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inessential.com: One of My Mistakes

by karlcow

But I’ve long had a similar question about NetNewsWire. Back in 2002 and 2003, when NetNewsWire would read a feed, it would send the URL of NetNewsWire’s product page as the referer. That was wrong. (It’s also what other readers did, so I justified it as the then-current best practices.) It wasn’t a privacy violation — it wasn’t terribly wrong — but it was still wrong because it was misusing the referer. (The user-agent is where that info was supposed to go.)

January 2012

Wikipedia Map Interface

by karlcow

The dynamic map is completely created in your browser. This has the advantage that the map is interactive, you can zoom into it, change colors, and see for every point what article it is and link to it. But it has the major disadvantage that it requires some heavy resources. This link may crash your browser. Use a reasonably fast machine, a current version of Chrome, and be patient while loading the data — your browser is loading more than 50 MB of data and processing it via JavaScript into an HTML5 Canvas.

December 2011

HTML Formatting for Custom Menus | Digging into WordPress

by mozkart
For some projects, it’s nice to output clean, well-formatted markup. Using theme template files enables great control over most of your (X)HTML formatting, but not so much for automated functionality involving stuff like widgets and custom menus. One of my current projects requires clean, semantic HTML markup for all web pages, but also takes advantage of WordPress’ custom-menu functionality to make things easy. In this DiW article, we’ll see how to enjoy both: WordPress custom menus and clean, well-formatted HTML markup.

November 2011

Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: griotism

by karlcow

A few months ago last.fm started looking for a data griot – in their words, a griot “must … have the ability to extemporize on current events, chance incidents and the passing scene. His wit can be devastating and his understanding of history formidable.”

DATA GRIOT

HTML5 - 12 Cool HTML5 Geolocation Ideas

by karlcow

Public transportation sites can list nearby bus stops and metro locations.Late night out? Taxi or car service Web sites can find where you are, even if you don’t know.Shopping sites can immediately provide estimates for shipping costs.Travel agencies can provide better vacation tips for current location and season.Content sites can more accurately determine the language and dialect of search queries.Real estate sites can present average house prices in a particular area, a handy tool when you’re driving around to check out a neighborhood or visit open houses.Movie theater sites can promote films playing nearby.Online games can blend reality into the game play by giving users missions to accomplish in the real world.News sites can include customized local headlines and weather on their front page.Online stores can inform whether products are in stock at local retailers.Sports and entertainment ticket sales sites can promote upcoming games and shows nearby.Job postings can automatically include potential commute times.

This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

by karlcow, 1 comment

Ultimately we're trying to build the next Visa, not the next PayPal.  We're building a human network based on how we think the future of payments will work. The current model needs to be blown up. 

Larry King to Divorce Wife No. 7 After Rehab Stint ?

by toki
Divorce rumors are surrounding talk show host Larry King, 74, and current wife Shawn Southwick, 48, whose 11-year union bore two sons: Chance Armstrong (9) and Cannon Edward (8).

Exclusive: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 | ZDNet

by srcmax
Sources close to Adobe that have been briefed on the company’s future development plans have revealed this forthcoming announcement to ZDNet: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates.

defunkt/jquery-pjax - GitHub

by ronpish & 1 other
pjax loads HTML from your server into the current page without a full reload. It's ajax with real permalinks, page titles, and a working back button that fully degrades.

October 2011

Prefix free: Break free from CSS vendor prefix hell!

by Spone (via)
A script that lets you use only unprefixed CSS properties everywhere. It works behind the scenes, adding the current browser’s prefix to any CSS code, only when it’s needed.

Des scientifiques sur le point de lire dans les pensées d'autrui - LeMonde.fr

by sbrothier
Armés d'un scanner et d'un ordinateur, des scientifiques ont pu décoder des signaux cérébraux et reconstruire les images d'un film visionné par trois sujets, pour les convertir en modèle informatique. Shinji Nishimoto, principal auteur de cette étude parue dans la revue américaine Current Biology, et ses collègues ont regardé deux extraits de film.

September 2011

anddev.org • View topic - Poor mans GPS - Cell(Tower)ID / Location Area Code -Lookup

by JJL
This tutorial shows how to approximate your current location in the world using the CellID ( CellTowerID ) and LAC ( Location Area Code ), by requesting data, from a 'secret' Google-API.

