U.K. company Hypertag is selling an innovate electronic billboard, one that encourages user interaction by sending messages to nearby mobile devices. As per the web site http://www.hypertag.com/, "It works by allowing infra-red mobile phones, and PDAs (e.g. Palm Pilots or Pocket PCs) to interact...
MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/ is an online community allowing members to create profiles, post pics, maintain blogs, and build networks of links to other friends and members. MySpace claims to contain over 5,000,000 profiles. Mobog at http://www.mobog.com/ enables anyone with a mobile...
CFEclipse is a CFML plug-in for Eclipse (the popular open-source Java IDE originally created by IBM, and now managed by the Eclipse Foundation). The CFEclipse plug-in provides Eclipse with CFML awareness and functionality (code completion, syntax highlighting, code insight, language help, CFC...
Accoona (http://www.accoona.com/) is the latest search engine that is going to change our lives. Or not. Accoona uses AI based technology that allows you to rate the relative weight of each word in your search, so as to be able to fine-tune searching. Accoona proudly call this "SuperTarget", and of...
A U.K. developer has created FlashHack, a program that apparently allows you to execute SWF files on a Microsoft Smartphone. Software (docs are in the readme) at http://gamesforsmartphones.co.uk/flashhack.shtml.
I first mentioned this half a year ago during my summer CFUG tour, but a few of you have asked about it recently, and so ... ColdFusion MX Enterprise features support for multiple ColdFusion instances. Although actually, that is less a ColdFusion feature and more a J2EE server feature that...
Bill Rawlinson noted this in a comment on a previous post, but I think it is blogworth enough to warrant its own post. The entire US Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District web site at http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/ is powered by ColdFusion MX (running on Windows 2000), and also uses a ColdFusion...
Need a ColdFusion based file manager? Take a look at Rick Root's CFFM at http://www.webworksllc.com/cffm/. This wonderful little utility supports file and folder creation, deletion, moving, copying, and renaming, file upload, as well as file specific options (image manipulation for image files, zip...
Sprint is finally offering a Bluetooth enabled phone, the LG PM-325. I have been less than impressed with LG phones thus far, but this one seems quite feature rich (and it supports Bluetooth). Details at...
eWeek is running a story about an application built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide accessible and consistent information about the water level of the Mississippi River. The application is written in ColdFusion deployed on Oracle 9i. Story at...