Two weeks ago we posted on Rupert Murdoch's threat to block Google from Indexing News Corp. content. While at first it seemed as though Murdoch was merely posturing with hypotheticals, reports continue to indicate that News Corp. is seriously considering choosing Bing as the exclusive "indexer" of their news content.

June 16, 2009 -- New York, N.Y. Condé Nast and McPheters & Company have jointly released additional results from a recently completed study conducted in collaboration with CBS Vision using McPheters & Company's AdWorks™ methodology. The new information resulted from a more detailed analysis that explored the relative ...

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MongoDB provides some powerful aggregation functions. This is the first in a series of articles detailing the syntax, patterns, and use cases for these functions. Here, as an introduction, we cover the basics of count(), distinct(), and group().

Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message. Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation about the implications of turning the backchannel into part of the frontchannel. In the last week, I've seen all sorts of blog posts and tweets and news articles about what went ...

Bob Pearson (Twitter at bobpdell) Vice President, Communities & Conversations at Dell invited me out to Microsoft’s Architect Forum to co-lead a session on social computing.

What better recipe to start out with from this week's Good Eats: The Early Years than Alton's roast turkey. He explains every detail, from the brine—a mix of vegetable broth, brown sugar, black peppercorns, allspice berries, and candied ginger—to the roasting.

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I never managed a group larger than 5 people, luckily for the people in the group (perhaps more so for those remaining outside). Good managers are hard to find, which is the basis of my self-motivating motto: “This job could have been done worse”. Such is the background for the hereby presented pearls of wisdom assortment. As to “

Last night it was my great pleasure to host the Lightning Talks session at RubyConf 2009. We had an amazing series of 20 talks that took just over 2 hours. The tech gremlins seemed to be off drinking somewhere and none of the presentations failed.

Amazon is running a brief promotion (ends November 30th) offering $3 worth of MP3s from Amazon MP3 for free. Just head to this page, follow the directions, and enjoy your free credit. Jason mentioned this in today's deals of the day, but we all know how important music can be to getting work done, so take advantage. [Amazon via UneasySilence

Google AppEngineではBigtableの上にDatastore Serviceが構築されていて、開発者は、このDatastore Serviceを利用してBigtableにアクセスすることになります。このDatastore ServiceはPython版もJava版も機能はほとんど同じです。もしかすると、全く同じものかもしれません。

Inspired by a showcase on hotel site design over at Onextrapixel, this post will explore the design trends and features of well designed spa websites. Hotels and spas tend to go together. As shown by some of the examples featured in this post, spas are often one of several amenities offered besides standard hotel rooms. As a result, the spa is ...

Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people.

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose a ...

ECサイトで働いてるWebデザイナー。アクセス解析（Google Analytics）とかハイパフォーマンスWebとか興味ありまっす。

British officials heard the "drum beats" of war with Iraq emanating from the US government more than two years before the 2003 invasion and several months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry has heard.

Men who do not openly express their anger if they are unfairly treated at work double their risk of a heart attack, Swedish research suggests. The researchers looked at 2,755 male employees in Stockholm who had not had a heart attack when the study began.

After a series of complications and setbacks, the Large Hadron Collider sees its first particle-particle collisions after a weekend of furious activity. While these weren't at any significant energy, the milestone marks an important step in getting the mammoth machine up and running and filling in the last space on the particle bingo card.

エイザ　現在のバージョンでは、バイナリコンポーネントを扱うことができません。ツールバーやロケーションバーも操作できない。これから1つずつ対応を進めて、早くユーザーに「Super Power」を贈りたいです。

There's even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries.

The Japanese edition of 'ZDNet' is published under license from CBS Interactive, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA. Editorial items appearing in 'ZDNet Japan' that were originally published in the US Edition of 'ZDNet', 'TechRepublic', 'CNET', and 'CNET News.com' are the copyright properties of CBS Interactive, Inc. or its suppliers.

For 23 years Rom Houben was trapped in his own body, unable to communicate with his doctors or family. They presumed he was in a vegetative state following a near-fatal car crash in 1983.

