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7.6.1. Mapping Entities to Handlers
Applications can register themselves with Launch Service ...
[23] Although UTI support was introduced in Mac OS X 10. ...
Typically, registration with Launch Services occurs auto ...

Launch Services Framework
he Launch Services Framework is conceptually a sub-frame ...
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework\
/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework
... LSOpenFromURLSpec()

File types revisited
File typing has been a hot topic in Mac OS X ever since ...
The first problem with file name extensions as a means t ...

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin... maintain the usability of the interface. User interfaces... complexity and improve the usability of software, but it... possible to satisfy individual user needs. Therefore, us... support too

System Requirements for
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
To run Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac, your computer mu ...
• Processor: A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, ...
... ertain features require Internet access (fees may apply)

As Phillip indicated Print Center is an out of date util...
give absolutely do specs it's impossible to give you spe ...
Make sure your version of OS X is up-to-date
Make sure your version of Office is up-to-date
... > Help

Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY, also known as Single Point o... process philosophy aimed at reducing duplication, partic... computing. The philosophy emphasizes that information sh... duplicated, because duplication increases the difficulty... decrease cl

Hashtags become even more useful in a time of crisis or ... can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking, a... today with the San Diego fires (in fact, it was similar ... Bay Area earthquakes that lead me to propose hashtags in... as I’d se

As Java technology becomes more and more pervasive in the telecommunications (telco) industry, understanding the b... garbage collector becomes more important. Typically, tel... are near-real-time applications. Delays measured in mill...
Critics usuall

"Word is connecting to the printer" hang problem fix (at...
1) Quit Word
2) Open up a terminal window
3) Find the PID of cupsd via ps -A | grep "cupsd"
... 6) Restart Word

Few people can resist beautiful colored lights spinning ... when they’re EcoGeek-friendly solar-powered LED lights... wheel. Santa Monica, California fitted its famous Pacifi... 160,000 new lights. The lights, hooked to an image contr... luminous de

2.3 State and event-type reification
The method of temporal arguments encounters difficulties ...
The method of state and event-type reification was intro ...
Holds(Asleep(Mary), (1pm, 6pm))
... here “In” expresses the proper subinterval relation.

Alan Dix, professor of computing at Lancaster University... rough calculations, Roadrunner was possibly only five to... powerful than the human brain. "Wait another three to fi... will be there," he said

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

nsIInputStream

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 ...
... t blogg

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, ...