Offline Gmail is back. Originally built around Google’s Gears plugin, the company announced earlier this year that it was pulling the Gears-based feature and rewriting it to use HTML5 and web standards. Now offline Gmail is back (along with offline support for Google Docs and Calendar) and no longer requires the Gears browser add-on. Offline [...]
James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has joined Liquid Robotics, a maker of robot vehicles that explore the bottom of the ocean, as its chief software architect.
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Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start! Cgtuts+ — Computer Graphics Tutorials Vehicle Rendering With [...]
One tool we’ve been using more and more on Think Vitamin Membership lately is IndexTank. It’s a hosted search indexing service. They’ve got some big customers, like Reddit, and that definitely gave us a ton more confidence to check them out. Being able to store 100,000 documents with them for free also helped out a [...]
Earlier this month the New York Times launched a beta testing playground called Beta620. It’s a site for the news organization to try out new web experiments, some of which may graduate to become full-fledged New York Times products. An interesting Semantic Web experiment went live this week, called Longitude. As the name suggests, it [...]
Anyone who runs an online site knows that comment spam is a continuing battle. And as the accompanying infographic shows, prepared by social spam fighter Impermium, it is a big problem. They took samples of the social Web this summer, looking at more than 100 million different pieces of user-generated content around the world from [...]
If you want something more capable than Hootsuite to handle your social media marketing, then you might want to take a closer look at what Pardot’s Marketing Automation service provides. The marketing automation platform has gotten some new social media features that complement its existing tools for handling CRM integration, email marketing, lead nurturing, lead [...]
The news feed has become the de facto primary interface for social media sites. Over the last several years Facebook has been tweaking how the news feed surfaces content, with a couple major changes within the last several months. The trick is to be able to present relevant content near the top of the feed [...]
Ask, and you shall receive. Well, maybe. Today Red Hat announced that it is opening up a discussion group to ask what customers want in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. RHEL 6 was released late last year, and RHEL 6.1 came out in May. It will be a while before RHEL 7 sees light [...]
The smart folks at Zurb have come up with yet another clever app, this time for testing presentations called Reel. Like their other tools, it is free, it is all Web-based, and it involves a quick way to collect up/down votes. Think of it as Prezi with “likes” added. Sponsor We wrote about them most [...]