The Japanese retail brand MUJI and LEGO teamed up to develop a set of 4 different boxes. Inside those boxes you’ll find the classic LEGO bricks but also a few sheets of paper. No big deal. But when you also have the right punch hole tool, you can combine both to create something new. I really like this concept. You can order a set here ( ...

Experts studying the dogs say they even work together to make sure they get off at the right stop - after learning to judge the length of time they need to spend on the train.

In the previous article (Client Server Programming with WCF), we saw how easy it was to create a client/server architecture with our server hosted in a Windows application (whether a console app, win-forms app or a Windows service). This article will build on top of that solution to host our server in IIS. You can download the source code at the ...

Colors Palette Generator turns a picture with a pleasing look into a palette of equally pleasing colors for your web site or design project. Similar, although more sophisticated, than previously reviewed Colr, you can turn a selected image into a color scheme for your projects. You can upload any PNG, GIF or JPEG that is less than 1MB in size and ...

Yes, you might be using it already but you didn't know what it's called. That's fine as I have come up with that name and haven't written about it before :) So please read on!

Windows only: CintaNotes is lightweight, web-friendly portable manager for your notes and web text clippings. CintaNotes offers basic cataloging of notes by date and tags, but offers convenient supports URL retrieval from Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari. In other words, if you clip a paragraph from a web site that has links, the links will ...

I’ve been doing a bit of work with NServiceBus recently on a project and found it to be a really powerful and robust tool once you get it working. However like most open source projects and Udi will admit this himself the documentation is somewhat lacking.

Reader cain novocain's desktop blends eye candy with a perfectly functional minimalist desktop—a great customization without a lot of memory-hogging add-ons.

Windows only: We took a strong liking to controlling multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse nearly two years ago, and the concept's still cool, but the software hasn't updated. Synergy-Plus keeps the multi-control party going.

Let’s wait until we have proof about these alleged hacked emails from the Hadley Climatic Research Centre, said to have been authored by prominent warmenists.

Linux: Ubuntu 9.04's Growl-like, transparent notifications are slick and convenient for corner-of-your-view updates. Gmail Notifier takes full advantage of the latest Ubuntu improvements to provide lightweight Gmail checking on a schedule.

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Marginal Revolution posted the following excerpt from Jeremy Taylor's book titled Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes that Make Us Human. I think we have to start thinking about the idea that humans in the last 30, 40, or 50,000 years have been domesticating ourselves.  If we're following the bonobo or dog pattern, we're moving toward a form ...

Programming in Java doesn't have to be dull and boring. In fact, it's possible to have a lot of fun while programming in Java. This lesson is one in a series that concentrates on having fun while programming in Java.

If you’re running Linux, there’s a good chance your distro of choice uses Grub as the default bootloader. Grub has served well for many years, but it’s beginning to show its age. As with all software, it doesn’t take long before the latest-and-greatest becomes old-and-haggard. Features have been piling up in Grub without ...

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Anyone who has studied the history of the space age has come across the name Konstantin Tsiolkovskii (1857–1935), often under the more common alternative spelling Tsiolkovsky. He is generally credited with the development of the basic mathematical formulae for space travel. Other than that, he is often described as the man who after the ...

What makes economies grow? It’s a question that has occupied thinkers for centuries. Most of us would tick off things like education levels, openness to trade, natural resources, and political systems.

Tonight I decided to try making NGINX handle my zip generating, to save the server some work, and the user of some frustration waiting for background jobs to finish. Here’s what I came up with.

The partner of the Napier siege gunman received nearly $10,000 in ACC compensation after he committed suicide. More Video Photos

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Many blogs are using excerpts to display content on the front page. The use of excerpts gives designers a little bit more freedom and some opportunity to create an attractive and unique front page. In this post we’ll showcase for blog front pages that are using excerpts.

Implementation progress on the HTML5 elementには、日本語で記載されたドキュメントを読まない場合には振り仮名のサポートはそれほど重要なことではないと思うかもしれないが、日本の出版で活用されているこの基本的なレイアウトがブラウザでサポートされることは重

Across Buenos Aires, behind nondescript front doors and in family living rooms, a host of homespun restaurants are the latest foodie fad. The tricky bit is finding them – and I fall at the first hurdle.

