As you prepare to feast, it's not too soon to consider the impact of all that turkey and stuffing. The free Lose It! [iTunes Link] has been out for a long while now, and it's an app that people nearly always bring up when the conversation turns to good exercise/calorie tracker apps. With good reason: at one point I managed to lose over 15 pounds, ...

As the World Trade Center and Pentagon were ablaze on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Secret Service's presidential protective detail was informed that a "Korean airliner has been hijacked" en route to San Francisco, prompting already-skittish agents to worry about another wave of terrorist attacks.

The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery.

Au Festival Européens des 4 Écrans (1), qui s’est tenu à Paris du 18 au 20 novembre 2009, j’ai participé à un atelier consacré aux “Coulisses de la création” d’un web-documentaire. Il était animé par Judith Rueff (2), l’une des fondatrices de l’agence multimédia Ligne 4, qui travaille à un ...

Presenting a list of 14 Free and useful web based applications that can always come in handy. Most of these apps are better alternatives to a paid software/application that you are already using. I use most of these services on almost daily basis and thought it would be a good share. If you use a web based (free) application/service, let us know ...

On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active.

The semantic web folks, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, have been saying for years that the Internet could become significantly more compelling by cooking more intelligence into the way things link around the network.

It’s been a while since I updated the blog and rails has changed a bit since then. I thought I’d revise one of my previous posts: the one about uploading multiple images using paperclip. This time we’re going to be doing it using Rails 2.3.4. I’m going to be using the paperclip gem, as well as the nifty_generator gem(for ...

Sois muchos los que después del twitt que puse el otro día me habéis enviado mails y habéis compartido algún wave conmigo para que os ayude a reducir el tiempo de carga de vuestro blog, es por eso que para no seguir repitiendo lo mismo a todos, voy a explicaros como he conseguido bajar del segundo en el medidor de velocidad de Pingdom.

Hace algún tiempo rondaban algunos rumores de que Google estaba preparando un rediseño de sus búsquedas, y tal parece, todo lo que se dijo es cierto. De hecho, ya se filtró una forma de probarlo. ¿Qué hay que hacer?

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Matt Asay's recent CNET article on the "wisdom of the crowds" losing steam is likely to please the many critics of social media, but perhaps the observable trend is misunderstood. Asay comments focus on the slow down of Wikipedia but also branches into areas of open source development. He notes that "Even uber successful open- ...

RESTON, VA, November 25, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released October 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that more than 167 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in October with ...

“Once the term sheet is signed, the power shifts away from the startup to the purchaser. The typical term sheet will give the purchaser the discretion to step away from the deal if due diligence is unsatisfactory, or if the necessary internal approvals are not obtained.”

I’m writing a series of tutorials on x86 assembly for C programmers who are already familiar with many of the basics of programming and computing. The assembly tutorials available online just aren’t doing it for me, and I need something organized the way I think, on the topics I’m interested in, presented in a way which make ...

Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s guaranteed in this business. Do it right, and only haters will hate you for it. To get, you must give.

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Editor's note: welcome to part 5 of Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory". This part is the first half of section 6, which discusses what programmers can do to improve the memory performance of their code. Part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 remain online for those who have not yet read them.

I will be the first to admit while it didn’t take me a long time to sign up and start networking with friends on Twitter, it has taken me a long time to understand the true power of the website. When I first started using it I saw it as a networking and communication tool. The more I come to use it and the more I watch people from all walks ...

Eclipsing Einstein? A solar eclipse confirmed gravitational lensing and Einstein's concept of spacetime. But a new quantum gravity theory now generating excitement separates time and space.

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When Apple unveiled its iPhone 3GS earlier this month, AT&T was noticeably absent from the list of providers that would provide tethering capabilities for the smartphone.

But, stepping back a bit, why would you implement something you already have? Every IT organization is doing at least some of the practices described in the ITIL framework; rudimentary Incident Management at a minimum. On the other hand, there is no IT environment that looks exactly like the ITIL framework, so no one ever “fully implements ...

