Chris Gilmer , Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. The upgraded application can be download together with the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools.

Microsoft’s cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in that delivers “next generation” .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Beta2 adds new features into its small and streamlined 4.6 MB download.

So whats new?

• More built in controls
• Template editing support
• Visual state manager support
• Textbox upgrades
• UI Automation and Accessibility
• Animation and Graphic support
• Deep zoom
• Adaptive Streaming
• Content Protection
• Server Side Playlists
• Background Thread Networking
• Web Services
• JSON
• DataGrid
• DataBinding
• Isolated Storage

For more on these impressive new features, check out Microsoftie Scott Guthrie’s home.

Chris Gilmer , Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Zoho, the online productivity suite company has recently rolled out a fresh new interface for iPhone users. The new design gives users a highly productive tabbed interface that allows users to conveniently switch between Zoho applications.

Perhaps one of the notable convenience options added, upon login, the Zoho tab shows the five most recent documents from each Zoho application. Personal and shared documents can be viewed under their associated application tabs.

Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show and Creator are the only applications supported with this new interface. But plans are in the works to add the remaining applications in the near future.

Also on the Zoho front, in case you missed it, Zoho now has the ability to import Google Docs.

Chris Gilmer , Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Supposed spy shots of the new 3G Apple iPhone give a hint of Apple iChat for Windows. Hoax? We’ll have to wait and see…. Monday morning.

Chris Gilmer , Sunday, June 8th, 2008

If you use Flickr to organize and share your digital photos and movies, posting them has just gotten a little easier.

RIM, the makers of the BlackBerry, have announced an exciting new application, Flickr for BlackBerry Smartphones. The mobile photo uploader offers the same features and functions that BlackBerry users are use to on computers with the ability totake a picture, drop it in an album, tag it, and even adjust the size and post it within a few clicks.

Flickr for BlackBerry requires BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.2 or later.

Chris Gilmer , Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Yahoo! is just in the process of unloading a new messaging system. Hold on, how many people still use Yahoo! Messenger? Yes, sure, they do have some cool features, but what makes this one something that people may want to give up their MSN and GTalk apps for?

Yahoo! does have over 100 million users worldwide for its messager application, and they keep on upgrading with interesting new features. This new version of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 adds in:

• A streamlined interface to set custom status messages
  
• The option for automatic sign in to a mobile phone when signing out of a PC
  
• An Import Contacts utility that helps users invite people from address books from other sites like Hotmail, AOL, Gmail, Orkut, MySpace and many more.
  
• New button to quickly select the detailed or compact list view options right from the contact list
• Bigger emoticons

Check out a video of the beta in action here.