引越のピークの前に、チェックしておきましょう。ご存知の通り引越業界の3月の年度末。物件探しと契約までは割とスムーズに行くことが多いですが、そのあとの段取りや手続きの多さは、何かと面倒なものです。

Compared to other professionals, freelancers seem to be a separate beast. They’re even a different breed than the rest of the online community. They pay whatever costs are required to be their own boss. Most became freelancers after having evolved to the point that the corporate shackles became more than uncomfortable, and they longed to ...

I’ve been banging away on Clojure for a few days now, and while it would obviously take months of study and grinding through a big serious real-world software project to become authoritative, I think that what I’ve learned is useful enough to share.

This is an unedited transcript of Courtney Love's speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York on May 16. Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software.

Everyone has been going on about how we should use CSS3 more and all of the possibilities and flexibility that come with it, but that we should still consider IE6 and other troubling browsers.

Web design has followed a long and windy road from it’s rather modest beginnings. Initially, the term “web designer,” described something much more akin to that of a graphic designer: a designer who concerns themselves with the presentation of text and pictures.

Today I was doing a research about some plugins I used when starting my blog and found interesting, that from the most popular wordpress plugins, I almost tested all in some moment of my short blogging career, and I am sure most of us have use them to, because they are, for some bloggers part of the site already. Plugins like Google XML, All in ...

Those of you who may have read my 25 Dark Websites and 25 Creative Footers posts may be noticing a pattern developing here. I’ve decided to do my best to stick with the whole 25 theme for these roundup articles. It’s just a nice, round manageable number, but still enough to prove valuable. I have a wide range of different ideas for ...

Nyzillaのアイコンを作成するために、ニッポンハムのウイニーを買ってきた。 写真を撮ってアイコンにしようというわけだが、ウイニーが思っていたより小さく、32ピクセルサイズにすると、何だかわからない絵になってしまう。どうしようか……。

Je viens de découvrir cette présentation simple et efficace qui n'a pour but de passer qu'une seule idée et ce de manière allégorique. "Fish where the fish are", c'est aller au contact, entrer en conversation, essayer de toucher vos cibles aux endroits où elles se trouvent, plutôt que de vouloir multiplier votre présence de ...

As part of our annual tradition, this week Read Write Web will present you with our "best of" posts for 2009, a series of articles that will examine the top web products in categories that range from consumer web apps to RSS and syndication platforms. Today, we're kicking off the series with a look at the top mobile web products of the past year. ...

Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced. The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.

Your phone's lame e-mail program just got a major upgrade. The Java version of Gmail is smoother and faster than any cell phone's built-in email program. It really feels like Gmail, with conversation view, a search function, and even the ability to 'star' messages. This is an absolute must-have for anyone who has a phone with a keyboard.

As we first reported over the summer, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey has a new project. Originally known as “Squirrel,” the name has been changed to Square, but the idea remains the same: A hardware/software combination for mobile devices (launching first for the iPhone/iPod touch) that allows vendors to easily accept and process credit ...

using System; using System.IO; public class HelloWorld { public static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!"); } } Where did that Console class come from? System? System.IO? Is it somehow implicitly available? Just by looking at the code, without knowing the .NET framework, you can't tell. (Nor can you tell that the System. ...

Editeur du portail Oseox.fr, Aurélien Bardon est expert en création de trafic. Après avoir travaillé en agence et chez l'annonceur, aussi bien pour des petites sociétés que pour de grands comptes, il est aujourd'hui gérant de ses propres sites web.

Freenet means controversial information does not need to be stored in physical data havens such as this one, Sealand. Photograph: Kim Gilmour/Alamy Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created "

It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online.

" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.

Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in the slums of Nairobi, then Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. His remarkable panoramic images take us inside slum families' lives, revealing the profound human impulse to fashion not only shelter but a home.

We’ve been celebrating Victoria’s Secret’s new collection for weeks now, taking an exclusive first look at the wing fittings and the show’s backstage beauty, getting exclusive interviews with the models, and finally capturing the designs on the runway.  You can catch the entire show tonight, December 1st at 10/9C on CBS.

Writing this week about eating accessibility humble pie and using CSS attribute substring selectors, a comment by clever Craig Cook sent my imagination reeling.

Speech is free, but Boing Boing is moderated. Comments may be deleted or disemvoweled. Anonymous comments are not automatically published. Please don't make racist, sexist or homophobic remarks or use associated offensive terms. Please don't talk politics in unrelated threads. Please don't cuss or harass other commenters. Please don't post ...

