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October 2009
50 Tools for Web Based Collaboration - Popwuping
by karlcow
The following is a highlight of a competitive analysis I did earlier this year when I was involved in designing software that would allow remote research teams to work together. While software is still a long way from replacing all in-person collaboration it's becoming easier for remote or mobile workers to stay productive and communicative with their team. Certainly the tools we have available today are a vast improvement over what I used when I first tried telecommuting 12 years ago!
September 2009
Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR
by alamat
(via)
Fuji has introduced its award-winning EXR technology into the FinePix F70 EXR, giving a significant improvement in image quality against other models.
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August 2009
Daring Fireball Linked List: Snow Leopard Ships Friday
by night.kame
I can’t think of a single change that isn’t an improvement over 10.5.
Moi j'en vois un : Snow Leopard ne s'installe pas sur mon Mac.
July 2009
Query Processing at Light Speed
by karlcow
MonetDB is a open-source database system for high-performance applications in data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text and multimedia retrieval. MonetDB often achieves a significant speed improvement for SQL and XQuery over other open-source systems. Use the product strands as your roadmap for exploration.
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
by borsky
(SENS)- A practical way to cure human aging - Website of Dr. Aubrey de Grey
"SENS Foundation was founded to develop, promote and ensure widespread access to regenerative medicine solutions to the disabilities and diseases of aging. We shall be focusing on the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) identified by our Chief Science Officer, Dr Aubrey de Grey, and combining direct research efforts with education, affiliation and outreach programs."
"A key aspect of SENS is its potential to extend healthy lifespan without limit, even with repair processes which remain imperfect, as the repair only needs to approach perfection rapidly enough to keep the overall level of damage below pathogenic levels. Aubrey has termed this required rate of improvement of repair therapies, "longevity escape velocity"."
April 2009
Rapa Nui National Park
by innipukinn
(via)
The resource requirements in manpower and services in the Park include additional ranger
personnel and their training, the creation of a documentation centre on the island itself, and improvement of
signage and visitor facilities. The new management plan currently being prepared with the active support of the
world Monuments Fund will make a substantial contribution to the improvement of the present situation, it is
recommended that this should be submitted to the world Heritage Committee for comment by the secretariat
and by ICOMOS as soon as it is completed.
October 2008
A visual guide to navigating blog comments | Blog | 1976design.com
by sbrothier
& 2 others
I’ve made another improvement to the comments system, and this time I think it’s pretty innovative (well, I think the last one was as well, but I do like this one).
This only works 100% correctly in Mozilla, and I’m not sure why. IE and Opera get 90% of the way there, and that’ll do until I figure out what the problem is. Anyway, on to the idea…
Plugins | jQuery Plugins
by srcmax
This plugin is an improvement to the original iFixPng plugin. It may use some more resources and work slower, but there are some important improvements:
* The image or element with a background image doesn't have to be visible.
* background-position is now supported, including an IE absolute position fix. (bottom: -1px || bottom: 0px)
September 2008
Road Blog: Jill Biden in Pennsylvania, Sept. 5, 2008
by starmuscle
FROM BARACK OBAMA'S WEBSITE AND NEWSLETTER:
Jill and Joe Biden traveled together throughout the lush state of Pennsylvania yesterday, speaking to audiences at the Ironworkers Local 401 in Philadelphia and Maple Point Middle School in Langhorne. Jill introduced her husband by describing how the two met. She said Joe always supported her dreams and encouraged her to get a doctorate in education. Today, Jill works as a community college professor and passionately supports the improvement of the education system. She talks about how thrilled she is that the teachers of America will finally have strong leadership under the Obama-Biden Administration.
She said:I think we make a great team -- both our families -- the Bidens and the Obamas. I hope that your families will join our team as well.Please enjoy this video of Jill describing her husband and hero, Joe Biden.
Sharon Barnes
En route to Wilmington, Delaware
July 2008
Top 3 Memory Improvement Myths
by peterjacobs
Myth 1: Is all in the genes
On of the largest misconceptions about a good memory is that you are born with it. Most people don't believe that they can significantly improve their memory. It is not in their reality that they could be able to memori...
April 2008
Motionographer | YouTube: Secret Higher Quality Action
by jerome
& 1 other
Try this: When viewing a movie on YouTube, add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL. In addition to slight video improvement, you should also notice increased audio quality. Notice I use the word “slight.” I hope YouTube goes further than this humble baby step towards something more like Vimeo’s level of quality.
There’s also a Firefox extension that supports higher-quality YouTube playback (among a list of other enhancements).
