Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More. What to Read Today: American Jobs, Google, Nokia & un-Social Net. From Andy Grove’s point-of-view on American jobs to Google’s growing power and the importance of solitude for leadership — here are some of the most interesting pieces I have read over the past few days. In particular, pay attention to the un-social nature of social networks; then go out and mingle. * Andy Grove: What’s wrong with America and how we can fix it. (On this holiday weekend, find a moment to read what Grove has to say. You may not agree with him, but it will make you think differently.) * William Deresiewicz: If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts. * The Telegraph: Google CEO: We are like the government. .
* PPC Blog: How Google Works: An easy to understand infographic. * Nokia Blog: The fight starts now: Head of Nokia’s Mobility Solutions Group Anssi Vanjoki argues that he will bring Nokia back to the forefront of smartphone and mobile computer business. . * Dave Pell: However great they might be, social networks could be making us less social. The Party. Entrepreneur Corner. Good-Bye, Microsoft Money! 16 Powerful Personal Finance Programs. As of today, Microsoft Money is no longer available for purchase. Microsoft has essentially conceded that there’s no demand for the product. From the website: With banks, brokerage firms and Web sites now providing a range of options for managing personal finances, the consumer need for Microsoft Money Plus has changed. After suspending annual updates of Money Plus in 2008, Microsoft is announcing today that we will no longer offer Microsoft Money Plus for purchase after June 30, 2009.
Now that Microsoft has thrown in the towel, where does that leave existing users of Money and Money Plus? Some of them are worried. I’ve received several e-mails about this recently, including this one from Lee G.: “Microsoft just left us in a lurch by killing Money. First, it’s important to note that Microsoft intends to support Money Plus at least through 31 January 2011. A number of online personal finance management and planning tools are available, many for free, on the Web. 3615 mavie: Scandale sur internet ! Grâce aux archives de l'INA, j'ai pu constituer un petit best-of des reportages des JT de France Télévisions qui, depuis maintenant une quinzaine d'années, aident la ménagère de plus de 50 ans à avoir confiance dans les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication telles que le "internet", ce réseau international qui se joue des États et sur lequel on trouve des néonazis, des trucs et astuces pour terroristes, de la drogue, des pédophiles, des révisionnistes, des satanistes, le Ku Klux Klan, des terroristes, des pédophiles, des néonazis, des sites pornographiques, des trafiquants d'enfants, des néonazis, des pédophiles, des groupes terroristes, des médicaments en vente libre, des tueurs en série, des néonazis, des antisémites, des pédophiles, et bien entendu quelques terroristes (sans oublier les pédophiles et les néonazis). 1996 : on trouve sur un internet le manuel du terroriste, un site en anglais avec toutes les instructions pour organiser des actes terroristes.
The Ultimate Programming Cheat Sheet List For Web Designers And. There are so many cheat sheets around these days, and the same goes for programming languages. Cheat sheets are basically a set of notes to allow programmers quick reference to code. I have compiled a list of many different programming cheat sheets for many different programming languages. Programming languages included in the list are Ruby, Python, PHP, CSS and many more. HTML 5 Cheat Sheet Smashing Magazine has provided us with an awesome HTML 5 cheat sheet. Ruby Cheat Sheet eDocr has a brilliant ruby cheat sheet. HTML Cheat Sheet This is another HTML cheat sheet, that is displayed differently to Smashing Magazine’s. Ruby On Rails Cheat Sheet Added Bytes have an awesome ruby on rails cheat sheet in .pdf and .png. PHP Cheat Sheet Blue Shoes have provided us with an awesome php cheat sheet (online version). CSS Cheat Sheet Added Bytes CSS Cheat sheet. WordPress Cheat Sheet WordPress Candy has got a downloadable WordPress help sheet in .pdf format.
An online version of a CSS cheat sheet. Rawdatanow.freemind - Accueil. It’s Awe.sm: Create A Powerful Custom URL Shortener For Your Own. You may have noticed over the last few weeks that TechCrunch links on Twitter have had a nifty custom URL, with links looking like tcrn.ch/1A’ instead of more generic codes from TinyURL or Bit.ly. This was due in no small part to the handiwork of our crack team of developers, but it was made possible by a new service launching today called Awe.sm. There are countless URL shortening services available on the web, and they’re probably only going to become even more popular as Twitter continues to catch on with mainstream audiences.
