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How Google Street View Will Look 5 Years From Now - Jan’s Experiments
Five Best Screencasting Tools - Screencast - Lifehacker
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Everything you need to know about WordPress 2.9’s post image feature
Tips for writing an effective tutorial
Writing a development tutorial requires a few more considerations in comparing to writing a regular article. Readers would have to follow the steps, read code, view demos or examine a picture explaining some feature. Here are several tips that might help you write more efficient tutorials.
Michael(tm) Smith » WebKit adds support for the HTML5 <ruby> element
Current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer also have native support for ruby, and you can also get ruby support in Firefox by installing Piro’s XHTML Ruby add-on (and for more details, see his XHTML ruby add-on info page) — so we are well on the way to seeing the HTML5 ruby feature supported across a range of browsers.
Maintenant que Ruby a gagné son petit autocollant "HTML 5", les développeurs de navigateurs s'y intéressent. Comme quoi, le web tient à peu de chose.
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - The Berlin Wall Through Time - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Google Latitude
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Traffic Server is finally here | Ogre.com
# A scalable threaded asynchronous state machine model. On a typical setup, 2 or 3 threads per core is enough to drive a large amount of traffic.
# Feature-rich HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 support. We fair well in various tests like CoAdvisor.
# Plugin architecture, making it easy (well, easier) to extend and customize your server.
# Well documented.
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October 2009
Daring Fireball Linked List: Garmin, TomTom Shares Sink On New Google Navigation Feature
Soon enough, Google’s service will be both free and superior. Garmin and TomTom are toast.
La supériorité à l'heure actuelle chez Google à un nom : la grande métropole. En-dehors de ça, la cartographie à la Google est très loin de la supériorité. Et on espère une très bonne heuristique de gestion avec les temps de latence réseau en 3G...
Facebook: How to Eliminate “Dead Friend” Suggestions
Last week, in conjunction with its latest redesign, Facebook released “suggestions for helping friends,” a feature that aims to get you to assist your friends that don’t appear to be actively using the site and “reconnect” you with old contacts.
One unfortunate side effect of the feature: it started recommending those you’d rather not connect with, and in some cases, deceased friends.
Learning from Shogun
Flickr! It’s made of people! « Flickr Blog
We’ve launched People in Photos, a new feature that will help put a face to the Flickrverse and enable you to highlight members that you’ve photographed in a whole new way. People in Photos lets you add a member to a photo, find photos of people you know, and manage which photos you’re in. Huzzah!
BREAKING: Google Announces Social Search
Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature.
Space and Culture : “The city that never was but could have been…”
architects Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder “have created a virtual map to guide users around Manhattan to sites where projects they describe as ‘visionary’ were planned but never built. The map is available as an interactive iPhone application…that uses GPS technology to detect when a user is near any of the roughly 50 notable sites, triggering a feature that allows the user to learn about the proposal through the architect’s foiled designs and words.
Web Things, by Mark Baker » Media type centralization is a feature, not a bug
Via Stefan, a proposal from the WSO2 gang for an approach to decentralizing media types and removing the requirement for the registration process.
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September 2009
Linux Mobile Phones
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Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » WebKit Page Cache I – The Basics
This is the first of two posts that will center around a modern browser engine feature that doesn’t usually get a lot of press: The Page Cache.