March 2008
Motionographer | YouTube: Secret Higher Quality Action
by kruty
& 1 other
Try this: When viewing a movie on YouTube, add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL. In addition to slight video improvement, you should also notice increased audio quality. Notice I use the word “slight.” I hope YouTube goes further than this humble baby step towards something more like Vimeo’s level of quality.
There’s also a Firefox extension that supports higher-quality YouTube playback (among a list of other enhancements).
Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
by kasi77
& 12 others
High Performance Web Sites: The Importance of Front-End Performance
In 2004, I started the Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo!. We're a small team chartered to measure and improve the performance of Yahoo!'s products. Having worked as a back-end engineer most of my career, I approached this as I would a code optimization project - I profiled web performance to identify where there was the greatest opportunity for improvement. Since our goal is to improve the end-user experience, I measured response times in a browser over various bandwidth speeds. What I saw is illustrated in the following chart showing HTTP traffic for http://www.yahoo.com.
Download a free trial of Websphere Business Modeler Adv. 6.1.1
by BlueVoodoo
IBM’s premier business process modeling and analysis tool for business users that offers process modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities. The WebSphere Business Modeler helps you visualize, understand, and document business processes for continuous improvement.
New Wave Outpost - Obscure 80's Song Clips
by garret
"...song clips of obscurities and lost treasures from vinyl records, representing a sampling of some of the great forgotten music of the new wave era, in my opinion. These clips are long enough to hear the verse and chorus—a vast improvement over the standard 30-seconds-or-less snippets offered by most online music stores."
February 2008
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ to 6400+ Upgrade Review
by danijelzi
(via)
I have replaced an old Athlon 64 X2 4200+ at 2.2GHz with the 6400+ in a Windows Vista desktop PC machine featuring the Asus M2N-E SLI motherboard, 2GB of 800MHz DDR2 memory, the Asus EAH3850 512MB video card, and a Cooler Master 620W power supply. The performance improvement after this upgrade is significant and goes up to 46 percent in some tests.
The Usenet Improvement Project - Home
by jdrsantos
The Usenet Improvement Project is an attempt to make Usenet participation a better experience for those who are clued as to what the Usenet medium is and how to use it.
January 2008
Curbly | DIY Design Community
by sbrothier
& 3 others
Curbly is a Web community for people who love where they live. Curbly is the best place to share pictures of your home, find design ideas, and get expert home-improvement advice.
Everyone should have a happy, beautiful home. With the right tools and know-how, every person can create a place that fits their personality. Curbly helps you bring out the best in your home.
25 Blog Improvement Tips For The New Year
by blogsir
& 1 other
1. Figure out what you’re really an expert in.
2. Put your readers first.
3. Subscribe to other blogs.
4. Comment on other blogs.
5. Link to other blogs.
6. Have a reader survey to find out what your readers really think about your blog.
7. Change your ads around.
8. Declutter your blog.
9. Sign up at a new social networking service.
10. Hold a blog contest.
11. Set up automated blog back ups.
12. Update your blog’s software.
13. Update your plugins.
14. Write for another blog.
15. Ask people to write for your blog.
16. Take a vacation.
17. Set up a blog posting schedule.
18. Throw out your blog posting schedule.
19. Choose (or create) a new theme.
20. Write from a new perspective.
21. Change your writing environment.
22. Stir things up.
23. Use more images.
24. Get more personal.
25. Remind yourself that blogging is fun.
November 2007
Masuga Design » Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar
by Krome
& 10 others
This is a rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL that allows users to rate things like can be done on Netflix or Amazon, all web 2.0-like with no page refresh. It is a major improvement on the previous version because it is now unobtrusive, meaning that if Javascript is off it will still work (although the page will refresh). You can also set the number of rating units you want to use (i.e. 4 stars, 5 stars, or 10 stars) on a rater to rater basis (see samples below or read the docs). A few other changes were made as well - see the docs for details. Note that this script isn't tied to any specific system (such as WordPress), so you should be able to adapt it to your situation without too much trouble.
Masuga Design » Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar
by srcmax
& 10 others
This is a rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL that allows users to rate things like can be done on Netflix or Amazon, all web 2.0-like with no page refresh. It is a major improvement on the previous version because it is now unobtrusive, meaning that if Javascript is off it will still work (although the page will refresh). You can also set the number of rating units you want to use (i.e. 4 stars, 5 stars, or 10 stars) on a rater to rater basis (see samples below or read the docs). A few other changes were made as well - see the docs for details. Note that this script isn't tied to any specific system (such as WordPress), so you should be able to adapt it to your situation without too much trouble.
