Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

YMSG (without the j) is the protocol used by Yahoo's in... chat software. jYMSG is a Java API that allows you to in... programmatically with Yahoo's messaging and chat service... with jYMSG you can have an instant message sent to your ... administrat

It all started while we were researching an article on f... interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at th... multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the i...
There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart ...
And so we d

Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just... PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to... their own semantic search application on top of its tech... looks at the meaning of Web pages and matches search que... quality ind

This tutorial will take you through the steps required t... basic extension - one which adds a status bar panel to t... containing the text "Hello, World!"

This tutorial will take you through the steps required t... basic extension - one which adds a status bar panel to t... containing the text "Hello, World!"

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...

Research into collaborative document use often concentra... share document content. However, studies of real-world d... reveal that the structures by which document corpora are... also, themselves, be important sites of collaborative ac... Unfortunate

Bunny’s Technorati Tags provides you with template fun... display Technorati tags for your posts. The tags are sto... Field, so this plugin does not require any modifications... structure. The plugin adds a text input for that custom ... appropriate

From Marianne Beasley:
Dear Clouds
I will
lie upon my back
... Love you.

Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co... Submitted by Jonathan Levitt. More of his excellent phot...
Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co ...

Check cache manifest files for web application offline s...
The most complete method is to upload the manifest file ...

nike_1.jpgImage Courtesy of Michael DiTullo
A continuing issue in industrial design education is whe ...
Instead of setting constraints or limitations to dictate ...

Callimachus is a framework for data-driven applications ...
Callimachus allows Web developers to quickly and easily ...
Please see the installation instructions, then the Calli ...
Callimachus includes some sample applications to help ge ...
... RQL fro

Browsers are normally banned from launching local progra...
circumvented in Firefox?

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
a work in progress
Open Source (Apache licensed)
an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ...
... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

There are times when user experience practitioners might... System Usability Scale (SUS), but there is an item that ... in their context of measurement. For example, the first ... I would like to use this system frequently.” If the sy... one that wo

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us ... Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives...
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going t ...
But I'm hardly a naysayer when it comes to tech. I agree ...
The trick i

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power — including for transportation — by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e

As Phillip indicated Print Center is an out of date util...
give absolutely do specs it's impossible to give you spe ...
Make sure your version of OS X is up-to-date
Make sure your version of Office is up-to-date
... > Help

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms canvas, java... Willison, I was made aware of an old but interesting pos... visualizing of sorting algorithms. Aldo Cortesi explains...
He decided to make something better and ended up with so ...
Anyway, I t

Captain Cyborg, aka Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading U... generally a harmless if somewhat tedious self-publicist ... 'experiments' pay his rent and provide the less critical...
Following the recent abduction of ten year olds Holly We ...
And guess w

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

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activi...
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse ...
Breakdown of a typical person's carbon footprint
The pie chart above shows the main elements which
... we buy the more emissions wil

In everyday life we encounter more and more carbon dioxi...
Convert between a CO2 amount to other units as cups of t ...
Compare between two different emissions, for instance ho ...
Use our API to convert CO2 to a more understandable numb ...
Our carbon

I was on the subway and a man sat down beside me. He ope... took out something shocking. It was this:
…a cardboard spine.
Lately at Otherlab, we have been thinking a lot about ca ...

Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engi... automatically organize small collections of documents, e... results, into thematic categories.