Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

What is the Time Series Data service?
This is a free service that allows you to access and ...
You can access complete data histories of the time s ...
You can download complete releases or make your own ...
... ur character code, can be acce

What is V8?
V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the o ...
V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd e ...
V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ a ...

What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generat ...
by Tim O'Reilly
09/30/2005
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 m ...

What is XUI?
XUI is a Java and XML framework with which you can build
* Desktop applications
* Handheld applications
... igation, localization, validation and data manipulation.

What methods does the API provide?
* The first, and simplest of them is "Originate". Th ...
* The second method, "Bridge", takes two phone numbe ...
* The third is "Conference", which takes a variable ...

What really matters is:–
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite cl ...
2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vagu ...
3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. ...
... t when you want to talk about something r

What the hell is this? Neurons firing up inside a brain?... with several Tesla coils? A weird electrical storm pheno... color-inverted photo of an spiders orgy? A new nano-tech... organic-based processor?
Actually, it's Google Maps "mapplet", like Grou

What this means is app-culture infiltrating the dashboar... space finder to a way to get coupons for local restauran... that can pop up on the windscreen.
It all relies on the car being connected to the internet ...
The connected car is already the thir

What we should take from this doesn't have to do with co... pasts. It's not about appreciating what we've experience... able to let go of the past, if we feel like it. This is ... fact that there isn't an algorithmic code for everything... to evoke em

What will you find here? Thousands of lines of cross-bro... all distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL. I hope ... playing with my toys - I certainly had fun making them. ... listen to me talk a little bit - although I'm not usuall... talker. The

What with the web being all about links, you would think... know about the title attribute, but I rarely see it. For... know, all links can have a title, specified by the title... <a> tag. This is in addition to whatever link text you s...
Not all lin

What you hear is NOT what you receive.

What's in a face?
Do facial expressions reflect inner feelings? Or are the ...
BY BETH AZAR
Monitor staff
After 30 years of renewed interest in facial expression ...

What's it all about?
Welcome to Gimme Your Stuff, the cultural exchange ...

What’s the future of mobile experience-capture technol... if a company were to make a small, white, beautifully de... device with an “i” in front of its name, what would ... explore this question by examining three technologies: o... currently a

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lind... Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and h... years on, could she get her life back?

When Google announced it was integrating AI-generated summaries into its search engine earlier this year, it brandished a bold slogan: “Let Google do the searching for you.” It’s an appealing idea that plays on our fondness for conven...

When Google announced that its new social-networking ini... extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land ... social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.
In a move that was anticipated for weeks, Google has unv ...
The initiative,

When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ...

When it comes to the web, one of the most important yet ... concepts
is the media type of a file and, for text files, the ch ...
your hands now if you’ve ever been guilty of includin ...
(or equivalent) in an HTML or XHTML document:

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside â... consequences

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials de... they perform better than inactive pills known as "placeb... that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiven... drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the... Are America

When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th...
So when App

When the budget for rebuilding Birmingham City Council's... from £580,000 to £2.8m, did nobody say 'let's try free... instead'?

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Er ...
Now, howeve

When the Germanic tribes known as the Anglo-Saxons and t...
From Irish (Gaelic):
banshee - bean síth, "woman of the fairy mound"
bard - bard, a high rank of poet
... gull - gullan, "bird"

When the temperature dropped to 16 degrees in Washington... a strange idea.
bubble1
She and her seven-year-old son mixed up some homemade so ...

When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?”
The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ...

When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.

Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?

I learned to think this way when I w...