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Apple Underestimates iPhone SDK Demand

Today Apple released the iPhone SDK in a beta format for developers. The official version and the ability for the average joe to use these to be developed applications will come out in July. However it appears that Apple greatly underestimated how many people want to produce applications for their now infamous device. The link to get the SDK and subsequent information is http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/, but unfortunately this site is suffering from a massive digg effect as it has not be available since the announcement was made almost 4 hours ago.

UPDATE:

It looks like Apple is struggling with keeping their servers up. I was able to get to the SDK page a little while ago, but a lot of the links were broken and I didn’t try downloading it (I am away from my Mac at the moment). Sporadic attempts to get through to the proper page may occur.

You also need to have an Intel Mac in order to proceed, so if you are like me and waiting to buy a new Mac, now is the time.

Google Calendar and Outlook Synchronization from Google

Google launched a synchronization tool this week that allows one-way and two-way syncing with Outlook on Windows machines (where is the Mac version for Entourage or iCal?). This looked to be the holy grail of my synchronization…but alas it is nothing more than a gilded goblet.
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Internet Explorer 8 beta Released to Designers and Developers

Hot on the heels of announcing that IE8 would be standards compliant by default, Microsoft has announced the first beta release of their new web browser. Lots of new features abound including web clips (similar to Mac web widgets), better jscript handling, better AJAX handling, and extensions similar to what Firefox has. It automatically detects and imports from Firefox, however i haven’t installed it yet so I don’t know how the import of extensions works or if they are com patible. I will also be curious to see if they import form Safari, Netscape and Opera.

Something to be warned about, It does appear that Microsoft hasn’t learned to allow multiple installations of its browsers. IE8 will replace whatever working copy of IE you currently have running include 7 and 6. Install with caution.

Get the beta here.

Internet Explorer 8…now with more standards compliance

When I first wrote about IE8 and the new HTML 5 standard the plan was that by default IE8 was going to render in the IE7 mode unless you declared it to render in the new IE8 standards mode using a meta tag.

Today, Microsoft announced that this will not be the case. The new standards mode that render the Acid 2 Test with 100% accuracy will be the default mode. If you have an old site that breaks in the new IE8 you will have to go back and add the meta tag or adjust your server to allow for rendering under the older engine (aka quirks mode).

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.

Some speculation behind the change points to Opera’s complaint and the recent European Union fine of $1.3 billion dollars for anti-trust tactics by Microsoft, but like any good spin-meister they deny this.

We think that acting in accordance with principles is important, and IE8’s default is a demonstration of the interoperability principles in action. While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue. As stated above, we think it’s the better choice.

You can read the rest of the article discussing the various modes at the MSDN blog.

Quotes

Another great quote from the AmidaBuddha.org website:

War can only be understood and put an end to if you and all those who are concerned very deeply with the survival of man, feel that you are utterly responsible for killing others. What will make you change? - J. Krishnamurti