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January 2012

Archiving Websites | cooper-hewitt labs

by karlcow

As with anything, there are downsides to using this technique. The main one being no more interactivity. If your website had a commenting feature built in, it won’t work anymore. If it ran off a CMS like WordPress, you won’t be able to log in and make edits to your content. Everything is now static HTML, forever.

HTML5 Please

by emmanuelc & 7 others
HTML5 HTML5 Logo Please Use the new and shiny responsibly. Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are. tell me more When Can I Use tells you the browser support story, while Modernizr gives you the power of feature detection. HTML5 Please helps you out with recommendations for polyfills and implementation so you can decide if and how to put each of these features to use. The recommendations below represent the collective knowledge of developers who have been deep in the HTML5 trenches. We hope they serve you well. Read Divya's backstory about this site if you like.

WordPress has left the building - KevinjohnGallagher.com

by night.kame, 1 comment

Kev, they released a BETA version that they didn’t even load on Windows. The MENU didn’t work. Not some advanced feature throwing a bug, the fucking MENU didn’t work. I can’t test our themes and software against that. Lets be honest mate, how did it get past their tester and release procedure? Oh, thats right, they dont have a Tester. They just load it on their MacBooks and presume it works for the other 95% of the world. It’s a fucking shambles, and clearly they’ve learnt nothing since the 3.0 fuck-up.

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iPhone 4S is worth buying to look fashionable but not for Siri feature -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New

by night.kame

One of the most touted features of the iPhone 4S is the web-based voice recognition assistant Siri. It's interesting and sometimes powerful, but not always in China. First, it doesn't support Mandarin and China-based map and location services, which makes it somewhat less appealing than Apple's US-based advertising would have you believe. The good news is that Apple has said it will launch a Chinese-language version of Siri this year. Second, it can't always recognize words spoken in English. I tried it 10 times, and it recognized my words only 5 times. A Canadian native speaker who also tried found it worked seven out of 10 times. Still, it will give you results sometimes if it manages to catch only keywords.

Siri, c'est la personne qui vous répondra toujours au téléphone.

December 2011

Reframing Mexico

by gregg
Reframing Mexico" looks at the Mexico City beyond the violent headlines. The site features 12 short video documentaries and multiple interactive features. Topics include a single mother raising children in a large metro dump, a carpenter whose illegal immigration to the US ended when the American dream eluded him, a disabled father overcoming stigma and discrimination, and others. Interactive features include a border crossing game, a "build your own wrestler" feature, and more. This project is a collaboration between UNC Photojournalism and Monterrey Tec.

Predicting the Future of Computing - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

by sbrothier
Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions. The most prescient prophet might receive an iPad 2 in 2050. But if the past is any guide, this prediction will almost surely be wrong.

Haavard - MediaTek + Opera = True(r)

by karlcow

With MediaTek eating larger and larger parts of Nokia's pie in the feature phone market, one can probably understand why we aren't too worried about what Nokia decides to do, its is market is vanishing on both the low and the high end (Windows Mobile 7 apparently sold fewer units in the 3rd quarter of 2011 than the 3rd quarter of 2010).As for Opera, this new deal with MediaTek will certainly help us towards our goal of 500 million active users by 2013.

Multilingual User Generated Content and SEO « Code as Craft

by karlcow

karl says: Your comment is awaiting moderation. December 2, 2011 at 2:51 pm There is a missing opportunity from both monolingual search engines and content providers. It’s kind of sad. The fact to have one unique URI that a French user can just paste to his Japanese friend is one wonderful thing of content negotiation. How do we leverage this, so search engines are able to understand it? Enter the never used 1998 RFC: “Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP” (RFC 2295). http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2295 I wonder what it would take for Google to negotiate with content providers and offering this feature. The solution is super simple. We were living in a world where sites were quite monolingual but this has changed since.

November 2011

A simple introduction to web accessibility | Feature | .net magazine

by Monique

Accessibility can often seem daunting and complex but in fact there are only four types of disability you need to be aware of. Through groupings, simulations and quick fixes, UX and accessibility consultant Ian Hamilton shows that the basics are actually surprisingly simple

Siri goes down for iPhone 4S owners across the country | VentureBeat

by night.kame

Siri, Apple’s new voice assistant feature for the iPhone 4S, is apparently suffering from an outage, which has rendered it useless for many iPhone owners. The outage began at around 11 am PST today.