This article is the second in a series and part of ongoing research on web app performance. Get updates on the latest YDN articles via Twitter, follow @ydn.

James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including Welcome To Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com

Do they require that she stay depressed? What she was engaging in is what some of us would refer to as therapy or healing! The whole point of going to a doctor is to get better - not to stay sick.

ケチャップライスの上に、「ふわふわとろとろ」の半熟卵がのったオムライス。簡単に作れるだろうと挑戦してみて、意外な難しさに挫折した経験のある人も多いのではないでしょうか。そこで今回は、はてなブックマークのエントリーを用いて、そんな「ふ�

Last week I gave a keynote at Web 2.0 expo NYC, and as you can see in the photo below, one of the interesting things this year was the twitter feed for the conference was placed on stage behind the keynote speakers.  Any tweet with #w2e was put up live, on stage, a few seconds later. The slides, if any, speakers used were placed on the large ...

Over the last couple years, we see an emerging data storage mechanism for storing large scale of data. These storage solution differs quite significantly with the RDBMS model and is also known as the NOSQL. Some of the key players include ...

Despite the fragmented and incomplete historical record, experts pretty much agree that some popular beliefs about Jewish history simply don’t hold up: there was no sudden expulsion of all Jews from Jerusalem in A.D. 70, for instance. What’s more, modern Jews owe their ancestry as much to converts from the first millennium and early ...

Today designing a unique, compelling portfolio has become a crucial task for designers, studios, companies and everyone whose business is on the Web. Not only does it help one stand out among the numerous competitors, but it is also a great tool for self-expression and demonstration of skills.

Wow I just booted MSDOS 1.0 from a USB drive and it took less than a second, beat that Chrome! Can't wait to be productive & getting things done with a browser!

Associated issues: Commitment to Independent and Verifiable Science, Global Warming, Cap-and-Tax Opposition Resource Center; Impacts of Costly Climate Bill Exposed, Commitment to Oklahoma, Commitment to Cost-Benefit Analysis Today, we highlight excerpts from testimony by Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. As Stallman ...

Hysterical news, stats and their new Onion News Network video section make this site one of the best around. Check out The Onion Store and marvel at the ingenious Gotcha Box.

Even hundreds of miles from the nearest industrial or agricultural activity, the sea ice, ocean, and Arctic plants and animals regularly yield evidence of elemental and synthetic chemical contamination. This contamination includes not only herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides—chemicals that are used in open air, may have washed directly ...

Welcome to my blog! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed. Also, check me out on twitter! Thanks for visiting! So, I wake up this morning and see a post written by Darren Slatten completely dismissing the importance of Online Reputation Management. And, I found the post a little comedic at best, so, I’ll give him a little ...

is one of the early innovators of this style of blogging and has been creating custom blog post designs since June 2008. With a background in print design, Jason had a vision to create a blog more in the style of a magazine, rather than obey the established rules of blog design.

My awesome pal Jason Bierfield (who was an editor on this project) sent me the link to this brand new Muppet vid. It involves 70 friggin Muppets and RULES in a really hard way.

The web has given rise to a new breed of fashion guru. You no longer have to be a celebrity or model – just a fashion enthusiast happy to put yourself on the line, online. Kelly Bowerbank picks out 10 of 2009's cyber sages

DVDからクリップを抽出しようとすると、たいていの場合は、かなり長い道のりと待機時間が待ち受けているのですが、フリーユティリティ『DVD Knife』を使えば、DVDからのクリップ抽出が簡単に！

When explaining Go to new programmers, I've found that it often helps to explain what Go values look like in memory, to build the right intuition about which operations are expensive and which are not. This post is about basic types, structs, arrays, and slices.

This is a Headshift blog post by Daniel Siddle, written on November 17, 2009 in Corporate Health . It has (4) comments, the latest of which was on November 18, 2009. You can find more posts like this here.

Unless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple. Two readers in different parts of the country claim that their Applecare warranties were voided due to secondhand smoke. Both readers appealed ...

