Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate.
Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

Scotland's most remote communities could soon gain acces... broadband, according to researchers working on an intern... program.
The Tegola Project, run jointly by the University of Edi ...
Professor Peter Buneman of the School of Informatics at ...

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal info... find whatever you're looking for.

Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless ne... in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA.

What are Personas?
Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that ch ...

The Emotional Wardrobe builds on the characteristics of ... clothing, and imagines a world where fashion converges w... Emotional Wardrobe is about a new genre of clothing, who... benefits are intangible and difficult to quantify .. but... emotive cha

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

Online DataBase Converter (beta)
Online DataBase Converter allows you to convert your fil ...
There are following directions:
Online Database Converter
... * PDB (Palm database) to DBF

OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap logo
The Free Wiki World Map

Legibility is a term used to describe the ease with whic...
Paths: familiar routes followed- (1st Kordon) "are the c ...
Districts- areas with perceived internal homogeneity(Kem ...
Edges- dividing lines between districts- (Izmir Bay) "ar ...
... ider ot

The St Kilda that Maclean describes is a tiny world, whi... much above 200 inhabitants. They spoke their own dialect... littered with Norse archaisms. They lived off the fruits... most notably the teeming seabirds - puffins, fulmars and...
With its ow

The St Kildans climbed barefoot up the sheer cliffs, kil... gathering their eggs to survive. Over hundreds of years,... the job. There is a species of St Kilda wren, a St Kilda... is, it’s said, a St Kilda toe, an elongated big toe th... cling more

November 25, 2009
International Robot Exhibition 2009
The Tokyo International Robot Exhibition is normally a s ...
Dai Kurokawa/EPA
An employee of UK robot maker Shadow Robot Company weari ...

Japan’s robot revolution moves from factory to the home
The world’s leader in robotic technology is creating m ...
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A Japanese robot demonstrates its ability to flip pancak ...
Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters

The success of mobile computing demands data synchroniza... handle many diverse data types and communication protoco... describes the requirements for an industry-wide data syn... protocol, and introduces the SyncML initiative to create...

Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pand... more and more like desktop applications every day. Runni... web apps in an individual tab in your browser can be a r...
Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out ...
Using Fluid

Why does...
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...my slider, Google Map, sIFR etc. not work when placed ...
Any component that requires some dimensional computation ...
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Uses the new File API supported by Firefox 3.6. Enables ... html element and turn it into a hotspot for receiving fi... explorer!
Each file will be sent as a binary AJAX-request with cus ...

jsTree is a javascript based, cross browser tree compone... as a jQuery plugin.
jsTree is absolutely free (licensed same as jQuery – u ...
Still, if you would like to help this project - click th ...
Various screens of jsTree in use

In unix, most scripting languages accept line-initial # ...
However, there is a convention in unix that executable f ...
exec osascript <<\EOF
and then follow it with an arbitrary AppleScript. Voila, ...
... Well, that's the idea. I hope someone finds

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

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 ...

The Closure Compiler compiles JavaScript into compact, h... code. The compiler removes dead code and rewrites and mi... left so that it downloads and runs quickly. It also also... variable references, and types, and warns about common J... pitfalls. T

While many people can write functional code (pretty, ugl... wasteful), very few can write quality prose – prose th... understood the same way by different people, while at th... possess the typical properties desired in prose (eleganc... cultural se

The Scientific Method
Reading Assignment:
1. Bernard, Chapters 1 & 2.
2. Kuznar, Chapters 1-3.
... --Lawrence Kuznar, Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

Hills Criteria of Causation outlines the minimal conditi... establish a causal relationship between two items. Thes... originally presented by Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)... medical statistician as a way of determining the causal ... specific fa

Reflection.js allows you to add reflections to images on... uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers - Internet Explorer 5 ...

On May 21st and 22nd 2007, the Krasnow Institute for Adv... George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, hosted a Symposi...
Ten eminent neuroscientists signed the letter in Science ...
The "Decade of the Brain" [2], has quite naturally led t ...
The "Decade

take advantage of the pic2shop: custom URL scheme to lau... the barcode, and get the barcode digits back in your app...