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Rent or Buy Calculator Helps You Decide Which Is Best [Saving Money]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 27, 2008
The New York Times Rent or Buy Calculator compares the cost of renting versus buying your home to determine which is a better money move in the long run. Give it your monthly rent, the projected price of buying a house, mortgage rate, and property tax, and it'll determine after how many years buying is better than renting (if at all). If you live somewhere like Los Angeles or New York and...
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The Internet FAQ from 2085
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 19, 2008
What was the internet?The internet and the world web was a computing system to transfer human information. Scientists have based its beginning to the years 1920 to 1940.What was electromail?Electromail was another transport protocol to transfer human information, but it was quickly discontinued as it caused misunderstandings due to lack of correctly representing emotions.What were world web...
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The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on June 04, 2008
Last week we looked at how some browsers and plug-ins were adopting storage-related API’s that are a part of the new HTML5 draft specification. While Gears, Opera and Webkit have implemented structured storage API’s, the remainder of the HTML5 spec currently remains mostly unimplemented and also in a state of flux. HTML5 is a super-sized effort to bring all the browsers under a single,...
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How to Make the Most of Your CHDK Camera [Camera Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 26, 2008
We've already shown you how to turn your point-and-shoot into a super camera with the open-source CHDK software, but if you followed our instructions and hit a "Now what?" wall, the Hack a Day blog offers an excellent guide to finding and using CHDK's best features. It includes details for taking long exposures, ultra-fast exposures, running time-lapse and other scripts, taking HDR...
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Starwatching
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 25, 2008
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Pesky Human Spotted Climbing On Top of Googlebot (Fiction)
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 29, 2008
“We have asked you here to appear before the robotic tribunal to defend your case, human.”“I was ...”“Quiet! You will speak when you’re asked to. R27161, please read the accusation.”[human bows his head, momentary silence]“R27161 speaking. The human #281738 is accused of having climbed upon an early Googlebot model around 20 years ago. Human?”“It was 2008, those were just...
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Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative
via ReadWriteWeb by Bernard Lunn on May 07, 2008
Google Analytics may be free, but it is still based on proprietary technology - which means you only ever get reports on the things that Google thinks are necessary and some of those reports are aimed at people using Google's other services (managing campaigns on AdWords, for example). Further, using Google Analytics means that you're tied to Google's TOS. Enter Piwik, which aims to...
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PHPImpact Blog: 30 Useful PHP Classes and Components
via PHPDeveloper.org by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
The PHP::Impact blog has posted a list of thirty classes and components that can make your PHP development life so much easier:Simplicity and extensibility are the main reasons why PHP became the favourite dynamic language of the Web. In the last decade, PHP has developed from a niche language for adding dynamic functionality to small websites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into...
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Apache htaccess Ultimate Guide
via del.icio.us|popular|webdev by drypek on March 30, 2007
bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by drypek - more about this bookmark...
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FindMe: Quickest way to trace a Windows shortcut
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 20, 2008
... it just doesn't show up in the add/remove programs dialog.There are a couple of ways to figure out where the link is pointing. You could right click the icon, select properties, and try navigating to the directory listed as its Target. Honestly, this takes just a few seconds. But if you're too lazy to do that, you could also install FindMe, a little utility that adds an option to the W...
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