Earth browser-Adobe air application

September 5th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin

Earth browser is an excellent Adobe air application which permits different kinds of users to see all kinds of information. Users can see this information on the top side of 3D representation of globe. They can see the information which includes tropical storms, weather, clouds, earthquakes and more than this. All this kind of information is displayed on the top side 3D earth. There is some information which is displayed by making use of time animation. It is same like Microsoft virtual earth or Google earth but it is done by making use of Adobe air application.

You are able to spin the earth through which you can browse various events and then just by clicking on data points you are able to go back in time so that you can change information in view with moving a slide back. Making use of AIR is very good because it permits you in dragging and dropping KML files from the desktop or from the browser into excellent application. And this is one of the easy and simple ways for adding data into application. Matt Giger has written the application. Matt sells this application in $29.95. You can refer the Matt’s development on his blog in which he tells you excellent things about earth browser. Read more…

Google co-founder expects Chrome for Android

September 4th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin

Google’s new Chrome browser is for PCs today, but company co-founder Sergey Brin expects the technology will make its way to Android, the company’s mobile phone operating system and software suite.

Chrome and Android were developed largely separately, Brin said in an interview at the Chrome launch event Tuesday. “We have not wanted to bind one’s hands to the other’s,” Brin said. But you can expect that to change now that both projects are public and nearing their first final releases.

“Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.

And the brand name likely will follow. “My guess is we’ll have ‘Chrome-like’ or something similar,” he said.

Chrome and Android’s current browser both already employ WebKit, an open-source project for the process of interpreting the HTML code that makes up a Web page and rendering it on a scree

Elixir 2.0 beta 2 released

September 4th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin

ILOG released another preview of the 2.0 version of their charting framework, Elixir, last week. The new release features, among other things:

  • A new Gantt task chart that improves upon the existing 1.0 Gantt chart to cover new use cases.
  • New heatmaps components
  • New OLAP & pivot charts to mimic excel-like pivot charting.
  • Improved flex calendar and numerical indicators components.

ILOG has released this preview as part of their beta program, which is free to anyone who wants to sign up.

If you do a lot of charting or are into creating complex data visualizations, ILOG is a component set worth checking out. If you’ve used Elixir before, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.