Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook, By Wired UK’s Editor | Epicenter “David, you’re sounding like an old dude!” Matt Flannery, who runs social-lending website Kiva, couldn’t understand when I explained that, no, I wouldn’t be keeping in touch with him via Facebook. “What are you worried about?” Well, Matt, I admit I’m the wrong side of 30, and that I still avoid using emoticons in formal correspondence. 1) Private companies aren’t motivated by your best interests Facebook and Google exist to make money, by selling advertisers the means to target you with ever greater precision. 2) They make it harder to reinvent yourself “When you’re young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff,” President Obama warned high-school students in Virginia last September. 3) Information you supply for one purpose will invariably be used for another … Phone up to buy a pizza, and the order-taker’s computer gives her access to your voting record, employment history, library loans — all “just wired into the system” for your convenience.
Ruby Hacking Guide Different Versions Of Android On Different Smartphones Nov 10 This post is also available in: Dutch Android is the and other small devices to integrate web 2.0 functionalities. Surprisingly . Smartphone/ Android Version Google NexusOne: Android v.2.2/Android HTC Desire: Android v.2.1/Sense HTC Legend: Android v.2.1/Sense Motorola Milestone: Android v.2.1/Android Samsung I5700 Galaxy Spica: Android v.2.1/Touchwiz Samsung I9000 Galaxy S: Android v.2.1/Touchwiz Sony Ericsson Experia X10: Android v.1.6/Sony Ericsson Sony Ericsson Experia X10 Mini: Android v.1.6/Sony Ericsson LG GW620: Android v.1.5/S-Class,Android Acer beTouch E110: Android v.1.5/Acer UI Android For Windows Mobile 6 Phones If you have an old Windows Mobile 6.1 to 6.5 Phone and you want to make it social media savvy instead of throwing it away and buying a Windows 7 phone for instance or a new Android phone, . Source: c’t magazine Website: android.com Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Acquired: June 27, 2012 by Google for £20B in Cash and Stock
why’s (poignant) guide to ruby Read This Paragraph At my local Barnes and Noble, there is a huge wall of Java books just waiting to tip over and crush me one day. And one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will be tall enough to crush us all. It might even loop the world several times, crushing previous editions of the same Java books over and over again. And This Paragraph Too This is just a small Ruby book. But Don’t Read This One! Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is released under the Attribution-ShareAlike License. Now Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Paragraph I’ll try not to feel utterly rejected if this book doesn’t capture your fancy. Learning to Program A very basic, ground-level tutorial for the beginner to Ruby. Now, if you can’t seem to find the contents link on the left-hand side of the page, then here’s a link to the first page of the (Poignant) Guide. Welcome to the pirate radio of technical manuals.
PHP Variables: The Ultimate Guide Variables are important in every programming language — and it’s no different in PHP. Variables give developers the possibility of temporarily storing data to be used in PHP scripts (in PHP’s case, this happens in the server’s memory). This guide is all about working with variables in PHP. By the way, if you are just starting out with PHP, I recommend reading this guide first: Learning PHP: Get Started Using PHP. Comment, Comment, Comment! Before we start, I’d like to introduce you to PHP comments. Without even looking at the PHP code, you know what this function is capable of just by reading the comments (in green). How Does Commenting Work? One way of placing a comment in one line is achieved by having two forward slashes (//) preceding the comment. Another way to make comments is through a comment block which is wrapped by /* */. Another way — which is rarely used nowadays — is using a hash symbol (#) in front of the comment. PHP and Variables Alphanumeric characters (i.e. Null Data Type <?
Programming Ruby 1.9 About this Book 944 pages Published: Release: P5.0 (2012-10-16) ISBN: 978-1-93435-608-1 Would you like to go from first idea to working code much, much faster? Do you currently spend more time satisfying the compiler instead of your clients or end users? Are you frustrated with demanding languages that seem to get in your way, instead of getting the work done? Are you using Rails, and want to dig deeper into the underlying Ruby language? Ruby is a fully object-oriented language, much like the classic object-oriented language, Smalltalk. The combination of the power of a pure object-oriented language with the convenience of a scripting language makes Ruby a favorite tool of intelligent, forward-thinking programmers. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. What You Need This book assumes you have a basic understanding of object-oriented programming. About the Author Upcoming Author Events
50 List of Free Online Photo Editing Tools Editing an image is very popular these days due to the innovation of graphic software programs that will allow us to create computer arts from scratch. However, we could also enhance, add some cool effects and customize the look of our images easily without having the need of these soft wares through the online photo editors. An online photo editor tool allows us to edit and manipulate a photo in the Web Browser. This is more advantageous compared to the softwares for editing an image as this could not consume much of the memory of your desktop and the processing is done faster by the server. With just a few clicks, we could now be able to customize our own photos, create funny photos from our pictures or even feature ourselves in a magazine cover like that of a celebrity. Here are the 50 List of Photo Editing Tools to Help You Edit Images and Photos Online for free. Scrapblog Snipshot Snipshot is formerly called as Pixoh.IVisit Site Pixer PicMagick Pikipimp Mypictr Picture2Life MyImager.com
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Tweet Nest Ever thought to yourself that you wish there was some way you could take a look back and see what you tweeted around this time last year? Or perhaps you remember that time you tweeted about that hilarious viral video, and now you can’t find it? By installing Tweet Nest on your own web server, now you can! Features include: Archive Use Tweet Nest to easily store, browse and search amongst your tweets to find exactly what you're looking for, and let others do the same. Backup Additionally, Tweet Nest serves as a backup of your precious tweets on your own server. Media Tweet Nest offers an easier way of viewing your tweets at a glance, as they include thumbnails of media like photos hosted on common providers, such as TwitPic. Customize! Looking for a demo? Installation Tweet Nest is programmed in PHP and requires a MySQL database to work. PHP 5.2 or higher with cURL enabled (or 5.1 with the PECL JSON module installed in addition) MySQL 5.0 or higher Download Tweet Nest Version 1.1 BETA Great!