I hope you've already read my Vegan Stuffing 101 post, and now you are ready to continue my Vegan Thanksgiving Series by diving into three creative and delicious vegan stuffing recipes. This is the definitive post for vegan stuffing. Look no further. Three yummy recipes to choose from. It's all in here...

I never read comic books as a kid, or any other period of my life, but now I’m reading all these comic book blogs and it looks kinda like fun. I think I’d like to start reading them, but I don’t know where to begin. So any advice for someone who is interested in comic books but doesn’t have any familiarity with them?

Scientists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new giant dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago in Argentina. At 16.5 to 21 feet long (5 to 6.5 meters) long, depending on its tail size, Austroraptor cabazai is among the largest of the slender, carnivorous, two-legged dinosaurs called raptors, said Fernando Novas, the lead ...

In web application or software, very often we will need to present collected data to the users. Back in the olden days, data such as traffic statistics and clicking hits were presented through simple numbers or words, this method is plain and simple.

I’ve been using git for about 18 months now and thought I knew it pretty well. Then we had Scott Chacon from GitHub over to do some training at the company I’m contracting with and I learnt a ton in the first day.

Over the years I’ve run a lot of social media programs, sometimes for companies or services that I own or manage, sometimes for organizations that have hired me to consult or drive their efforts in the various online communities.  This article is primarily aimed at those that do the latter, although several points can apply to the former.  ...

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

The perfect essayist: Joan Didion in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in 1967 Photograph: © Ted Streshinsky/Corbis Why do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan Safran Foer, ...

With up to half of all teaching now done by casually employed staff with little institutional support, Australian universities are facing an unprecedented crisis, writes Melissa Gregg

I picked up an Apple Magic Mouse at the local Apple store Thursday night. It’s pretty nice! It’s amazing to me how Apple brought the mouse to the mass market (well, Dvorak didn’t like it) but have done a poor job in the design, until now.

最近の総理等の発言を受け、著作権の存続期間についての議論が再燃しているようです。現状の死後50年でも長すぎ、まして70年なんて、という論調がネット界隈では主流のようですが、それは変な話だ、とwebmasterは思います。これまで何度か断片的に書いてき�

This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 20.16 GMT on Monday 23 November 2009. A version appeared on p1 of the Top stories section of the Guardian on Tuesday 24 November 2009. It was last modified at 00.22 GMT on Tuesday 24 November 2009.

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イラストが良い味を出していたので勢いでご紹介。アイデアはなぜつぶされるか、という説明ですな。「あるある・・・」って感じですよね。

In this blog, I talk about educational technology, educational theory, educational pedagogy, and other topics related to these. I teach Physics and EMS classes, so some times I'll talk about those specific areas. I'll also discuss 21st Century Skills and Education. I explore free educational technology resources, ways to integrate technology into ...

Electric circuits will break your heart every time. Take my cellphone (please): it went out in the rain a few weeks ago and then lay neglected in a sopping wet coat pocket overnight. The next morning, it was dead.

You can blame it on Chris Anderson's book Free. After reading his book, I started kicking around the idea of what we can do that's 'free'. Sure, we have free bits (open-source hardware designs, available code, etc.), but we don't have free physical widgets. Now combine that with our love of creating shear havoc (AVC, C&D letter, Portable ...

Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, has blamed Barack Obama and the United States for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan.

Perlのドキュメントはわざわざサーバにアクセスして読むものではなく、インストールして読むものですよね？――というわけで、日本人向けに特化したperldocをつくってみました。Pod::PerldocJpをインストールすると、perldocjpというコマンドが利用できるようにな�

I've read a lot of posts here on HN about start-up tips and advice. Many are good, but some are too vague to be actionable. Others, while useful, sometimes repeat common themes.

A marvelous painting of a gourmand at his table hangs in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris — a portly, pink-faced figure happily gorging on a regal casserole, with a bottle of wine at one elbow and a luscious-looking soufflé at the other. It is traditionally believed to be a portrait of Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de la Reyni&# ...

Focused and organized information about touch screen and touch UI

You might be familiar with the plugin jQuery Dock which allows developers to create a menu like Apple Dock. Today, you will create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn’t have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it’s helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS. This ...

