10 Essential Sites for Tips and How-To’s The advent of the Internet and social media have spawned a number of how-to sites, which has made finding tips and resources easier than ever before. We've put together a list of 10 essential sites where you can find or in some cases contribute tips and how-to's on a wide range of topics. No matter what your interest, these sites will connect you with the information that you're looking for. What are your favorites? instructables instructables, "the world's biggest show and tell," is a how-to tips and video sharing site that is quite popular, judging from its 3.5 million visitors a month. About About, owned by the New York Times Company, is one of the most popular and credible resource sites today with more than 53 million visitors a month. About is fueled by more than 650 About.com Guides who mass-produce around 6,000 pieces of new content every week. eHow eHow has more than 100,000 articles and claims to have over 8 million people visiting the site every month. WikiHow HowStuffWorks 5Min
Tomorrow is Ada Lovelace Day, Celebrating The World's First Ada Lovelace, a 19th century British writer who is considered the world's first computer programmer, will be honored by bloggers all over the world tomorrow. In the spirit of providing young women with role models, more than 1500 bloggers participating in the first annual Ada Lovelace Day have pledged to write about a woman or women they admire working in technology on March 24th. You can read about Lovelace on Wikipedia. The event was organized by UK social software consultant Suw Charman-Anderson using the service Pledgebank. If you'd like to participate as well, or just in case you're interested, we've created a Custom Search Engine of technology blogs written by women to help with this and any other research. We'll be participating with a post highlighting an inspiring woman in tech tomorrow, but we thought this would also be a good opportunity to share the search engine below, titled Blogs By Women in Tech. Feel free to save and use the search engine yourself.
Create a Custom Toolbar | Conduit 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 | Vandelay We A few of the most popular posts on this blog are the 3 collections of inspirational, minimal web designs (see part 1, part 2, and part 3). So why stop there? These 25 sites are also clean and attractive. If you appreciate websites with a minimalist design style, you’ll love our new gallery site Minimal Exhibit. Looking for hosting?
FlirtPrints.com Have Students Graduated from E-Mail? More than six out of 10 US high school and college students surveyed “never” or “hardly ever” read marketing e-mails, according to an October 2008 survey by eROI. The majority of respondents said companies were not effectively speaking to them personally through e-mail. But e-mailing is hardly dead among students. Although texting was named as the favorite way to communicate by the largest percentage of respondents, e-mail was second, cited by 26% of students. The report’s authors said, “E-mail plays an important role in college students’ life as a personal communication device, but not as a major marketing channel. Two-thirds of students surveyed by eROI said they rarely or never took action after reading marketing e-mails. An August 2008 study conducted by Harris Interactive for Alloy Media + Marketing confirms that the vast majority of college students still use e-mail. Agencies and brands from all verticals rely on eMarketer Total Access for analysis and data.
Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB : Dynamic UI with W Lately I've been getting my hands deep into WPF with my line-of-business (LOB)/data-based application mind set. I'm taking a different approach to the technology resisting the urge to put on my amateur-designer hat and instead purely focus on data, data-binding, formatting controls, and some basic layout. (Yes before you ask, I have started producing the WPF forms over data videos!) Today I wanted to play with dynamically creating XAML and loading it at runtime. Imports <xmlns=" Imports <xmlns:x=" Imports System.Windows.Markup Class Window1 Private Sub Window1_Loaded() Handles MyBase.Loaded Dim UI = <Label Name="Label1">This is COOL! When we run it: There are a lot of possibilities here. Admittedly this isn't something that is only unique to WPF. ColumnNameDataTypeMaxLengthIsPrimaryKey Okay now that we have that set up we can get back to the fun stuff. Enjoy!
Top 10 Articles About the Financial Crisis « Intellectual Detox Of the many articles I’ve read about the financial crisis, the following ten have been the most informative. Read them all, and I think you will have a very solid understanding of what is going on. 1) The Financialization of America A broad overview of how 1) insanely profitable Wall St. became in the past two decades and 2) this profitability was due to implicit government subsidization of risk. This includes the “too big to fail policy” and the “Greenspan put”. 2) The Global Pool of Money [MP3] – An hour long podcast from NPR about the selling of subprime mortgages. Hear the story of hustlers, smooth talking sales guys, fast cars, and big money. 3) Triple-A Failure: The Ratings Game by Roger Lowenstein of the NYTimes. 4) How regulation breeds complex financial products and Why Lax Regulation Did Not Cause the Crisis by Mindles Dreck. 6) Commodity Hysteria – An Overview by Nick Szabo, a former programmer, now a law school academic. 8) How Stocks are like Baseball Cards by Mark Cuban.
Vibro.NET : Microsoft's New Identity Landscape PDC has come and gone, and Microsoft’s identity landscape has changed. New products emerged, services appeared or underwent profound transformations: but the remarkable thing is that all elements, none excluded, are part of a single,company-wide, consistent strategy that aims at putting the user in control of his/her identities. Many words will be spent about those products, singularly and as a whole. All of those technologies were described in Kim’s & your truly’s session, and they all had a role in the big demo in the same session. Ah, if I’d have a coin for every time I’ve heard conjectures about Microsoft eventually coming out with an "STS product", whatever flavor people gave to the term at the moment, I’d need a much bigger piggy and I’d sprout my very own ferromagnetic-enhanced field. Here, we’ve done it! And what a product we have in our hands! We’ve gone a long way since SimpleSTS.cs, didn’t we. Here there’s another old friend. That’s it.
Millennials’ Tech Affects Work, Shopping Young people ages 18 to 24 have specific technology usage and preferences that affect how they work, study and buy online. Accenture released data in October 2008 on millennials’ tech usage and attitudes in work and school. The company found the group expected to use their own technology and mobile devices rather than those supplied by employers or schools. More than one-half of respondents said mobile phones were their preferred means of communication, while 35% said they preferred using the Internet from home. “If their employers don’t support their preferred technologies, Millennials will acquire and use them anyway,” said Gary Curtis, managing director of Accenture Technology Consulting, in a statement. More than one-quarter of respondents also said they wrote openly about themselves and friends online, and 17% openly shared details of their lives online. Ms. “Millennials reserve the actual shopping activity in the store because it’s a social activity for them,” she said.