The prize is $40,000, and it goes to the first person or group to determine the locations of 10 red balloons that can be anywhere in the continental United States.

「とんかつパフェ」はうまかった　肉のテーマパーク「東京ミートレア」3日オープン 肉料理のパーク「東京ミートレア」では、焼き肉、ハンバーグなど定番から「とんかつパフェ」など変わり種まで食べ歩ける。とんかつパフェは甘さとしょっぱさが絶妙にマ

I’ve stated previously that reading software development books is a good way of investing in your skills and your career. But which ones should you read? And in what order should they be read? I’ve compiled a list of books that i think can truly increase your skills substantially. I’ve put them in the order in which i believe ...

Stereotypes abound about artists: they range from the mild ("they have fuschia-colored hair"), to the absurd ("they starve,"), to the disturbed ("they do things like uncontrollably peeing in the fireplace as depicted in the popular movie Pollock."). Granted I know artists with wild-colored hair and others who are certainly struggling to make ends ...

But still, I couldn’t resist the latter one. I’m obsessed with slaws and the prospect of making a winter slaw of shredded Brussels was impossible to resist. I shaved them as thin as mandoline possible, toasted walnuts, added peels of Romano cheese and tossed them with lemon juice and olive oil only to end up with a knotty bowl of &# ...

Dhamra (Orissa), March 27 With a little more than a year to go before the scheduled commissioning of Dhamra port, the promoter, Dhamra Port Company Ltd (DPCL), a joint venture of Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro, is mulling signing cargo agreements with prospective users of the port. The first such agreement is to be signed shortly with Tata ...

Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google. The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.

Hollywood Tuna has everything you need, if the things you need are all celebrity related. From celeb pics and vids to nip slips, Hollywood Tuna does it all and does it well.

Today’s announcement that Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking is music to my ears. Not only does it make web sites faster, switching over to this async pattern improves uptime and increases the amount of analytics data gathered. I’ll touch on each of these three benefits, and wrap-up with an overview of the new code snippet.

La matrice BCG est un concept bien connu et qui se retrouve dans tous les cours de marketing. Pouvons nous l’utiliser dans le cadre du personalbranding ? Voici la réponse que j’essaie d’apporter à cette question.

Writing for the web is a challenge. There are usually word length restrictions, the fact that users scan rather than read every word, and sometimes style guides to adhere to.

is one of the early innovators of this style of blogging and has been creating custom blog post designs since June 2008. With a background in print design, Jason had a vision to create a blog more in the style of a magazine, rather than obey the established rules of blog design.

Negative space when used effectively can be stunning. Cleverly subtle yet powerfully direct, it is a technique that can take a good idea and make it transcendent. One of the better examples of a simple implementation of negative space which says a lot is the FedEx logo.

Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.

A few of the workshops I'm doing over the course of the next few weeks involve differentiated instructional practices. I'm doing them as a "coaching" model where I work with just a couple of teachers at a time and look at a particular area that they want to improve, develop a plan and help them implement it, then reflect on how it worked.

Whether you’re a fan or not, there is no doubt that Oprah Winfrey changes lives, starting with her own. As a real life rags-to-riches story and a self-made success, she knows the power of choice, living with courage, and following your dreams. She makes things happen.

A former Microsoft Silverlight MVP and INETA Speaker, Pete Brown writes on a number of topics including Silverlight, WPF, .NET, woodworking and working as a consultant in the DC area. read more

If you need a big white board to hold your big ideas, you'll definitely want to take a peek at today's featured workspace for some whiteboard inspiration.

われわれはTwitterのファウンダー、Jack Dorsey’sがSquareという新しい携帯を端末にした支払いサービスのプロジェクトを5月に発表して以来、ずっと注目していた。

We love helping publishers make their content available to large groups of readers, and working on ways to make the world's information useful and accessible through our search results. At the same time, we're also aware of the fact that creating high-quality content is not easy and, in many cases, expensive. This is one of the reasons why we ...

Twitter is not especially well-known for fiction. But maybe that will change. Writers are embracing Twitter for the creative challenge imposed by its 140-character limit, for its real-time functionality, and for its interactivity. Twitterature, or Twiction, or whatever else you’d like to call it, is not just a means of reaching today’ ...

Very low-power scale-out servers -- it’s an idea whose time has come. A few weeks ago Intel announced it was doing Microslice servers: Intel Seeks new ‘microserver’ standard. Rackable Systems (I may never manage to start calling them ‘SGI’ – remember the old MIPS-based workstation company?) was on this idea even earlier: Microslice ...

