2010
As e-reading expands, book industry welcomes next chapter in digi page-turning - Winnipeg Free Press
and slowly the fetish will vanish like every transition"I still buy physical books too. Sometimes there are books that ... I'm going to want on my shelf. But I'm running out of space in my house and most of the time it's about reading — it's not so much about the physical object, although I love them as sort of fetish objects.
php-excel-reader - Project Hosting on Google Code
by srcmax & 2 others
This PHP library expands on the great work done in the PHP Excel Reader project on SourceForge.
It reads the binary format of XLS files directly and can return values and formats from any cell.
php-excel-reader - Project Hosting on Google Code
by Spone & 2 others
This PHP library expands on the great work done in the PHP Excel Reader project on SourceForge.
It reads the binary format of XLS files directly and can return values and formats from any cell.
jitouch 2 - Multi-Touch Extension for MacBook Multi-Touch Trackpad & Magic Mouse
by gregg
jitouch is a Mac application that expands the set of Multi-Touch gestures for the new MacBook and the new Magic Mouse. These thoughtfully designed gestures will enable you to perform frequent tasks more easily such as changing tabs in web browsers, closing windows, minimizing windows, changing Spaces, and a lot more.
2009
Facebook | Making Facebook Accessible for Everyone
by naudjf
Carl Augusto is the President and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that expands possibilities for people with vision loss...
2008
jQuery.popeye - an inline lightbox alternative | Christoph Schüßler » Informationsarchitektur und so
by Conseil.Net Groupe I.D.A & 4 others
The plugin transforms an unoredered list of images into a box displaying only one preview image at a time. The box has controls to skim through the preview images and to enlarge a given image. The box expands to accomodate the enlarged version, while the controls are hidden in full image size mode. A simple click on the image returns the box to its compact state.
The compact box has fixed, automatically calculated dimensions. The widht and height are calculated so that all thumbnail images are cropped to the smallest width and height in the set and centered resulting image area (stage).
jQuery.popeye - an inline lightbox alternative | Christoph Schüßler » Informationsarchitektur und so
by camel & 4 others (via)
The plugin transforms an unoredered list of images into a box displaying only one preview image at a time. The box has controls to skim through the preview images and to enlarge a given image. The box expands to accomodate the enlarged version, while the controls are hidden in full image size mode. A simple click on the image returns the box to its compact state.
The compact box has fixed, automatically calculated dimensions. The widht and height are calculated so that all thumbnail images are cropped to the smallest width and height in the set and centered resulting image area (stage).
YousableTubeFix – Userscripts.org
by decembre
Removes ads and unwanted sections (configurable), allows downloading and resizing videos, displays all comments on video page, expands the description, can prevent autoplay and autodownload, adds a HD (High Definition) select, etc...
Terrier Information Retrieval Platform
by parmentierf (via)
Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, effective, and robust search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents. Terrier implements state-of-the-art indexing and retrieval functionalities. Terrier provides an ideal platform for the rapid development of large-scale retrieval applications.
The open source version of Terrier provides a comprehensive, flexible, robust, and transparent platform for research and experimentation in text retrieval. The research put into Terrier constantly expands towards new branches of the wider information retrieval field, making Terrier an ideal, strong, modular, and state-of-the-art platform for developing, assessing, and evaluating new concepts and ideas.
Terrier is written in Java, and was used for Web and Enterprise search, Desktop, Intranet and Vertical search engines, as well as developing and evaluating novel large-scale text information retrieval techniques and applications.
kirupa.com - Full Screen Flash Page
by kruty (via)
A simple tutorial to teach you how to create full screen Flash page within a HTML page. This tutorial may be a bit different from the usual full screen effects you've seen. It doesn't scale the height and width of the Flash file, but merely expands the Flash page without scaling the elements inside. Thus if your using pixel fonts the text will still remain clear and crisp.
