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Samsung and Adobe Bring Adobe AIR to Smart TVs

Tim Bray on the new mobile market:
Tablets and handsets can displace computers as play and reading devices, but they really can't become dominant as work tools until we have a better solution for high-speed low-friction text input. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be surprised to see dramatic progress in this area; it’s so obviously the number-one usability barrier for everything that isn’t badged as a "computer".
I've seen some interesting approaches at solving the text input problem. But the other option is of course that other means of communicating become more prominent: videos, audio messages, etc....

I just finished migrating my quite old website to Drupal 7, which - by the way - will be released on January 5th.
It was a good opportunity to improve this website's navigation and content-types, since the previous version was a mix between a blog system (Dotclear) and static webpages.
Migrating content was a simple copy-paste task, as I wanted to clean up things and focus on web development stuff.
Of course, some URLs have changed, thus Apache's RedirectMatch rules are my friends.
I use Drupal 7 Bartik default theme, with some style adjustments, the aggregator module, custom blocks, and default content-types (basic...

Adobe Reports First Billion Dollar Quarter