But these services come with downsides, like obscuring where a link is pointing to (which makes them a godsend for spammers). Awe.sm is looking to offer publishers an alternative to these generic services, while also offering a powerful analytics engine that offers much more insight as to how their content gets distributed across the web. Every time we publish a post on TechCrunch, Awe.sm generates a handful of links specific to the service it originates on.
Tag Hierarchies. Background Recently I have been interested in trying to create hierarchical taxonomies from flat tag data. Tagging systems like del.icio.us, Flickr, and CiteULike tend to have (relatively) flat tags. This means that while one can easily browse by a tag, like photography, one cannot as easily see tags which are more or less broad than that tag. It is also difficult to get a broad overview of what tags exist in these sorts of systems as a result, aside from frequency based displays like tag clouds. Some commentators have suggested that ontology is overrated, even irrelevant. That there is no hierarchy in ideas, only links: This may be overstating the point a little bit. Tagging systems are excellent at the task that they were designed for---allowing a large, disparate group of users to collaboratively label massive, dynamic information systems like the web, media collections of millions of images, and so on.
Update (2008-02-14) Some interesting research in this area includes: Papers. Different Methods for Choosing Color Schemes in Web Design | Van. One of the most challenging aspects of design for many web designers is color selection. The color scheme of a site can have a huge impact on the overall look of the site, and it will have an impact on visitors as well. There are a number of different methods that can be used for finding the right color scheme for a particular project, and in this post we will look at several of those methods. Throughout the post you will find links to helpful resources that you may appreciate.
Getting Colors from Existing Marketing Materials In many situations the client will already have an established color scheme from an existing website or from other marketing materials. In some cases they may want a change, but frequently you will need to work from the established color scheme. In situations where you are not working with a client that has an established color scheme, here are some methods that you can try for finding the right one on your own. Online Color Palette Resources Adobe Kuler COLOURlovers. Kahneman & Tversky. Sync Palm Desktop, Microsoft Outlook, ACT!, Lotus Notes, GroupWi. Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox - MDC. Firefox supports the OpenSearch description format for search plugins. Plugins that use OpenSearch are compatible with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.
Because of this, they are the recommended format for use on the web. Firefox also supports additional features not included in OpenSearch, such as search suggestions and the SearchForm element. This article will focus on creating OpenSearch-compatible search plugins that support these additional Firefox-specific features. OpenSearch description files can be advertised as described in Autodiscovery of search plugins, and can be installed programmatically as described in Adding search engines from web pages. OpenSearch description fileEdit The XML file describing a search engine follows the basic template below. ShortName A short name for the search engine. Restrictions: The value must contain 16 or fewer characters of plain text. Description A brief description of the search engine. InputEncoding Image Url Param SearchForm searchTitle pluginURL. Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture reconstructed from 1000 cellphones, YouTube - The making of Vodafone Symphonia - Part 1.
YouTube - The making of Vodafone Symphonia - Part 2. Forums - Vegas Pro - Video Messages. OH. MY. GOD! It worked! After about 10 days of hair pulling, I was finally able to reliably render my project using this workaround. I had tried about 13 other (according to my notes) troubleshooting approaches suggested here in the forum, straight from Sony, or just things I thought of, to no avail. To echo what "The dude" said earlier, "Halleluya! " The thing that was absolutely KILLING me was the the project would render just fine on my slower laptop that has less RAM, but absolutely WOULD NOT render without crashing on my desktop. But this solutions did the trick! I can only guess that there is something about the memory usage on the laptop that kept it just this side of whatever magic memory line was causing the crashes on the desktop. One thing I'd point out about CFF Explorer is that (at least on my install of Vista 64-bit), once I had checked off "app can handle > 2gb address space," I had to close down and re-open the program before proceeding to the next file.
[petit hack entre amis] Canaille Plus, ou comment télécharger le. Bonjour à tous, EDITPour suivre et télécharger les dernières mises à jour de Canaille plus & QPV, j’ai mis en place un petit forum :Téléchargement de vidéo depuis le site canal plus: Canaille Plus & QPVDonc tout se passe maintenant la bas ! See you soon Ça y est, il est prêt, il est tout beau et tout neuf !