2007
quotecollapse_Thunderbird extension___mozdev.org - : index
by decembre & 1 other
It automatically collapses all quotes, and expands them again on a click. Hold down SHIFT while clicking, and all quotes contained in the current one will be collapsed/expanded. Hold down CTRL, and all quotes of the same nesting level will be toggled. Hol
Embiggen TinyURLs
by ycc2106
This tool automatically expands any TinyURLs embedded in the page (like tinyurl.com/2dfmty). TinyURL is a great service, but who knows what's lurking on the other side of those links? They could be pointing at sites you've already visited, spam, malware,
Procter & Gamble Expands Trademark Licensing Capabilities
by pmdm
Procter & Gamble has retained The Beanstalk Group to help manage its growing global trademark licensing business.
Russias Union of Evangelical Baptists Expands Mission
by YukihiroKawashi & 3 others
The Russiabased Union of Evangelical Christians Baptists UECB has made a statement announcing its intentions to intensify its outside contacts
Arab World and the Internet
by jfb1138
While use of the Internet expands in the Arab world, so do Arab governments' efforts to control it. Control is impossible, but it can make it harder to get where you want to go, do what you want to do.
2006
Microsoft Expands Document Interoperability: Company to sponsor open source project for Open XML-ODF file translation to deliver more choice for government customers and their constituents.
by benoit & 2 others
“OpenXML represents a paradigm shift not only in its architecture but also in the customer needs it serves, opening organizations’ existing documents to take advantage of new content management and collaboration scenarios that weren’t possible even as recently as a few years ago ,” said Frédéric Bon, CEO of Clever Age. “Through the documentation Ecma International is creating and work such as the Open XML Translator project, customers will soon have the confidence that Open XML and ODF formats can coexist and new document scenarios will flourish. We are looking forward to working with the community of developers and businesses interested in XML documents.”
Microsoft Expands Document Interoperability: Company to sponsor open source project for Open XML-ODF file translation to deliver more choice for government customers and their constituents.
by nhoizey & 2 others
“OpenXML represents a paradigm shift not only in its architecture but also in the customer needs it serves, opening organizations’ existing documents to take advantage of new content management and collaboration scenarios that weren’t possible even as recently as a few years ago ,” said Frédéric Bon, CEO of Clever Age. “Through the documentation Ecma International is creating and work such as the Open XML Translator project, customers will soon have the confidence that Open XML and ODF formats can coexist and new document scenarios will flourish. We are looking forward to working with the community of developers and businesses interested in XML documents.”
Microsoft Expands Document Interoperability: Company to sponsor open source project for Open XML-ODF file translation to deliver more choice for government customers and their constituents.
by mbertier & 2 others
“OpenXML represents a paradigm shift not only in its architecture but also in the customer needs it serves, opening organizations’ existing documents to take advantage of new content management and collaboration scenarios that weren’t possible even as recently as a few years ago ,” said Frédéric Bon, CEO of Clever Age. “Through the documentation Ecma International is creating and work such as the Open XML Translator project, customers will soon have the confidence that Open XML and ODF formats can coexist and new document scenarios will flourish. We are looking forward to working with the community of developers and businesses interested in XML documents.”
Toei Animation Expands into China
by bouilloire (via)
En esperant que leurs séries ne subissent pas le traitement habituel des séries japonaises sur Toonmax (la chaine des enfants) c'est à dire remontage pour tenir en 5 minutes max avec voix off pour résumer l'histoire.
Operation: Anti-Censorship
by lz00zl
Anonymizer's new anti-censorship software enables Chinese citizens to safely access the entire Internet filter-free, while free from oppression and fear of persecution or retribution. The program expands upon Anonymizer's history of human rights efforts which provide a censor-free Internet experience for those in oppressed nations.
Truncate HTML Text with JavaScript Automatically
by ycc2106
This article describes what I think is a clever way of automatically truncating the text of a paragraph:
* Truncate the text to a length of your choosing
* Do not truncate in the middle of a word (only on a word boundary)
* Keep the page search-engine friendly by publishing the complete non-truncated text
* Add an ellipsis to the end of the truncated text
* Make the ellipsis a link that expands the text to full length. Once expanded it cannot be collapsed again (but that functionality could be added just as easily)
* Assumes that the content is plain text with no markup.
Quick Tip: Text Truncation with JavaScript
by Ansion & 2 others
A random tip here. This snippet allows you to truncate a paragraph, and add a '...' to the end of the truncation. When a user clicks on the '...' it expands out to the full text.
