August starts to wind down on “The MUG Event Calendar.” Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will make a virtual visit to an Ohio group, while a California group will focus on Apple’s Mail program, and a Florida group will consider what is “free and cheap.”
Other topics up for discussion this week include Android, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps, web browsers, digital photography, and a film project using the Red digital camera.
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By Greg Mills
We know Apple and other companies have been working on ePay systems using smart phones and some sort of electronic “radio bridge” to make it possible to pay for small things or even a tank of gas, by using your cell phone to pay.
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By Cyndy Cashman
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 (http://www.adobe.com) is an US399 Flash development tool for creating interactive applications. Geared toward designers, Flash Catalyst allows designers to turn static Illustrator, Photoshop, and Fireworks files into interactive applications without writing code. At the core of Flash Catalyst are components such as buttons, scroll bars, sliders, text fields, checkboxes, and data lists that are used to create interactions.
Read MoreIf you like video and computer games, the years ahead could be good ones for you as there’ll be more and more folks working on ’em.
Approximately 300 American colleges, universities, art and trade schools will offer degrees in video game design, development, programming and art during the 2010-11 academic year, according to new research from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). The degrees offered at 300 institutions represent an almost 20% increase over 2009-10.
Read MoreShipments of “combo” chipsets for mobile devices that gather a variety of connectivity types in one small package are expected to approach 280 million worldwide by the end of 2010.
Integrating different radio technologies such as FM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS on a single chip may sometimes involve performance compromises, but saves money, space and power. ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com) forecasts that more than 979 million such chipsets will ship in 2015.
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