Jim Rapoza

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 […]

eWEEK Labs First Look at Google Chrome 2.0 Developer Release by Jim Rapoza No Title The new pre-beta of Chrome 2.0 uses an updated WebKit browser engine that scores well on the Acid3 Web standards test. No Title Many of the new features in this release add capabilities found in other browsers, such as auto-complete […]

One of the many side-effects of this bad economy is there are now many people out there who are starting their own businesses as either their main source of income or to supplement their income. And whether you are now a computer help consultant to your local community or selling gear at flea markets, you […]

Unless you don’t watch any TV–or possibly live in a cave–then you know that in mid-February, traditional over-the-air television broadcasts will end and that consumers who rely on antennas to get their TV will need to buy either a new TV with a digital tuner, or a digital converter box. To help with this change, […]

Click here to see screenshotsnhlvid.jpgThe National Hockey League has performed a hat trick: scoring new video, content management and analytics capabilities at NHL.com. Just about a year ago, video on NHL.com was, by the organization’s own admission, not thoughtfully implemented, and user information was widely dispersed and not well-leveraged. In a very short time, using […]