This month
OverviewBanners2 (Field)
by Emaux & 1 other
Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind:
Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and pristine code utopia, Field tries to bridge to as many libraries, programming languages, and ways of doing things as possible. The world doesn't necessarily need another programming language or serial port library, nor do we have to pick and choose between data-flow systems, graphical user interfaces or purely textual programming — we can have it all in the right environment and we can both leverage the work of others and take control of our own tools and methods.
Live code makes anything possible — Field tries to replace as many "features" with editable code as it can. Its programming language of choice is Python — a world class, highly respected and incredibly flexible language. As such, Field is intensely customizable, with the glue between interface objects and data modifiable inside Field itself. Field takes seriously the idea that its user — you — are a programmer / artist doing serious work and that you should be able to reconfigure your tools to suit your domain and style as closely as possible.
January 2012
mypermissions.org
by gregg & 1 other
Clean Your Apps Permissions
Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!
December 2011
Versicherungen Portal
by Witze Blog
Im Versicherungen Portal kann man kostenlos viele Versicherungen, wie Private Krankenversicherung Patient 1. Klasse werden, Netto-Einkommen steigern! Krankenzusatzversicherung Günstige Tarife und Beitragsvergleich! Riester-Rente Staatliche Förderung online berechnen! Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung sollte jeder haben! Unfallversicherung Unfälle passieren immer und überall, absichern! Rentenversicherung Frühzeitig selber Vorsorgen und eine Lebensversicherung suchen.
John Lewis launches private accelerator DojoBoost | The Rude Baguette
by oseres (via)
Earlier this month at LeWeb, I ran into entrepreneur, professor and startup mentor John Lewis. Having been funded at least 6 times by my count, John Lewis has been living in Paris for quite some time, helping startups at LeCamping, mentoring at StartupWeekend events, and as a professor of finance at both HEC and IAE Gustave Eiffel. Using his experience launching and running software startups, John Lewis has announced the launch of DojoBoost, a new startup accelerator which may receive its first class of startups as early as March 2012.
Facebook fixes bug that can let adults view childrens' private photos | Technology | guardian.co.uk
sans bretelles, sans les mains"Facebook's programmers are experimenting with new features and are testing them out on the live site without, in this case at least, the code being properly reviewed with privacy in mind," Cluley said.
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So, we developed a don't-ask/don't-tell policy of making private copies of documents and carrying them around with us. Engineers, to generalize, hate waiting around for stupid reasons, and having documents meant that we could get to work. It also made us look better, since we got things done on time, instead of having to send out lame excuses that we're late because we're waiting on a fax.
Comes with the Territory - we make money not art
by sbrothier & 1 other
Another exhibition i just saw in Berlin is Comes with the Territory at Charim Ungar Contemporary (CUC). Don't run to the gallery just yet, the show closed on Saturday.
The exhibition brought together Israeli artists who explore the daily struggle to define and stretch the boundaries of the territory. Obviously, the word 'territory' in Israel comes with tense references to occupied stretches of land such as the ones in the West Bank and the Gaza strip. The term also evokes Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, check points, separation walls, disputed borders, forced evictions, etc. The artists in the exhibition, however, approach territory in a more private context. Comes with the Territory featured the works of Rotem Balva, Raafat Hattab, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Joshua Neustein, Nira Pereg and Roi Vaspi-Yanai. Subjective selection of works:
November 2011
Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants - NYTimes.com
My activities may be more symbolic than not, but if 300 million people started sending private information to federal agents, the government would need to hire as many as another 300 million people, possibly more, to keep up with the information and we’d have to redesign our entire intelligence system.
October 2011
HUBOT
by Spone
GitHub, Inc., wrote the first version of Hubot to automate our company chat room. Hubot knew how to deploy the site, automate a lot of tasks, and be a source of fun in the company. Eventually he grew to become a formidable force in GitHub. But he led a private, messy life. So we rewrote him.