　まず、日本語を使っている限りは世界規模のサービスとして少数派でしかないため、英語でのサービス作りは必須となる。そして英語圏での認知に向けては、米国でマーケティングを手掛けることがもっとも重要になるという。LUNARRでも、米国で積極的なマ�

Sarah Palin talked on the campaign trail about trying to get around the elite media filter, but this week she’s pushed her way straight through it. And the media – liberal and conservative, bloggers and network anchors – have responded by dedicating magazine covers, air time and online real estate to everything related to the book- ...

INDIA is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast. You have giant malls, but grandmothers afraid to use the escalators. There are villages in the middle of nowhere, with ornate temples soaring into the hot sky. Still, old Rajasthan endures, evoking rulers with giant mustaches, harems of beautiful women in the finest colored silks and some of the ...

So you finally got your and you are looking for some free apps to download from the Android Market. With more than 6,000 titles, it can be hard to find something worthwhile. I've been using Google Android since the day it came out and I've spent a good amount of time wading through the available apps. The following list contains some of my ...

MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- As many as one in four U.S. teenage girls have had a sexually transmitted disease (STD), many infected soon after their first sexual encounter, a new government report shows.

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首先推荐一下作者的博客：般若黑洞，还没有来及思考博客的名称有什么含义，已经被它其中的资源吸引，至少它可以为你能够看到更多关于PPT的知识。

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, shown in Kandahar, makes a plea for more troops in a confidential assessment of the Afghan war. (By Nikki Kahn -- The Washington Post)

多くのアドオンが登場しているので、その恩恵を受けている方も多いと思いますが、試したものの、今ひとつ効果が実感出来なかった方も居るのではないでしょうか？　そんな方はフリーソフト『SpeedyFox』をお勧めします。

The following example shows how you can use the FileReference class’s new save() method in Flash Player 10 to save text, XML, and image files to a user’s hard drive.

Here is a good way to use extension method in a multi threaded context. Everybody knows that when you try to update UI from any other thread than the UI you get an “InvalidOperationException” with message “The calling thread cannot access this object because a different thread owns it.”. Look at the following sample:

I am delighted to announce that "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media" is now in the wild and available! This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at ...

It's been a year in coming, but Handbrake, the multiplatform, open-source video transcoder, has been updated to version 0.9.4. It's one of the tools I included in my list of 10 must-have apps for a new Mac.

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Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested four people trying to smuggle the rare medicinal herb, caterpillar fungus, to China. The fungus - known as caterpillar mushroom - is used in Chinese medicine and is believed to be an aphrodisiac.

We have entered a new era of the internet. An era of infinite bandwidth! Now you can take advantage of Amazon's vast network of servers to allow your website to survive even the most extreme spikes in bandwidth. Here's a tutorial on how to to access S3 like an FTP server to host your bandwidth sucking media files (pictures, videos, mp3's, zips or ...

For just $19.97 a year, you'll get hundreds of listings and free events each week, plus our special issues and guides, including Cheap Eats, Great Spas, Fall Preview, Holiday Gift Guide and more! Time Out New York respects your privacy. We will only use your e-mail address in order to contact you regarding to your subscription and to send you our ...

本稿が掲載されるころにはメジャーバージョンアップとなるFreeBSD 8.0-RELEASEが公開されているか、遅れても数日中にはリリースされる見通しになっている。8.0はタイムスケジュール的にはそれほど注目に値するリリースになる予定ではなかったが、最終的に重要�

James Goodnight, co-founder and chief executive of SAS, has a message for rivals: “No one can match our toolbox.” More Photos » A TOUR of its carefully tended, 300-acre corporate campus here leaves little doubt why surveys, year after year, rate the SAS Institute, the world’s largest private software company, among the ...

(Photo: Phillip Toledano; styling by Marie Blomquist for I Group; prop styling by Anne Koch; hair by Kristan Serafino for L'Oreal Professionnel; makeup by Viktorija Bowers for City Artists; clothing by Petit Bateau [shirt and pants])

Police officers are now routinely arresting people in order to add their DNA sample to the national police database, an inquiry will allege tomorrow. The review of the national DNA database by the government's human genetics commission also raises the possibility that the DNA profiles of three-quarters of young black males, aged 18 to 35, are now ...

