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  • Release: WPhone 1.4.2: “Thanks!” Edition

    Release early, release often being the FOSS motto, here we are again with a new version of our WPhone mobile WordPress Admin plugin.

    Version 1.4.2 is all about thanking our community, because the main changes are the inclusion of new language packs, which were all gracefully provided by our very much vibrant community of WPhone users all over the World. This now brings us to a total of six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian), with a few more on the way. Not bad for a software that was only released a month and a half ago. 🙂

    So in the spirit of my teammates’ current holiday: Thanks a million to all of you out there who continually help us making this project better and better. Hoping we’ll keep living up to your expectations!

    And on another note, watch for the upcoming 1.5 version. I’m thinking it’ll be a big one on the feature front, especially once we’ll have received our prizes and can develop natively.

  • Release: WPhone 1.4.1: Winner Edition

    I can hardly contain myself: we won the challenge that got us started with WPhone! 🙂

    Well, the true starting point was a question/challenge sent by one of my teammates, Doug, to the wp-hackers mailing list and the animated thread that ensued. A true ode to OSS, in many ways.

    So to celebrate, we decided to release version 1.4.1 tonight, which brings the first bundled translations into the mix (Russian and French), and addresses issues discovered through our truly helpful user base.

    Now, what am I gonna do with an iPhone in Canada, uh Apple/Rogers? *nudge nudge, wink wink* Well, who knows, maybe I can get Android running on it. :-p

  • Release: WPhone 1.2.0

    Thanks to Warren Wilansky, owner of the excellent Plank Design, who was kind enough to lend me his iPod Touch for the weekend, we were able to finally view and use WPhone on an actual Apple device and hammer out most of the display glitches our original releases had. Well, that and a whole lot of tweaks and new features, such as some fixes in the bundled iUI Javascript library for which I started submitting patches upstream, etc.

    Sure feels good to not be flying blind anymore! Though I did have to give the iPod back today, which was about as painful as cutting off one of my own fingers… :p

    So, if you had downloaded an earlier version, be sure to try the new 1.2.0 release. Or if you’re into the whole living on the edge thing, checkout the development branch of our Subversion repository, where we’ve already started to add some neat new features after 1.2.0 came out (otherwise known as rapid fire development).

    Now, since our core focus is actually full support for the widest possible array of mobile, lightweight and accessibility devices (smart and non-smart mobile phones, PDAs, micro tablets, screen and braille readers, etc) what I really would like for the next step is to somehow gain access to some of the other targeted devices.

    So if you happen to be in Montreal, have any of the following devices/environments and are interested in helping us out, please drop me a note (comments or wordpress-AT-tekartist-DOT-org) and maybe we can get together for a bit of geeky fun. 🙂

    • Nokia devices running the S60WebKit browser or earlier versions (w/ or w/o JS),
    • Blackberry (any xhtml capable generation),
    • Windows Mobile smart phones or PDAs (EDGE and/or WIFI),
    • Symbian-based devices,
    • Opera Mobile and/or Opera Mini capable devices,
    • Jaws or other accessibility device/software,

    … or anything else that you would like to use WPhone on really.

    Who knows, maybe I’ll luck out at one of the countless tech events organized in Montreal, such as the BarCamps, etc.

  • Release: WPhone 1.0.0

    See, I told you I wasn’t all there today…

    I guess it takes a nasty fever for me to have forgotten to mention that Doug Stewart, Viper007Bond and I have jointly released the first version of WPhone last night, a plugin to bring the WordPress Administration to the world of mobile and accessibility devices.

    The project was, originally, in response to a challenge sent to the wp-hackers mailing list, but our take on it actually goes beyond the original parameters by trying to support full universal access instead.

    We’re now in the debug phase, since we’ve never actually had the chance to preview the souped up iPhone/iPod mode of our interface, but we’re hoping to be in a much better place on this front by the end of the weekend. The lightweight version of the interface, used for all non-WebKit browsers, is a lot more stable and seems to work like a charm on even my feature-deficient Motorola v551 (pre-RAZR, less RAM, about the same browser).

  • Steve, listen to the frog!

    I couldn’t let this go unnoticed. :p mwah…

  • Gotta love Steve Jobs

    You really have to admire Steve Jobs. Whether you like him and his style or not, you can only admit the guy’s got one massive pair of cojones:

    Do you know how many CEOs dream of writing something like that (either version)? Both of the above pretty much say the same and the official one is just as gutsy from a market’s perspective.

    Arrogant? Probably. Right on target? I think so.

    Being an early adopter has its ups and downs, and seeing a dramatic price reduction a couple of months after the initial release is one of the latter. Although usually, the rest of the industry holds for as long as they can, when sales start going down, to lower their prices. Just look at the new Motorola RAZR2 being released at US$599. You know it’ll be free with activation in 3-6 months from now.

    Sir, I salute you. Now if you could just personally come and manhandle our Canadian telco executives to sell the darn thing here, and I’d be all set.

    Although, maybe the wait will be worth it?

    Update: maybe I’m on to something with the above HSDPA wet dream… See here.

  • Parallels Desktop for Mac Update RC Wins MacWorld Expo 2007 “Best in Show”

    RENTON, Wash. – January 10th, 2007 – Parallels announced today that its Update Release Candidate (RC) for the Parallels Desktop for Mac, released today, has been named “Best in Show” at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. The “Best in Show” award is presented to the most elite of the several thousand products and services on display at the annual MacWorld Expo and Conference.

    Congratulations! 🙂

  • Screenshots of Fedora Core 6 in VMWare Fusion Beta

    Please note: this is an early report, and more details will be posted as I have more time to dig deeper into Fusion. Loads of screenshots in the meantime.

    As I mentioned earlier, VMWare Fusion for Mac has had its first beta version released publicly today. My first thought was to try the existing Fedora Core 6 x86 virtual machine I put up for download a few weeks ago, to see if it would run as is on my 2006 Core Duo Macbook.

    Having experience with both VMWare on other platforms and Parallels Desktop on the Mac, I was eager to see how the two compared. Having moved VMs between OS platforms with VMWare, I really wanted to know if the Mac would indeed be treated equally.

    So since I’m busy packing for a holiday trip, and only have little time for it, I thought I’d post screenshots of how it all went. Hint: it’s all good. 🙂 You can go ahead and download my VM image, and give it a shot for yourself.

    I’m only going to embed a few screenshots below, so the page stays light, but here is a complete archive: FC6_in_VMWare_Fusion_Beta-SCREENSHOTS-20061222.zip (71 screenshots. SHA1SUM: 0e468e48e8727ff842258e720b323960f19b92ad)

  • VMware Virtualization for Mac Beta Released

    The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X. It is built on VMware’s rock-solid and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today.

    The beta is now freely downloadable. Looks like Parallels is going to have some competition. Eager to see how this pans out, or if Apple builds virtualization in their next-gen OS.

    I also wonder if the VMWare images I have built will work as is on my Mac. Can’t wait to try it.

    Hoping Parallels and Fusion won’t somehow conflict whe installed on the same box.

  • Review of the New Parallels Beta Build

    Since I unfortunately don’t have the time to get deep enough into the new Parallels Beta to write a valuable review about the new features, here’s the LifeHacker review instead. The review covers most of the beta build’s new functionalities and also has nice pictures and videos.