Siri isn’t just a simple piece of voice control software. To function properly, Siri must communicate with one of Apple’s servers for additional information.

Même si un travail de décodage est fait au niveau de l'iPhone 4S, le véritable coeur de Siri est dans le nuage de la pomme (ze Apple's Cloud). C'est là que sont stockées et analysées toutes les phrases que vous croyez prononcer dans l'intimité de votre assistant numérique. Mais votre iPhone n'est pas votre assistant numérique, c'est l'assistant de Cupertino dans votre poche : nuance.

Applesoft BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by sylvainulg (via)
Applesoft, like Integer BASIC before it, did not come with any built-in commands for dealing with files or disks, other than a feature to save programs to, and load programs from, audiotape. The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command. Similarly, all output was scrutinized for a Control-D character (ASCII 4), which BASIC programs would send before seemingly PRINTing a disk command to get DOS's attention (the disk commands would not really get PRINTed but were intercepted by DOS and prevented from making it to the screen output).[3] ProDOS followed this lead, although the BASIC command interpreter was placed in a separate program called BASIC.SYSTEM and the hook worked in a different manner.[4]

October 2011

September 2011

Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit | Architecture Lab

by karlcow

Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050.

Tokyo metabolizing creates vision for Tokyo as new urban form « Tokyo Green Space

by karlcow

In Tokyo the average household is less than 2 people, and these smaller households seek new connections with neighbors, colleagues, and friends. I think the most radical suggestion is that an awareness of other people living around you might be considered a positive feature rather than something to be concealed or suppressed.

Mobile HTML5 - compatibility tables for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, iPad and other mobile devices

by karlcow & 3 others

Always use feature detection. Do not program conditionals per platform or version.

August 2011

Best free data backup software. Hard drive backup and recovery freeware. Hard Disk image freeware.

by cascamorto
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Best Philippine tourist destination?

by alamat & 1 other (via)
H.O.Y. is where we’ll feature Yahoo! users and keep you updated on what’s happening with the Yahoo! Philippines community. This is also the space where we’ll cover updates on the thriving Pinoy online community and introduce you to the real people behind the blogs and social network profiles.

Recover Deleted Files for FREE. Undelete. Recover Files. File Recovery.

by cascamorto (via)
UNDELETE 360 : restore files accidentally deleted from your Computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera, flash drive. Undelete 360 is one of the best programs to use for restoring accidentally or unintentionally deleted files from your computer, regardless of storage medium. Built on a very fast and efficient algorithm, the program will browse, search, and recover files that have been deleted as a result of an accident, a virus, or software and computer failures. Undelete 360 can recover files deleted from computer hard drives, USB/thumb drives and memory sticks, the memory cards used in cameras, smart phones, and other devices, pen drives, and more. The program supports both file recovery and folder recovery. Best of all, Undelete 360 is 100% freeware: No ads, no beg screens, no time or feature limits. It is completely free for you to use and enjoy.

Making your mail sit up and beg - Tao of Mac

by karlcow

investigating both Apple's Latent Semantic Mapping framework and building mail plugins with PyObjC in order to try to build an even better "related messages" feature than that which ships with Lion.

One month with Google+: why this social network has legs

by night.kame (via)

Google+ also offers the ability to re-share posts made by others. Twitter's retweet feature is similar, where the other person's content shows up in your own feed as something that you have "forwarded" onto your own followers. This in itself is handy, but Google+ takes it a step further by also offering options not to allow re-sharing (say you make a private post to a small group of people and you don't want those people re-sharing your thoughts to their own friends).

Et oui, Google+ peut bloquer le copier-coller et la capture d'écran : c'est ça le Web 3.0.

Germany Investigating Facebook Tagging Feature - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

“We will consider the points the Hamburg Data Protection Authority have made about the photo tag suggest feature but firmly reject any claim that we are not meeting our obligations under European Union data protection law,” said a Facebook spokesman in Berlin.

à comparer avec la version précédente de Aaron. http://pinboard.in/u:straup/b:7321195ea4af "“We will consider the points the Hamburg Data Protection Authority have made about the photo tag suggest feature but firmly reject any claim that we are not meeting our obligations under European Union data protection law,” said a Facebook spokesman in Berlin, who declined to be identified, citing Facebook’s company policy on not identifying its representatives."

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