Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

“people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse spatial memory during self-guided navigation”. Thirteen of their participants were retested three years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since in...

Examining the relationship between parental income and that of their offspring in their mid-30s, the study confirms the obvious: richer parents beget richer kids.
More interesting is how economic outcomes of those from low-, middle- and top...

We’re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding.
People should be able to use digital services wherever t ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

We sometimes forget the real use of data - that of provi... humanity in various forms, and providing true functional... need it. Connections are good, but functionality is para... that a company can store ticket information on the web i... but the use

Truwex Online 2.0 beta, Section 508 and WCAG Accessibili...
Erigami Home Check Web Site Accessibility ...
We are testing the new version of Truwex Online Validati ...
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility ...
... of Truw

Powerful API
Incorporate our world class monitoring technology into y ...

Amenable to extensive parallelization, Google's web sear... different queries run on different processors and,by par... overall index, also lets a single query usemultiple proc... this workload, Google's architecture features clusters o... commodity-c

For the first time, data scientists can monetize their k... creativity just as app developers do. When this happens,... the dynamics of the industry – essentially, data scien... “self-publish” their domain expertise as cloud servi... be made acc

Welcome on Webcron, the automated task service at set ho... Unix or Linux you already heard about the Crontab. Webcr... adaptation of this well known Crontab. But nothing compl...
What is the use of Webcron ?
Webcron allows you to do tasks at set hours

This next generation of web services will likely adhere ... style called REST, the underlying architectural model of... It stands for "representational state transfer". Roy Fie... created the name in his PhD dissertation. Recently, Mark... Planetfred

NAME
webthumb -- web page snapshot-taker for Linux
SYNOPSIS
webthumb URL
... .com/ | pnmscale -xysize 100 100 | pnmtojpeg > thumb.jpg

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

FLESH AND MACHINES
MIT robotic scientist Rodney Brooks foresees a future me ...

Kissenger Devices
These devices, known as "Kissengers," allow long-distanc ...
Credit: Hooman Samani
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... of the Kissenger device. [5 Ways Love Affects the Brain]

Welcome to the On_message@home project website. This pro... the  communication within the home , with the aim of sup... of a home-based messaging system. The key to this projec... examination of communication/messaging practices and inf... between the

All Makers Now? is a two-day conference exploring craft ... century production at Falmouth University’s Penryn Cam... 10-11th July 2014.
The digital crafters in the Autonomatic Research Group a ...

We could call this strange geography created by technology “AirSpace.” It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go:

The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search so...
* Lucene Java, our flagship sub-project, provides Ja ...
* Droids is an intelligent robot crawling framework ...
* Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API- ...
... search,

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
Each group

The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consist... meeting recordings. For a gentle introduction to the cor... corpus overview. To directly access the data, login or r... free and go to the Access AMI corpus section. Around two... data has be

OWL at Purdue Logo The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer over 200 free resour ...
* Writing and Teaching Writing
* Research
... * Job Search and Professional Writing

TrueSwitch makes changing your Internet Service Provider... your personal data to the new account, notify everyone w... address, forward emails sent to your old email address a... the old account

Usability News is a free web
newsletter that is produced by the
Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL).
The SURL team specializes in software/website us ...
... and research. 

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble...
The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ...
Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ...
In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow ⠮..
... people

Rendering Web Page To Images
For a long time now, people have been asking for ways to ...

You say… We say…
May 10th, 2007
Another visual experiment on tagging:
How do individuals use tags — compared to the communit ...
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The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.