Eu também estava no Prêmio Transformadores ontem, e como você, também fiquei emocionada ao ver tantas estórias de altruísmo e desprendimento e igualmente me questionei sobre "o que ando fazendo da minha vida"! Por isso elas são vidas transformadoras: além de modificar para melhor a vida dos que eles auxiliam diretamente, sÃ

Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues?

Who is that nuzzling up to Emma? Certainly not her boyfriend The Harry Potter actress was spotted with Spanish rock star Rafael Cebrian in New York So what would you look like in Kate Winslet's dress? The body-hugging black Herve Leger looks just as good on our model ... but not the £1,350 price tag

Here is an amusing project for the crochet enthusiast. It can be accomplished in two or three sessions and is easy enough for the novice crochet fan to practice their skills.

It has probably happened to you: you're reading articles or watching videos on the web, and you come across some unrelated, gibberish comments. You may wonder what this is all about. Some webmasters abuse other sites by exploiting their comment fields, posting tons of links that point back to the poster's site in an attempt to boost their site's ...

We are happy to announce the first public open source release of 'WebROaR - Ruby Application Server'. This product is available for free use under GPL v3.

I’d have loved for this post to be the introduction of our latest iPhone application. An application that introduces a new default optional home screen. A screen that doesn’t require you to scan for red dots with numbers inside of them. Instead it would display information and notifications of things that are new and relevant to you. ...

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The goal was simple enough: decouple a particular type of analysis out-of-band from mainstream e-mail processing. We started down the MySQL road…put the things to be digested into a table…consume them in another daemon…bada bing bada boom. But pretty soon, complex ugliness crept into the design phase… You want to have multiple daemons ...

China says it will cut the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product in 2020 by 40- 45% from 2005 levels, says state media.

Next week here in the U.S. many of us will be heading home to see family, share a turkey feast, watch some football.... and help out our less technically-inclined relatives. The pumpkin pie might not even be on the table before you get that inevitable request: "Can you take a look at my computer? It's been really slow lately."

Note: Back in '05, guest poster Matt Haughey covered how to set up an FTP server using Serv-U FTP—which is a fine commercial application, but its personal edition limits how many users can log into your server. We love our open source software, which is why we're taking a look at FileZilla, which has all the features, with none of the price ...

Windows/Mac/Linux/Xbox: What could make the already awesome Xbox Media Center even better? An infusion of eye candy, of course. Read on to see some awesome XBMC skins and learn how to install them.

Paul Steiger, el director de la organización periodística ProPublica, escribe sobre los dramas a los que se enfrenta hoy el periodismo- y sobre las puertas que se le abren en el futuro.

With so much cool stuff popping up these days you notice when something truly draws awe. Qi Pan, a PhD candidate at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University, has developed a novel approach to capturing 3D objects with a standard webcam. Called ProFORMA, Pan's software digitizes and image maps an object in 3D as the user rotates it in ...

Wordpress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms and there are ever increasing numbers of plugins and themes being released for it. Vast numbers make searching for the perfect theme for your blog a tough job.

After over 2 years of extensive research, Todd Zaki Warfel has released the book “Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide”. I talked to Warfel about his interest in the area, the surprising results of what prototyping methods practitioners actually use , and how he seeing prototyping being used in the future.

Ian Lesnet, who used to write for Hack A Day, did the Bus Pirate project, and now runs Dangerous Prototypes, has this cool little hackable LED holiday card/ornament (don't tell Adafruit). The ATtiny13A-driven card comes in two flavors, an already-assembled version, for $15, and a not-for-the-weak-of-heart surface-mount soldering kit, for $12. The ...

WASHINGTON - Marg Delahunty has braved the wilds of the American Midwest to come face-to-face with Sarah Palin. Comedian Mary Walsh's beloved character button-holed the former Alaska governor at a recent book-signing in Columbus, Ohio, only to be strong-armed away from Palin by a cabal of security guards.

If you have ever wanted to learn how to slink around unnoticed and send hidden signals like a real CIA agent during the Cold War, then you are in luck. Wired's Danger Room reveals that the wonderfully titled "CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception" has now been declassified and is for sale to the general public.

