Only a few months after the release of the second generation digital media receiver from Apple, there’s some people working around the world to provide it with more functionality than the original device. I’m not exactly sure about how legal this is, but you know “every law has its loophole”. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m positive that these people’s intentions are good and the proofs for that are the incredible works they’ve been up to. With a different perspective, these individuals brought more exciting features for the Apple TV. Let’s take a look at top apple apps.

Last week, people over at Research In Motion (better known as RIM, the company behind the Blackberry’s development) posted a video comparison between their yet-to-be-released BlackBerry Playbook tablet and Apple’s iPad (the main competitor and the model against which all tablets are measured). The purpose of this face to face confrontation is to show the users and potential buyers the web capabilities of RIM’s tablet and to establish which one is the best tablet PC.

For quite some time now, the computer world is revolutionized over the development of HTML5. You probably have read something about it but, what is HTML5 exactly? And, what’s with all the talk about a revolution associated to that language? Here’s a brief summary for you to understand a little more about the subject and for you to comprehend the features of the oncoming Web.

The Internet times they are a-changin’. With the arrival of HTML5 (a radical revision of the language that supports many websites) the basic structure of the Web is going through a transition phase, in which some essentials components are very likely to disappear. One of the biggest changes the Internet will have to face relates to its capability to display multimedia content. In this way, HTML5 would turn addons such as Flash Player and Silverlight useless. Although it’s too early to be writing death certificates, many developers and programmers support the new revision which will lead eventually to an addon-free Web. So, the question some people are asking is: what happens with all those applications? And most importantly, what’s the future for Silverlight?