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This month
The Archivist - Save and Export Twitter Searches Before They Go Away
by Spone
If you have used Twitter search before, you may notice that you can only go back a certain amount of time and/or number of tweets for a given search. In fact, if you read the Twitter search documentation, you'll note that the folks from Twitter say, "We also restrict the size of the search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to search. This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow."
September 2009
Snakes on the Web
by karlcow
& 1 other
The big problem, though — the elephant in the room — is that gateways suck, too. Gateways aren’t APIs. There’s a limit — and it’s a low one — to the level of inter-op you can obtain when the only interface you have is a gateway. Even if we improve WSGI — and we should — it’ll only take us so far.
August 2009
Form autocomplete
by znarf
If you want to remove one of your previous form entries from Firefox's history:
- Click on the form field and press the down arrow key to display all the saved entries. You may type the first few letters of the entry to limit the number of entries displayed.
- Use the down arrow key or the mouse pointer to highlight the entry you wish to delete.
- Press Shift+Delete. The entry will be removed.
You may repeat the process for any number of entries for a particular form field.
Photoshop High Key Glow Effect Tutorial
by mozkart
(via)
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to create a high key glow effect, which is a fancy way of saying we'll be applying a glow only to the highlights in an image. This effect works especially well with wedding portraits since it's great for adding a romantic, magical look to your photos, and wedding portraits usually contain lots of bright white areas to work with. We'll see how to easily select just the highlights in an image using Photoshop's Color Range command, then we'll copy the highlights to their own layer and create the glow effect using a blur filter and one of Photoshop's layer blend modes designed for lightening images. Finally, we'll combine layers into a layer group and use a layer mask to limit the areas where the glow effect is visibile. It may sound like a lot of work, but once you know how to do it, the entire effect can be completed in just a few minutes! I'm using Photoshop CS4 here, but any recent version of Photoshop will work.
Joseph's Blog - RabbitMQ, AMQP gem, and EventMachine
by greut
RabbitMQ 1.6 has an option to set a pre-fetch limit. So we simply set the pre-fetch limit to 1, and our EventMachine loop runs nice and fast now. You'll want to tweak your pre-fetch limit depending on how long it takes to process each message. If you can churn through a hundred messages a second, you probably won't even notice this problem and the prefetching will help you, but if it takes you a few seconds (or minutes) per message, you'll wonder why things aren't popped off the queue for several minutes (or hours).
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July 2009
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"."
March 2009
February 2009
Three Reasons Why I Won't Be Using Google Latitude - PC World
by karlcow
Hidding is revealing.Now, Google Latitude does let you limit how specific of a location any given person can see. Let’s face it, though: If you make the effort to get into a location-sharing relationship with someone, odds are you’re both going to reveal more than just your current city. And if you suddenly disappear from the map or switch over to showing limited info, it’s going to look a little strange.
December 2008
Featured Download: FilePhile Transfers Any Size File Between Any Two Systems
by decembre
After registering at FilePhile's site with an email address and password, you grab and install a copy of the Java-based app, launch it, and add email addresses to your buddy list. Sending a file is a simple right-click on someone's name, but you can limit the bandwidth eaten up by FilePhile in its preferences. The transfers themselves are encrypted, and, as the site boasts, can be any size. That's about it, but that's probably all you need.
November 2008
uClassify - free text classifier web service
by parmentierf
uClassify is a free web service where you can easily create your own text classifiers.
Examples
* Spam filter
* Web page categorization
* Automatic e-mail support
* Language detection
* Written text gender recognition
* Sentiment
* See below for some examples
So what do you want to classify on? Only your imagination is the limit!
limitipconn2
by camel
This is an Apache 2.2 C module whose purpose is to limit the maximum number of simultaneous connections per IP address. The module allows inclusion and exclusion of files based on MIME type.
pokerth - Documentation Ubuntu Francophone
by damdec
& 2 others
PokerTH est un jeu de poker sous licence GPL v2 écrit en C /Qt. Il vous permet de jouer contre un maximum de 6 participants, qu'ils soient humains ou gérés par l'intelligence artificielle. Ce jeu utilise les règles du célèbre Texas Holdem No Limit. PokerTH est également disponible pour Windows et Mac OS.
October 2008
What's new in PHP V5.2, Part 1: Using the new memory manager
by eaque
& 1 other
(via)
nice explainations about memory allocation and some tips about php configuration in order to limit leaks or improve performances
Google Maps API Tutorial
by srcmax
The goeocoder quota is now set at 15,000 geocode calls per IP address per day. The old 1.725 second speed limit per API key no longer applies, but there's a mysterious "limit to the maximum rate" mentioned here and here. At the time of writing, it seems that a 100ms delay between geocode requests works well for long runs. Shorter delays case more 620 errors and may take longer to complete the retries.
August 2008
Macworld | Create good queries in Spotlight
by karlcow
mastering a few simple tricks, you can limit your search to specific types of data, exclude terms, and more—helping Spotlight locate exactly what you need.
Throttling qmail SMTP receive bandwidth | www.enchantedage.com
by camel
I wrote the program "throttle.c," which you can insert into the tcpserver chain of commands for a qmail smtpd server. It takes one argument: the number of kilobytes per second to let through on the incoming file descriptor. Throttle does not throttle the outgoing file descriptor, because that's usually just status from your mail server.
Additionally, throttle will set an alarm, so that any session longer than 15 minutes will expire and disconnect. This affords some amount of protection against lingering sessions that eat up your parallelism limit; I've seen such sessions from presumably trojaned DSL machines connecting to the mail server to send spam.
Community Sensing
by karlcow
Unfortunately, privacy and resource considerations limit access to such data streams.
June 2008
Free Online PDF Creator - Convert files to PDF on the Web - PrimoOnline
by cascamorto
& 1 other
PrimoOnline can create PDF files from 300 file types see full list, 5 MB size limit per file . The most common include:
Microsoft Word DOC, DOCX, RTF
MS Excel XLS, XLSX
MS PowerPoint PPT, PPTX
MS Publisher PUB
MS Visio VSD
WPD
ODF
HTML
TXT
BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIFF
May 2008
Browser cookie restrictions
by marco
(via)
The most interesting fact I discovered is that Safari places no limit on the number of cookies that can be set per domain. In fact, you can set enough cookies on the client to cause a server error as the cookie header can be too long to parse.
