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By Doron Katz  | Yesterday, 10:05 PM | 0 Replies

Here is a quick tip for those of you who have a Macbook and want to ensure that you get as much from your precious and expensive laptop battery before you eventually have to replace it. The applicatio...

By BrianSawyer  | 09 June 2010 - 12:17 PM | 3 Replies

When working on Best Android Apps, we wanted to test as many apps on as many different devices as we possibly could. Now that the book is in print, we're adding new apps, updates, tips and tricks,...

By macslocum  | 07 July 2010 - 05:26 AM | 0 Replies

My iPad looks like a bookstore strip mall. The iBooks app on one end. The Kindle app on the other. Borders and Barnes & Noble are crammed in the middle. [attachment=1211:ereaders-ipad.png] ...

By JulieLerman  | 24 September 2010 - 10:13 AM | 0 Replies

A central benefit of the Entity Framework is that it frees you from being concerned with the structure of your database. All of your data access and storage is done against a conceptual data model tha...

By JonUdell  | 21 September 2010 - 10:57 AM | 1 Reply

Introduction The elmcity service makes extensive use of the Azure table service. Why use this cloud-based key/value store instead of the corresponding SQL-based offering, SQL Azure? The standard ...

By odewahn1  | 24 May 2010 - 12:01 PM | 6 Replies

Google has a nice little RESTful API that powers the auto-suggest function: https://blogoscoped.c...-08-17-n22.html The API returns the top 10 suggestions for the given query, plus the number of time...

By macslocum  | 21 September 2010 - 05:07 AM | 1 Reply

App developers don't blindly release software to Apple's App Store. They run private beta tests. These testing programs are based on unique identifiers -- known as UDIDs -- that developers associate w...

By chco  | 19 September 2010 - 01:29 PM | 0 Replies

Many self-taught Javascript programmers believe that the var keyword is optional because they do not observe different behavior when they omit it. On the contrary, omitting the var keyw...

Mac OS X Snow Leopard, (and its "missing manual" predecessors) make wide use of it. Appendix E includes it in something like 87 entries. The Mac keyboard calls it "command" but one...

By chco  | 18 September 2010 - 06:52 AM | 0 Replies

This excerpt from Closure: The Definitive Guide will show you how to use test-driven development to examine code that validates an email address. This example lends itself to a technique known as test...

By msilver  | 18 November 2009 - 10:59 AM | 1 Reply

There is a bug with certain versions of Zimbra Collaboration Suite's activesync functionality on Android 2.0. Mail synced in this way only displays the first page or so of each message, and gives ...

By chco  | 17 September 2010 - 08:40 AM | 0 Replies

This excerpt from Closure: The Definitive Guide walks you through an example that demonstrates the use of the Closure suite of tools.This section will walk through a simple example to demonstrate how ...