Another free ebook from Oreilly books publisher. This ebook provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla’s framework. After installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications. After the initial satisfaction of developing your own portable applications, the book branches into topics on modular development and packaging your application. In order to build more complex applications, coverage of XUL, JavaScript, and CSS allow you to discover how to customize and build out your application shell.

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Another free ebook from Oreilly books publisher. DocBook is almost 10 years old. It began in 1991 as a joint project of HaL Computer Systems and O’Reilly. Its popularity grew, and eventually it spawned its own maintainance organization, the Davenport Group. In mid-1998, it became a Technical Committee (TC) of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

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A multimeter measures the electricity generated from a calculator’s solar cell. Next-gen devices might bypass such strips with solar circuits. (Photo by Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley)

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the world’s first solar-powered circuit in a January edition of ACS Nano. The technology shows particular promise for touchscreen devices, which could use the circuits as a direct source for sun-power. Not to be confused with solar cells, which convert sunlight energy to electricity and store it for later, this breakthrough involves circuits—electrical devices that provide paths for electricity to flow. This means that sunlight absorbed by the device can immediately use the energy to power the device.

Here’s how the circuit works: Electrons, here known as surface plasmons, oscillate on tiny molecules called nanoparticles. These plasmons act as a ’super lenses,’ which gather all solar light hitting the circuit. Once the light’s collected, the particles pose as electrodes to ferry away the electricity for a device to use.

Currently, though, researchers can only produce and harness small amounts of energy from the photovoltaic circuits, nowhere near enough to power consumer electronics. But scientists are sure power production will only increase in the future with creative methods like stacking circuits to absorb and focus more light energy.

Self-charging photovoltaic circuitry might be used in display screen pixels or painted on the outside of iPads and smartphones to scavenge sunlight and charge the devices, according to Dawn Bonnell, a researcher on the project. It also could potentially offer just the right power solution for small robotic devices or help computers operate on light alone.

For now, the circuits still represent a fairly major scientific breakthrough to the researchers, one science has grappled with for some time. When working with microscopic parts, invisible to the eye, it’s hard for scientists to ensure each component is the right distance away from the others to form a proper circuit. Molecules must be connected to particles, and particles must be separated from one another by a molecule-long space.

Silicon circuits aren’t likely to be replaced in the near future, Bonnell says, but this breakthrough could one day make phone chargers much less necessary—at least on sunny days.

The Haitian earthquake disaster prompted a quick response from tech companies, who have provided practical applications to aid in the disaster response. The Microsoft Translator Team has pitched in by announcing that Creole, a language spoken by nearly 80% of Hatians, is now supported in its language translation service Bing Translator. This blog post has more details on the announcement, and details how the support for Creole will help with the disaster:

With the devastating disaster that struck Haiti, we have all been individually pitching in to help the efforts. This is our effort, as a team, to respond to the needs of communities such as Crisis Commons by delivering a Haitian Creole translator which can be of help to individual users, as well as other technology projects that could use a scalable translation system in their relief endeavors.

The Microsoft Translator API can also make use of the new language features, with free access for non-commercial applications.

Since its initial release, several improvements have been made including better translations and fixes for the AJAX API.

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) are also working on a Creole translation application, having supplying a prototype to the U.S. Army. The project was scrapped in 1990, but work has resumed in the wake of the earthquake disaster. Robert Frederking, senior systems scientist at LTI, had this to say:

Given the extreme poverty of Haiti, “nobody is going to make money on a Haitian Creole translator,” Frederking said.

“But translation systems could be an important tool, both for the relief workers now involved in emergency response and in the long-term as rebuilding takes place.”

Microsoft has provided an extensive site for developers looking to use the translation API, with a number of live sample applications to demonstrate how the API is used.

Two days, a room full of hackers and one theme: music. This is the premise behind the Stockholm Music Hack Day, which resulted in 31 projects including hardware hacks, mobile, web and desktop applications. A number of the web applications are live and available for anyone to use.

discoverOmatic allows you to discover new artists and tracks while listening to the radio or even your own collection. Simply select the radio station you’re currently listening to (currently on BBC brands supported) and we’ll do the rest.

Mystery Music Search gives you the results for whatever the person before you searched for. Heavily inspired by mysterygoogle.com, and using the new Echonest search_tracks api.