C’est bien sûr la version 2.0.0 du désormais célèbre logiciel de ’canaille plus’ qui permet de télécharger (presque) toutes les vidéos du site de Canal plus : Le Grand JournalLe SAV des émissionsSalut les terriensLe ZappingGrolandLa matinalePop ComAction discèteL’effet papillonTêtes à claqueDimanche +… Un grand merci au maître Teel ainsi qu’à tous ceux qui ont participé à l’élaboration de ce soft. C’est assez ‘user-friendly‘, donc pas vraiment besoin de faire un tuto. Hop, une petite capture tout de même : Pour télécharger le logiciel : CanaillePlus2.0.0 ( 693 kb) Je crois que Teel n’est plus trop motivé pour assurer le support et de nouvelles version du logiciel. D’autres en parlent aussi : CompareMyDocs: Comparing and Merging Documents Made Easy. CompareMyDocs makes it easy to compare multiple revisions of a document and to compile a final version based on these revisions. The site, which launched today, can handle Word documents and rich-text files. You simply select up to seven documents and the service will display all the differences between these in a very well-designed interface.
CompareMyDocs is available free of charge. CompareMyDocs is based on TextFlow, a more advanced desktop version of CompareMyDocs that also features an online storage component. We reviewed the latest version of TextFlow in March. Right now, sign-ups for TextFlow are closed, as the team works on bringing the CompareMyDocs interface to the desktop tool Features The app color codes all the differences between the versions of the document.
CompareMyDocs does have quite a few limitations. TextFlow also launched its new API today. How Apple Dominates (In Slides) What makes Apple tick? How is it that it came back from the dead to surpass both Google and Microsoft in market cap? French consulting firm faberNovel takes a stab at explaining Apple’s success and its strategy against its two main rivals in the SlideShare above. (In the past, faberNovel has created similar slideshows about Google). The 48-slide presentation, titles “Apple: 8 Easy Steps To Beat Microsoft (And Google),” boils Apple’s strategy down to eight steps including “the arrogance of simplicity” (Step 1) to customer lock-in (Step 3), selling at a premium (Step 4), cross-selling products (Step 5), and, of course, think different (Step 7).
Apple starts by stripping away complexity from computing products, paring down features in favor of making their products more effortless to master. Over that time period, it went from a niche, high-end computer maker to a consumer electronics company. Google is already all about the cloud. Broadcast Yourself. HTC EVO vs iPhone4. Captain Alain et son fils. Starcraft 2 grille encore des cartes graphiques ? Still Think The iTunes 10 Icon Sucks? Our Ten Reader Alternatives. Brendan“I made an iTunes icon for you” Alan Clarke Iain “I am better than Steve Jobs because my icons have even more photoshop effects” Henderson Kanwa “iTunes10 icon from JAPAN” Nagafuji Mike “Steve Jobs is colorblind” Potra Daniel “Steve Jobs has more money than me, but only because I refuse to wear mock turtlenecks” Reneer EyeTunes (get it?)
Logo by reader who wanted to remain anonymous. Dario” iRaptor” Fisher Claes “vinylTunes 2.0” Kallarsson Alessio “I am better than Steve Jobs — Not really” Zito Rossi Chris“The Replacement”Carlossi Is it just me or has there been a lot of logo hate going around lately? 504 Gateway Time-out. Windows 1.0 Press Kit. Webstock '11: John Gruber - The Gap Theory of UI Design. Innovation that lays the golden eggs. There is an inevitable friction in bringing ideas to life within a company. That friction can polish an idea and make it stronger, sand the edges of the idea and make it weaker, or kill the idea altogether. Anyone who works in innovation is familiar with that tension. Navigating it is part of what makes innovation so difficult. Malcolm Gladwell wrote an illustrative New Yorker article on the mythic 1979 story of Steve Jobs and Xerox PARC.
Xerox has been widely critiqued for not recognizing the full potential of the personal computer and for letting this idea pass by. Yet Gladwell also profiles the other side of the story. “The interests of the innovator aren’t perfectly aligned with the interests of the corporation. The modern day Xerox PARC replied to Gladwell’s article with a fascinating post on the merits of open innovation as one way to resolve that friction. There is no longer merely a “go” or a “stop” in innovation, as Gladwell originally characterized.