There has been a lot of talk about Windows 8 recent, as it was announced that Windows Store will be integrated into all Microsoft products including Windows 8. However, when this was announced they accidently released that the Windows 8 beta will be available in late February 2012. Obviously Microsoft is yet to officially confirm this, but it is nearly 100% accurate.
This release date is much less consistent with a August or September release, so we are expecting Windows 8 to be officially released January 2013 (as seen with Windows Vista).
It has been announced by Musclenerd that the iPhone Dev Team is working on the ability to downgrade iOS 5. Users have been asking for this for quite some time, but it seems to be quick difficult to sort out.
There is no time frame for this to be completed and for it to be in the public domain, but Im sure it will be released within the next few months.
A lot of people thought that Windows 8 would have a black screen of death, but after making it available for release yesterday it turns out to not be the case. In reality they have a very nice blue screen of death.
Microsoft has just launched the developer preview for Windows 8.
This of course makes the news extremely important for developers and startups looking at this space, including those working with Windows Phone and Nokia.
Yioop! is an awesome free search engine product. Yioop is open source and its a search engine built with PHP and MySQL.
Yioop has many amazing algorhythms and it can even be set to crawl at any rate or page. Additionally, Yioop can be used in a similar way to Google Custom Search and only run with certain URLs.
A standard setup can crawl and index millions of pages per day and this number can be increased by running more crawlers. Index also supports many files types including HTML, PNG, DOC and more.
melonJS is an amazing free standalone javascript engine for creating your own HTML5 games. MelonJS is a work in progress, but it is amazingly easy to use, lightweight and the opportunities to create great games is amazing. Creating levels is very simple with a tiled map editor that anyone can use. melonJS is compatible with the various existing browsers.
If you want to create your own HTML5 games then melonJS is for you!
Im an avid reader of Business Insider and the NYTimes and have liked their similar content sharer for some time, but I have never been able to find a WordPress plugin that replicates this. Finally, I have found such a plugin!
The SimpleReach Slide is a great plugin that will show your readers a releated post while they scroll your articles. The widget is to show your readers related content while also increasing your pageviews and social media sharing.
The SimpleReach Slide is free and available to download from the WordPress site right now.
