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Maximum warp. Punch it.

A long-forgotten battle in the Clone Wars that nearly killed Apple.

Hold the schadenfreude: Windows Phone and Android may have similar issues.

As a bonus, you'll also be included in an exclusive list of hackers watched by the NSA.

And they get their search data from... oh, right, totally private...

Momma, momma! I went to town: inside, outside, batteries worn down.

Learning to use the little nginx that could.

What did the lobster say to the mermaid? Nothing, lobsters can’t talk.

Metro, Modern... I guess we can call it "Postmodern" now.

Set it and forget it (and recalculate it, and reset it...)

If a school needed tablets, which platform is best?

At the World Wide Developer Conference this year, Apple revealed iOS 7 along with details of the iOS developer and app ecosystem. From the $10 Billion paid to iOS developers to opportunities in the next iOS release, Nick Dalton lays out the state of Apples mobile development landscape in 2013.

Because it's a FAQ: Unlike some other mobile platforms, which require roundabout means of distributing beta apps, Windows Phone supports beta testing of apps directly through the Windows Store. Michael Crump has answers for 10 frequently asked questions about how beta apps work and what you can do with them.

"The lure of high engagement on mobile devices has many people building and marketing native mobile apps. But how many of these applications actually get downloaded by mobile users each month?" Luke Wroblewski unravels the averages for apps downloaded on various mobile platforms over the years.

Some significant changes in iOS 7 mean it may be the perfect time to jump in with your own app, even in app genres already dominated by other developers. Joey deVilla explains why this is a good time to get started, and what you need to do to set up your iOS 7 development tools.

"When working with Windows Azure Mobile Services it is handy to decrypt HTTPS traffic from the Phone Emulator to see what traffic is being passed to your Mobile Service." Jeff Sanders walks you through the process of hooking Fiddler up and get it to work with the Emulator.

"Android has a new Gradle-based build system that makes it easier to accomplish tasks that were previously hard or impossible to do." Getting an existing Eclipse-based Android development setup working with the new Gradle tools takes some work, but is well worth the effort. Alex Ruiz explains how.

Developing your browser-based game on a quad-core desktop with 16 gigabytes of RAM is easy. Getting it to perform on a mobile device is a little more difficult. Louis Stowasser, Harald Kirschner and Robert Nyman detail some best practices and things to consider for moving a game to Firefox OS or any similar hardware target.

It's a .NET Microframework Device and you can start writing apps now.

Attacking modern security is mostly looking for bugs in code, not the underlying cryptography.

From Top Gear to Top Winner: Our own Dave Auld wins!

Programmability is a feature, not just a tax on efficiency.

The extra dimensions add a little challenge to a dusty old game.

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