iPhone App – Stanky Cheese (free)

As mentioned in a previous post, I am learning to develop for the iPhone and needed an app to get my feet wet. The idea of the app came from my 9 year old daughter.

It was a prefect app to get my feet wet and was fun to make. It is a fart app (yes, there are a million of them and no, they are not real farts) but was a good way to break the ice and understand the app store submission process, which was not a great experience. Apple felt the first version was too risky (animated bum). The version that is in the iTunes store is not nearly as funny as the original but, if you are a kid at heart or just like slap stick, it will put a smile on your face. My daughter loves it.

You can download it for free from the iTunes store. If you download it, please rate it. : )

HTML6 and CSS4 Announced – All Majors Browsers on Board

Yup, HTML 6 and CSS4 announced today. All major browsers agree to fully support on day one.

While we wait for HTML5 and CSS3 to be finalized and deal with the sluggish support in all major browsers, the WWW Consortium has announced the new versions. They also mention that all major browsers are to support the features and render the same on all devices and promise no more hacks or the need to target browsers specifically. It was also noted that all major browsers would do a  “force upgrade” of all browsers in use today. W3 said that the plan to eradicate old browsers still in use today involved a 2 year discussion with all major the browsers (IE, Fire Fox, Safari, Chrome, Etc…) on the best approach. What was decided was to simply render the old browsers useless and force the user to upgrade.

You can read more about the announcement here.

Browser Testing Your Sites in IE 5.5 to IE8 Using IETester

If you develop websites on either Windows or the Mac and use a virtual Windows OS program (like parallels), you might want to take a peek at IETester from DebugBar. The free tool is an all in one web browser that renders and uses the JavaScript engines for versions of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Learn more at My-DebugBar.com.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Download the Clover Fireworks PNG (Right click and do “Save as”)

iPad Giveaway at geekforum.com!

With the launch of geekforum.com, we thought what a better way to kick it off than to give away a brand new Apple iPad. One lucky geekforum.com registered user will be receiving this gift (sweet!). Will it be you? Register and post your reason for wanting an Apple iPad. See full details here.

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