November 2008

Would you pay to use Twitter? An unscientific survey conducted today found that about 50% of users would pay $5 per month or more for the service. Another survey found that a quarter of users would... Read More
In Part 1 of this series, Myles gave us a taste for how to manipulate sprites on the screen. In this fascinating follow-up, he reveals the end product of some extreme JavaScript... Read More
What do you get when you mix Vint Cerf, NASA, and a spacecraft zipping around space 20 million miles from Earth? The first interplanetary Internet, of course! NASA reports today on the successful... Read More
Yahoo!'s cross-browser RIA platform BrowserPlus official crawled out into the public today, promising a way to enable "in-browser desktop applications," which is a fancy way of saying that it allows... Read More
 
A couple of weeks ago, I offered up 8 Professional Podcast Production Tips. If you followed those, you should have a professional-sounding show all ready for the world to hear. But how do you get it... Read More
The freemium revenue model, in which limited versions of web services are given out for free with more feature rich versions sold for a price, can make you a lot of money as an app developer. But... Read More
For the next 14 days, one of SitePoint's most popular books is available to download for FREE. Just follow us on Twitter, and you'll receive a PDF of the top selling "The Art & Science Of CSS." No... Read More
SaaS collaboration and project management tool Central Desktop announced the release of a new enterprise version of their software. The enterprise package includes an SLA, Saleforce.com integration,... Read More
 
Must-read tech news aggregator Techmeme hasn't launched a new companion site in over two and a half years. It's been politics, technology, celebrity gossip, and baseball since 2006. But a recent... Read More
Continuing the war of words that is brewing between Microsoft and Adobe, Microsoft corporate vice president Scott Guthrie posted on his blog last night about the state of Silverlight, and hinted at... Read More
HTML tables have gained a new lease of life in the CSS era, now that they have been freed from misuse as a layout element. In this article, Jonathan demonstrates how you can use CSS to create... Read More
Adobe made a number of announcements at this year's MAX conference in San Francisco surrounding the Flash tools ecosystem. However, one of the most intriguing announcements made today, is the... Read More
A year ago at the annual Adobe MAX conference, the company demoed an application codenamed "Thermo" that drew plenty of praise for its ability to take static images and convert them to working RIA... Read More
The time between Christmas and New Year’s Day is an ideal opportunity to take a break and close the office down for a few days; this gives both you and your staff some time to relax and enjoy the... Read More