Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Mayhem is a Windows-based application lets people set a ...
Receive an email reminder to winterize your house wh ...
Add an auto-save feature to a program that doesn’t ...
Pause a video automatically when you leave the room.
Automatical

GeoNames Data Access
You can either download a daily database export or use o ...
See the feature codes list for explanation on the featur ...
GeoNames is using ISO-3166 alpha2 country codes.
... Paypal Donations are welcome.

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

If you’ve used the internet, you’ve probably had the... unwanted emails or intrusive popup adverts. You might ha... virus attack or been the victim of online fraud.
Increasingly the internet is being targeted by criminals ...
This is why the governm

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

Designing and implementing efficient and provably correc... learning (ML) algorithms can be very challenging. Existi... parallel abstractions like MapReduce are often insuffici... while low-level tools like MPI and Pthreads leave ML exp... solving the

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

Why Facebook's Open Graph idea must be taken seriously
F8 conference reveals plans that would allow users to re ...

Content API
Select and collect content from the Guardian for reuse. ...

A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

Twitter's old hat if you've used The Notificator
Social networking, 1935-style
* Digg it (53)
* Buzz up
... More features

Programming should take pride of place in our schools
If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ...
reddit this
John Naughton
... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls.

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Twitter tells software developers not to try to mimic fu... 'timeline' apps - but missteps by official apps suggest ... alternatives still needed

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

If you had just survived a plane crash, it is not inconc... first thoughts would be a long line of expletives, as we... when the Continental Airlines 737 in which he was travel... runway in Denver.

The introduction of iOS 6 also introduced "smart app ban... let users know that your site has an associated app. The... adds a META tag and mobile safari handles the rest.
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=999">

The HAT is a private and secure cloud-based information ... and data processing abilities. It’s your own microserv... can access your data and manage it from an easy-to-use d... hyperdata browser we call Rumpel™. With Rumpel, you ca...
If you are

GoodRelations - The Web Ontology for E-Commerce
GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, ...

a XUL Periodic Table (zipped up here), which only works ... browsers

At their most basic, promises are a bit like event liste...
A promise can only succeed or fail once. It cannot s ...
If a promise has succeeded or failed and you later a ...
This is extremely useful for async success/failure, beca ...

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 ...
Note that s

This example sets the files unicode-example-intro.html, ...
<Files unicode-example-intro.html>
AddType "text/html; charset=UTF-8" html
</Files>
... .htaccess file, will have a charset encoding of "UTF-8".

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...

Create extensions that go beyond the built-in capabiliti... The Mozilla project's XUL engine is a user-interface lan... use to extend Mozilla browsers, or to build stand-alone ... is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform brows... this pair o

Despite the tabbed browsing feature, Firefox otherwise i...
There is generally a tag for doing this: autocomplete = ...
Adding it to the input tag: Firefox still autofills!
Removing "address" in lang_main for related input fields ...
... pretty useless

Despite the tabbed browsing feature, Firefox otherwise i...
There is generally a tag for doing this: autocomplete = ...
Adding it to the input tag: Firefox still autofills!
Removing "address" in lang_main for related input fields ...
... pretty useless