Web Developer

Google launched a new web-based tool Wednesday that helps you configure, test and easily embed one of the company’s free fonts into your web pages.
The Font Previewer lets you pick one of the open source fonts from Google’s Font Library, then tweak the size, spacing and decorations using simple sliders and buttons. Once you have [...]

Font startup Typekit introduced an API Thursday that lets web programmers generate kits from the Typekit library behind the scenes.
The company has previously only offered the option of picking fonts and generating kits using the web-based tool on its site. But by releasing an API, it’s giving people the option of building Typekit into their [...]

Microsoft is working on a new technology, dubbed Street Slide, aimed at reshaping the street-level mapping space currently dominated by Google Street View and Microsoft’s Bing Streetside.The company plans to present the technology at SIGGRAPH…. [...]
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Google has added a feature to its Buzz API that publishes every activity as it happens in a single feed.
On the social web, this is commonly called a “Firehose” — a syndication feed that publishes all public activities as they happen in one big, fat stream. It’s a lot to sift through, but app developers [...]

RIM has just added a new geolocation feature to its Locate Service toolkit, which will permit BlackBerry developers to use cellular tower data when grabbing location data for their apps. This will ultimately enable apps to use cellular…
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According to an email from Apple, the first beta of the iPhone’s iOS 4.1 mobile operating system is now available from the iPhone Dev Center along with the 4.1 SDK.Combine that with news that Apple is
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Google’s web-based document editor can now convert the text inside your PDFs and images into text you can edit.
When you upload a file to Google Docs, you’ll see the option to “Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents.” You can upload any PDF, PNG, JPG or GIF.
To do the conversion, Google [...]

Crazy? Perhaps. But Justin, who is already camping in front of Dallas Apple store on Knox St., will definitely be the first in line to pick up…
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The age-old battle between Microsoft and Apple is about to begin anew in the palm of your hand. Both companies are launching new gaming platforms — the…
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5by5’s Dan Benjamin interviewed Twitter’s former lead developer Alex Payne and the two discussed Payne’s views on the company and its business model.…
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