Twitter ist – zumindest als Buzzword – auf der Agenda von Kommunikationsverantwortlichen und Entscheidern fest verankert. Doch wie und wann vollzieht sich der Wandel vom „Hype“ zu effizienten, pragmatischen und sinnvollen Microblogging-Tools auch für die interne Kommunikation und was müssen solche Dienste leisten?

The insertion template system is one of the hidden gems of KatePart, modelled after a similar feature in the eclipse IDE by Joseph Wenninger. Insertion templates allows to insert a text snippet into the editor that contains variables like user name, date and similar, or fields that may be filled out by the user. Such fields can be repeated within ...

La manera más fácil de probar un sistema operativo nuevo es usando una máquina virtual. Como las instrucciones para crearla no son fáciles de entender para todo el mundo o simplemente para los que se quieran ahorrar el trabajo he decido compartir con ustedes la maquina ya lista para usar.

In case you hadn't noticed the lovely titles on this page, they're League Gothic. Well, they should be if you happen to be using the latest version of Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer. However, it took much trial and error to figure out exactly how to get there. There are a number of pieces to the puzzle but in the end, I got something to ...

雑誌をスキャンしてデータをネット販売する「コルシカ」が物議をかもしている。運営元のエニグモは同サービスについて「書店にスキャナが置いてあるイメージ」と説明。再開に向け、出版社と話し合いを進めている。

IN THE normal run of things the management world is divided into dozens of mutually suspicious tribes—theoreticians versus practitioners, publicity-hogging gurus versus retiring academics, supporters of “scientific” management versus advocates of the “humanistic” sort. But this month has seen unusual comity: the ...

You mean there is a metal specifically created to making my PC faster. No doubt Microsoft has been hoarding this precious resource in an underground bunker in New Mexico.

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

実際に動いてすぐ使える「PHPによるかんたんログインサンプル」を作ってみました ケータイの端末ID・ユーザIDの取得についてまとめてみました（サンプルプログラム編）

It seems unthinkable, but ChildLine says calls from boys abused by women have doubled in a year. This deeply disturbing investigation reveals the terrible impact of a crime that society has never dared to confront.

Celtic megaliths, such as these raised stones, or menhirs, in Carnac, date back millenniums. (By Michel Angot -- Mdlf) Footpaths lead hikers to unspoiled views; spring and fall are the best times to visit. (By Fabrice Milochau -- Mdlf)

Windows only: Reader tjmarkham3's desktop uses an RSS reader modified from the popular Enigma desktop customization—and he's bundled the configuration into a script that can be added to your own custom desktop.

If you’re running Linux, there’s a good chance your distro of choice uses Grub as the default bootloader. Grub has served well for many years, but it’s beginning to show its age. As with all software, it doesn’t take long before the latest-and-greatest becomes old-and-haggard. Features have been piling up in Grub without ...

Ever since the human race began to count on the Gods, their numbers have increased. It is even possible the Gods are counting on mankind - using us for multiplication or dividing us into fractions.

Digital Pictures Interactive has put together a great augmented reality demo. Unlike many others, it’s entirely Flash based, so there’s no install necessary. Print out the custom symbol and try it out for yourself in your browser. Augmented reality refers to any mashup that combines computer generated content with a live video stream. ...

One of the new capabilities that will be available in our upcoming beta release of Adobe AIR 2 will allow developers to build applications that can detect the mounting and unmounting of mass storage devices. What is a mass storage device? Examples of such devices include USB flash drives, hard drives and certain models of MP3 players and cameras ...

A crystal clear talk by Ross Dawson about the use of social media, including some great examples and provoking quotes that clearly indicate that you will stay behind and loose business when not entering the social media world.

After seeing our rigging tutorial, a number of you asked me how we calculate our vertex weights. However, many of you reading the blog are probably asking yourselves a more basic question:

　日本語を読み上げる合成音声を簡単に編集・保存できるソフト。動画共有サイトへ投稿する動画の音声素材を作るのにお勧め。また、自作ソフトに合成音声を使いたい場合にもいいだろう。

Layoffs are cropping up all over the tech industry, with workers at companies ranging from AOL to Adobe to Microsoft getting pink slips. But while most people know to turn to the big online job boards and social networks ranging from LinkedIn to Facebook to help land a new gig, there are a lot of off-the-beaten-track online paths that can be ...