Windows XP: If you're thinking about moving to Windows 7 but dreading the migration, Windows 7 Migration Tool takes some of the hassle out of the process.

I hope this post will be a handy reference guide, especially for those teachers new to social media technologies and how to integrate them into the classroom. This resource is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good starting point for finding the information and people that will help you make the transition into a ’21st century ...

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When working with the DOM .nodeName property there are two hard-and-fast rules that most people abide by: The node names of HTML elements are always uppercase, even if they're explicitly created using lowercase characters. <html> will result in a .nodeName === "HTML" (see the HTML 5 draft).

Another slap in the face to Samsung Moment owners. At least Hero users were promised an update to 2.0 by HTC. Samsung doesn't even seem to care enough to even make such an offer to the owners of their brand-new-yet-outdated-before-it-was-launched Moment. Thank god for sprint's 30-day return policy, because I'm coming up on my last ...

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　１０月１日以来、ファッションの中心地パリは「ユニクロ・ショック」に見舞われている。この日、「ユニクロ」がヨーロッパ髄一の商業地であるパリのオペラ地区に、ニューヨーク、ロンドンに続き世界で３番目となる旗艦店をオープンしたのだ。開店以�

Essa é a continuação de um tutorial da semana passada: Buscando a Latitude e Longitude de um endereço – Google Maps + PHP – Parte 1 Hoje vou mostrar como você pode exibir um mapinha do Google Maps no seu site, usando as informações encontradas com a Google Maps API (que usamos no outro artigo).

Think of a jumbo stuffed mushroom without all the high-fat ingredients but with all the flavor. Serve these alongside grilled chicken breasts or a juicy steak.

Get started with Flash game development. This article shows you which tools to download and details the first steps in creating a Flash game using Flex and Actionscript.

Sometimes seeing means deceiving before believing, depending on your age. Children and adults size up objects differently, giving youngsters protection against a visual illusion that bedevils their elders, a new study suggests.

So many things can be said about the hacking of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit’s e-mails. If nothing else, it shows that the ground rules for scientific and scholarly communication are changing rapidly. The dubious ethics of hacking aside, should we expect science, especially on politically charged issues, to get done with the world ...

In digital media, as in fortune-telling, the future is pretty much treated as part of the present. "What is the next big thing?" is a question everyone who works with the internet asks continually. But after several years of boom, the question of what comes after social platforms is no longer so remote.

When I was old enough to care whether I won or lost at games, but still too young to be any good at them, I decided RPGs were better than action games. After all, I could play Contra for hours and still be terrible at it - while if I played Dragon Warrior III for the same amount of time, my characters would gain levels and be much more capable of ...

All of us from time to time need a little inspiration in our lives, and more specifically in our design life. Below are some of my favorite visual archives and websites that update daily with new beautiful and compelling imagery.

僕の周りにもいろいろな利害関係者がいてちょっとセンシティブな問題なのでこうすればいいとかああすればいいというような軽率な発言は控えますが、これは本当に日本という国の縮図を見ているようですね。

This blog is about my observations and thoughts related to software development. These observations include tips and tricks that I have learned, solutions to problems I have faced, and other concepts I have found interesting and useful. This blog is intended to provide information to help other developers facing the same issues as well as ...

The new findings link very closely to two lines of thought and experimentation which keep many psychologists busy at this time: the widespread effects of unconscious priming and the attempts to attribute mental activities to the hypothetical (and probably fictitious, but still useful props to our thinking) System 1 and System 2. I went into ...

Whether you’re fresh out of college and looking for work or trying to get back in the workforce, unemployment can be quite a predicament. Chances are, you’ll need all the help you can get. Make use of these lifehacks to make your unemployed life just a bit easier.

