It wasn’t really the man-on-man kiss or the simulated oral sex that marked Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards on Sunday as shocking. Mostly it was ABC’s reaction. By rescinding Mr. Lambert’s invitation to sing on “Good Morning America,” ABC self-protectively drew a line that networks ...

Technical stuff in every perspective. A take on current trends and news in the world of technology. Also a great resource for stuff related to technical interviews.

Neben grossen Kontaktnetzwerken wie MySpace, StudiVZ oder Facebook mit jeweils mehreren Millionen Nutzern, existieren unzählige kleinere Plattformen, die sich auf bestimmte Themengebiete konzentrieren.

Firefox3.6以上: Firefox3.6（β版）がリリースされましたね。Firefox3.5に比べ、使い心地はいかがでしょうか？ 早くもFirefox3.7のウワサもあるほど、次から次へとバージョンアップするFirefoxですが、そのたびにちょっと厄介なのがアドオンとの互換性。こちらでは ...

Earlier this month, we offered up our picks for the 20 best books of the decade, most of them from authors we’d had some time to get to know before the turn of the century.

Wordpress has risen to be a powerhouse on the Internet that now dominates the blogosphere. It was started by the (now) 25-year-old Matt Mullenweg. Last week he was on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis. On the show Matt revealed that Wordpress has such a strong presence on the Internet that at least one in three Americans online have ...

“Das Social Web ist für NGOs ein Empowerment-Instrument” - Interview mit Brigitte Reiser Von Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti • 18.November 2008 • Kategorie: Interview, Zivilgesellschaft

Au beau milieu des Etats-Unis, l'après-pétrole a commencé. Au pays de l'essence pas chère et de la négation du réchauffement, des groupes de citoyens se sont donné pour mission d'aider les communautés américaines à se préparer à la double échéance de la fin du pétrole et du changement climatique. Leur mouvement a un nom : la ...

Google社員の多くはWebには速さが不可欠だと考えているため、サイトの表示速度をPageRank算出に用いる指標の1つにすることを考えているという。

Thank you for visiting the Vandelay Design Blog! We regularly publish collections of Photoshop tutorials like this one. If you would like to improve your Photoshop skills, please consider subscribing to our feed by RSS or by email so you don’t miss these posts.

Here is my second screencast for the EC blog, this time talking about Ajax file uploads in Rails using jQuery. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Government plans to roll out e-petitions across the UK could offer people a real say in the democratic process, a conference has heard. The legislation to make e-petitions compulsory for all councils in the UK comes into force in April 2010.

As the Digital Britain bill starts to make its way through Parliament, the row over its controversial measures against unlawful file-sharers is getting ever more heated.

As with any project you start, gathering essential information upfront is not only beneficial to a successful deliverable but will also save you and your client plenty of headaches throughout the process and pave the way to a lasting and trusting relationship.

There are many books and articles on typography, but considerably few explore typeface selection and pairing. With the floodgates poised to open and the promise of many typefaces being freed up for use on websites, choosing the right face to complement a website’s design will need to become another notch in the designer’s belt. But ...

When changes are successfully submitted and you have paging enabled, it’s quite possible that some of the entities that have been edited now belong to a different page.  Say for instance you are viewing employees ordered by last name, and you edit one of the employees to change their last name, moving them from Jones to Adams.  After ...

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

かの有名なあのマトリックスのシーンをLEGOで再現しちゃっていますよ。かな～りよく出来ています。オープニングとかクロージングもいいな。

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.

This impressive freeware is easy to use and provides you with comprehensive information about your computer. AIDA32 doesn't install; just run its executable file to view a neatly designed interface with system categories presented in a tree view list.

Windows only: The Windows 7 taskbar is pretty convenient, but if you are running an older version of Windows (or are just looking for a cool mouse-based launcher), MouseExtender is a sleek program that launches with one click of the mouse.

I have written a lot about model driven software development approaches from different perspectives. For example from a domain specific language design perspective, an integrated modeling approach for SOA perspective, etc. I also have tried to give you a balanced view on MDD by talking about the things to know before starting with MDD and by ...

Working to Redis is a good feeling for me: it's not something about money, or deadlines, or customers not agreeing with me, but about trying to do my 2 cents in order to help the field to go forward. It's a joy to work to things you love, especially if you have the feeling that you don't want to win: even if a few ideas of your work will be ...

マウスをお使いの方は右クリックしてコンテキストメニューから Google 検索されているとは思いますが、特に1つ目の方法はワンステップで簡単に検索することができるので是非使ってみてください(^_^)

創設者のビズ・ストーン氏によると、満を持してTwitter（ツイッター）は年末を迎える前に有料サービスを展開するようだ。

Categories: Cloud computing, Cost-effective scalability, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Products, Radical Decentralization, SaaS, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform

そんなGoogle Waveですが、幸運にもアカウントをゲットできた方は、友達などを招待することができます。 最近までどこに招待メールを送るメニューがあるのか（なぜか）気づかなかったので以下にまとめます。

Take that section and twist it back, securing it with a bobby pin so you get a lot of lift in front. Keep the ends in a messy loop in the back of your head.