　書店では明日あたりに大型書店で並ぶと思っていましたが、アマゾンではもう在庫があるようです。よろしくお願いします。

It’s the time of year for champagne, streamers, and hangovers. Or not. After years of popping open the bubbly and nibbling on this and that, celebrating New Year’s has become predictable. And shouldn’t you welcome 2008 with some good luck?

He said: "There's a simple principle – we are trying to make a better advertising solution. We are showing that, around the data, there are things that matter. For instance, combining demography with music taste, we can group you with other users. We can then predict whether you like Audi better than BMW and then serve you advertising from ...

I’ve been experimenting with Maya 2009’s Mental Ray Render Passes feature. It’s intended to easily allow separation of different elements of the render into separate images. An easy example would be separating the diffuse light from the shadow. In practice it seems to be way more finicky ( or broken) than it ought to be. After ...

Writing From Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration today will be a somber affair. Gray storm clouds are slowly replacing the blue skies, and the sour tang of charcoal smoke hangs in the air. The mood among the internationals here is similarly gloomy. So many conversations end with the scratching of heads, with the ...

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Adobe AIR was first introduced on 19 March 2007 with the name of Apollo and designed as a cross-operating system runtime that enables web developers to use their existing web development skills, code and tools to build and deploy rich web applications and content to the desktop.

9月27日，在天津奥林匹克博物馆，中国奥委会名誉主席何振梁（右）与国际奥委会委员吴经国击响“奥运缶” 1955年2月，26岁的何振梁到国家体委国际联络司工作，从此开始了他的体育人生。从1950年春参加工作起，他所接受的第一个观念，便是要维护国家利益。这�

続いて、ブラウザの方のchromeを組み込むためにバイナリを用意する。自分でコンパイルしても良いのだが、ソースを用意するのがけっこう手間そうだったので用意されているバイナリを利用することにする。と思ったのだが、解説ページのバイナリへのリンク�

Aquí tenéis la segunda entrega de la biblioteca 2.0 de Marketing Online. En esta ocasión os paso la selección de libros que recomendásteis sobre marketing (ordenados alfabéticamente).

“I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable. I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all timeless”

For most entrepreneurs, ambition far exceeds even a superhuman workday. No matter how you slice and dice it, one person can only do so much. To do more, requires something more than working really, really hard. It requires delegation.

This is my third and final post as part of our disclosure of SharePoint 2010 today. The previous posts covered the SharePoint History and how we Engineer SharePoint. This morning, Steve Ballmer and I are kicking off the SharePoint Conference so it is time to talk about SharePoint 2010! It is incredibly fun and rewarding to unveil this release ...

The open source version of Google Chrome OS was released on Thursday, and tech wizards didn't waste any time turning the code into a workable test version of the new operating system. If you don't want to wait until next year to see what's going on with Chrome OS, then follow this handy guide to find all the information you need to get the new ...

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and several other companies (including several startups) have released various specifications and standards as part of the release of a new licensing agreement by the Open Web Foundation (OWF). The newOpen Web Foundation Agreement (OWFa) is a licensing agreement aimed at streamlining innovation by making it ...

Vector images have not fix resolution, that means they can be boost up to any dimension without loosing the image quality. They are great for print ads, flash animations and designers loved them because it gives great flexibility. So if you are looking for clip-arts, icons or images for your design project, don’t settle for raster images ...

Auf YouTube findet man Videos, die auch für die Lehre interessant sind. In unserem YouTube-Kanal youtube.com/mediendidaktik finden sich Playlists für den Einsatz in der Lehre. Erstaunlich einfach umzusetzen, finde ich, und eine durchaus alltagstaugliche Lösung, mit der Lehrende Materialien für ihren Unterricht in Schule und Hochschule ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The success of Linux over the past 15 years boils down to a few key factors, according to a panel of Linux luminaries. Larry Augustin, chairman of VA Software, Eric Raymond, founder of the Open Source Institute, Jon maddog Hall of Linux International, Chris DiBona of Google, and Dirk Hohndel of Intel regaled the capacity crowd ...