The idea of Israeli–Palestinian partition, of a two-state solution, has a singular pedigree. It has been proposed for at least eight decades. Jews first accepted it as Palestinians recoiled; by the time Palestinians warmed to the notion in the late 1980s, Israelis had turned their backs. Still, its proponents manage to portray it as fresh, ...

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Feast and football. That’s what many of us think about at Thanksgiving. Most people identify the origin of the holiday with the Pilgrims’ first bountiful harvest. But few understand how the Pilgrims actually solved their chronic food shortages.

The big sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are easy to folllow, but there are many others that often get ignored such as Docstoc, Scribd, Slideshare. With all the different platforms, it’s hard to be able to keep up with everything that is new.

미국의 미래학자 대니얼 핑크 박사는 미래 성장동력인 융복합 산업의 발전과 관련, 전통적인 합리성보다 예술적 감성과 창의성의 중요성을 강조했다.

It's easy to forget about your body's needs when you're deep into your work or the net—until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customizable ergonomic workspace upgrades.

I’m always on the lookout for “hidden gems,” or people who are doing remarkable work that the whole world hasn’t caught on to, yet.

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond differently to stress than the neurons of slothful rats. Scientists have known for some time that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells (neurons) but not how, precisely, these neurons might ...

I’m at Day 2 of a remark­able two-day con­fer­ence that is bring­ing non­prof­its, cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism and social media together in ways I’ve never seen before. 

In this tutorial we are going to create an awesome image gallery which leverages the latest CSS3 and jQuery techniques. The script will be able to scan a folder of images on your web server and build a complete drag and drop lighbox gallery around it.

I've had a PS3 Eye lying around for a while but I haven't gotten around to using it because when it first came out there was no drivers for it so it sat in my closet for almost a year. I decided to check out the current state of the PS3 Eye in Linux and was happy to find that there is now support in the 2.6.31 kernel.

Thursday marked the official launch of Windows 7, so perhaps we can finally put those Mac versus PC commercials behind us. Whatever your feelings towards Vista, the fact remains that it garnered a less than stellar reputation. As we discussed in our Windows 7 RC1 article, many people have the impression that Windows Vista is awful but they can't ...

We explained that you don't need to pay for Windows security last week, but today we're taking a closer look at how to protect yourself from drive-by malware that can infect your computer by simply visiting the wrong web site.

When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., as measured by all the mobile ad requests it tracks. That number is ...

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Ever wanted to learn Vim, but weren't sure how to start? No problem. We have you covered! This will be the first of a four-part (possibly longer) series covering how to use Vim and where to start using the world's best text editor.

Last year had more than its share of vertigo-inducing headlines: major banks suddenly disappearing, the Dow plunging day after day, and billion-dollar bailouts failing to make a dent in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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This post is the the next installment of posts featuring “Useful Coding Solutions for Designers and Developers“, a series of posts focusing on unique and creative CSS/JavaScript-techniques being implemented by talented professionals in our industry. A key talent that any Web designer must acquire is the ability to observe, understand ...

Maybe Sugato Chakravarty should wear a helmet to class. The professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University repeatedly attempts the instructional equivalent of jumping a motorcycle over a row of flaming barrels.

Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr., 13 years old, rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly boy in glasses and a red hoodie, speaking to no one.

Photoshop provides photographers and designers with almost unlimited potential to edit photographs to achieve the desired results. In this post we’ll feature 35 excellent tutorials that teach various tricks and techniques. If you like these tutorials you may also be interested in an older collection, 45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop.

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Nuevo ejemplo de los peligros de ser sincero en las redes sociales. Una chica canadiense, que está de baja por depresión, ha perdido su asignación porque la aseguradora ha visto fotos suyas sonriente en Facebook. Nathalie Blanchard ha asegurado que las fotos se tomaron cuando fue de vacaciones por indicación médica pero que sigue sufriendo ...

It’s called ProFORMA, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition, but it is way cooler than it sounds. The software, written by a team headed by Qui Pan, a student at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University in England, turns a regular, cheap webcam into a 3D scanner.