August 2011

F-Droid · Repository

by cascamorto
The FDroid Repository is an easily-installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform. The server contains the details of multiple versions of each application, and the Android client makes it easy to browse, install them onto your device, and keep track of updates. Source code for the application is on Gitorious. You can install the current binary release from here or see the end of this page for a QR code. You can also browse the repository with a web browser, and download the applications directly from there if you can’t or don’t want to run the F-Droid client on your device.

Measuring a platform’s smartness - QuirksBlog

by karlcow

However, it would be a mistake to compare the current browsing stats to the current sales stats. The browsing stats are mostly caused by already deployed devices, including the three-year old devices that are still the best the less affluent smartphone users have. So it’s best to see the current browsing stats as a kind of 12- to 24-month moving average of smartphone sales coupled with platform “smartness” (and note the deliberate vagueness and huge margin of error). That explains Symbian’s continued dominance: its sales market share may plummet all it wants, people still have an awful lot of Symbian devices on hand to do their browsing with.

deCarta Remains Nimble in Mobile and Internet Geographic Search Market - Directions Magazine

by karlcow

JF: To what can you attribute the growth with Opera? You’ve indicated that some of this is from emerging markets. Can you elaborate? KF: Opera has been a great partner and has really helped us get this going within their huge user base.  To some degree, our current customers reflect the distribution of Opera Mini users.  Many of these are in emerging markets such as India, Indonesia and Russia, where the mobile phone is the primary means of accessing the Internet for many people.  However, we are seeing a lot of traffic from North America and Western Europe as well.  User engagement – measured in visits per user and page views per visit – is strong around the world.

July 2011

The right price for digital music. - By Adam L. Penenberg - Slate Magazine

by karlcow

Here's how it would work: Songs would be priced strictly on demand. The more people who download the latest Eminem single, the higher the price will go. The same is true in reverse—the fewer people who buy a song, the lower the price goes. Music prices would oscillate like stocks on Nasdaq, with the current cost pegged to up-to-the-second changes in the number of downloads. In essence, this is a pure free-market solution—the market alone would determine price.

C'est un peu le système de pinboard mais sans la décente.

Selenium with Python — Gist

by karlcow

Selenium Python bindings provide a convenient API to access Selenium WebDrivers like Firefox, Ie and Chrome. The current supported Python versions are Python 2.6 and Python 2.7. Python 3 is not yet supported.

Google started deleting business profiles on google+ | Google-Plus.com

by night.kame, 2 comments

We have warned users from creating business profiles on google+ since google is working on profiles for business exclusively and plans to keep the current Google+ primarily focused on consumer.

Google+ n'est pas pour les gens, Google+ n'a pas d'utilisateurs : Google+ c'est pour les consommateurs.

Post de Sebastian Posth

by karlcow

Current number is 17.121 german-language EPUBs, assuming we have them all, which is not unrealistic. Bad compared to English, but not abysmal, by the way. Italy, Spain, France, even Korea are much worse.

Tokyo University: Spring Forward to a Fall Start Date? - Japan Real Time - WSJ

by karlcow

Change is never easy, but in this case, it would also come with some real challenges. There is the crucial question of how a change would affect the recruiting schedule, as the current system revolves around an April start date.

Trans-Atlantic Time Trap - The Daily WTF

by night.kame

On most computers, including the developers', the code simply set the system date to the current month, day and year. On the French computers-where dates use the DD/MM/YYYY format-the code swapped the months and the days.

La grande habitude américaine : "on most" signifie en fait "aux USA".

June 2011

The Death of Captain America Omnibus

by alamat & 1 other (via)
This a an excellent, lovely collection of some wonderful “Captain America” stories between issues 25-42 of the current Captain America series being published by Marvel comics. Although not a perfect collection, it comes pretty close, and is presented in a sturdy, wonderful and high quality format that will look great on any shelf and stand up to several readings.

May 2011

April 2011

An Introduction to Spatial Programming With RGeo

by Spone
One of the most important current trends in the high-tech industry is the rise of spatial and location-based technologies. Once the exclusive domain of complex GIS systems, these technologies are now increasingly available in small applications, websites, and enterprises. This document provides a brief overview of the concepts, techniques, and tools for implementing location-aware application features, focusing on the Ruby programming language and an open-source technology stack.

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