One of the most popular articles here at Perishable Press is my January 2005 post, Stupid htaccess Tricks. In that article, I bring together an extensive collection of awesome copy-&-paste HTAccess code snippets. Four years later, people continue to tell me how much they enjoy and use the content as a bookmarked reference for many of their ...

Earlier in 2009 IKEA launched a new line of furniture, IKEA PS, whose objective was to stretch the idea of design, to think about empowering people, and to minimize the impact on the world.

As newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make their subscription content discoverable. Today we're ...

ビジネス？プライベート？なにをもって「成功」とするか、人それぞれだとは思いますが、特徴があげられていましたのでちょっと分類してみます。

Square, a new mobile phone payment system founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, just launched its private beta today. Square will give anybody the ability to accept payment cards without having to go through a costly credit card processing service. Instead, Square will give its users the ability to use their mobile phones, laptops or desktop ...

So I figure what better way to learn more about jQuery than to dig right in and create a plugin or two? At first I thought this sounded pretty intimidating, but after browsing through some of the existing jQuery plugins I figured it might be easy enough to try and 'rearrange' one of the Toolkit controls that I created. So that is what I did with ...

Apparently, you can buy a decent external iPhone battery solution for $15 — or less. Fellow geek, Josh Bancroft, was leery of the MonoPrice offer, but decided to take the low-cost risk. And after reading his thoughts as well as some other reviews, I’m ready to splurge for my own external battery. Why this battery over others, you ask? ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.

Перед вами набор простых правил настройки сервера PostgreSQL. Большая часть этих идей была высказана в оригинальной статье PostgreSQL Performance Checklist Джошем Беркусом (Josh Berkus); сотрудники компании "Постг

The first punctuation mistake in “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” (Gotham; $17.50), by Lynne Truss, a British writer, appears in the dedication, where a nonrestrictive clause is not preceded by a comma. It is a wild ride downhill from there. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” presents ...

It is fashionable this week to write a blog post knocking Johnston Press for introducing paywalls on three of their local sites. I'm not going to do that, for a couple of reasons.

Christiane Keller created an incredibly rich environment where people can interact with information as if it were present in space: dataMorphose is an interactive installation which projects data into real space and visualizes it three-dimensionally. Information is represented by spanned and moving sails directly in the room. Thus abstract and ...

In an bug entered for Chromium on Mac OS, Issue 13161, having the description “Gears is not supported”, Mike Pinkerton, Technical Lead for Google Chrome for Mac, commented: “we're not supporting gears on mac in favor of HTML5 additions.” The bug’s status is “Won’t Fix”. So, the upcoming version of ...

SAP is preparing to launch a potential rival to Google Wave. The application, code-named Constellation, is described as a "virtual war room" where co-workers can collaborate in real-time with information aggregated from different data sources.

Rupert Murdoch: customers are smart enough to know they must pay. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Rupert Murdoch has today reiterated his belief that internet users will pay for content, saying they would be happy to shell out for "information they need to rise in society".

Gast-Beitrag Nr. 4: Guter Text hat keine Lobby – Wie sich Unternehmenssprache in Zeiten der Social Media ändern muss Lesen Sie! Lesen Sie weiter, auch wenn Sie Marketingleiter oder Pressesprecher sind! Lassen Sie sich nicht davon abschrecken, dass es um Text gehen soll – es geht zugleich um Marketing, um Branding, ja den Gesamtauftritt ...

Learning to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts to reduce your trips to the mouse can lead to a much more fulfilling web browsing experience, especially at those times that your mouse just isn't doing the trick.

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what it is, here's an explainer.

We live in a web centric world right now, and if you haven't already, you'll most likely be facing website related dilemma(s). For example, maybe you need an email template to send out your company newsletter(s) but you don't have the first clue as to how to create one let alone create one that works with all major clients, looks outstanding and ...

A pictogram is a graphical symbol that can represent a sign, simple instructions or even an idea.In essence, pictograms area concept that has been stripped down to its bare essentials, yet still recognizable as the original idea.

Whether the cyclist in your life is an urban commuter or a thrill-seeking mountain biker, there's something for them in our selection of the best biking gifts

IndexScene と ChildScene の _onInit と _onGoto の addCommand() での処理で静的な変数として生成した SerialList を呼ぶ。 (注：そのままだと addCommand は SerialList のためクロスフェードしないので、ParallelList にしておく必要アリ)

Phil Jones sais he would stand aside until an independent review into the hacked emails had been completed. Photograph: University of East Anglia The head of the climate research unit that had its emails hacked and posted online will step down from his post while an inquiry into the affair is carried out.

