Jim Rapoza

Given the current “25 things you might not know about me” craze, there are a lot of people out there who have to tell you all kinds of things about themselves. This whole thing seems a bit nuts to me, after all, if there are things about me that people don’t know, it’s probably because […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Adobe Creative Suite 4 by Jim Rapoza No Title The Live View in Dreamweaver CS4 makes it possible to work on pages and see changes in real time. No Title The updated interface in Dreamweaver CS4 lets users quickly switch between different development interfaces. No Title With the new object-based animation in […]

I’ve never really thought of myself as much of a seer, prognosticator or predictor of the future, but based on a column I wrote back in 2005, I may just have a future in the prediction field. In that column, “Security Getting Trampled in the Rush to RFID,” I put forth a “hypothetical” situation where […]

Click here to see the videoJavaFXIn this special eWEEK video, I take a look at the new JavaFX RIA platform from Sun. While one can easily make the argument that Sun’s Java was one of the first examples of a rich internet application platform, Sun hasn’t been a big player in the recent rise of […]

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 […]