by Mario Apicella

Test Center Tracker: Escape from reality?

analysis
Mar 12, 20082 mins

Don't you wish sometimes you had a magic wand to free your memory, and perhaps the world, from things like the idiotic behavior of a sleazy politician caught in a scandal? You know who I am referring to, don't you? Well I have that magic wand. Perhaps it will work only for a few minutes, but enjoy this short vacation in today's Test Center daily pick. Let the iPhone games beginOr so we hope. Tom Yager gives a qu

Don’t you wish sometimes you had a magic wand to free your memory, and perhaps the world, from things like the idiotic behavior of a sleazy politician caught in a scandal? You know who I am referring to, don’t you?

Well I have that magic wand. Perhaps it will work only for a few minutes, but enjoy this short vacation in today’s Test Center daily pick.

Let the iPhone games begin Or so we hope. Tom Yager gives a quick overview of what the upcoming SDK could bring to the iPhoners, and games are not a small part of his dream. Think for example, what powerful games developers could build around the exceedingly rich set of gestures of the iPhone. Read this and more in Ahead of the Curve.

Speaking of smartphones… Zack Urlocker describes his own experience with the Palm Treo Centro. Admittedly the Treo Centro doesn’t compete well with the brightest and smartest gadgets in that space but in Zack’s own words is a no-brainer upgrade from Treo 650. Show me the power of the CLI It may sound ironic, perhaps even a vindication to the *nix folks, but lately Microsoft seems to express its best when a GUI is not in the way. This time the focus is not on the Linux-like ability of Windows Server 2008 to run without a graphic interface but on PowerShell. If you read TechNet PowerShell is an old and indeed powerful friend that now has received a surprising public acknowledgment from VMware, David Marshall reports. Technorati Tags: Apple, iPhone, SDK, Palm Treo, smartphones, Windows, Microsoft, PowerShell, VMware, TechNet, Windows Server 2008