When Cami Walker of Los Angeles learned three years ago that she had multiple sclerosis, her health and her spirits plummeted — until she got an unusual prescription from a holistic health educator.

I got something in the mail last week I’d been wanting for years: a Too Much Joy royalty statement from Warner Brothers that finally included our digital earnings. Though our catalog has been out of print physically since the late-1990s, the three albums we released on Giant/WB have been available digitally for about five years. Yet the royalty ...

Googleのエンジニアリング・ディレクターであるLinus Upson氏が、Google Gears終了を宣言しました。PC Magazineに掲載された同氏のコメントを引用すると「（Gearsを）今後、どのような意味でも推進していくつもりはない」。Gearsは2007年に発表されたブラウザ用機能拡張�

Flashの神様たちが一同に集い、生のお話が聴ける貴重なイベントだったので、多くの方が足を運ばれたと思います。

Registering will give you a user profile and the ability to add other users as friends. To become a commenter, however, you need to audition.

CommonJS is a grassroots campaign to quickly produce standards and a standard library for JavaScript. Our man on the inside reports on JSConf Europe, where the effort to produce interoperable JavaScript embeddings was evident.

In this article I’ll explain how to reduce the loading time of Javascript libraries using Auto-Loading, a public but almost unknown new feature of the Google’s AJAX APIs. It may looks a bit tricky, but with some patience won’t be so hard. Anyway, even Google in its official documentation says “This advanced feature can be ...

As a freelancer, business owner or entrepreneur who works with many clients, you will develop a sketch of the type of person who makes an ideal client for your business. The more clients you work with and the more experience you gain as an independent worker, the more defined this ideal client persona will become.

Photoshop users can save themselves a great deal of time and end up with better results by taking advantage of readily available freebies, such as brushes, patterns and shapes. With the wide variety and (often) high quality of resources available, whatever you need or are looking for is in most cases already available somewhere. The only problem ...

LONDON (AP) - Britain's University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.

Today we're excited to announce our new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code snippet as an alternative way to track your websites! It provides the following benefits:

In an earlier article, I mentioned that Boing-Boing had a few issues when they wanted to use @font-face embedding inside their website. In short, the problem was that some fonts look bad on computer monitors without font-smoothing enabled in the operating system. This brought on a lot of discussion as to whether there was a way to detect whether ...

Twitterでログインすればそのまま変更を保存することも可能です。覚えておきたいツールですな。

これは基本ですね。検索結果画面などで「次ページ」をクリックしなくてもページの一番下まで行くと自動的に次のページを読み込んでくれる機能です。

Three weeks ago, Facebook announced significant updates to its promo/sweepstakes policies for Facebook Pages that have very practical impact for marketers on Facebook. For a deeper dive on the rule changes, see our analysis. But essentially, the new rules:

Lists seem to have an irresistible lure for business publications. Some have been with us for so long—the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Fortune 500, Forbes’ billionaire list—that it’s hard to imagine a time when they didn’t exist.

Ist etwas dran an dem Hype um das Neurodermitis-Wundermittel Regividerm? Meine Frau hat die Salbe vier Tage lang getestet und ihre (eher ernüchternden) Erfahrungen für den „Frischen Wind" zusammengefasst.

"Ce qui compte ne peut pas toujours être compté et ce qui peut être compté ne compte pas toujours". Cette citation de Albert Einstein peut tout à fait être utilisée pour illustrer la différence entre influence et popularité.

At least 88 journalists have been killed so far this year, with hundreds more media employees arrested, according to the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

EasyEclipse for LAMP 是个eclipse的发布版（译者注：即独立程序standalone）。它被要求支持如PHP、Python、perl、以及Ruby on Raiy等动态语言的开发，并且内置了一web服务器、一数据库、一CVS、一SVN。

Van 25 tot en met 27 november vond in de Beurs van Berlage het advertentiefestival Eurobest plaats. Eurobest organiseert al sinds 1988 een prijsuitreiking voor de beste creatieven van Europa. Microsoft presenteerde op dit event ‘The Journey Through Social Media: The Research, The Learnings And The Reason Why’ . De presentatie bestond uit ...

Streamreaders just keep getting better and better. A new version of TweetDeck is rolling out today with some major improvements, including support for Lists, Retweets, maps for geo-tagged messages, and LinkedIn streams. TweetDeck has already been downloaded more than 10 million times, and its active user base is in the low millions so this is a ...

