While Wii owners may find their expectations currently dashed DS fans are going to have something to look forward to. Mr. Iwata announced during the shareholders meeting that a tuner peripheral would see a release this July
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Combining jQuery with the Zend Framework and Smarty
Showcasing how jQuery can be used in combination with the most popular templating engines for PHP and a popular PHP framework with a simple example.
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Declaring Dojo for Ajax
New dojo.E effort set to make the open source Ajax framework more declarative and appealing to more developers.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Young sisters die in 135-degree car
Two sisters died in rural North Carolina after being trapped in a car in the sweltering heat, authorities say.
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Widget Initialization Using JSON, HTML Custom Tags and XML
DHTML components or widgets exist all over the Internet as calendars, toolbars, menus, etc. In this tutorial you'll learn about configuring DHTML widgets, the pros and cons and programming techniques to avoid errors and speed up development time.
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How to Safely Use Facebook and LinkedIn at Work
Both businesses and employees need to practice safe surfing to benefit from social networks in the workplace.
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DSLR starters' guides: Lenses
The beauty of DSLR is that you can attach a different lens to your camera depending on what and where you're planning to photograph. Julie Kim casts an eye over your lens choices
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
M$ Killed Banjo Kazooie, go to hell Bill Gates
Lame story line, cars and an awful box art makes this game a downer, good job selling out Rare.
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Making the right Linux choice
Linux doesn't come in a one-size-fits-all release and so making the right decision first time around can be a bit tricky. Here we offer a simple guide to choosing the right version (or "distribution") of Linux.
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Alberta oil's dirty image
Two years ago today, the Alberta government parked a huge dump truck on the National Mall in Washington, announcing to U. S. lawmakers Canada was about to become the next big thing in global energy. But the higher profile has come with a cost. Now, Canadian oil is sparking fear and loathing on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.
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Alberta oil's dirty image
Two years ago today, the Alberta government parked a huge dump truck on the National Mall in Washington, announcing to U. S. lawmakers Canada was about to become the next big thing in global energy. But the higher profile has come with a cost. Now, Canadian oil is sparking fear and loathing on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.
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Making the right Linux choice
Linux doesn't come in a one-size-fits-all release and so making the right decision first time around can be a bit tricky. Here we offer a simple guide to choosing the right version (or "distribution") of Linux.
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Another 5 kind of people who see Pixar movies
- Those who think Disney is behind Pixar success.
- Those who think Steve Jobs is behind Pixar success.
- Those who think George Lucas was a visionary starting Pixar.
- Those who think anything with the Pixar brand is cool (think of the Jim Henson's syndrome)
- Family and relatives of those who do all the hard work at Pixar.
Bonlebon.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Free Tools to Secure Your Web Site
Over the past six months, millions of Web pages have been hacked and seeded with malicious software, and in a great many cases the sites were hacked because their curators failed to put in place even basic database security measures.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Jolie Badass Kicks Massive Wall-E's Ass
Adapted by Bekmambetov from the Mark Miller and J.G. Jones's comix, Wanted may have a great deal to do with the director coming to terms with his own feelings of male powerlessness.
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Screw Wall-E, I'm watching WANTED instead
The surge of Wall-e's promos before the weekend signals about Disney's fears..
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
First Steps with Windows PowerShell
This chapter introduces Windows PowerShell and helps you set up your environment.
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Exotic Dancers Excel at More Than Just the Obvious
Exotic Dancers Excel at More Than Just the Obvious, Says Researcher in Rick's Cabaret's Club Bulletin
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Calling All DSLR Owners Who Shoot On Auto
I'd like a moment with those of you who own a DSLR, but always shoot in Auto mode. I know you're out there. I look at cameras every time I'm around other photographers. When we talk, I sense your frustration that this really expensive instrument lets you take blurry pictures. Dude, I hear you.
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Four Awesome Retro Posters For Wall-E
As if their vibrant characters and storytelling skills weren’t enough to make them the leader in animation, Pixar is also known for its impeccable attention to graphic design.
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Luckiest Guys In Sports
Like most of the sports blogosphere we've been shocked, saddened and disappointed about one of the biggest headlines of the past few weeks. We simply can't believe that one of the hottest women in the world would possibly be interested in this guy.
