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Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones—this is simply not true. There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target.

Some companies are already taking action. Nokia, for example, is not allowing any applications

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After hearing about the impact and success it had in Microsoft, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on prototyping in PowerPoint 2007. Amongst a few things Manuel Clement suggested a few weeks ago in his presentation about “wireframe prototyping with Office PowerPoint 2007″, was to create a toolkit of commonly used GUI components to copy and paste when designing the prototype screens. That’s what I set out to build.

My vision for a toolkit is to contain a set of all the possible and feasible GUI components you could otherwise use in designing a real Windows application or browser application. For example, it should include buttons, drop-down lists, window frames, toolbars, dialog boxes and address bars. Of course there are probably as many of those as there are stars, so I’ll just have to focus on the most commonly used ones.

I imagine I’m not the only one excited by prototyping in PowerPoint, so others might need to build similar toolkits as well, then why not make it publically available? I’m glad you asked.

Downloads

• Download PowerPoint Prototyping Toolkit release 0.2 [Latest] (PPTX PowerPoint ‘07 format)
• Download PowerPoint Prototyping

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Back in the late 1990’s, the window manager team received a bug
that said that sometimes the mouse button state
got messed up and the computer acted
as if the buttons were stuck down.
Further investigation revealed that it occurred only when one
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Windows Vista as well as the predecessor Windows operating systems – comes with a complex infrastructure designed to log all the activity of the platform. The tool associated with logs in Windows Vista is Event Viewer. Users will be able to access this utility by entering Event Viewer in the Search box under the Start menu. Then simply right click the highlighted result and choose Run as Administrator from the contextual menu that pops up. Event viewer will keep track of a range of events including items related to Administrative tasks, Applications, Security, Setup, System, Applications and Services Logs and Forwarded Events.

The simplest way to deal with event files in Windows Vista is to have them saved as under the new Event Log file format - .evtx. Vista users will notice that the operating system also offers the possibility to convert exported Event Log (.evt) files from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to the .evtx format. The conversion can be done via the Event Viewer MMC, just make your way to the saved even, right click it and choose Save As. (more…)

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With the advent of Windows Vista, Microsoft also introduced the Windows Imaging (WIM) file format. According to the Redmodn company, the Windows Imaging format is designed as a file-based disk image specific to Vista, and is an alternative to sector-based image formats because of a range of benefits. First off, WIM is hardware agnostic, but the format also enables users to store multiple images in a single file, such as multi-SKUs packed into a single item. In addition, WIM is also synonymous with advanced compression and single instancing, meaning a reduced file size, which also allows administrators to service an image while offline. On top of these capabilities, WIM is not dependent on the size of the partition where the image must be deployed and permits non-destructive installation. Windows Vista even offers an application programming interface – dubbed WIMGAPI – for the management of WIM files. (more…)

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