I'm an entrepreneur and consultant who works with media and Internet companies on strategy and product development. I'm CEO of GrowthSpur, a company that provides tools and ad networks to help local Web sites succeed. You can read more about me here. These are my thoughts on the changes in how we create, receive and interact with news, ...

Sarah Palin talked on the campaign trail about trying to get around the elite media filter, but this week she’s pushed her way straight through it. And the media – liberal and conservative, bloggers and network anchors – have responded by dedicating magazine covers, air time and online real estate to everything related to the book- ...

Wireframing is one of the best parts of starting a new web design project. You have a blank canvas and you are allowed to let your creativity rein free. Your design may eventually be spoiled by the clients added input… but for that short time …

For millennia, doomsayers have been predicting the end of the world as we know it. These days, theory dovetails with fact: oil is disappearing. Should we be listening?

This article appeared on p109 of the Weekend comment & features section of the Guardian on Saturday 24 November 2007. It was published on guardian.co.uk at 23.51 GMT on Saturday 24 November 2007. It was last modified at 11.25 BST on Tuesday 22 July 2008.

Logo depois do auge pós-visita de João Gilberto, Acabou Chorare, em 1972, os Novos Baianos eram interesse nacional, espalhadores de gudiváibe e foco de interesse curioso. O deixar pra lá é quente.

The ’00s were a turbulent time for the comic-book business, as mainstream publishers like DC and Marvel suffered the sales declines affecting nearly all print-purveyors, while publishers of what used to be known as “alternative” comics saw some of their products hitting bestseller lists and turning up on the front page of The ...

早いのはわかったけど「なぜそうなるのか。」「実際どんな場面で使ったりするものなのか」などはなかなか書いてなかったり。

IBM 아리 피쉬카인드 대변인은 “언제 엔플루언트가 출시될지에 대한 확정된 날짜는 없다”며 “보안성이 뛰어난 툴에 대한 시장수요가 있으면 출시된다고 보는 게 맞을 것”이라고 덧붙였다.

Google on Tuesday added a small but welcomed feature to its Reader service: favicons. These are the little square icons provided by sites that show up both in your address bar and open tabs (in most browsers at least). Google Reader users can now opt in to see them in their feed source list, where previously, feeds just showed up as little blue ...

I should probably get this out of the way right at the top: I am not exactly a "Twilight" fan. I have never read a page of Stephenie Meyer's bloodsucking series, I can't tell you where the series takes place, or who Esme Cullen is, or why Taylor Lautner never wears a shirt (and yes, I just had to go to Wikipedia to learn that Lautner's character ...

A child's never-ending "why's" aren't meant to exasperate parents, scientists say. Rather, the kiddy queries are genuine attempts at getting at the truth, and tots respond better to some answers than others.

オープンソース・フリーウェアを毎日紹介するブログ。日々の業務の効率化、新しいサービスのネタ探しにどうぞ。SNS、SBS、CMS、オフィス、画像編集、ユーティリティ、Firefoxアドオン、テキストエディタ、ゲーム…ジャンルは様々。

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　RekooMediaが提供するmixiアプリ「サンシャイン牧場」の利用者数が11月20日に300万人を突破した。 　サンシャイン牧場はソーシャルネットワーキングサービス（SNS）「mixi」上で8月に公開され、わずか3カ月弱で300万人ものユーザーを集めた。RekooMediaの日本法人、

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National Geographic recently released their Earth Pulse State of the Earth 2010 features. Earth Pulse is comprised of essays, photo galleries, links to additional resources, and an interactive vital statistics map. The Vital Statistics Map allows users to view mapped displays twenty different sets of statistics. The data sets cover topics ...

In their book Behind Closed Doors Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby published a handy checklist that you can use for delegation of tasks. I have taken the liberty to augment their list with a few questions of my own.

The Rationalizer is a concept design for a bracelet that provides feedback on the stress level of day traders. Developed by Philips Electronics and Dutch bank ABN AMRO, it's like a high-tech mood ring. The aim is to help traders avoid rash decisions. From Physorg: The Rationalizer consists of an "EmoBracelet" and an "EmoBowl" and incorporates ...

