[Florian] is proud to announce libTISCH 1.0 is finally ready for release. We told you about libTISCH just under a year ago and how it is a multitouch framework that factors more on the software side of things, instead of hardware for multitouch interfaces. A lot has changed including more widgets, more gestures, more hardware support, and some other nice features. If you’re looking into making your own multitouch surface, or making your own widgets for a multitouch surface – libTISCH would be a great place to start.

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This week was another busy one for Facebook who made a number of large announcements on Thursday. Facebook has been pretty consistent with rolling out relatively significant updates and announcements on a weekly basis over the past month. With Facebook beyond 275 million users, based on our internal numbers, Facebook continues the march toward 300 million. Hopefully Facebook continues pushing out weekly news stories so our job of chronicling the company’s activities can stay exciting!

Facebook for Android Launches
As we expected, Facebook for Android officially launched on Tuesday afternoon around the time of Facebook’s mobile press event. Initial reviews…

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We were seriously frustrated when Facebook removed the ability to find your friends based on their location. There are numerous examples of why you would want to filter by city and not having this feature was nothing short of annoying. Thankfully, Facebook has added the feature back according to an updated posted to the Facebook Page just an hour ago. The feature was first noticed by Eric Eldon.

We were actually in the process of posting an article about 10 reasons why they should add this feature back but within a matter of days, filtering by city is now available…

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If you want books, but don’t want to pay for them, there is a better way than walking into your local book store and pocketing them. Try grabbing them online, from Google!
Everyone must be aware of the Google Books Library project by now. If you’re not, it’s basically a way for Google to ensure all of the world’s book content is accessible and searchable. Through the Book Project, Google works with libraries to scan and archive their older and out of print materials. Up until recently, viewers of books in the Google Library Project web space were limited…

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What’s the difference between franchising vs. licensing a business? The starting point in the franchising vs. licensing a business analysis is to consider the legal aspects, then the business aspects. In considering the legal aspects, begin with the following premise that applies to both options. If you put someone into business (or allow them to use your business name/mark) this transaction will normally be a regulated activity, subject to substantial penalties for noncompliance. This guiding legal principle, coupled with the business aspects of selling a franchise vs. a license (discussed below) will answer most franchise vs. license questions. Advice from…

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Gelato is self hosted CMS for those who want both flexibility and design in their work. It is a specially designed CMS for tumblelogs. It provides a nice framework for tumblelogs and is very easy to install. It runs on PHP and MySQL. It can also import RSS/Atom feeds as well as Twitter and Last.Fm feeds.

The Gelato project is open source (you can use and change the original source code freely). You can browse the source code, request features, read the wiki and use the forum from the Gelato home at Google code or you can contact the authors.…

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How many times you had problem or were asked about what happened to this object in your function? Or why this is not an object you expect it to be? Probably these times you have to remind yourself or your fellow programmer about function context.
First of all I have to ask you all a pretty lame question. If you write function in JS block right inside your HTML, what this keyword will refer to?
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function testThis(){
//who is “this”
}
</script>
And now to the real example.

Let’s say you build a simple Javascript object:
<script type=”text/javascript”>…

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Shadowbox CSS and Javascript Framework…

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