Windows: If you're a happy Evernote desktop user and only wish it looked nicer, moved faster, and was smarter about how it handled your organization tools, the just-released 3.5 beta will make you very happy.

Boagworld is the web design blog of Paul (the Wurzel) Boag who lives in the heart of rural Dorset. He produces a weekly podcast with Marcus (pop star) Lillington on all things relating to building and running websites. They also run web design agency - Headscape.

Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we’re thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs. I’m thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since. It wasn’t at all a certainty that he would ever return to the ...

Once a month this Upper East Side chef and food stylist, Molly Shuster, collaborates with an Upper West Side photographer Jamie Beck to bring our readers a homemade recipe using local farmer’s market seasonal ingredients, the kind of fundamentals our grandmothers lived by in the kitchen. We do hope you’ll stop by once a month and see ...

OH! I just love this! MMMM! Great time to post it, too! I betcha everyone is thinking today... "hmmmm, I think I will do this on Thursday!" Great pics, too! :)

Kevin Lipp of Grand Island, N.Y., was diagnosed with MS in 1999, but 11 months ago he travelled to Italy as a part of an international project trying to find ways to treat people with MS. In Italy he was treated by Dr. Paolo Zamboni, who uses a revolutionary surgery to treat vascular disease that he believes causes a lot of the neurological ...

This week in London I remembered one of the remarkable things that Mac OS X and the Apple hardware provide: wireless access. By this I'm not referring to the ability to access the Internet through the Mac's WiFi hardware, but rather, the ability to provide wireless access to others using one's Mac. I used it this week to get WiFi access on my ...

Welcome to our little BitTorrent tracker site, a community where you can easily share your files with your friends. If you don't know what BitTorrent is, come visit us on the Forum. In short, you'll need a BitTorrent client like uTorrent before .torrent links on this site would work.

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Fueled by the fall TV season and the addition of ABC shows to its library, traffic to the video site backed by NBC, ABC and Fox spiked nearly 47% in October from the prior month, the biggest single-month percentage gain of the past year.

Desde o ano passado o site Trend Hunter lança um vídeo listando 20 tendências de consumo e comunicação que estarão em alta no ano seguinte.  E o de 2010 já saiu. Confira e fique por dentro:

Anmerkungen zu einem Interview mit Verlagsvertreter Christoph Keese über Verlage, Google und die aktuelle Marktsituation. Auf Carta ist ein Interview mit Christoph Keese, dem Konzerngeschäftsführer „Public Affairs“ der Axel Springer AG, erschienen. Keese hat letztens auch an einer Diskussionsrunde zum Leistungsschutzrecht für ...

The OAuth protocol, used on many popular Web sites and applications to pass your credentials between sites without requiring the entry of your user name and password, including Twitter, is potentially under pressure from a team of techies representing Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!, who have introduced a competing specification interpreted as being ...

I told this guy who wrote to me that I do not remember ever actually meeting him, even though he says we had a great conversation. He wrote back. He was relentless, so I asked him to tell me a bit about himself. He wrote, among other things, “I’m the guy you want to date.”

I gave a talk on Ruby’s Enumerators at the DC Ruby Users Group in August. I’ve posted my slides from the presentation, if you’re interested.  Basically, I discovered that enumerators make lazy evaluation easy to implement in Ruby, and applying lazy techniques with enumerators may yield more efficient and elegant code.

Revisiting Robin Hood's agenda: Be less concerned about taking from the rich and focus on giving to the poor Ed Broadbent had an op-ed in Tuesday's Globe on a plan to reduce child poverty, and he offers this proposal:

Sure, it was only three years ago, but we are still crazy about 2006's debuts (Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Burial), breakouts (Amy Winehouse, Gnarls Barkley), bold makeovers (Christina Aguilera), and early farewells (J Dilla), not to mention the less eventful but nonetheless excellent releases from the established veterans (Ghostface Killah, ...

The British have long enjoyed food with a bit of bite. And 200 years ago, an Indian migrant opened Britain's first curry house to cater for the fashion for spicy food.

