isamu Sanada. The keyboard is transparent and ultra-thin.

“Laptop Made Of Wood. Yes, that’s right, wood. Nevermind the weight and horrible heat insulation characteristics of the material, it’s supposed to look refined and sexy, at which it does.”

Sung-kyu Nam’s DesCom laptop integrates into the desktop surface. And what do you have to do once the laptop is dead or should be repaired?

Lenovo/IBM’s Thinkpad is coming back, in a new outfit: Thinkpad reserve edition. The laptop’s components are separated; dual-monitor can be placed on the surface allowing multiple people to observe what’s happening on it.

Satellite Navigation Laptop is Nikita Golovlev’s concept for travelers. Using an e-ink display, the ‘Traveller’ is a GPS enabled navigation system for pedestrians. The design incorporates an internal drive for storing any photos you take along the way and will tag the with GPS data, so you know just where you took them.

Solar-power laptop is supposed to save you the trouble of charging batteries by plugging them in. The notebook is powered with the help of powerful batteries that are recharged by wide Solar Panel attached to the computer (currently offline).

Haier has announced a laptop/tablet PC which folds down into a tablet, replete with handwriting recognition and has a 8.6-inch widescreen tablet display. Price: $4,790.

This laptop has a folding multi display which is supposed to be used as a server. Expected to be available in 2008.

Axiotron’s Modbook, the MacBook-based, Wacom-modified laptop is the world’s first OS X tablet. Price: $2,290.

For its annual design issue, The New York Times wanted to include a futuristic laptop for teenagers. The project’s main thrust was to re-think the future of education and then construct a laptop that would best deliver that vision. The end result is The Gelfrog, a dynamic, portable device concept that enables new educational experiences without sacrificing the need for individuality.

myBook might be the lightest portable Mac ever. Small, light and semi-rugged, It roots deeply in Alan Kay Dynabook’s dream. The touch-sensitive screen is readable in bright daylight thanks to the use of a new transflective generation of LCD screen. The screen rotates 180°. In that position, keyboard and trackpad are inoperative and the screen goes in portrait mode.

That’s such a simple design, but so useful and nice. This Mac-handle is constructed of aircraft aluminum, so it will make sure the laptop doesn’t fall down when you carry it around. Price: $49.99.

The Laptop Family

No, that’s not a new concept, but it looks incredible. From Apple Powerbook 180 with Mac OS 8 to iBook g3 with OS X 10.4. “This is an actual photo. Every screen is showing exactly whats behind it – relative to the camera, which was on a tripod. The most difficult task was to convince the old powerbook 180 to show a simple jpeg. Netscape Navigator 3 did it.”

PS: Courtesy of a forwarded email.

1. It is an open source browser project.
2. It has an innovative JavaScript Virtual Machine for better performance.
   
3. It has borrowed Opera’s Speed dial and auto complete feature of Firefox 3.
4. Sports a very cool inverted tabs.
5. It warns in case of a malware and/or a phishing attempt, just like a firewall.
6. But one thing Google forgot in Chrome if the support for XML
   

To know more about its features, please visit Chrome’s Official Homepage

In my opinion, we Indians are used to these features. Most of our phones already have these features and it very hard to do with out them. Imagine paying around INR 35,000 for a phone with which you cannot transfer files via bluetooth. What age is this …STONE AGE??? Some features may be activated by jailbreak.. but why the hell should you risk losing your warranty after paying so much. Forget Microsoft, I think Apple is a bloody control freak. Dont surrender your freedom to it.

It’s good for American market (who have no idea what mobile freedom/choice is) which is in stone age compared to asian/european markets. When they want to buy a phone, they have to go to network operators and buy only those phones that are available on that network. & stick to that company till their contract expires. You want to change carriers? Not before paying damages, & buying another phone on the other network again.

On the contrary, we in India have so much freedom. We go to handset shops & buy which ever phone we like. Then go to carriers…checkout the plans… buy desired SIM.. and if we don’t like the plan or rival carrier came up with a better plan ???? EASY.. just remove & replace the SIM. Apple are trying to IMPOSE THEIR MODEL ON US riding on the hype iPhone has created in the US (yes it was a flop in Europe .thats why Apple never talks about its sales in Europe).

Dont fall for the subsidized price of iPhone… CHECKOUT THE DATA PLAN ATTACHED TO ITS SIM..they will recover the cost through ridiculous data plans. Its around 30 p for 50 kb. You monthly bill may come to around INR 3500 (ATLEAST AMERICANS PAY THAT MUCH)

Let me clear one thing though.. iPhone is the best looking phone (its touch interface is nothing like you have ever seen ), best browsing experience out there no doubt …. ( others are fast catching up..Check out the Android demo at Google IO 2008)…. BUT AFTER A FEW DAYS IT ALL COMES DOWN TO FUNCTIONALITY…

Those of who buy it… You will be most happy for atmost a week… then, YOU MAY START REGRETTING IT

PS: This is what David Chartier had to say… Apple snoozes, researcher discloses risky iPhone UI flaws

According to Jennifer Liu, Product Manager with Google, “Over the next week we’ll be rolling this out so that more and more of you will start seeing a list of query suggestions when you start typing into the search box.”

According to the blog, Google Suggest will help users in the following ways:

Help formulate queries: Instead of just typing [hotels in Washington] — did you want [hotels in Washington dc] or [hotels in Washington state]? Don’t remember that song title or person’s name? Let Google help you search (and yes, I ended up choosing “From This Moment” as our wedding song).

Reduce spelling errors: Since suggestions are spell-corrected using the same “Did you mean?” feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, misspellings and typos can be corrected ahead of time. Instead of wasting your time with a misspelled query like [new yrok times] or [tomorow never dies], search the first time with the correctly-spelled query.

Saves keystrokes: Who wants to spend their time typing [San Francisco chronicle] when you can just type in San F…” and choose the suggestion right away?