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November 2011

The Liberal Critique of Obama: Judging the President by His Own Standards - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic

by karlcow

Yet Obama hasn't played the game that he promised. Instead, the game he has played has been exactly the game that Hillary Clinton promised and that Bill Clinton executed: striking a bargain with the most powerful lobbyists as a way to get a bill through--and as it turns out, the people don't have the most powerful lobbyists.

September 2011

August 2011

Apple Outsider » WebKit Turns Ten

by night.kame

Today is the tenth anniversary of Apple’s open-source WebKit codebase, which powers nearly every relevant web browser and engine used today, including Safari, Chrome, and even WebOS itself.

Android App Turns Smartphones Into Mobile Hacking Machines - Forbes

by karlcow

Anti, a free app with a $10 corporate upgrade, will offer a wi-fi-scanning tool for finding open networks and showing all potential target devices on those networks, as well as traceroute software that can reveal the IP addresses of faraway servers. When a target is identified, the app offers up a simple menu with commands like “Man-In-The-Middle” to eavesdrop on local devices, or even “Attack”; The app is designed to run exploits collected in platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB, using vulnerabilities in out-of-date software to compromise targets.

July 2011

Backyard

by gregg
A DIY backyard concert turns into one of the most exciting and intimate music events of the year. With some of the most celebrated bands coming out of Reykjavík right now, including Múm, FM Belfast, Hjaltalín and Sin Fang Bous.

Prototypes — Bring your mockups to life

by sbrothier & 2 others
Prototypes for Mac turns your flat mockup images into tappable and sharable prototypes that run on iPhone or iPod touch. From Static to Tappable in Minutes Create mockup images using your favorite software Import images into Prototypes Draw, link hotspots. Set animations. Click Share Done! Test & impress with your prototype running on iPhone!

June 2011

peterbe/premailer - GitHub

by karlcow

Turns CSS blocks into style attributes

The Pragmatic Studio | Installing Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 on Mac OS X

by oseres (via)
A few weeks before every Pragmatic Studio course, we send out homework to help attendees prepare for the course. The homework includes instructions for getting any required software installed and tested on their laptop, and some recommended reading. Our goal is to make sure that everyone turns up on the first day ready to program. So we try to catch installation problems early and help folks through them. Sending out prep homework ahead of time also means that attendees can begin to experiment on their own. As a result, they often jot down questions to ask during our time together. In a way, our courses start the moment you register. We’re continually updating our homework to take into account new software versions and new ways of doing things. With the topics we teach, there’s never a dull moment. For the Rails Studio in particular, we’ve been teaching Rails 3 for a while now. And although you can use Ruby 1.8.7 with Rails 3, we’re beginning to nudge folks to try Ruby 1.9.2.

May 2011

Prototypes — Bring your mockups to life

by gregg & 2 others
Prototypes for Mac turns your flat mockup images into tappable and sharable prototypes that run on iPhone or iPod touch.

Android Apps: Sleepy Time

by alamat & 1 other (via)
Sleepy Time is a sound machine designed to help you sleep better. Sleepy Time features a sleep timer and continues to run after screen turns off. *Over 65 sounds* from the beach to white noise!

February 2011

How Deaf People Think

by Monique

Today I found out how deaf people think in terms of their “inner voice”. It turns out, this varies somewhat from deaf person to deaf person, depending on their level of deafness and vocal training.

January 2011

Guest post: úti, a mobile game to discover nature « Tokyo Green Space

by Spone
Frequently I hear from urban planners, professors, students, and green city people from around the world who want to share their projects or meet people in my network. I encourage them to create a guest blog post. Below is a French student project that turns urban or rural nature discovery into a video game. It sounds creative and fun! The makers will be at Tokyo’s Miraikan this week to talk about it. And, if you would like to share your project, please send in a guest blog post!

December 2010

A better Post-It? And made from wood waste - Core77

by karlcow, 1 comment

Shibuya-based Naruse-Inokama Architects, comprised of Jun Inokuma and Yuri Naruse, takes wood waste from houses and turns that into paper. The resultant paper is then formed into a stack of Post-It-like sticky notes that are in turn shaped like little houses. (They're called IE-TAGs as "ie" is Japanese for "house.")

Performance Calendar » The Full Stack

by karlcow
<blockquote><p>A “full-stack programmer” is a generalist, someone who can create a non-trivial application by themselves. People who develop broad skills also tend to develop a good mental model of how different layers of a system behave. This turns out to be especially valuable for performance & optimization work</p></blockquote>

Strange Rain for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch - Opertoon

by sbrothier
What makes rain strange? When it’s falling on your screen—from the inside. Strange Rain turns your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a skylight on a rainy day. Raindrops fall and splatter on your screen, shifting perspective in 3D as you tilt your device like a handheld camera. By touching the screen, you can guide the path of the raindrops, stepping through the notes of an eerie melody as you go. It’s a relaxing, intriguing experience that feels as if you’re holding a living window in your hands.

November 2010

October 2010

Phono

by Hieroglyphe
Phono is a simple jQuery plugin and JavaScript library that turns any web browser into a phone; capable of making phone calls and sending instant messages. You can even connect to SIP clients; all with a simple unified API.

What If the iPad Magazine is Already Obsolete? | Techi.com

by sbrothier
Ever since the iPad was announced, there has been no end of talk about how it and other tablets represent the future of magazines. As it turns out, this is now partly true. Magazines, in the form of apps, are plentiful on the iPad, and if nothing else, they’re certainly a new way to experience a magazine. The 7″-9″ screen is a good size for viewing mixed content and the touch screen makes scrolling through a magazine feel familiar and obvious, yet still novel.

September 2010

High Scalability - High Scalability - How Can the Large Hadron Collider Withstand One Petabyte of Data a Second?

by karlcow

15 million gigabytes every year. That's 1000 times the information printed in books every year. It's so much data 10,000 scientists will use a grid of 80,000+ computers, in 300 computer centers , in 50 different countries just to help make sense of it all.

How will all this data be collected, transported, stored, and analyzed? It turns out, using what amounts to sort of Internet of Particles instead of an Internet of Things.

Photo Frame for Flickr iPad app

by nhoizey
Photo Frame turns your iPad into a stunning digital picture frame by showing a slideshow of photos from popular photo-sharing site Flickr. Photo Frame can load the latest interesting photos, recent photos and even your own photos, favourites and contacts' photos.

WordPress › Template Tag Shortcodes « WordPress Plugins

by simon_bricolo
A plugin that turns many of the WP template tags into shortcodes (40+ shortcodes).

August 2010

Urban Legends - By Joel Kotkin | Foreign Policy

by karlcow

Perhaps we need to consider another approach. As unfashionable as it might sound, what if we thought less about the benefits of urban density and more about the many possibilities for proliferating more human-scaled urban centers; what if healthy growth turns out to be best achieved through dispersion, not concentration? Instead of overcrowded cities rimmed by hellish new slums, imagine a world filled with vibrant smaller cities, suburbs, and towns: Which do you think is likelier to produce a higher quality of life, a cleaner environment, and a lifestyle conducive to creative thinking?

June 2010

Don Norman at the Business of Software 2009 - Joel on Software

by night.kame

It turns out half the people press up, half the people press down, and everybody thinks their choice is obvious.

Vous savez déjà l'utiliser.

May 2010

Smokescreen |

by simon_bricolo & 3 others
Smokescreen, a Flash player in Javascript: reads binary swf and turns it into SVG. Works on iPhone and iPad

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