　Microsoftは先週、いくつかのブラウザテクノロジを披露した。これにより、Internet Explorer（IE）が競争で一歩先を行く可能性がある。しかし、Mozilla Foundationが同団体の希望を実現させた場合、Microsoftは逆に後を追いかけることになるかもしれない。

With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions.

(11/23)ポップアップ通知で確認してからリダイレクト先へアクセスできるFirefoxアドオン「Verify Redirect」 (11/22)一定時間ブラウジングを続けると休憩を促してくれるFirefoxアドオン「Take A Break」

　キングジムは11月25日、デジタルメモ「ポメラ」に大画面液晶やQRコード機能などを搭載した「DM20」を12月11日より発売すると発表した。価格は3万4650円。

「Internet Explorer（IE）9」の開発を明らかにしたマイクロソフトは、ブラウザでの主導権奪還を目指している。IE 9には、パフォーマンスの向上や標準へのさらなる準拠が盛り込まれる予定だ。

23 Nov 2009: A Conservative government would scrap the Export Credit Guarantee Department that invests in 'dirty' power stations and instead use the fund to encourage green technology

　東京大学大学院情報理工学系研究科の平木敬教授らによる研究チームは27日、米国で開催されたスーパーコンピュータ関連の国際会議「Supercomputing 2009」（主催：IEEEコンピュータソサエティ）の「バンド幅チャレンジ」で実施した日米間の長距離ネットワーク�

iPhone development can be intimidating, especially to someone who’s unfamiliar with Macs, or the way iPhone apps work. But with currently more than 100,000 apps officially available from the App Store, it’s kind of hard for a developer to ignore the potential market the iPhone provides.

超シゲキ！超ユンファ！ノーパンノーブラノーフューチャー！道満晴明先生の傑作がまとめて読める現在は幸せであると言っていいと思うんだ。 ふしぎの海のナディア。自分がオタクに転げ落ちた元凶にして愛しい作品。…くそう、大好きだ！

Everyone's got files they'd like to keep out the the hands of intruders or casual passerby. Ever concerned you'll lose the thumb drive where you backed up four years of post-graduate research? Every worried your 5-year-old will accidentally open the um, grownup files just meant for Mommy and Daddy? Worry no more. Today we'll go over a simple way ...

I have noticed in both observing and working with non profits that their uptake and utilization of social media is creative, innovative and extensive and when I came upon this study by  the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research who had recently completed (June 2009) one of the first statistically significant  ...

Updated 4.30pm: Regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press will erect paywalls at six of its weekly paper websites from next Monday. According to chief executive John Fry, it is a small-scale trial to assess the impact of charging for content.

If you care about your user’s security, and your time, it’s time you stop asking them for passwords. Storing user passwords and handling authentication offers a bunch of problems that have already been solved, and requires a lot of work to do it right.

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

Dubaï World, la holding publique propriétaire de la fameuse île artificielle en forme de palmier, demande un sursis à ses créanciers sur 59 milliards de dollars.

PresentationやPersistenceといったレベルでのフレームワークは、それ自身が直接アプリケーション固有の課題を解決するわけではないのは言うまでも無いですが。

More than ever, media is diverging into blockbusters and niches—with everything else struggling JOE SWANBERG makes films about the romantic lives of young urbanites. He shoots quickly with a digital camera and asks actors to wear their own clothes. His films, which tend to cost between $30,000 and $50,000 to make, are almost never shown in ...

It’s easy to understand why: not only is the iPhone a universal communications tool, its one-button camera is also stunningly simple to use. “It really opens your eyes creatively when you have to take a photo with something with such limited functionality,” said Chase Jarvis, a commercial photographer based in Seattle who has ...

These days, it isn’t enough to offer vegetarian dishes at Thanksgiving — some of your guests may adhere to a vegan diet. Vegan foods are meatless dishes prepared without dairy, eggs or any animal products.

Having a mouse pad that won't stay put is a pain. Today's featured workspace circumvents the problem of the too-small and slide-around mouse pad by making a custom pad big enough for the mouse, keyboard, cup of coffee and more.

Whether I meant to or not, I was assuming that the taxonomy’s cousin, the folksonomy, scales well. And most folks who wrote in or commented seemed to agree with that.