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Scripting languages spark new programming era
Newfangled development platforms are dominating the Web. Take a tour of the options
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Five ways to master bookmarks in Firefox 3
We've put together a small guide to help you take advantage of bookmarking in Firefox 3. If you put these lessons to use, you'll go from having a big, clumsy menu of sites you like to an ever-changing list that can quickly be parsed and prioritized with minimal effort.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Mystery plague threatens to wipe out bees
Is this what the honeybees are telling us? That our industrialised farming with its monocultures, pesticides and increasingly unreasonable demands on the bees themselves is not sustainable?
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
HP Mini-Note + SuSE Linux = Eee PC killer?
HP's amazing 2133 Mini-Note is let down by a mediocre processor, but could SuSE Linux turn it into the ultimate travelling companion?
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US will only allow beautiful people in (seriously)
Tall, thin and beautiful foreigners could get their own visa category under amended legislation on Capitol Hill, allowing up to 1000 fashion models each year to work in the US temporarily.
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An awfully presidential logo
The campaign logo that debuted today bears an uncanny resemblance to the presidential seal.
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China having a case of bad karma
China is to crack down on the illegal use of the Olympics logo, the State Administration For Industry and Commerce (SAIC) said Thursday.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Colouring Books with Adults in Mind
Colouring books are something we first come to know when we are kids, carefulling choosing the colors and filling in the outlines with a great deal of concentration. But these are not just for children anymore! Recently, a lovely variety of “colouring books for adults” caught our eye!
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NASA Launches New Satellite to Map Rising Seas
The U.S.-European Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellite was launched successfully June 20 aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a five-year mission to continue the uninterrupted study of ocean levels and currents that was begun in the early 1990s in a U.S.-French partnership.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
The geek/hacker scooter
While working for my current employer I had the opportunity to use my 20th level geek skills to produce an extremely high density mobile computing platform in a scooter for a promotional campaign we created for a client. The end result was a rolling system capable of long distance war driving, GPS navigation,
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
10 Questions to Ponder Until BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Returns
Truth be told, following Friday’s phenomenal, nay, mind-blowing mid-season finale of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, this TV Addict’s head is still spinning with questions. So in an effort to get a half decent nights sleep, I thought I’d pass along my frustration to my fellow TV Addicts. Because as the saying goes, misery loves company.
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VCs Betting LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion
Four venture capital firms are betting Internet startup LinkedIn Corp. is worth $1 billion, highlighting the lofty hopes riding on online services that connect people with their friends, family and business associates.
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Apple Store full of hot air
It was hot – the collective heat of hundreds of people in a sunlit space, fully exposed to the glare of Apple's hype machine. About 100 people turned up, roughly five times the number that accompanied Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on his recent trip to Japan.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Using CSS and GIF’s to animate a menu
GIFs can still be a very powerful tool, and the fact that they have been long forgotten gives me an opportunity to brainstorm what you can do with them.
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Star Wars references from Simpsons episodes
This is as complete a list as we at the Insider, with considerable help with our friends at The Simpsons and Bongo Comics, were able to compile. We trust you'll let us know if we missed any...
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Angry customer holds Comcast tech hostage
A judge has ordered a Tennessee man undergo a mental evaluation after he was accused of holding a Comcast technician hostage until he fixed his television (via Consumerist).
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Father beats son to death 'to get demons out'
The California man killed by police as he calmly beat his 2-year-old son to death Saturday night told motorists who tried to intervene that he had "to get the demons out" of the boy because he was "trash," the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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DIY GIANT bubble blower
well now ill show you how to easily make bubbles 2m in diameter easily and BIGGER! for under $3
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How to Be a Leader in Your Field
A profession is more than a job -- it is a community and a culture. Professions serve society by pooling knowledge among their members and creating incentives to synthesize new knowledge.
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Are developers aliens?
Being directly involved with two open source projects, Gallery and Habari, I sometimes get to witness some rather esoteric problem solving. I would never call myself a great developer, probably not a developer at all, but sometimes people present code that just leaves me wondering if some people come from other planets.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Keep Tab On Home Security With A Webcam And Twitter
Worried about someone breaking into your house in your absence? Or just need to keep a tab on who enters your room while you are away? Well, all you need is a webcam, a linux PC/laptop and a twitter account.
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The end of high oil prices is near,it won't last much though
The world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia will boost output next month to the fastest rate in decades to help keep pace with demand and tame what it sees as unacceptably high fuel prices.
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Visit Walt Disney World with Google Earth
Now you can explore every inch of Walt Disney World® Resort in 3D, in Disney's incredible Google Earth™ tour.
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How Bad Is ‘The Happening’?