A successful Git branching model » nvie.com
by Spone & 4 others
In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management.
ganz-muenchen.de
by 84GHz
Online City Guide für München zeigt die private Seite Münchens. München Freizeit, Restaurants, Biergärten, Ausflugsziele, Einkaufsführer, Branchenbuch, Videos, Fotos, Volksfeste, Oktoberfest, Premieren, Kultur, Immobilien, Shopping, Autos.
September 2011
Taiyo Special : 100 Men of Keio University (1980) : A Japanese Book
<blockquote><p>The present issue is dedicated to Keio Gijuku, the oldest private university in Japan founded in 1858 by Yukichi Fukuzawa for the study of Western sciences, through 100 men of Keio, like Hikojiro Nakamigawa, Heigoro Shoda, Kafu Nagai, Shibasaburo Kitazato, and the pictures, letters, diaries & writings they have left behind.</p></blockquote>
Push Pop Press — About Us
by HK & 1 other
Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook
Last year Push Pop Press set off to re-imagine the book. We created a new way of publishing and exploring text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics, then teamed up with Melcher Media and Al Gore to create a new kind of book.
The result is Al Gore's Our Choice, which was released earlier this year. The response has been incredible. Tech columnist David Pogue of The New York Times summed it up by saying:
“this is one of the most elegant, fluid, impressive apps you've ever seen. It's a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets.”
Now we're taking our publishing technology and everything we've learned and are setting off to help design the world's largest book, Facebook.
Although Facebook isn't planning to start publishing digital books, the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories. With millions of people publishing to Facebook each day, we think it's going to be a great home for Push Pop Press.
Al Gore's Our Choice will remain available for purchase, and we've decided that our future profits from the book will be donated to The Climate Reality Project. There are no plans to continue publishing new titles or building out our publishing platform that was in private beta. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported and expressed interest in Push Pop Press.
Both Push Pop Press and Facebook share a passion for improving the way we share and explore ideas and we couldn't be more excited about what the future holds.
Mike Matas
Kimon Tsinteris
Co-founders, Push Pop Press
RMPrepUSB
by cascamorto (via)
Partition and format your USB drive and make it bootable with RMPrepUSB (a Windows utility)
RMPrepUSB and RMPartUSB are freeware utilities for private use only - no registration is required, and all versions are unlimited versions and do not contain any adware or viruses.
Please do not distribute these utilities without the authors permission as these utilities are not 'copyright free', 'free software', 'Open Source' or 'Open Licence' products, but are products which are made available for private use at zero cost.
Commercial use (i.e. selling it or included it in another product) and distribution is forbidden and you need to contact RM for licensing costs if you wish to include or re-distribute it as part of a commercial solution.
Email: support@rm.com for licence enquiries.
Please note: No licence is required for the internal use of RMPrepUSB by technicians/engineers within a company.
Portable: RMPrepUSB is portable and does not need to be installed, but it does write some settings to the Registry when you exit the application.
These settings are removed from the Registry when you uninstall RMPrepUSB.
August 2011
Vorsorgen mit Versicherungen
by Moravia & 1 other
Eine private Krankenversicherung kann helfen Geld zu sparen, deshalb unbedingt einen kostenlosen Versicherungenvergleich machen, wie ich es auch gemacht habe.
BBC News - Is technology to blame for the London riots?
Research in Motion, which makes Blackberry phones, issued a statement in which it promised to work with the authorities. It pointed out that, like other telecoms companies, it complies with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which allows law enforcement to gain access to private messages when they relate to the commission of a crime.
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.
July 2011
June 2011
Syncing Private Feeds - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff
But my wish list for its future contains a different item: The one feature I hate most is that it only syncs with Google Reader, and I don’t want to see that replaced with any other Cloud-based service, but with something I can host on one of our own servers.
May 2011
Push Pop Press — About Us
by gregg & 1 other
Push Pop Press is a new digital publishing platform that's redefining the way we publish and experience books. Using Push Pop Press authors can weave together text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics into immersive multi-touch interactive books, without dealing with the complexities and costs normally involved in software development. Push Pop Press is currently in private beta being used to build more amazing titles.
