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Pedal-Powered Blimp Attempts to Cross English Channel
via TreeHugger by (author unknown) on June 10, 2008
A 16-metre long airship will hopefully be pedalled across the 55 kilometre wide English Channel later today, UK time. French sports enthusiast and pilot Stephane Rousson hopes to complete the journey in about five hours. He’ll be slung under the blimp in a semi-recumbent style bicycle frame, 30 metres above the water, and navigate by adjusting two large propellers on each side of his rather...
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TUAW WWDC 2008 Day 1 coverage roundup
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Scott McNulty on June 10, 2008
... makes a phone? The new iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 3G, sports faster networking, longer battery life, GPS, and a flush headphone jack. All of that, and it costs much less ($199 for an 8 gig and $299 for the 16 gig model).MobileMe announced: .Mac is dead, long live MobileMe. Well, at least that will be the case on July 11. The .Mac replacement offers up push email, calendaring, contacts as well as ...
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Lingro: Possibly The Coolest Dictionary and Translation Service We've Ever Seen
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on June 10, 2008
Lingro is a fantastic collaborative dictionary and translation service that combines open dictionaries on the web with user contributions under a CreativeCommons license. It's particularly useful for people reading in a second language who just need help with a few unusual words now and again. Anyone will find the basic two-click dictionary lookup feature useful though.The service is very...
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Turn Google Docs Into an RSS Reader and Feed Aggregator
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on June 11, 2008
This tutorial shows how to use a Google Docs spreadsheet as an RSS Feed reader (see example). You can aggregate news feeds from different sources into one spreadsheet (similar to alltop or popurls or addictomatic) and then publish it as a web page. If you have a blog, you can use the same trick to embed RSS feeds in web pages. The Google Docs approach is preferred over Flash or Javascript widgets...
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IETester : Test Your Sites In Different Versions Of IE
via TECH YARD by Venkat on June 12, 2008
If your a web developer, you need to check for cross browser comparability. But IE has a good number of versions and many users use different versions like IE 5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7.0.IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web sites and have the rendering and javascript engines of the installed Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and...
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New Deal Checklist
via Will Price by Will Price on January 03, 2008
Pilots, no matter how many flying hours they have, never take off without checking their pre-flight checklist. The risks of oversight, missing a mechanical or procedural failure, etc are too severe not to ensure all systems are go.I put together an analog to the pre-flight checklist - a new deal checklist - that I hope will similarly help avoid losses due to "pilot error."In the spirit of...
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Enable the Web Inspector tool in Safari 3 beta
via MacOSXHints.com by (author unknown) on June 12, 2007
I've installed the Safari 3.0 beta, and so far I like it. While I was trying to dissect some CSS - JavaScript, I suddenly remembered I'd read about enabling a pretty neat Web Inspector tool in one of the nightly builds:So I trie
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Haz que Internet Explorer sea más estandard con IE7.js
via aNieto2K by aNieto2k on January 07, 2008
Dean Edwars ha actualizado con la versión 2.0 el IE7.js, un script que nos permite corregir una serie de problemas con los CSS's entre ellos el problema con los PNG transparentes. Podemos usarlo directamente desde los servido
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Brian Klug of the PBwiki team wanted to learn more about
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on January 15, 2008
Brian Klug of the PBwiki team wanted to learn more about JavaScript serving, so they created a JavaScript Library Test which tests the loading time of Dojo, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, and Protoculous. The test compares packed vs. minified, gzipped vs not, cached, etc. with some interesting results (hint: don’t used packed!). You can
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Widgets and plug-ins for social sites
via Vitamin Master Feed by contact@thinkvitamin.com (Carson Systems Ltd) on January 13, 2008
In this presentation, Matt Biddulph, CTO at Dopplr discusses how they worked with Facebook and also JavaScript (using JQuery) to create the social widgets and plug-ins that are essential to Dopplr’s make-up.Matt also spoke about other critical stages in the development of Dopplr - including how they used the internet as a platform, and
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