As I write this “The Happening” sits on Rotten Tomatoes with a putrid score of 21% from critics. To put that in perspective that means that both “Drillbit Taylor” AND “What Happens in Vegas” were favored by the national media over this scare-fest wannabe.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Overcoming the Reign of Educated Literacies
Learning from cradle to grave under the expert instruction of the credentialed graduate, the "civilized," literate, educated, and developed people continue to be fabulously successful in destroying linguistic diversity. With the aid of hundreds of credit hours of canned instruction, the educated of the North speak only 1 percent of the 5,000 langua
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Bald Eagle PWNS Swan
It's another one of those viral photo series filling up inboxes--almost as popular as the Golden Eagle vs Fox series.
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Score Free Inbound/Outbound VoIP Calls
Many VoIP systems offer you free inbound calls but then charge you for outbound calls. Although these rates are usually pretty cheap, sometimes you just want things for free. In the guide, we’ll show you how to get a phone number and make inbound and outbound VoIP calls using your computer - for free.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Nail-in-skull survivor: 'It never really hurt'
George Chandler says he didn't know a 2 1/2-inch nail was driven into his skull until his buddy spotted it stuck through his cap. Chandler said he felt only a sting. "It never did really what you call hurt," the Shawnee man said Wednesday on NBC's "Today."
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Darabont's Alternative Indiana Jones 4 Script Is Online
You knew it had to show up online eventually, and tonight it did. Frank Darabont’s Indiana Jones 4 script, the one George Lucas threw in the trash after it had already been approved by Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford, is all over the internet.
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Rum the remedy for snake bite on penis
A MAN bitten on the penis by a deadly snake has told how he used a cold rum can to soothe the pain while he rang his mother to say a final goodbye.
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Twister Time: 13 Minutes to Take Cover
With more tornadoes than ever menacing the Heartland this year, twister fatalities have already set a record, and as Wednesday's carnage showed, victims usually get mere minutes to reach safety. Often that is not enough time.
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Howto Increase video performance in Ubuntu
On some reasons by default these modules are not present in X11 config, but, to the measure for me these modules in 2 times accelerate the capacity of performance.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Firefox 3 basically finished for Windows/Linux
Anticipation is high for the upcoming launch of Firefox 3, with the recent Release Candidate 2 scoring good reviews from the likes of Walt Mossberg
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Rollin’ With Google App Engine, 80’s Style
Building a web application with Google App Engine is quick and easy, and you have the power of the google distributed content delivery network and the ‘BigTable’ database at your disposal. So what’s it good for?
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It’s Like AJAX for Ruby and Python
f you’re a Ruby or Python developer building AJAX applications, you’ve got to learn JavaScript. Even if you’re converting Ruby code to client-side JavaScript with a tool like RJS, it can still be helpful to know the AJAX component for adding features and debugging.
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Can you play Team Fortress on this thing?
Take 13,000 tweaked Cell processors—yep, the same chip that powers the PlayStation 3—add 7,000 dual-core AMD processors, mix in 80TB of memory, and you get Roadrunner, the new supercomputer capable of cranking out a quadrillion calculations a second.
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Va. Congressman Claims Cyber Hack Attack
Rep. Frank Wolf Says FBI Is Investigating Efforts to Hack Into Office Computers
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Wii workout video makes Miami woman famous NSFW
An experiment in viral video got a Miami advertising executive overnight fame online as the `Wii-girl.'
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
10 Travel Photography Quick Tips
Not everyone is going to get prize-winning photographs, but anyone can learn to take better pictures than they currently do. These are just a few quick travel photography tips that will help your photos go from so-so to spectacular. Master even one of them and you'll see a big difference in your travel photos.
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LINUX: Set up a printer using the CUPS
Users often have trouble setting up hardware in Linux because they simply aren’t used to the way things are done in Linux. Setting up hardware is relatively simple (once you know where the tools are.) And setting up a printer is one of those jobs made very easy by modern Linux administration tools. One of those tools is the Common UNIX Printing Sys
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The A-Z of programming languages: AWK
Computerworld Australia recently spoke to Professor Aho to learn more about the development of AWK, in the first of a series of investigations into the most widely used programming languages.
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
The freelancing business: pricing your work
This first article in the series examines the issue of pricing, including guidance on how to price your work in the immediate term as well as how to increase your rates in the longer-term.
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Who killed Malaysia's pirated disc-sniffing dog?
A dog trained to sniff out pirated discs, from a Malaysian unit which criminals have made threats against, has been found dead in the undisclosed location where it was kept, a report said on Sunday.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
Bamboo PC is eco-friendly and looks nice too
Debby Lee of Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. media relations holds an Ecobook made partly from bamboo in San Francisco, California, December 10, 2007. Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. is finding potential beauty, and sales, in an eco-friendly notebook PC encased in natural material: bamboo.
