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This month
BlindSpeak® - Send Synthesized Messages Online!
by ycc2106
allows you to send digitally synthesized messages to anywhere in the world. The service gives individuals the ability to think 'outside the box' when the need arises, to send funny or informative messages to others.
OpenWrt
by cascamorto
& 7 others
OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.
Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
Simple Dashboard » description WPMU DEV - WordPress MU plugins, themes and more
by mozkart
This plugin allows site admins to remove widgets from the dashboard. In addition, site admins can override the feed, title, and URL of the primary feed widget (the development blogs widget). Changing the primary feed removes the ability for users to edit the feed via the widget control.
Multimedia Standards (Beta) - A comprehensive resource for multimedia journalists
by gregg
Our aim is to offer insights from top industry leaders on the state of multimedia journalism. We also provide guidelines based on their comments, information about conferences and awards, the ability to submit and critique projects and an in-depth list of resources
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October 2009
Adobe® BrowserLab
by ycc2106
Adobe BrowerLab gives you the ability to preview and test your websites in multiple browsers and operating systems. Since building a website to be cross-browser compatible is one of the more annoying aspects of web design, this should be a valuable web app to all of us.
CoSketch.com - Online Whiteboard Collaboration
by ycc2106
CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. Anything you paint will instantly show up for all other connected users. -One click to save an image permanently (bb- and html-codes automaticly generated for simple posting on forums or on your blog).
urlShort - Open Source URL Shortener
by ycc2106
* All URL data contained in a MySQL database, making it easy to back up and manage.\n * Automatic installation and easy customization.\n * Simple and clean interface for both user and administration functions.\n * Full API to allow other services and websites to interact with your short URL service.\n * URL preview functionality keeps your users safe, and lets them know where they're going.\n * Inline media embeds provide quick access to MP3, FLV, or image files.\n * Ability to choose custom short names/aliases for personalized and identifiable short URLs.\n * Cross-platform and cross-browser appearance.\n * 100% free and open source - Do whatever you want with it, no catches.
Making A Cool Login System With PHP, MySQL & jQuery – Tutorialzine
by Tiagut
& 1 other
Cool & simple login / registration system. It will give you the ability to easily create a member-only area on your site and provide an easy registration process.
It is going to be PHP driven and store all the registrations into a MySQL database.
Pip.io
by ycc2106
Pipio is a social operating system that aims to give people the ability to share and communicate in real-time. You can search what other people are communicating about in real-time based on contextual, geographical, and chronological relevance. As an operating system, we allow full functionality of third party web apps within the Pipio ecosystem
FreeScreencast.com - Features
by ycc2106
& 2 others
# Very easy to use Screencast Recorder, for producing Screencasts. # The ability to instantly upload your Screencast to share with the world. # Or, you can just save your Screencast as .FLV file locally... that's right, you can just keep what you produce if you want to. # The ability to embed uploaded Screencasts in your blog or website. Let us do the heavy-lifting of hosting your Screencast for you.
onOne Software - Genuine Fractals 6 Plugin for Photoshop
by jerome
It is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size over 1000% without the loss of sharpness or detail that you would normally expect.
September 2009
Digital Photographers, Welcome Back to 1999 | PixSylated | Digital Photography, Canon Flash, Shooting Tethered
by mozkart
Why the value of still images is collapsing
It’s that old supply-and-demand thing. The supply of digital images is way, way up. At the same time, advertising in magazines and newspapers is sinking.
If you want to continue earning a living at something you already do, it’s helpful if your trade is difficult to do and expensive to get started. Photography during the film-era was this way. Every time I pushed the shutter-button a couple of bucks flew out the window. Now the cost of getting into the pro photography game is virtually nothing (aside from the cost of the camera, the computer, the software, the training… still a relatively low investment for what you’re able to accomplish). I’m grateful that HDSLR cinematography is expensive and problematic right now.
The Trib Is Dead. Long Live The Trib. For several generations, ads in magazines and newspapers were the leading consumer of commercial stills. Sorry Charlie, those days are gone. Today advertisers are increasingly moving their efforts over to web-based campaigns. It’s not personal. It’s demographics. OK. So that means that it is personal. The web, with it’s ability to provide instantaneous feedback to advertisers enables those spending the ad bucks to target their message exactly where it needs to be within minutes. For an ad placed in the wrong magazine, the response time is measured in weeks or months. Print advertising is plummeting (stats here). It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the medium. Check out MagazineDeathPool if you’re not already a regular reader. Now is not be the time to launch a career as a magazine shooter.