I decided to throw together a video for those of you who are still having trouble wrapping your heads around DNS Rebinding. It’s my first attempt at making a video so there are zero frills, but if and when I make future videos, I may improve that. Most importantly, hopefully this will help explain the details for those of you who aren’ ...

James Bennett recently wrote an article on Python packaging and installation, and Setuptools. There’s a lot of issues, and writing up my thoughts could take a long time, but I thought at least I should correct some errors, specifically category errors. Figuring out where all the pieces in Setuptools (and pip and virtualenv) fit is difficult,

Once upon a time, designers would lug unwieldy physical portfolios from interview to interview to showcase their work. This tactic is steadily being replaced with sending out emails containing links to an online portfolio. A portfolio website is becoming an essential marketing tool for every designer and can be the single biggest impression upon ...

It's that time of year when darkness descends like a heavy blanket beginning in mid-afternoon in much of the country. For some people, it also brings a desire to stay in bed and wait for spring.

First let us check our XML file, I'm using this XML file because I'm soon releasing a new version of my MP3 player completely made with AS3 so, this is how my XML looks like:

Hace unas semanas os mostré 10 opciones de sitios web que pueden hacerse con Drupal, ahora le ha llegado la hora a Wordpress. Sin duda Wordpress es uno de los sistemas de gestión de contenido web (CMS) más populares del momento. Lo que no muchos saben es que se puede utilizar para hacer mucho más que blogs o sitios web corporativos.

A especificação para HTML 4 define o elemento dl para marcar as listas de definição (definition lists) e diz o seguinte: Os items das listas de definição são constituidos de duas partes: termo e descrição. O elemento para marcar o termo é dt e deve conter somente elementos inline. O elemento para marcar a descrição é dd e pode conter ...

リリースを間近にひかえたFirefox 3.6で対応されるので、そこかしこで取り上げられているCSSによるグラデーション。基本的な書き方はIntroducing CSS Gradientsやcss gradients in Firefox 3.6を始めとして腐る程あるのですっ飛ばすとして、実際にボタン等で利用する時にどう�

Good web design doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, there are many aspects of design that come together to achieve this. The first one that we’ll be looking in this 4-part-series is layout.

　【ソウル＝竹腰雅彦】北朝鮮がデノミネーション（通貨単位の切り下げ）を突然実施したのは、急激なインフレに対処する一方、国民の隠し資産や富裕層の不正蓄財、闇市場などへの統制を強化し、体制を引き締める狙いがある。

One of the neat things about Mail.app is rules. Rules will perform a specified action if a certain condition is met. These actions include moving, copying, and setting the color of a message, as well as automatically replying, forwarding, and redirecting a message. For example, the "News from Apple" rule, which highlights messages received from ...

If there’s something we developers are really bad at, is guessing. We think we know which parts of our application are slow, and spend a lot of time optimising those, but in reality the bottlenecks are often somewhere else. The only sane thing to do is measuring, with the help of some profiling tools.

I’ve never been fully committed to the notion that we’re going to have a “double dip” — that the economy will slide back into recession. But it has been clear for a while that it’s a serious possibility, for two reasons. First, a large part of the growth we’ve had has been driven by the stimulus — ...

This is the new official support thread for my PopCorn MKV AudioConverter (the previous one was getting too big, and since I wasn't the thread starter, I couldn't update the first post to reflect the newest version released, so I decided to make a new thread).

「今までの認識を覆（くつがえ）す、わかりやすい記事を書く」ことを目標にしているサイトです。話題の中心は生活とウェブ技術系です。

Styling a tableless css web form requires advanced skills in CSS. Besides that, we have to consider the form accessibility and usability as well. With all these tutorials, they will show you the right way to implement web form.

One of the most frequently requested browser features in recent memory is data URI support. There’s been a fair amount written about data URIs recently: my colleague Stoyan Stefanov has written a couple of posts about data URIs, and my former colleague Hedger Wang also penned a post about how to use data URIs in IE. Surprisingly, there’

Windows only: TVTrigger is like TV Guide for your desktop—if, in addition to keeping you up to date on your favorite shows, TV Guide also automatically found and downloaded the latest torrent of said show as soon as it's released.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The BCS might not be your favorite institution, but it has kindly spent the last week creating a useful case study in how not to use social media.

Power.com is again trying to convince a court that Facebook unlawfully monopolizes the social marketing space by preventing users from automatically exporting their data to other sites. In a new set of legal papers, Power alleges that Facebook's anti-scraping tactics -- which include bringing or threatening copyright infringement lawsuits against ...

The SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model is a very cool feature of SharePoint 2010 Foundation Server that enables developers to write applications that access SharePoint data from a .NET application running on a client computer, from a Silverlight application, and from JavaScript running client-side in a SharePoint web part. The client object ...

Over the next two months, PSFK will be hosting Redscout’s SPUR video series. It will explore the intersection of brands, strategy, innovation and the world of account planning. We hope to spark a lively discussion, and inspire those working in the field. Watch the rest of the series here

Being inspired by the wonderful series of articles/screencasts on the nettuts website called CodeIgniter From Scratch I decided to write my own series on using CodeIgniter and Doctrine together to build a functional website in a series of tutorials.

A Harvard Medical School study that looked at some of the nation's "most wired" hospital facilities found that computerization of those facilities hasn't saved them any money or improved administrative efficiency.

The Medical Defence Union, a legal body for doctors, said communicating via sites such as Facebook may be a breach of ethical responsibilities. It issued the warning after a number of cases in which patients propositioned doctors after searching for their details on the internet.

Today we’ll be looking at how to add keyboard navigation to a website using a few simple lines of JavaScript. First we’ll create a simple site theme in Photoshop and then transform it into a working website that uses keyboard functions to switch pages.

The folks at Blacksmithgames have come up with a really nifty idea. They've created an Advent calendar, or in their words, an appventcalendar. Each day from now until Christmas, a new door will open showing an iPhone game app that you can get for free, but only for one day.

One of the biggest challenges of web analytics is the over reliance on manual processes to collect data, interpret data and to establish actions from analysis. Organisations find that their internal resources are overly absorbed in dealing with responses from marketing managers, sales managers, merchandising managers, support managers, campaign ...

Google Analytics now provides a new Asynchronous Tracking Code snippet as an alternate way to track your website! Think of the asynchronous tracking code snippet as a script that uses a "separate lane" to handle part of the processing of your webpage. As the number of cars (or in this case, scripts on your webpage) increases, the asynchronous ...

Today’s idea: More and more, we place our trust in “algorithmic authority,” a new-media professor writes. We “regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources.”

We work together on assignments for a variety of brands as a hybrid creative director team. Calle comes to our partnership with a background in the digital space and Pelle comes from a more traditional advertising background. This duality of experience and background has allowed us to approach our creative work from an interesting place.

When you're new to modular architectures, a question that is likely to arise (sooner, rather than later) is: "How should I determine the best way to split an application  into modules?"

Picking the perfect hues for your design projects, on or offline, can be a tricky business. Using the swatches palette in Photoshop you can grab a full color palette from any photograph or image and save the swatches. Here’s how it works.

Nearing in on 100K (Apple approved) available apps as of this writing, the iPhone is the "do anything" device that's ready and capable of near desktop computing in the palm of your hand with the convenience of fitting in your pocket. For web designers and developers, this means no more toting around a laptop just to take care of the small bits of ...

Even though I've been practicing interaction design for most of my career, it is my industrial design experience that has enabled me to straddle the worlds of both hardware and software. Over the years I've seen interaction design thrive while the industrial design profession has gone into decline. I think we need to challenge the practice of ...

Three years ago, when it became clear that Apple (AAPL) was about to unveil some kind of mobile phone, critics began to weigh in on its chances of success. AAPLinvestors' Terry Gregory, building on a list of skeptical quotes begun by MacDailyNews, has put together what may be the definitive collection.

I've been using KeePassX to keep my passwords safe across the Operating Systems I routinely use (Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux), or have to deal with (MS Windows XP).

A tangle of utility in both architecture and typography offers a fascinatingly structured title sequence for the BBC’s “How We Built Britain” that bespeaks an acquisitive England. The artificial monuments of type seem proportionally sound, the final title card an achievement of engineering.

When we first came across Faviki back in 2008, we were intrigued by the concept of a social bookmarking service built using semantic tagging capabilities. Instead of organizing bookmarks based on user-created tags, Faviki tags come from structured information extracted from Wikipedia. After Faviki's update earlier this year which improved the ...

Dominic Pouzin is a worldly, smart guy. After doing school and internships in France, the UK, South Korea and India, he moved to Atlanta where he took a job in the NBC (Nuclear, Bacteriological, Chemical) protection field. "I designed statistical models, programmed robots, and implemented access control stations for nuclear plants," Pouzin says ...

The fourth Futures of Entertainment conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium took place at MIT before the holidays, bringing together scholars and key thinkers from across TV, advertising, activism, new media and beyond. The hot topic of the weekend was transmedia.