I'm not sure if this isn't more rightly called "paper sculpture" than origami. True it uses only one sheet of paper and there are no cuts, but, well...watch the video and you'll see what I mean. Besides getting to see the mushrooms themselves, which are almost photo-realistic, it's worth it to see how a master with 20 years of experience moves ...

There are only a handful of scientific revolutions that would really change the world. An immortality pill would be one. A time machine would be another.

The AI panel discussion at last night's Boston Post Mortem was a good one. The panelists were: John Abercrombie (BioShock, SWAT 4), Damián Isla (Halo 2, Halo 3), and Jeff Orkin (No One Lives Forever 2, F.E.A.R.).  If you do the math, I think those games average to a 92 metacritic score. Impressive.

After months of listening to conservatives caterwaul over deficits and health care, senior House Democrats want a graduated surtax on individuals and corporations to pay for another big drain on the treasury: the Afghanistan war.

You must know this is my favorite cupcake to date. It's not too sweet and it's full of flavor. I wish I could say it's my recipe but it isn't...these delicious cupcakes are the creation of the talented Romina Rasmussen, owner of Salt Lake's Les Madeleines Bakery. LM is one of my favorite eateries in town and with one bite into these cupcakes, you' ...

Dealing with user errors is a hidden source of friction. UX consultant John Hyde discusses best practice including a financial website that boosted conversions by 17% with these guidelines.

With the production Nokia N900 units now shipping to most countries, those of us with pre-production units need to update our firmware to the latest release. Also, historically in Maemo, there are much more frequent firmware updates than there are in the Symbian world, so the maemo.org community has put together a Wiki with helpful links on how ...

Keep in mind - this is raw footage (not RAW) from both Canon XH A1 camcorder - and a few clips for the Canon EOS 5D MKII - you’ll see that the two are toe to toe (not really) on bright scenes… but in low light - the Canon EOS 5D MKII is impressive -  but common sense leads me to state the following:  if the Canon still camera team ...

■ You subscribe to The Monthly but don't read it, only buy The Big Issue if people are watching and have a RRR sticker on your car but you've been listening to the ABC since you moved out of share-houses.

The web industry nowadays is very productive. During these years there have been many trends followed and every day the designers experiment new techniques creating new tendencies in the art of making website.

Note (11/24/09): I’m leaving this afternoon for a Thanksgiving road trip. I’ll be slow to moderate comments and answer e-mail for the next week. I’m up to Nov. 10 in my reader e-mail queue. If you sent me an e-mail after that date, you haven’t been forgotten, and I’ll get to you as soon as I can.

There’s an ancient Chinese proverb that says "工欲善其事，必先利其器"; the direct English translation means "In order to do a good job, once must have a good tool." When it comes to the design industry, the tool is Photoshop.

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A lot of people want centered menus on their website but for the CSS novice this task seems impossible. If you do a search online you will find a few centering methods but most of these rely on CSS hacks, JavaScript or non-standard CSS rules that are not supported by all browsers (display:inline-block; is an example). In this post I'm going to ...

Well good ..with Microsoft and the Devil making a deal...its good we don't see anymore of Murdoch Right Wing garbage. He might be rich but he couldn't care less about his employees but what happens to Rupee and what he wants. I personally applaud this move so when the Fox/Newsgroup followers follow Rupert's news, they have to pay for ...

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OVER the past few years, the way in which people point has changed. Throughout most of human history, small things, such as fingers, had been used to point to bigger things, such as antelopes. But thanks to gadgets with touch-screens, people are now tying to point to things smaller than their fingers, such as hyperlinks or items on a crowded map. ...

I should have an overwhelming, Malox-guzzling, stress-saturated schedule. Here’s why: I’m a graduate student in a demanding program. I’m working on several research papers while also attempting to nail down some key ideas for my dissertation. I’m TA’ing and taking courses. I maintain this blog. I’m a staff ...

I've been using the library on a couple projects and made some improvements to the library (dogfooding is good ;).  I've also updated based on some suggestions (thanks, keep 'em coming!) including one from Jacob Hage (below) to use "preserve corners".