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

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

Kent Beck is known as the father of "extreme programming... created to help developers design and build software tha... meets user expectations. Alan Cooper is the prime propon... design, a process with similar goals but different metho... these two v

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 ...

Special Issue #5: Virtual Architecture at State of Play ... 2005

Special Issue #4: Urban Screens: Discovering the potenti... screens for urban society

MPs hit streets for wireless net
Westminster
Parliament lacks wi-fi access points
The lack of wireless internet access within the Houses o ...
The Commons administration committee says tight security ...

The following table gives the character entity reference... reference, and hexadecimal character reference for 8-bit... Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character set, as well as the rende...
Browser support is generally best for the decimal charac ...
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The Hanging Chain
The first continuous system whose normal modes were know ...

Take about 30 paper clips, and connect them end-to-end i... Hold one end of the chain in your fingers and let the ot... Gently swing (or twirl) the chain and you should find th... "lock" in on a very specific mode shape which occurs at ...
The shapes

Semiotics, Communication, and Cultural Theory:
Basic Assumptions

Comparing Google and Yahoo! Search results 1 - 100 for "...

voronoi treemap algorithm
20 January 2006
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a novel treemap data visualization approach that uses Vo ...

starbucks center of gravity
17 January 2006
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The Flame...
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Ένα από τα πιο σημαντικά ευρωπΠ...

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:

Chinese New Year (Traditional Chinese: 春節 or 農曆殮. Chinese: 春节 or 农历新年; Pinyin: Chūnjíe or Nî.. also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival ... important of the traditional Chinese holidays.

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

The deep web (or invisible web or hidden web) is the nam... the World Wide Web that are not part of the surface web ... common search engines. It consists of pages which are no...
Non-textual files such as multimedia (image) files, Usen ...
The deep

Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable
contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. H ...
engines do not index this valuable information. One wa ...
to "hidden-web" databases is through commercial Yahoo! ...
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Project pepper

Peer-to-Peer Architectures for Federated Search of Complex Digital Libraries

The set of providers of Digital Libraries and services on the Web is growing both in absolute numbers and in terms of diversity. From a user poin...

Distributed Search Engines

JXTA Search is a distributed search system, designed for... networks
and web sites.

Trajectory-based interactions, such as navigating throug...
moving in 3D worlds, are becoming common tasks in modern ...
performances in these tasks cannot be successfully model ...
applied to pointing tasks. Therefore we explore the poss ...
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#!/usr/bin/python # MVC Howto - Introduction & code # Wh... stands for "Model", "View" & "Controller", a way of sepe... into # manageable and independent chunks that can be cha... use MVC? # Because code is independent from each other, ... for you to

One of Coral's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot s... infrastructure. It achieves this through a novel indexin... introduce called a distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT),... self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information... to avoid co

The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a powerful open-... source code maintenance. It is provided on the the Xcode... accompanies Mac OS X or as a part of the Xcode developme... online. This article covers some of the most commonly us... CVS, with e