Official Google Blog: Picasa 3.5, now with name tags and more
by srcmax
Today, I'm happy to announce that we're releasing Picasa 3.5, a new version of our free photo editing software. This version gives you the ability to add name tags to your photos, using the same facial recognition technology that powers name tags on Picasa Web Albums.
Single Post Template Plugin — Nathan Rice
by mozkart
The Single Post Template plugin adds the ability for your theme to include “Post Templates” in much the same way you can add “Page Templates”, allowing you to choose (via a simple dropdown) which post template you want to use, on a per-post basis.
All you need to do, after installing and activating the plugin, is create one or more “Post Templates” in your theme’s folder, and when creating or editing a post, choose the post template that you would like to use. If no post template is selected, the default template will be used.
LinuxPackages: Packages
by tadeufilippini
AQUI : carteiros
Welcome to the new package central.
We hope you enjoy it and find it easy to use. If you find a broken package or a link that does not work please email the contributor first then leave feedback if you still have no luck. You must register to get all the advantages of the site. If you posted comments or had an account on the other site your information has been moved. Look for more expansion in the future and also the ability to order the archive on CD
Google Fast Flip
by ycc2106
& 3 others
Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine.
Why capitalism fails
by marco
After spending his life warning of the perils of the complacency that comes with stability Minsky was understandably pessimistic about the ability to short-circuit the tragic cycle of boom and bust. But he did believe that much could be done to ameliorate the damage.
Cambridge Grammar for First Certificate (book audio)
by tadeufilippini
Cambridge Grammar for First Certificate (book audio)
Intermediate to Upper-intermediate
This book provides complete coverage of the grammar needed for the Cambridge FCE exam, and develops listening skills at the same time. It includes the full range of FCE exam tasks from the Reading, Writing, Listening, and Use of English papers, and contains helpful grammar explanations and a grammar glossary.
Contents
1. Present tenses: Present simple, present continuous, state verbs;
2. Past tenses: Past simple, past continuous, used to (and to be used to), would;
3. Present perfect simple and past simple: Present perfect and past simple, present perfect simple and continuous;
4. Past perfect: Past perfect simple and continuous;
5. Future 1: Present tenses, will, future continuous;
6. Future 2: Going to, future in the past, present after time adverbs, future perfect, to be about to;
7. Adjectives: Comparative and superlative adjectives, position, order, adjectives ending in -ing and -ed;
8. Adverbs: Formation, adverbs and adjectives easily confused, comparative and superlative adverbs, modifiers, position;
9. Questions: Yes / no questions, short answers, question words, question tags, agreeing;
10. Countable and uncountable nouns, articles: Countable and uncountable nouns, a, the and no article, special uses articles;
11. Pronouns and determiners: Possessives, reflexive pronouns, each other etc, there and it, someone etc, all, most and some, each and every, both, neither etc;
12. Modals 1: Use of modals, obligation, necessity;
13. Modals 2: Permission, requests, offers, suggestions, orders, advice;
14. Modals 3: Ability, deduction: certainty, probability and possibility;
15. Passive: Passive, to have something done;
16. Reported speech: Reporting about the past, reporting about the present, verbs used for reporting, questions;
17. Verbs followed by to-infinitive or -ing: Verb + to-infinitive, verb + infinitive without to, verb + -ing, verb + object + to-infinitive, verb + that, adjectives;
18. Phrasal verbs: Meaning and form, verb + preposition, verb + adverb, verb + preposition + adverb;
19. Conditionals 1: Zero, first, second and third conditionals, mixed conditionals;
20. Conditionals 2: Unless, in case, as / so long as, provided that, I wish / if only, it’s time, I’d rather, otherwise / or else; 21. Prepositions 1: Prepositions of place and time;
22. Prepositions 2: Prepositions which follow verbs and adjectives, prepositions to express who, how and why, expressions with prepositions;
23. Relative clauses: Defining and non-defining relative clauses, relative pronouns and prepositions;
24. Linking words 1: Because, as and since, so and therefore, in order to, to + infinitive and so (that), so and such, enough and too;
25. Linking words 2: In spite of and despite, but, although and though, even though and even if, participle clauses, before and after + -ing, when, while and since + -ing.