President Barack Obama listens to a question during a press conference in the East Room of the White House with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais - AP)

It might seem a crazy idea to implement a jpeg encoder in JavaScript and in fact, it is! I did it because of another little project of mine, which is about a way to support alpha-transparency in jpeg images (using basically two images: a normal jpeg and a greyscale mask). I wanted to code a tool to create these images with Appcelerator Titanium, ...

As we approach 2010, a number of new efforts are underway to make documents more social. One consultant told us how recently a client tried to turn Sharepoint into a Twitter client. That's a monster!

Back in July, Once Wed featured the Free Wedding and a lot of people left comments asking how to recreate the fabric flower garland. So, I thought I would put together a miniature version of it for everyone. It’s easy to make and can be used in so many ways… hung from the ceiling, attached to the back of chairs, aisle “rope”

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.

The clock is ticking. In less than three weeks, I'll be on my way to the airport with a one-way ticket in my bag and my earthly possessions on the slow boat to China (well, or Hamburg, to be more accurate). I've gone from having a wobbly lip on every blessed New York sidewalk to becoming foot-tappingly impatient. I'm ready to say ...

Though most people are finding it tough financially, which means having to curtail extravagant living, there are plenty who have no problems getting their mitts on money. This means those who are used to living the high life can carry on regardless and indulge in their luxurious side. And on everyone’s luxury list is a well-earned break. But ...

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The Telegraph Media Group's editor in chief, Will Lewis, was today promoted to launch and manage a new digital division at the company, while Daily Telegraph deputy editor Tony Gallagher was promoted to editor.

At my day job I sit behind a corporate firewall protecting and caching web traffic (among other things). For the most part it stays out of the way. But sometimes it rears its ugly head and stands firmly in the path of what I am trying to do.

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.

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Marketing on social media can be a lesson in frustration, since each social network has its own strengths and limitations. But really effective campaigns use those rules to their advantage. And Ikea's most recent Facebook campaign did just that.

This blog has taken me longer to write than any other I've attempted--about 9 months. Here's why: I can't decide whether to make it simple or complex. It could go either way.

It's been weeks since eyewitnesses reported that Maj. Nidal Hasan shouted "Allahu akbar" before spraying Fort Hood with gunfire, killing 13 people.

cover of Penguin Books’ (NZ) edition of The Frodo Franchise. The tiny subtitle reads: “How ‘The Lord of the Rings’ became a Hollywood blockbuster and put New Zealand on the map.”

Following on from last week's surprise announcement at Devoxx that Sun would be adding closures to Java, Mark Reinhold has published a blog entry providing more background to the decision.

The fact that the effect has been demonstrated in silicon - the material that already underpins the computer industry - means that devices exploiting it could be made on a commercial scale more easily.

Phil Rabin of CBC Radio 3 has kindly written a guest post on his experience creating a fantastic Web interface for the station that uses Flash for audio, but a full HTML experience that maintains state from page to page.

New videos are continually added to Adobe TV. Bookmark the InDesign page, and filter your results by unchecking categories on the right side of the page.

This is a great video, it really conveys the sheer magnitude of a Space Shuttle Launch. This is the best launch video I have seen. Lots of great angles and views.

O Brasil é visto como uma história de sucesso econômico e sua população reverencia o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva como um astro. Ele está na missão de transformar o país em uma das cinco maiores economias do mundo por meio de reformas, projetos gigantes de infraestrutura e explorando vastas reservas de petróleo. Mas ele enfrenta ...

“Enrollment management” has become a dirty word among many critics of higher education, raising the specter of data-driven consultants helping colleges recruit students with ever increasing test scores who also happen to be able to pay the freight for tuition. And for better or worse, enrollment management has been interpreted to focus only ...

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CSS Rounded Corners 'Roundup' Quite a large collection of techniques for creating boxes and layouts with rounded corners using CSS. November 25, 2005 How to Write a Web Site Creative Brief Writing a clear, well-structured creative brief will get your web project off to a good start and keep it on track. Here's how. Includes examples. February 26, ...

"A change of materials often does require adaptation in the way we apply the Zone System, but in no way eliminates its principles or usefulness in creative visualization." -Ansel Adams, The Negative