Looking back at the noughties, Dorian Lynskey examines how a bootleg song, A Stroke of Genius, that never got a legitimate release prefigured all the significant pop trends of the decade

iPhone・iPod touch ラボ:iPhone・iPod touchのニュース、便利な使い方、アプリの紹介、アクセサリのレビューをお届けする情報サイト 【レビュー】iPhoneへの充電がさらに安定〜コンパクト・大容量な外部バッテリー『eneloop KBC-L2AS』

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Il s’agit d’une simple vidéo au cours de laquelle Gina Trapani (fondatrice de Lifehacker ) explique pourquoi elle aime Wave et certaines des choses surprenantes qu’on peut faire avec cette nouvelle technologie.

“Science” and “reason” are two words often spoken alongside each other - almost as if they were the same thing. But each are completely different approach to making judgements and predictions about the world around us.

Seguro que muchos de ustedes, si no la mayoría, han hecho crujir sus nudillos más de una vez. Hay personas cuyas manos casi podrían hacerse pasar por maracas. En mi caso, es algo que casi nunca me ha salido (al igual que silbar, no puedo hacerlo si no es aspirando hacia dentro), pero bueno ya quisiera yo que todas las frustaciones de mi vida ...

I'm focusing on Windows solutions for this article. That doesn't mean there aren't methods available for other operating systems—it just means that the scope of this feature is limited to Windows users.

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Christmas month is here! Its fun and we designers will be busy with Christmas greeting cards and many other things so here is an amazing list of freebies for your design eyes to feast upon. Amongst all the Christmas fun here are some Christmas freebies for your blogs, desktop wallpapers. Oh my its a long list! We decided to add a bit of ...

Here are sources of all 5 samples. As you notice - we having simple unordered list, they all quite same, only have different 'id' attribute. <p> <a href="images/demo1_1.jpg" title="Seashell" class="example1"><img src="images/th_demo1_1.jpg" alt="Seashell" /></a> <a href=& ...

1,181ft (360m) long, 208ft (63.3m) wide, capable of holding 6,300 passengers and split into seven 'neighbourhoods' because it's so large, the Oasis of the Seas is truly the behemoth of the waves.

Windowsのみ: プリンタやMP3プレーヤなど、他のハードウェアとPCをつないでくれるデバイスドライバ。不具合の解消や機能追加などでときどきアップデートされているようですが、その状況をリアルタイムでウォッチし、都度ダウンロードするというのはなかなか

Perdu (mais pas complètement) entre mon agrégateur RSS, les innombrables signalements qui circulent sur mon compte Twitter, l'archive des signets delicious ... Besoin de clarification dans un monde ou tout est "flux" pour éviter qu'à terme tout ne nous semble "superflu(x)".

ドコモのiモードブラウザ2.0に搭載されているJavaScript機能と、かんたん認証を組み合わせた不正アクセスの方法について話題になっているようなので、ご紹介させていただきます。

Google has pledged to support and invest in the Advertising Association's new foundation to rebuild public trust in the UK industry. The initiative, which has the working title Front Foot, was launched by the AA last month following research that found that fewer than one in six people trust advertisers.

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.

The palm-sized Arduino serves as an electronic brain running everything from high schoolers' robots to high-end art installations. But perhaps the oddest thing about the device is the business model behind it.

We recently wrote about Sidebar, an app that wants to help smartphone users with the process of finding the perfect apps for their phones. Sidebar is debuting its first app and guess what? It’s not an iPhone app-it’s an Android app! While Sidebar’s Android app is built for all Google-powered Android phones, the app has been ...

The white line in the above graphic is a previous estimate for nine-meter slip. The red line shows an area of the nine-meter slip 25 kilometers deep in the crust, as predicted by James Chapman and Timothy Melbourne of Central Washington University. The green line runs down where the slip dissipates to zero as the fault deepens to the east.

Na apresentação que o Ulisses Zamboni fez aqui em BH pelo Clube de Planejamento (vou falar mais sobre a palestra daqui alguns dias), ele mencionou o trabalho da brasileira Fernanda Viégas - pesquisadora do Visual Communication Lab da IBM e Ph.D. pelo Media Lab do MIT -, criadora do site Many Eyes em parceria com Martin Wattenberg.

Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 invitations two months ago. Many people still want invitations. Among those who’ve tried it, some criticize it, some praise it. For now it has a lot of usability problems that ...

Se você assina um serviço 3G com tráfego limitado, pode ser uma boa idéia logar o seu tráfego. Quando a sua navegação mensal estoura a franquia, a cobrança é por byte adicional, e sai beeem caro.

Many thought leaders in the agile community have started talking more about software katas - a way of practicing specific exercises until one has them memorized. Over the past several weeks, there has been an increase in blog posts and sites devoted to katas. Robert Martin has gone as far as calling them "performance art". Should you ...

Tomorrow the Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to touch down on Earth after a successful seven-day mission to deliver vital equipment to the International Space Station.

'There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.' Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that ...