For the past month or so I’ve been developing an iPhone Twitter app that I believe extends the service in an interesting way. No, it is not a twitter client, but rather an additional feature in an already wide arsenal of available twitter features. Originally, I started designing and developing the app as a final project for my iPhone Development course at UMBC, but during the process I was intrigued to continue the development of the app past the scope of the final project. At this time I am not going to get into the details of what the app is and what it does, but I will leave you with a screenshot of the main app screen. The screenshot gives away a decent amount of info so I will let it speak for itself. For now, that is all…

Mac.AppStorm is giving away a free copy of CSSEdit. So head on over to their giveaway page and enter for your chance to grab one of the four copies.

CSSEdit is aimed at both those new to web design, as well as those experienced in the field. The Selector Builder and advanced visual editors will gradually help you understand CSS. The Live Preview and intelligent source environment are really useful tools to get your website looking great, very quickly.

In a deal that will surely keep the internet abuzz for sometime Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they will be partnering up on a search deal. The deal has been rumored for quite some time now and as of last night became official news.

Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape
Global Deal Creates Better Choice for Consumers and Advertisers

SUNNYVALE, CA and REDMOND, WA — 29 July, 2009 — Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

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Earlier today Google sent out a batch of Google Wave invitations to about 20,000 eager developers. For anybody who is still in the dark about what’s going on visit Google Wave’s home page. Up until this morning the wave API’s have been open to about 6,000 developers that got their hand on one of the invites most likely at a conference like Google I/O.  It is not surprising at all to see this kind of approach from Google (anyone remember the scavenger hunt for GMail invites?) The service is expected to go semi-public (100, 000 invites will be distributed) sometime in September. Unfortunately after numerous attempts to get an invite to the developer’s sandbox I was unable to obtain one. I guess I am gonna have to wait until September to ride the wave, unless someone would like to share an extra invite with me

via TechCrunch

TechCrunch posted new screen shots of Google’s Chrome browser and it’s looking pretty sharp. Test of the nightly build indicates that a lot of progress has been made since the developer version was released.However there is still some functionality that hasn’t been implemented yet. Most noticeable is the lack of flash support, rendering pretty much any web streaming video’s unavailable. Head on over to TechCrunch to get the full scoop.

Ever wondered what would happen if the internet had police? Jason Michaels at CollegeHumor provides us with hilarious insight into the world of internet police. Enjoy.

via CollegeHumor

IE6 has long been a thorn in the sides of many web developers, offering limited support for many established web standards that often force devs to implement ugly, ugly hacks. It might not be so bad if there weren’t so many people still using the damn thing over eight years after its release (and two full browser upgrades from Microsoft), but it still has an alarmingly large following. Its poor performance, combined with its persistence, has made it one of the worst tech products of all time. And Digg has had enough. Read the rest of the article here.

I completely agree, it is unfair to developers to have to support a technology that is 8 years old. You wouldn’t use your old DVD player to a BlueRay disk on it, would you? Then why use IE6 to view visually and feature rich content of today’s web? To all you people out there with IE6, please do us all a favor and Get Firefox!

via TechCrunch

In a massive display of clumsiness, the iPhone 3G S comes out victorious. This video had all the ingredients of a hugely disappointed ex iPhone owner to be. Specially the, “So, taking a video with my new iPhone…”. Fortunately for the guy in the video, it all worked out in the end. Video after the jump.

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Have you ever tried to output a string from java to XML, just to get this message once you tried opening the XML file:

XML Parsing Error: reference to invalid character number

Well, today I have. As some of you might already know, valid UTF8 string does not imply that it’s a valid XML string. Looking around for a solution I stumbled onto Mark McLaren’s Blog, who posted a function that deals with the issue at hand.

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Little by little I am putting this blog together. I just added SyntaxHighLighter and now I want to test it out. Here’s a php snippet that will allow you to display photoshop source files on your page.

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