Hot on the heels of version 3.0 of the NewsBlur iOS app comes the next version of the Android app. A bunch of new features have made it into this release, including the include a new story navigation pane and the text view.

Here’s what you can see use today in the Android app:

• New story traversal buttons make it easy to flip between stories.
• New text view fetches and parses the story from the original site.
• New logo.
• Public comments are now be hidden in preferences.
• Ability to unsave stories.
• Numerous bugs squashed and crashes fixed.

Thanks to our Android developer Daniel, the next version is already starting development, so shout out to @newsblur with your feedback and ideas for new features.

After going out of his way to tie the shoe of his opponent, a player was penalized by the referee for a delay of game. On the subsequent free kick, the player one-ups his previous act of sportsmanship.

Native Client (NaCl) brings the performance and low-level control of native code to modern web browsers, without sacrificing the security benefits and portability of web applications. By helping developers directly leverage the power of the underlying CPU and GPU, NaCl enables web applications from photo editing and audio mixing, to 3D gaming and CAD modeling. Today, we’re launching Portable Native Client (PNaCl, pronounced pinnacle), which lets developers compile their code once to run on any hardware platform and embed their PNaCl application in any website.

Under the hood, PNaCl works by compiling native C and C++ code to an intermediate representation, rather than architecture-specific representations as in Native Client. The LLVM-style bytecode is wrapped into a portable executable, which can be hosted on a web server like any other website asset. When the site is accessed, Chrome fetches and translates the portable executable into an architecture-specific machine code optimized directly for the underlying device. This translation approach means developers don’t need to recompile their applications multiple times to run across x86, ARM or MIPS devices.


PNaCl unlocks the power of native performance for applications like Bullet physics simulators and Lua interpreters. For now PNaCl is Chrome only, but developers can make their PNaCl applications compatible with other browsers via pepper.js, which allows applications to use the Pepper API from JavaScript.

Portable Native Client provides a natively fast, secure option to meet the demands of a new generation of web applications. As always, we look forward to your questions and feedback on Stack Overflow or our discussion forum, and will host a Google Developers Live event on Thursday, November 14th to answer your questions. Visit gonacl.com for tutorials, documentation, and to get the SDK.

Posted by David Sehr, Summiting Engineer and Mountain Man

Hosted Hoested services accompany Visual Studio 2013 launch

Timed to coincide with the general availability of Visual Studio 2013 and .Net 4.5.1, Microsoft has launched Visual Studio Online, a new, hosted offering designed for web and application developers.…

This may be the future of computing in the post-PC era. Embedded in this page is a fully functional copy of Adobe Photoshop running in the cloud using the Mainframe2 interface to Amazon Web Services’ EC2 graphical cloud that I mentioned last week and the week before.

You can’t (yet) upload your own pictures to this demo but you can open pre-loaded files and manipulate them as you like. Try it on Windows or Mac using Safari or Chrome for now (more html5 browsers coming including those for Android and iOS). No plugins!  Let me know how it works for you. And remember this application was ported to the cloud in about 10 minutes.

I’ll be especially interested to hear from readers outside the USA to see if latency issues kill the experience.

For today the servers all run from Amazon EC2 US West (it should be live in EC2 US East shortly, just not today). Very soon, they’ll be connecting people to the closest Mainframe2 server.

For this demo and to keep things simple they are not enabling a “bring your own file” feature, but will be rolling out support for Dropbox, Box, and all other major cloud storage solutions soon.  Here’s a video showing how it will run with Box, for example.

What will this mean for your applications?

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