July 2009
32 posts
Is the iPhone causing Apple to lose the plot?
Is the iPhone causing Apple to lose the plot? 37 Comments by Nicholas Deleon on July 29, 2009 Is Apple losing the plot? I ask this because, having just read this bollocks (Apple wants to make jailbreaking illegal because it supposedly...
Alternative to AP's "DRM" diagram
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
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xkcd - A Webcomic - Lease
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Django | Weblog | Django 1.1 released
Django 1.1 released After nearly a year of development, lots of new features and thousands of other improvements, Django 1.1 is here and ready for prime time! For a full rundown of what’s new and what’s changed, consult the release notes; to grab a copy, swing by the Django download page. And for the security-conscious, signed checksums for the release tarball are available. ...
Why is supply and demand so confusing?
Why is supply and demand so confusing? Maybe you don’t find it confusing, but I do. It all started a few years ago when we noticed that we had a “trick question” on our placement exam at Bentley. The question asked what would happen to the demand for tea if there was a health scare regarding coffee. Obviously coffee and tea are substitutes. So if the health scare reduces the price of...
Humans prefer cockiness to expertise - life - 10...
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Guess the Number of M&Ms in a Jar - Video -...
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Slashdot Hardware Story | Verizon FiOS/DSL...
Verizon FiOS/DSL Customers Get Free WiFi Across US on Monday July 27, @06:52PM
Posted by kdawson on Monday July 27, @06:52PM from the windows-only dept. Glenn Fleishman lets us know that Verizon is finally offering nationwide Wi-Fi access to its high-speed Internet customers,...
Surf on Google Wave from September
Google has announced that Google Wave, the new communication and collaboration tool, will go live on 30 September 2009. via sitepoint.com
Can’t wait
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Destructoid - Rev Rant: Donate
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Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"
Linus: “Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease” posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Jul 2009 22:53 UTC, submitted by Remy Chi Jian Suen So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a “cancer”. Opinions on this one are flying...
Daring Fireball Linked List: Palm WebOS 1.1...
Palm WebOS 1.1 Restores iTunes Syncing Palm: Oh, and one more thing: Palm webOS 1.1 re-enables Palm media sync. That’s right — you once again can have seamless access to your music, photos and videos from the current version of iTunes (8.2.1). Looks like Palm wants to make it a game. (Via Dieter Bohn.)
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“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 7 | Blog of...
“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 7 July 22nd, 2009 Goto comments Leave a comment Edit Utility Functions Various functions that are useful when you start doing more than simple JavaScript/DOM manipulation code. Typeof Sometimes you’ll want to determine what type of data a variable contains, you can use the typeof keyword which...
When programmers design web sites (comic) - Steve...
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“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 6 | Blog of...
“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 6 July 13th, 2009 Goto comments Leave a comment Edit Events & Handling In conjunction with the DOM tree, events are an important aspect of the browser-provided functionality. Think of events as a “reaction” to a particular situation. For example, when the user clicks, you may...
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others - Pogue’s...
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.
A screen shot from Amazon.com The MobileReference edition of the novel, “Nineteen Eighty-four,” by George...
Fuck you Apple. It was totally OK when you dissed...
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We can hold one here! I’ll start. Sure, Apple has a higher price, but you’re also getting the best operating system in the world.
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Bake Cookies on Your Dashboard - Food Hacks -...
Bake Cookies on Your Dashboard By Jason Fitzpatrick, 6:30 AM on Tue Jul 14 2009, 25,125 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site Slurp cancel ...
xkcd - A Webcomic - Sheeple
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Google Maps Markers Are Making Real World...
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Google Maps meets real life…
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Office 2010: The Movie
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Reminds me of Minesweeper: The Movie
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“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 5 | Blog of...
“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 5 July 6th, 2009 Goto comments Leave a comment Edit DOM Tree This part of the main reason of using JavaScript in the first place. Browsers give JavaScript access to its DOM, or Document Object Model, which is how the browser internalizes the HTML tree. This is an extremely large topic in its own...
Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes...
Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And No. 15 Comments by Guest Author on July 12, 2009 Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net, founded in 2005 with the goal of helping people and businesses easily access and share information from anywhere. Box.net is now used by millions of individuals,...
Google Stealing Apple’s Ideas And Other Tales Of...
Google Stealing Apple’s Ideas And Other Tales Of Accidental Corporate Espionage 10 Comments by Jason Kincaid on July 11, 2009 This morning I woke up and saw an interesting headline on Techmeme from Forbes writer Brian Caulfield: Why Google Is Stealing Apple’s Ideas. Wow, a story involving two of the world’s...
Repel Flies with a Bag of Water - Annoyances -...
Repel Flies with a Bag of Water By Rosa Golijan, 9:30 AM on Mon Jul 6 2009, 81,125 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site Slurp cancel ...
SSNs can be guessed
SSNs can be guessed This stuff is only just now being analyzed? The format of a social security number is fairly well-known already, so the results really aren’t that surprising. But it would surprise me if nobody has used attacks like these in the past to brute-force SSNs directly. From the article, “The researchers used the information they gleaned to predict, in one try, the first five...
Google Releasing Chrome Operating System - Google...
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Damn, that is big…
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xkcd - A Webcomic - Cutting Edge
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The Uncanny Valley of user interface design
To me, Zimbra doesn’t in any way resemble my mental model of a web application; it resembles Microsoft Outlook [Footnote 4]. On the other hand Gmail, which is also an Ajax-based email application, almost exactly matches my mental model of how a web application should look and feel (screenshots). Do I prefer the Gmail look and feel over the Zimbra look and feel? Yes. Why? Because over the...
Details On The Upcoming New Facebook iPhone App....
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Interesting new facebook ui
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