Facebook | Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts
by srcmax
(via)
One of the most popular features on Facebook is tagging, which gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes. Today, we are adding a new way to tag people and other things you're connected to on Facebook — in status updates and other posts from the Publisher
Flickr Gallery Plus! for Greasemonkey
by decembre
Flickr Gallery Plus! is a Greasemonkey userscript for Flickr photo set pages which offers you the ability to: * View one large picture with the other thumbnails in the set next to it. * Click-selection of whichever picture you want to see larger. * Keyboard navigation with left and right arrow keys to go back and forth amongst pictures. * View a slideshow of all pictures in the set. It is tested and verified to work with Firefox, Safari (through GreaseKit), Google Chrome (through HOW TO: Install Google Chrome Greasemonkey Scripts (Windows Only)) and Opera (through Opera Tutorial: User JavaScript).
August 2009
7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » The Other Points of View
by karlcow
It starts by including citizen to elicit and describe the local dynamics and needs to feed the data analysis process of their city. They can create their own point of view with the ability to observe and capture their environment. This potential to capture, observe and replay the city echoes very well with the recent interest of some architects, urban planners and designers in unconventional data sources (e.g. beyond traditional surveys). But how does it integrate into the current practice? Is there a spot for some vernacularism? How can urban scouts and urban safaris communicate with practitioners and decision makers?
Google Friend Connect Help
by ycc2106
Google Friend Connect is a service that helps site owners easily provide social features for their visitors. Users gain the ability to sign in to, make friends on, and interact with your site, making it more social and more dynamic. No programming expertise is required: just paste a snippet of code that we provide onto your site. Learn how to set up your site. As a user visiting friend connected sites, you can become members of sites and interact with other members who share your interests. You can also invite your friends from orkut, Google Talk, and other social networks to join the community. No need to create a new account for the site: simply use your Google, Yahoo!, AOL, or other OpenID account.
Duoh.com
by fabifab
Veerle, graphic design degree in hand, started Duoh! in 1992, focusing on freelance print work. In 1994, she was wooed by Geert Leyseele. Clutching her strong graphic design principles under one arm, and her heart in the other, she took the leap, and a little while later, beautiful little Duoh! n.v. was born.
Geert Leyseele
As it turned out, Geert wasn't just another pretty face. Veerle's hero brought superpowers to her business: X-ray vision to see around corners into the future of the web, a drive to move to Web Standards, an eye for project management, and the ability to leap wireframes and IA obstacles in a single bound.
When Veerle's blog became famous around the world for her tutorials and insights on design, CSS, and other subjects, fascinated readers saw the picture in the heading and asked, "Is that the designer's girlfriend?" No, it was Veerle, the other happy half of Duoh!
Life is our inspiration
We inhale the richness of life :
* sharing love, laughter, and knowledge with our friends and web community
* absorbing design (from galaxies to retro menus to bathroom faucets, we see it everywhere)
* putting our minds to design puzzles
* digging deeply into markup and code so our designs can sing
* delighting in chill house and progressive house music, art and artists, lovely sandy beaches, and biking through the countryside
and, then, we exhale websites.
Growing up but staying small
We love what we do and want to do it ourselves, not manage others. We create websites for some Big Clients (and fresh, little start-ups, too), and choose our clients just as carefully as they choose us. Each day, we throw ourselves passionately into the task of becoming better at work and at play. The rest of the Duoh! story? Look around; our work says it all.
July 2009
It's Finally Official, Microsoft & Yahoo Make A Deal, Yahoo Gives Up On Search
by marco
Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10 year license to Yahoo!’s core search technologies, and Microsoft will have the ability to integrate Yahoo! search technologies into its existing web search platforms
People will be able to control and federate their own data
by karlcow
People will be able to control and federate their own data
Authored by John Clippinger
John Clippinger, who directs the Law Lab at Harvard University, predicts a huge shift over the next one to two years in the way people manage their identities. He asserts that "user-centric identity, "the ability of individuals to carry their information from one site to another in a "cloud" of their own making, will become increasingly important.
