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Comment Re:Deja Vu (Score 1) 278

Exactly tverbeek: I immediately thought of the iPhone webapps when I read about Mozilla's "threat."

http://apple.com/webapps

As Steve Jobs proposed with iPhone 1.0, developers were urged to push the capabilities of web technology to develop web applications for the iPhone. Today there are 4293 tuned web pages that take advantage of the technology the iPhone has to offer. For instance, the Most Recent under All Categories web app that loaded for me this evening was one that used the web browser and the GPS. Web apps can take advantage of the iPhone's hardware and software and not have to be run through the App Store. I have always thought that the only failure of the iPhone was that nobody developed a richer Internet that took advantage of a mobile Internet device like the iPhone.

Comment BrainPop Computer Virus Video (Score 1) 932

BrainPop has a fun free video about computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses:

http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/computerviruses/

I particularly like BrainPop because the videos are appropriate for younger people and contain enough humor that they don't pander to adults. Have your family members watch this video so they better understand what a virus does to the computers and how they can avoid messing up their computers.

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Embedding Video In a Site For iPhone/iPod? 68

Russ writes "Our corporate media delivery platform is in the process of being refactored (at long, long last), and one of the preferred requirements is the ability to serve streaming video to iPhone and iPod Touch devices, similar to the way YouTube does it — show a screen shot, and when the user taps it, the video should play full-screen and landscaped automatically. The problem comes from the severe lack of documentation Apple provides on how, precisely, this can be done. From what I can tell, YouTube still fires a Flash object to the iPhone despite its lack of Flash support. I have, to a certain extent, been able to review some of YouTube's Flash code and get a hack working on our platform (no screenshot, not landscape, but does play automatically), but I'm sure I'm missing a 'trick of the trade' somewhere that makes the process transparent to the user. Has anyone out there done this before, and if so, how? The standard (and non-standard) Quicktime object/embed codes seem to only provide partial functionality on the iPhone/iPod."

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