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Your brain's IQ is not stactic
Can human beings rev up their intelligence quotients, or are they stuck with IQs set by their genes at birth? Until recently, nature seemed to be the clear winner over nurture.
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Lightweight Approach to AOP in Python
aspects.py library provides means to intercept function calls. Functions and methods (also in Python standard library and third party code) can be wrapped so that when they are called, the wrap is invoked first.
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PHP: Be Notified When Google Crawls Your Site
Have you ever wanted to know when Google crawls your website? Well now you can using a simple PHP script which emails you everytime GoogleBot crawls your site.
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PHP:Exceptions, you’re doing it
After a couple of comments and some personal pondering I decided to remove a small part of the article, if you read it before and think something is missing, then you know why.
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DIY Wall-E Robot, better than the one on the movie
This is my Wall-E project that I am currently working on it is 150mm x 150mm x 160 high, it uses a pair of Mattracks for motive power and two robosapienV2 hip motors.
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Yay For The Electronic Frontier Foundation!!!
The EFF sent an open letter to Lockheed’s licensing agency, demanding that they withdraw their improper objections on the licensing of a computer 3D model and Lockheed conceded.
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Installing Vista Fonts in Ubuntu
Microsoft’s new ClearType fonts for Vista are great. The fonts include Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas.
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'Untraceable' phone fraudsters eye your credit card
Scams involving email and fake banking websites may get all the attention, but a recent rash of fraudulent phone calls shows criminals haven't given up on more traditional tools for tricking people into surrendering credit card numbers and other sensitive information.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
10 Things Your Cell Phone Service Won't Tell You
Gourley says he asked the salesperson at the Verizon store where he purchased the plan "over and over" if the person making the mobile-to-mobile call would be the only one charged for airtime. According to Gourley, "He said, 'Yes, sir.'" Obviously, that turned out not to be the case.
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Happy birthday, x86! An industry standard turns 30
Intel's x86 microprocessor architecture has dominated large swaths of computing for three decades. Here's why.
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The Design Is Never Right The First Time
This is one of those key lessons you learn over time building real software, and is the source of one of the chief complaints leveled at the Waterfall methodology for building software, which puts heavy emphasis on getting the design right up front.
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DIY Robot motor controller
The explanations I give are my own interpretations of the theories, and expect some people to disagree with the fine detail. However, I have had to adopt a pragmatic approach to the design given the very limited resources
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Let's sell some cylons!
NBC is selling life-size replicas of the cylon centurion robots from "Battlestar Galactica" for a mere $7,900 each.
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Google to build employee housing at huge new complex at NASA
Internet giant to add 1 million square feet of offices, R&D space, employee housing
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Cyclists being swept by car [PIC]
In Mexico if you look gay riding a bike you are forced to get out of the road.
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Cyclists being swept by car [PIC]
In Mexico if you look gay riding a bike you are forced to get out of the road.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Database-enabled Ajax with PHP
In this article you'll learn how to create database-enabled Ajax requests using PHP and MySQL. We begin by creating the front-end HTML and JavaScript files used to make requests to the server-side.
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How to Create a Color Picker in JavaScript
This week you're going to learn how to create a Color Picker similar to the one used in Photoshop, but entirely in JavaScript!
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Early Adopters Are IDIOTS
Late last year, Amazon released the Kindle to the joy and enthusiasm of many early adopters. Robert Scoble, the poster child for early adopters, gleefully got his Kindle on the first day and wrote about how beautiful it was and how it brought him great pleasure.
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Microsoft extends Windows to low-cost PCs
Microsoft Corp is making its Windows operating system available to low-cost desktop PCs, as cheaper laptops enjoy booming demand globally, the software giant said on Tuesday.
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Weak dollar blamed for Wii Fit shortages in America
The reason for Wii Fit shortages in the U.S. is that Nintendo can make more money selling the game abroad, according to oft-quoted analyst Micheal Pachter.
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MIT Wii game aims to put visually impaired on level playing
If some researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Singapore-based Gambit Game Lab have anything to say about it, gamers with serious vision problems won't have to take a backseat to their 20/20 friends anymore.
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Alfred Molina is Sheik Amar in Disney’s Prince of Persia
Alfred Molina has signed for the role of Sheik Amar in Disney’s upcoming Prince of Persia adaptation.
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