Arianna Huffington used her 25 minutes at the FTC’s How Will Journalism Survive The Internet Age? conference to take News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO Rupert Murdoch and his executives to task for their remarks comparing news aggregators to “parasites,” “tech tapeworms,” and “thieves:” “Apparently, some in ...

A drizzle of dust and sand falls over Ahmed Saloum Boularaf's fingers as he gently lifts the ancient, camel-skin bound manuscripts from a wooden box and puts them on a desk in his makeshift library in a mud-brick house close to the centre of Timbuktu.

We feature downloads of all kinds every day at Lifehacker. Today, however, we're bundling all the best free downloads for new computer owners, re-installers, would-be geeks, or anyone who wants to save time installing the best stuff out there. This is our 2009 Lifehacker Pack for Windows computers.

Creating effects on websites using jQuery and other JavaScript has really grown from flashy extras to full on applications in the browser. Part of slick applications is images. They might be part of the content being loaded or something like an icon in an application. But, for those images being added after the page is loaded there can be a time ...

Drop your bags, grab a drink, and grab the XP CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.

Introductory interface talks are boring. More importantly, by neccessity, they are the same old content recycled. And recycled uselessly, to no end. Because if the audience members were interested in interface design, they would already know the content of the talk. Or, to put it another way, if they didn’t already know the content of the ...

Europe should impose a unilateral cut in greenhouse gas emissions of 30% by 2020, according to climate economist Sir Nicholas Stern. Under the EU's agreement about how to divide up the cuts that would spell a UK reduction of 42% by 2020, compared to 1990 levels.

Don't want to pay for Windows Home Server? We show you how FreeNAS lets you create a server for storing, sharing, and streaming all your digital content—for free!

Sometimes it's the page A14 stories -- the ones that never see the light of cable news or take a second life in the blogosphere -- that tell you the most about what happened during any given year. From a naval alliance that could shift the military balance of power on two continents to a troubling security gap in the U.S. passport system to a ...

Fler och fler ges chansen att testa Google Wave. Någon beskrev vågen som en korsning mellan e-post och MSN, en beskrivning som träffar ganska nära verkligheten. Exakt vad Google Wave är har det skrivits om så många gånger att du nog vid det här laget redan vet det. I stället tänker jag förklara hur du gör för att stöta på liv fö ...

@NAME You're obviously uneducated on the subject. I doubt you even watched the video. The connector goes in the phone jack. The iPhone's dock connection has no part in this...

長年Firefoxを利用してきましたが、とうとう乗り換えの時期がやってきました。 少し前からGoogleChromeも併用していましたが、Firefoxのアドオンへの依存度が高くて移行しきれずにいました。

Recently I’ve been putting together a Web application for a research project. I decided it was about time I really looked properly into REST so my Web interfaces are better structured. I won’t go into all the benefits here, you can read for yourself. Suffice to say it seems like a good approach to take.

ハードとしての手帳という側面もあるが、実際に利用する際にはソフトとしての「手帳術」も重要だ。今回は、手帳術とはなにか、どうやったら続けられるのかを説明しよう。

This update covers tutorials, how-to, screen casts, tips and techniques that you should have read in October 2009. Featured authors include: Soh Tanaka, Chris Coyier, Andrew Burgess, Paul Burgess, Burak Guzel, Lam Nguyen, Janko Jovanovic, Adnan Osmani, Sam Dunn, Chris Spooner, David Walsh, Mike More, Jeffrey Way, Ashley Ford, Zac Siswick, Kevin ...

We Covered a lot of tutorial of Photoshop WordPress themes, Layouts, web 2.0, logo, text effects, illusions in effects, but after making the awesome template's in PSD. It's quite hard to convert into HTML or CSS. Many developers demand for money.Today, i explored the amazing examples of layouts of PhotoShop and CSS i.e. how to convert PSD into ...

Naturalmente, aunque cueste creerlo, todos somos vendedores. Comenzando por nuestra necesidad de vendernos a nosotros mismos para alcanzar nuestros objetivos. Hay distintas estrategias para hacerlo, pero siempre se trata de un proceso que pone en juego nuestra reputación, motivo por el que mejor: ¡aprender a venderse bien!

A lot of web sites use Google Analytics to analyze traffic data, so the performance of Google's tracking code is very important. Google recommends to place the code just before closing the <body> tag to ensure "that the tracking code is executed as the last element of the DOM". Otherwise, the script would block the other elements from ...

