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Thunderbird Extensions: How to Get the Body of A Message
The XPCOM component nsIMsgHdr is, as you would expect, t ...

SPARQL/Update is a language to express updates to an RDF...
SPARQL/Update provides the following facilities:
* Insert new triples to an RDF graph.
* Delete triples from an RDF graph.
... y for the distribution of differences between RDF graphs

This article describes steps needed to get started with ... development. Last two sections have a few development ti... information. Most of it is targeted at beginners in exte... although the setup tips should be useful for everybody.

You may think this is a stupid idea to write about since... simple functions that will let you post messages, prompt... javascript. The problem is that from Firefox 1.0.1 these... depreciated and won't work in later versions. Well, aler... prompt and

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We have built a zero carbon house on Britain’s most no... Unst, which will bring obvious benefits to the environme... neutral home lowers the carbon footprint by producing it... storing it to heat the home. We also use this energy to...
We hope our

The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice is the offic... Writing Purposefully in Art and Design (Writing PAD) net... art and design institutions an arena in which to explore... notion of thinking through writing as a parallel to visu... art and des

The Movable Type Open Source Project is a community effo...
* MTOS is an entire community of people devoted to m ...
* MTOS is a set of projects, including a full versio ...
* MTOS is a distribution of the core publishing plat ...
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Exactly 15 years ago the directors at the lab where the ... developed signed a document which said the technology co... anyone free of charge.
That decision was instrumental in making the web truly w ...

The browser has become the preferred way for delivering ... because it allows easy deployment across operating syste... application maintenance. Plus, the modern programming la... the browser enable rapid application design and development.
The Adobe®

twhirl Documentation
Introduction
twhirl is a desktop client for the popular microblogging ...
There were different reasons for me to start developing ...
The decision to go the Flex way was easily made. I do XH ...

What is an EPD?
An Electronic Paper Display is a display that possess a ...
EPDs are a technology enabled by electronic ink - ink th ...

Run your web applications on Google's infrastructure.
Google App Engine enables you to build web applications ...

Lifehacker readers already know about EverNote, great no... that now offers a beta that includes a web-based side, t... a cool hack that you can use to get your ideas into Ever... service on your cell phone. What this means is that you ... cell phone

The Fabaroni is a 3D printing machine that constructs 3D... dough. Fabaroni's gantry has a moving Z-stage and a head... pasta-extruder moving in the X-Y directions. Fabaroni ta... input, processes them using Python, and prints to the ma... printed cir

MMgc
From MDC
MMgc is the Tamarin (née Macromedia) garbage collector, ...

PostItNotes
Summary: Display yellow Post It Stickies.

XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used ... XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and T... will provide mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and u... applications. XULRunner will also provide libxul, a solu... the embeddi

In most work environments people archive both the real a... of their documents. But unlike the digital world, in the... locating a document can become a very time consuming tas... this is the lack of a direct connection between the phys...
The Smart F

We present a design concept of a tangible user interface... contents. A layer structure for image presentation and t... gestures are proposed to facilitate navigation in the di... collections. We describe how gestures support the photo ... the visual

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) are emerging as a new pa... interaction with the digital world aiming at facilitatin... GUI-based interaction. Interaction with TUIs relies on u... skills of interaction with the real world [9], thereby o... promise of

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

* Griethe, H.; Fuchs, G.; Schumann, H.:
A Classification Scheme for Lens Techniques. Proceed ...
* Griethe, H.; Schumann, H.:
Visualizing Uncertainty for Improved Decision Making ...

Thu 3 May 2007
What can we do with this story?
Posted by Dan under journalism , politics , participator ...
I have been (barely) using this blog to talk about thing ...
This movie shows some footage of the LAPD breaking up wh ...

John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”
Michael Arrington
176 comments »
Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is ...
... t to lunch today. Either way, we’ve captured it above.

Walking machines
Walking machinesIf all the signs are to be believed, the ...
Walking machines will influence all areas of daily and i ...

Interactive Application Architecture Patterns
An Introduction to the Model-View-Controller, Model-View ...
This article presents an introduction, overview, and com ...

'Intrusion' warning over mini projectors
Mini projector
Mini projectors have been under development for a number ...
A miniature projector small enough to fit into a mobile ...
The projector, developed by the company 3M, is around 4c ...

Get talking with Go!Messenger, a free voice and video ch... available on PSP.
Go!Messenger lets you keep in touch with friends for fre ...
The full service launched February 29, 2008, and all you ...
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