Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Calculate with numbers you’re not sure about
Hi, I'm Filip, and I'd like to introduce to you an early version of an uncertainty calculator.
Statistics are scary, but they don't need to be. If you allow me to simplify, the field of statist...

Green shoots of linked (open) data around news
Friday, October 28, 2011 at 5:31PM
Based on Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyg ...
A couple of weeks ago Justin and I attended an event hos ...
... Matthew Shorter

FileChucker is an AJAX-based web application that lets y... uploads on your own website. It's simple to install (ju... packed with features, fully configurable, nice looking, ...
FileChucker can also function as a full-fledged online f ...
To top it a

Upside Down Text - Unicode Character Map
This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

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

“At this point, Big Tech companies need to be saved fr... companies and their top AI developers are well aware of ... generative AI. But they are in a competitive arms race a... themselves unable to slow down,”

British website owners could face extradition to the US ... even if their operation has no connection to America and... which is most probably legal in the UK, the official lea...
The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE ...
As long as

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

In professional web design circles, the usability testin... become an essential component of any major project. Simi... groups in brand development and product launches, usabil... a rare opportunity to receive feedback from the very peo...
But how can

American women are catching men up in most measures of o... while men like the internet for the experiences it offer... for the human connections it promotes.
A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men us ...

'Creativity involves the creation of:ñ A novel product ... (some criterion of usefulness)ï To the individualï To ... groupBut the study of creativity by psychologists has ne... nor simplified the problem any further,' she started.Def... PeopleìCre

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
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"Life in the vault" explains why Intel's new launch (two... chips, code-named Grantsdale and Alderwood) may actually... digital landscape.

She said that consultants coming in were more useful as ... delivering work themselves, so that skills could be pass... advocated deconstructing designs, by working out which p... had created the outcome. 'How do I need to think to do t... teach peopl

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot

The internet and email expand and strengthen the social ... maintain in the offline world, according to a new report... Pew Internet & American Life Project, working in collabo... University of Toronto.

The curve clearly shows that you need to test with at le... discover all the usability problems in the design. So wh... testing with a much smaller number of users?
The main reason is that it is better to distribute your ...
You want to run multiple te

Usability with a twist (updated 20 Feb 2006)
10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, ...

"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ...
(Credit: Project Holodeck)
Infiltrating the Borg or having dinner with Deanna Troi ...
Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

You can use AppleScript to create drag and drop icons fo...
1. Launch Script Editor (Applications -> AppleScript ...
2. Copy and paste this text into a new Script Editor ...
set filecount to 0
... ~/.profile to include the directory which

User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.

You may use this tool to create a Firefox extension (.xp... greasemonkey script.

UEfAP
Using English for Academic Purposes
A Guide for Students in Higher Education
Andy Gillett

This article explains how to use the headless mode capab... Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, formerly referred t...
Headless mode is a system configuration in which the dis ...
Where it is applicable? Let's say that your application ...

Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to... order to make it possible to present summaries of the in... page without having to know how to parse the document it... implements a global Microformats object that provides ac... microformat

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up... of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant ... impressive portfolio of real-world applications already ...
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored ...
This articl

People’s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the