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How To Create A Simple Google Chrome App In Less Than 5 Minutes

How To Create A Simple Google Chrome App In Less Than 5 Minutes
If you take a look at Google’s “Web Store” many Google Chrome apps listed there are basically just quick ways to access web-pages. For example, the official Google Docs app does what? It opens docs.google.com. The Hootsuite app? It opens hootsuite.com/dashboard Etc. While that may defeat the purpose of an app (shouldn’t it be more than just a bookmark?) Creating A Custom Chrome Dashboard When you start up Google Chrome, you have two options: 1. 2. UPDATE: Google recently changed its “new tab” page, hiding the apps. “Users who want to restore the previous design should type “ in the omnibox — minus the quotation marks — locate the “Enable Instant Extended API” setting in the long list, and change it from “Enable” to “Disable.”” – makeuseof Seeing these big icons on start-up can be an advantage to the often cluttered gallery of mini-screenshots of recently visited webpages. It’s more focused, clean and enables super-quick access to everyday functions even when your eyes are tired.

Lock It Down! Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time I hope you have enjoyed our collection of funny computer quotes, Linux quotes, and all those quotes that we have shared with you so far. For today, I've decided to gather a good number of my all-time favorite programming-related quotes. Most of the programming quotes I've collected are made by some of the famous names in the industry, while others came from not-so-famous people. Nevertheless, they are all witty so I hope you will find them fascinating and enlightening. Without further delay, here are my top 50 programming quotes of all time: 50. - Rick Cook 49. - Alan Kay. 48. - Edward V Berard 47. - Olav Mjelde. 46. - Alan J. 45. - Waldi Ravens. 44. - Bjarne Stroustrup 43. - Eric S. 42. - Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering 41. - Oktal 40. - pixadel 39. - Bill Clinton 38. - E.W. 37. - Roberto Waltman. 36. 35. - Bill Bryson 34. - Blair P. 33. - Alan J. 32. - Ron Sercely 31. - Thomas C. 30. - Cory Dodt 29. - Linus Torvalds 28. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 27. - Dennis M. 26. - Yoggi Berra 25. - Jim McCarthy

Project Euler What is Project Euler? Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems. The motivation for starting Project Euler, and its continuation, is to provide a platform for the inquiring mind to delve into unfamiliar areas and learn new concepts in a fun and recreational context. Who are the problems aimed at? The intended audience include students for whom the basic curriculum is not feeding their hunger to learn, adults whose background was not primarily mathematics but had an interest in things mathematical, and professionals who want to keep their problem solving and mathematics on the edge. Can anyone solve the problems? The problems range in difficulty and for many the experience is inductive chain learning. What next?

The Little Book of Semaphores Allen B. Downey Download the book in PDF now! The video Watch an introduction to semaphores (and Free Books) I presented at Northeastern University: The book The Little Book of Semaphores is a free (in both senses of the word) textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming. In most computer science curricula, synchronization is a module in an Operating Systems class. The approach of this book is to identify patterns that are useful for a variety of synchronization problems and then show how they can be assembled into solutions. The book covers the classical problems, including "Readers-writers," "Producer-consumer", and "Dining Philosophers." Second edition! The second edition of the book is now available in Postscript and PDF. In addition, the LaTeX source code is available in a tar file. Please send comments and corrections to semaphores{at}greenteapress{dot}com. Example code Other Free Books From Green Tea Press:

Who Owns Your PC? New Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update "Phones Home" to Microsoft Every 90 Days Greetings. Sometimes a seemingly small software update can usher in a whole new world. When Microsoft shortly pushes out a Windows 7 update with the reportedly innocuous title "Update for Microsoft Windows (KB971033)" -- it will be taking your Windows 7 system where it has never been before. And it may not be a place where you want to go. Imagine that you're sitting quietly in your living-room at your PC, perhaps watching YouTube. Even though you insist that you bought your laptop from the retail computer store down the street many months ago, and didn't install any pirate software, the visitors declare that your computer "isn't genuine" according to their latest pirated systems lists, and they say that "while we'll let you keep using it, we're modified your system so that it will constantly nag in your face until you pay up for a legit system!" You then notice that the wallpaper on your PC has turned black, and these strange notifications keep popping up urging you to "come clean."

Top 6 List of Programming Top 10 Lists Best Programming Quotations A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. -- Doug Linder, systems administrator A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits. -- Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist Being abstract is something profoundly different from being vague... Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, developer of the C++ programming language Commentary: most debugging problems are fixed easily; identifying the location of the problem is hard. -- unknown Good code is its own best documentation. Hey!

Top 50 Free Open Source Classes on Computer Science : Comtechtor Computer science is an interesting field to go into. There are a number of opportunities in computer science that you can take advantage of. With computers increasingly becoming a regular part of life, those who can work with computers have good opportunities. You can find a good salary with a program in computer science, and as long as you are careful to keep up your skills. Here are 50 free opencourseware classes that can help you learn more about computer science: Introduction to Computer Science Learn the basics of computer science, and get a foundation in how computer science works. Introduction to Computer Science: Learn about the history of computing, as well as the development of computer languages. Comprehensive Computer Science Collections If you are interested in courses that are a little more comprehensive in nature, you can get a good feel for computer science from the following collections: Programming and Languages Computer Software Computer Systems and Information Technology

Tools for rooting out Web plagiarism, copyright violations Some misguided souls in the Internet publishing world still consider all online material as being in the public domain. A recent example of this cluelessness is the editor of a food journal who stole an article that included a recipe for apple pie and then claimed to be doing the article's author a favor by reprinting it without the author's permission or any remuneration, as described by Helen A.S. Popkin on the MSNBC.com TechnoLog. (See a related blog by CNET contributor Lance Whitney for more on the story.) For the record, copyrights do indeed extend to material created for and posted to the Internet. Online publisher Brad Templeton's article, 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained, actually covers 11 misapprehensions about online copyrights. Schools have been at the forefront of plagiarism prevention. According to a study released last January by the National Bureau of Economic Research (PDF), fear of detection may not be the best approach to preventing plagiarism among students.

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