There are many, many jQuery tooltip plugins out there, and some of them are very good. But when someone on the jQuery Google Group asked (a year ago) which plugin could handle displaying tooltips for 2,000 links on a page, I wasn't able to find one. So, I decided to throw together a quick little plugin myself and was surprised by how easy it was.

The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and promote safer driving. There might already be quite some traffic light time ...

Ricky Swallow travaille le bois comme personne d’autre, et toutes les photos que vous voyez dans cet articles sont des sculptures exclusivement en bois. Sacré talent.

localStorage.bool = false; alert(localStorage.bool); // false if (localStorage.bool) alert(localStorage.bool); // false が表示される localStorage.ary = ['a', 'b', 'c']; // この時の戻り値は ['a', 'b', 'c'] localStorage.ary[0]; // => a localStorage.ary instanceof Array; // => false

That Sweden knows a thing or two about digital advertising isn't news to most Mad Men these days. At Cannes you can hardly swing a cyber Lion without hitting at least one Swede. If you have a Lion to swing, that is -- the Swede will probably be the one holding it in the first place.

Showcases are the best places to get the inspiration and to know latest design trends. So today, I am going to show you some very cool CSS Galleries. These are the showcases of very beautiful and modern websites where you can also submit your own creation also. If you are stuck in the current design project or want to redesign your own site then ...

Plans for smart meters for millions of homes are expected to be unveiled even though trials suggest the £8bn scheme may help people save just £28 a year.

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A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data.

Explore this interactive graphic showing data collected over 18 years from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS). The 2008 results, to be released today, are based on 54,000 interviews with a margin of error of plus or minus 0.5%. It finds that, despite population growth and immigration adding nearly 50 million more adults, almost ...

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what it is, here's an explainer.

cURL, and its PHP extension libcURL, are tools which can be used to simulate a web browser. In fact, it can for example, submit forms. In this article, I’m going to show you 10 incredible things that you can do using PHP and cURL.

JERUSALEM — Jewish nationalists and Palestinians clashed in an East Jerusalem neighborhood on Tuesday after the Israelis took over a house by court order in a predominantly Arab area. The confrontation further strained tensions in this contested city, where competing Israeli and Palestinian claims have become a sticking point in the Obama ...

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what it is, here's an explainer.

 This is so simple I am almost embarrassed to call it a tutorial. The background on this is that when I buy fruit at our local farmer's market it often comes in cardboard baskets like this one.  I use them to store various little bits and pieces but sometimes I have more than enough and I have to flatten them to go into the ...

During the Bill Clinton impeachment idiocy of 1998, many on the left said that if Clinton were removed from office, let it be for gutting welfare or for imposing sanctions on Iraq, and not l'affaire Lewinsky.

続々移行するそのワケとは　Mac一筋という熱狂的なユーザーだけでなく、「面白いことをしたい」と考えるエンジニアもMac OS Xを利用し始めている。いったいなぜだろう

これ、ちょっと面白いですね。本当のスパイ（というかCIA）は靴紐の結び方でコミュニケーションをとったりするらしいのだとか。

Once more, we enter the month of December and the traditional western Holiday Season, and once again, I'd like to present a Hubble Space Telescope imagery Advent Calendar for 2009. Keep checking this page, because every day, for the next 25 days, a new photo will be revealed here from the Hubble Space Telescope, some old and some new. I have felt ...

De beste posities voor labels en knoppen in formulieren, het effect daarvan op kijkgedrag, het belang van first view en de taal spreken van je doelgroep. Usability inzichten waarmee websites relatief eenvoudig zijn te optimaliseren en toch blijkt in de praktijk dat deze zaken vaak mis gaan. Tijdens de seminar ‘Een steeds betere website’

Normalmente las recopilaciones de fuentes me gustan, pero a veces son demasiado cargadas y no conviene meter muchas fuentes de golpe en nuestros ordenadores porque el funcionamiento podría verse bastante mermado en los programas de diseño.

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

I’m glad that so many people enjoyed my last tutorial on creating iPhone applications with Flash CS5. As expected I have received hundreds of questions from people about it. This post will aim to answer some of the most frequently asked questions.

Australia has overtaken the United States, the heartland of the McMansion, to boast the world's largest homes, according to a report by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Today, we are going to look at two of Photoshop’s primary masking techniques – layer masks and clipping masks. We’ll be comparing the two by looking at how they work on a practical level, the basic similarities, and the much more significant differences. Finally, we’ll look at how we can actually get the two different ...

Twitter創設者の新事業「Square」は、高い決済手数料を払わなくても、誰でも携帯電話でクレジットカード支払いを受け付けられるようにする。