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Compression using Canvas and PNG
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 05, 2008
The image above is the 124 kilobyte Prototype library embedded in a 30 kilobyte 8 bit PNG image file.Jacob Seidelin had some fun this weekend it appears and created a script that can read in JavaScript code from images. To do this, he used the canvas getImageData() method.Here are the detailed steps:The first step was to find the best image format for the job, that means the one that gives the...
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Sleep Deprivation Isn't a Badge of Honor [Sleep]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 14, 2008
Developer David Heinemeier Hansson says that sleep deprivation isn't a badge of honor that shows how hard you work—it just makes you dumb and miserable. Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can't pay, he'll break your creativity,...
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Le projet One Laptop Per Child à la croisée des chemins
via DLFP - Dépêches by null@linuxfr.org (akauffmann) on May 13, 2008
... critiquant le "fundamentalism" de la communauté Open Source et envisageant d'ouvrir la porte à Microsoft a fait sensation. On a ainsi vu Benjamin Mako Hill intervenir pour rappeler que le logiciel libre et une certaine vision de l'éducation étaient, si ce n'est indissociables, tout du moins intimement liés. Même Richard Stallman est monté au créneau pour affirmer que la p...
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Last.fm Plus YouTube—Like MTV but with Music You Like [MUSIC VIDEOS]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 06, 2008
Web site Last.fm + YouTube is a mashup that pulls music videos from YouTube based on artists and music in your Last.fm profile. To use it, just hand over your Last.fm username or the name of an artist you like and it starts streaming YouTube music videos. I've been tuned into my Last.fm + YouTube channel most of the morning, and so far it's been good listening and watching. If you give...
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Slim Down Your Wallet with Your Phone [Wallet Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 12, 2008
Blogger Albert Alberts loves a slim wallet, and after reading over some of our wallet-slimmingtips, he realized he had a powerful wallet-slimming tool in his pocket all the time: his iPhone. His idea? Rather than reducing his membership cards to just one club card, he scanned his membership cards to his computer, then synced them to his iPhone as an album called WalletCards. According to the...
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La pyramide des besoins de Maslow illustrée 2.0
via Webilus.com by aysoon on May 12, 2008
La pyramide de Maslow représente la hiérarchisation de la motivation chez l'homme. Elle est constituée de cinq niveaux. Nous recherchons d'abord, selon Maslow, à satisfaire chaque besoin d'un niveau donné avant de penser aux besoins situés au niveau immédiatement supérieur de la pyramide. Sans surprise, on recherche par exemple à satisfaire les besoins physiologiques avant...
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Monitor Google's Homepage with Page2RSS
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 05, 2008
Page2RSS is a very nice service that creates feeds from any web page, by including the new content and linking to a page that highlights the differences.A simple example of web page that could be monitored using Page2RSS is google.com: a homepage that rarely changes only to celebrate important events or to announce new Google features. You could subscribe to the automatically-generated feed by...
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Change Command Prompt's Default Font for Easier Reading [Windows Tip]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Bwana I'm going to do this to all my windows machinesThe default prompt in Windows' Command Prompt isn't the easiest to read, but Microsoft has a font, Consolas, that works much better in a terminal, as attested to by ourcommenters. The Digital Inspiration blog runs down how to set Consolas as the default font in your command prompt. Vista users can perform a registry hack...
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Une autoroute fibrée sur 330 km
via Freenews - Edition Nationale : l'actualité des freenautes by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
La semaine dernière, sur l'Aire de la Lozère, se déroulait l'inauguration de la "A75 Numérique". L'autoroute A75, reliant Clermont-Ferrand à Pézenas, est bordée par de la fibre optique. Un projet d'envergure, qui débuta en 2005.
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Sync Your iPhone Wirelessly in Linux [IPhone]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 09, 2008
Apple may open up its iPhone and iPod touch devices to third-party apps next month, but the chances that Linux users will get invited to the party are slim at best. That hasn't stopped some intrepid hackers from coming up with a better music-syncing solution than the one Mac and Windows users have—a two-way wireless transfer, from almost any music organizing app you like, no wait for iTunes...
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