Jim Rapoza

With the deadline for the digital TV conversion fast approaching and with Congress still working on an extension, there are lots of people complaining about the lack of coupons and the fact that some people won’t get coupons in time to get converters before the analog TV signals go dark. Of course, there is an […]

This week Google finally enabled offline capabilities for its popular Gmail service. For many of us this has been something we’d been waiting on for quite awhile. While many people rely on Gmail more and more for both their private and work communications, it really couldn’t be considered a serious mail option until it could […]

Click here to see screenshots of IE 8IE 8 RC1With the release of Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1, we are finally in the home stretch of the long trip to the latest version of the Microsoft Web browser. And since this is a release candidate, this means that, unless there is a major problem […]

Click here to see screenshots of JavaFXJavaFXIt was a little less than a year ago that rich Internet application technology finally matured enough to become a usable tool, although it was still very much in the early stages of development. At the time, eWEEK Labs took a look at the RIA sector and reviewed four […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 by Jim Rapoza No Title The new InPrivate Browsing feature in IE 8 lets users surf the Web without having any information about the browsing session saved. No Title When InPrivate Filtering is enabled, users can let IE 8 choose what content to save or they […]

This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the first Macintosh computer, easily one of the most influential computers of all time. As many like to point out, almost all of the innovations of the Macintosh (its windowed GUI, its use of the mouse, its intuitive interface touches) had been introduced previously, many of them at […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun Microsystems JavaFX by Jim Rapoza No Title Using the NetBeans IDE 6.5 for JavaFX 1.0, developers can quickly get up and running building JavaFX applications. No Title Among the many sample applications and code provided with JavaFX is this JavaFX Media Browser. No Title The JavaFX 1.0 Production Suite essentially consists […]

With rich Internet applications becoming a key trend in Web and application development, it’s not surprising that more development platform vendors are looking to grab a piece of the rapidly growing space. In recent years, the RIA space has been dominated by Adobe Systems’ Flash, Flex and AIR platforms, with Microsoft making a strong push […]

Like many of you out there, I unfortunately have more than my fair share of friends who are trying their best to find a job in this bad economy. And while these friends are working hard to find a job, they also don’t want to jump to companies that might not be in the best […]

Here are the emerging technologies stories for the week of January 19th. Zero-Watt PC – Fujitsu has announced that they will unveil a PC at the CeBIT show that uses zero watts of power while in standby mode. This should be the one of th first of many PCs in the future with this capability. […]

Click here to see screenshotschrome.jpgLess than one month after Google released Version 1.0 of its Google Chrome Web browser, the company is providing an early peek at what Version 2.0 of Chrome will offer. On. Jan. 8 a developer’s release (which is basically pre-beta) of Chrome 2.0 became available from Google. Most of the new […]