Another favourite is the Twitter best ever Midi Player, which is a small box that creates a realtime MIDI stream from Twitter messages.

A live feed covered the event, including a number of photos, twitter posts and video feeds.

You can find a similarly eclectic collection of hacks from the previous Music Hack Days, and developers sharing the same hacker spirit can find 74 music APIs to get them started on their own mashups.

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Though iPhone sales grew 18 percent in the fourth quarter, the overall market saw even greater growth, leaving Apple with a smaller market share during the holiday season, a new study has found.

The data from ABI Research, via The Wall Street Journal, shows that Apple’s smartphone market share dropped from 18.1 percent in the third quarter of 2009 to 16.6 percent in the fourth quarter. This despite the fact that Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones in the fourth quarter — an 18 percent increase from the previous quarter, and Apple’s best quarter ever in terms of total sales.

However, as noted by similar research from Strategy Analytics, Apple also saw a year-over-year increase in market share, growing from 10.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 to an estimated 16.4 percent at the end of 2009 — just 0.2 percent off from the ABI Research findings.

ABI’s Michael Morgan told the Journal that the iPhone could be suffering a case of “Razr burn,” referring to Motorola’s popular cell phone which dominated the sales charts for years but lost favor when its design went unchanged. But the report quickly discredited that notion.

“That of course is a little rich,” the report said of Morgan’s commentary. “The California device maker still enjoys profit margins among the industry’s highest. And the attention it commands is unrivaled (see the frenzy around the iPad unveiling last week).”

The overall smartphone market grew 26 percent in the fourth quarter, according to ABI, thanks to increased sales of Google’s Android mobile operating system and Nokia increasing sales by 4.6 million. The quarter also saw the high-profile introduction of the Motorola Droid smartphone.

“2009 may have started with a whimper but by (the fourth quarter of) 2009 the global mobile handset market ended with a pretty reasonable bang,” said Jake Saunders, vice president for forecasting at ABI Research. “We estimate 336.5 million handsets were shipped in 4Q-2009, up 15.1 percent (quarter over quarter).”

Nokia remains the overall mobile phone dominant market leader with 37.7 percent, though its share of the smartphone market has dropped significantly in recent years. Nokia and Apple are currently engaged in a number of lawsuits filed in court and with the International Trade Commission over allegations of patent infringement on both parties behalves.

In second place was Samsung, which captured 20.5 percent of the global phone market in the fourth quarter of 2009. LG took 10.1 percent; Sony-Ericsson was in fourth with 4.3 percent; and Motorola took 3.6 percent. Despite its significant slice of the much-smaller smartphone market, Apple did not register in the top five of total mobile phone sales.

Google have an interesting webmaster tool safe browsing you can use it to check from time to time if your website or server is victim of malicious software or exploits. Sometimes your server might be attacked and the owner is not aware about it, so if you want to check simply open :

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=phpmagazine.net

And put your website after site=, the diagnostic page will include the current status, previous status during the last 90 days. Exploits are mainly scripting exploits, and google record also the server IP which host the malicious software.

The diagnostic will tell you also if your website have acted as intermediary in the distribution of malware, probably not very useful information for you, but it is safe to know if something was going wrong.

I think it’s an excellent diagnostic that you can get for FREE for your website to make sure that it is safe to browse on your website.

While I’m still waiting for my Wave invitation, Google released today code for the wave protocol with installation instructions to create your own wave servers, and how to generate a Self-Signed Wave Federation Certificate

The open source Wave Federation Prototype Server is delivered as a Java application that conforms to XEP-0114, the Jabber Component Protocol. In the examples below we show how to install the Wave Federation Prototype Server as an extension to the Openfire XMPP server, but it should run against any XEP-0114 compliant server.

The wave protocol specification draft defines Google Wave as a communication and collaboration platform based on hosted conversations, called waves. A wave consists of XML documents and supports concurrent modifications and low-latency updates between participants on the wave.

The wave federation protocol enables everyone to become a wave provider and share waves with others. For instance, an organization can operate as a wave provider for its members, an individual can run a wave server as a wave provider for a single user or family members, and an Internet service provider can run a wave service as another Internet service for its users as a supplement to email, IM, ftp, etc. A decentralized architecture that makes Google wave implementations limited only to your imagination.