Category: Tools

  • StarCraft II announced by Blizzard

    OMG! Yesterday, at the Blizzard Invitational in Seoul, South Korea, Blizzard announced that they’re working on StarCraft II. If that doesn’t send shivers of unearthly delight through your spine, then you really need to go and read a bit more about the original Starcraft. In fact, why don’t you go out and buy it and…

  • gotAPI.com adds J2ME, mobile world rejoices.

    Q: Can the awesome API reference site gotAPI.com get any awesomer? A: Yes, since it’s just added J2ME at the request of yours truly. I love the (Lazy) Interweb.

  • Sun & Laszlo to bring OpenLaszlo (AKA Open Flash) to Java ME devices.

    I found some interesting stats in the Sun / Laszlo Project “Orbit” announcement that there would be a version of OpenLaszlo for Java ME devices.  Here’s the quote: Javaâ„¢ Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) is the most ubiquitous application platform for embedded devices in the world, with more than 3.8 billion Java devices including 1.2…

  • Using Mpowerplayer to demo Java ME (J2ME) apps online

    Do you write Java ME applications? Want to display the results of your work to visitors like that fancy emulator that comes with Mobile.Processing. Well, Michael Powers (developer of the great MPowerplayer MIDP 2.0 SDK for OS X) has developed a free web emulator you can use in your site. Here’s how in three easy…

  • Chumby Devices Handed Out at Foo

    Michael Arrington from Techcrunch writes about an interesting new hackfriendly mobile device called the Chumby. Chumby Devices were handed out at Foo Camp to about 100 lucky Foos (I’m looking at you, Raffel) to prod, poke, develop world changing applications and generally hack to pieces. I’m not going reprint the technical specs verbatim, but the…