Apple’s iPad / iPhone HTML5 Bet: HTML5 Drawing App Proves Capabilities
Recently I’ve been posting on HTML5 versus Flash. Many people who are not familiar with HTML5 may not know exactly the amount of power that has been provided with the new spec. HTML 4 was nice, and a big upgrade, but I believe HTML 5 will be an even larger upgrade over HTML4.
The reason we are talking about HTML5, is Apple seems to be placing their bets on it. Apple continues to refuse to have Flash running on their controlled devices (iPhone, iPad, etc) and seems to be pushing for HTML5 to take over.
We are slowly having to rethink the capabilities of the “HTML” platform that we have grown to know over the past 15 years. › Continue reading
Help: I Can’t log into Google AdSense
Yesterday I went to login to my Google Adsense account and found myself in an infinite loop of “Click here to login”, then “Sign up” as the only option. There were no options to actually login. This was very frustrating.
Normally I’m used to logging in with:
https://www.google.com/adsense/
This would usually redirect me to the site, and all would be fine. Now when I go there, all I see is a “Sign up now” button. If I click on “Sign up now”, there is a link that says “Already have an account?” and points to the help files for AdSense, which isn’t much help.
After searching around I ran into a forum post at WebmasterWorld.com, Can’t Log-in To AdSense – Asking to Update to Google Account.
There I found an answer from what appeared to be a Google rep:
OK, we think we’ve figured out what’s going on here (and by “we” I mean my friend the engineer).It looks like this issue is only happening to folks who signed up for adsense before we asked everyone to use a google Account. When we migrated everyone over to google Accounts, if you used the same email address for your google Account as for your previous account, you may be experiencing problems with your login screen right now.This also explains why so many WebmasterWorld people are seeing this problem, as you guys tend to be some of our most experienced adsense publishers.We’re still working on correcting the issue, but I’ll get back to you as soon as we’ve got something in place. In the meantime, some publishers experiencing this same issue have reported that they can log in using this URL: https://www.google.com/adsense/login2. Let us know if you’re still having issues logging in using this URL.
Resolution – How To Login
The result, is try logging in using the following URL:
https://www.google.com/adsense/login2
iPad Makes Appearance at the Grammy Awards
For those of you who missed it (I didn’t see most of the Grammy Awards either), here is a video of the iPad making its television debut in the hands of Stephen Colbert:
Apple, Adobe, Flash, iPhone, iPad and Open Source
I just saw an interesting blog “Back and Forth” between a few sites:
- Robert Scoble at Scobleizer
- John Gruber at Daring Fireball
- Dave Winer at scripting.com
The conversation revolves around the future of Flash and open standards. › Continue reading
iTunes Link Affiliate: How to Make Money Linking to iTunes Music
Over a year ago I published an article, How to link to iTunes: iTunes Link Maker — which described how to link to iTunes content from your blog.
I have received a few comments asking about how to setup an affiliate account with iTunes to make money off of content that you link to. I will tell you how to do that. › Continue reading
iPad, iPhone, Apple — and Flash. A Sad Story.
Anyone who regularly reads this blog (sorry) can see how optimistic I am that the iPhone will eventually support flash. Today I read news that entirely dashes those hopes.
I just hopped over to MacRumors.com (I love that site) and saw this, Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall Meeting on Google, Adobe, Next iPhone, 2010 Macs and More.
In the article MacRumors reports:
Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not its because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
That is, what I consider to be, the final nail in the coffin. Steve Jobs has shown his hand with regards to Flash.
A few weeks ago, news hit the internet of a clever developer who had implemented his own HTML/Javascript version of Flash — and it worked on the iPhone. You can see this at the demos of Gordon – An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG.
What does all this mean? Flash won’t be allowed on Apple’s most cherished devices.
If Steve Jobs is experiencing headaches because of Flash and there is an alternative, why wouldn’t he pursue it? HTML flash handle Flash like effects in an open format, a format in which Apple can control and mitigate the reach of Adobe into its own products.
It has been over a year since Adobe was able to demo Flash running on the iPhone. Why hasn’t it made it on the iPhone? Well Steve Jobs and Apple both believe the future is in the canvases of HTML 5. Video can be properly (and easily) embedded, sound included, animation effects that surpass today’s AJAX packages, and many other facets that make HTML 5 a candidate to replace Flash.
This doesn’t make me happy. I’ve come to love Flash as it has evolved.
Apple will use all forces it can to stop Adobe from growing their Flash install base. While Apple has control over a large platform, the iPhone/iPad, they will force developers to adapt to the new technologies such as HTML 5.
Apple has zero intention on ever letting Flash hit the iPhone, iPad, or even any computer if they could do that. I don’t foresee them stopping Flash from their full fledged computers, that would be suicide.
Say goodbye to the romantic notion of Flash on your Apple device.
On the Apple iPad: Problems I See
For the first time in years I think Apple has missed the target. There are so many problems that I see, right now, with the iPad. › Continue reading
Formatting Stock Data from Yahoo Finance
Yesterday I was playing with manipulating information pulled from stocks. I ended up pulling data from Yahoo Finance, because it is just so easy to do in PHP. I ran into a problem, how would I pull all the data I needed?
I found very little documentation online, it seems that pulling data from Yahoo Finance is more of a clever manipulation of Yahoo offering CSV downloads of financial data. Yahoo mentions on discussion boards that it does not support, or help, those who use Yahoo Finance like this. I don’t believe it is against any agreements. › Continue reading
Apple Announces the iPad
It’s finally here. No more rumors / guessing. Apple has finally announced the iPad.
This afternoon Steve Jobs announced the upcoming launch of the iPad at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. › Continue reading
Google Chrome 4.0: Extensions and Bookmark Sync
Today Google officially announced the release of Chrome 4.0. The update features two major pieces of functionality, Extensions and Bookmark Syncing. If you already have Google Chrome, just click on the “tool” -> About Google Chrome, and click on “Update” in the lower right corner next to the OK window. Otherwise, download it from Google. › Continue reading
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