Google Tasks has been available for a few years, but it’s one of the most basic task management applications I’ve ever seen, essentially offering little more than a simple To Do list. If it weren’t integrated with Gmail, I’m not sure I’d pay any attention to it at all. But today Google released an API for Google Tasks which […]
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Microsoft releases iOS to Windows Phone 7 porting tools
There’s a growing number of decent apps showing up in the Windows Phone Marketplace, but there are still tens of thousands (or possibly hundreds of thousands) more apps for Android and iOS than for Windows Phone 7. Now Microsoft has come up with a tool which could help level the playing field, by making it […]
Google releases Fragment APIs for apps that run on Android 1.6 through Honeycomb
Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb includes a new framework called Fragments, which allows developers to write apps with components that look different on different devices or even in different views. For instance, you could have an email app that shows only a list of messages in portrait mode, but when you tilt your tablet sideways the […]
iOS 4.2 ads accelerometer support to the web browser
If you upgrade an iPad to iOS 4.2 this week you’ll notice the difference right away: The software update adds support for multitasking, Game Center, icon folders and much more. But most of those features were already available to iPhone and iPod touch users with iOS 4.1. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any goodies packed […]
Palm to offer WebOS developers access to camera, microphone
Palm has announced plans to offer new developer tools soon, including direct API access to a phone’s microphone and camera. That will make it possible to develop apps for recording audio and video. Other new developer tools will include access to Palm’s media indexer, which should help with third party music and video applications. You’ll […]