If you're like most people, you cough up way too much for a monthly cable subscription and you barely watch half the channels you pay for. The good news is that in this era of fast and abundant broadband, there are plenty of ways to see your favorite television shows and movies without paying Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner—or any other ...

I wanted to integrate some branding functionality into an application we’re developing and so I needed test file upload functionality. We’re using Webrat for integration tests, though this will likely change as we increase the amount of Javascript in the app. I added Paperclip to handle the file attachments for logos, and everything ...

At the Peace in Medicine Healing Center in Sebastopol, the wares on display include dried marijuana — featuring brands like Kryptonite, Voodoo Daddy and Train Wreck — and medicinal cookies arrayed below a sign saying, “Keep Out of Reach of Your Mother.”

If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create.

Besides the official documentation and the Quickstart, there are many useful resources for Zend Framework, like blogs and Twitter. I did my best to collect them. If you know something that’s not listed here, but should be, please leave a comment and I’ll update the post :)

Hmm... have you been a-lurking about the blog scene for some time? Are you toying with the idea of becoming a blogger yourself? Perhaps you are not sure if you are good enough, smart enough, creative enough, pretty enough, interesting enough?! Stop that.

Right Media Exchange founder Michael Walrath, who sold the company to Yahoo for $680 million in 2007, is the latest top executive to exit the Web portal. The move comes as Yahoo is repositioning its Right Media Exchange to agencies and ad networks as a "premium exchange" so it's not perceived as a platform only for trading unsold inventory.

After working a while on a project that I need some textures, I remembered how important it is to have good resourcers at hand. I went looking for some paper textures, and it took me some time, so I thought it would be a good idea to make a selection of the best I found.

Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests. The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.

Despite having a toddler I am not a big coffee drinker. It's not that I don't need caffeine to help me start the day - I have a cup of Scottish Breakfast tea every morning - I've just never acquired a taste for the actual brewed drink. However, I do like the more subtle taste of coffee when it is used in ice cream and baked goods, so when I ...

Founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang, Yahoo! began as a hobby and has evolved into a leading global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information. Today, Yahoo! Inc. has become the world’s largest global online network of ...

Retailers spend a fortune each year promoting their brands in all sorts of venues, and now many are turning their sights to the creation of an iPhone app to bring brand awareness to the most popular smartphone in the world.

is one of the early innovators of this style of blogging and has been creating custom blog post designs since June 2008. With a background in print design, Jason had a vision to create a blog more in the style of a magazine, rather than obey the established rules of blog design.

Registering will give you a user profile and the ability to add other users as friends. To become a commenter, however, you need to audition.

Below is a list of free MP3 Meditation Chimes for you. If the timer you’re after isn’t below, I’d love to make it for you. To make it, a donation of your choosing, which will be used to ship Free Buddhist Books, along with an e-mail with the details of what you’re after is all that’s required.

One of the neat features introduced in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Read it Windows 7 Server!) is the support for native VHD boot right out of the box. This feature allows you to setup multi-boot scenarios on your machine a lot easier and safer than the traditional way of provisioning multiple OS partitions on your hard drive - ...

With fresh cranberries being abundant in grocery stores at this time of year, I had to pick up a few bags to use in my delectable fall baking. When I saw Katy's recipe for Cranberry Crumb Bars on goodLife {eats}, I knew this would be my very first fresh cranberry endeavor of the season. The bars looked absolutely perfect and since I am a big fan ...

It's that time of year again, when our freezers are filled with the summer's bounty in preparation for the long winter months ahead. Get the most out of your freezer, and learn a few of its other uses, with these great tricks.

Due to other family commitments on Thanksgiving day, we're having our Thanksgiving dinner this Saturday. My kids (and their dogs) will be here to celebrate and give thanks for our many blessings, hopefully an Ohio State win over that team from up north being included on that list. GO BUCKS!

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I love it when people--especially members of this community--take ideas and run with them. This one is no exception... A couple months ago, I was approached by blog reader and founder of a company called Trade Secret Cards, Zeke Kamm. He had a business proposition: He'd come to Seattle, pick my brain about various different pictures in my ...

Written by Ben Terrett, a designer in London. This blog is about graphic design and the things I stumble upon in my life as a designer. More details about me down there on the left underneath the silhouette.

"I misspoke during last night's broadcast," he said at 10:38, deep in the program and just before a commercial break. "I apologize for my remarks to anyone who may have been offended."

Whether it’s something hilarious a rapper said in a video, or a classic line from our favorite TV show, a majority of our time in the Complex office is wasted spent quoting our favorite lines and catchphrases. That’s why we’ve put together this little bundle of fucking awesomeness called The Complex Soundboard—yep, it’s ...

Since we laid down the audible-fuckery blueprint with the world-famous Complex Soundboard, it’s only right that we cook up a worthy sequel. And rest assured, this is no Blueprint 2—nope, we made the O.G. better by diversifying our lineup to feature a wider range of talking heads that includes old dudes (Larry David, Howard Dean), youngins (

Someone ask me a while back about inline editing in XPages. At the time I said I wasn't sure and I thought it wasn't possible yet. However, more often than not there's more than one way to do things in XPages so here's what I tried on a conventional XPages Data Table.

Now that we’ve finished our vanilla ExpressionEngine installation (Part 1), we can decide how we want the site to work and get the installation ready for our customizations. We certainly could have done the planning part of this before the installation, but I figured you’d want to get right into making things happen. So, now we will pause and ...

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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For the last three months I have been hard at work learning SEO by optimizing a local small business website. The business is called Giggly Wiggly Preschool and is located in the Seattle suburb Issaquah, Washington. This Issaquah Preschool was the preschool I attended many years ago, so I am happy I was given the chance to give back to it. ...

It's not just me. Two colleagues with different perspectives -- from each other's, and sometimes from my own -- marvel at how badly the mainstream American press distorted the picture of what happened during Barack Obama's just-ended tour of Asia.

Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny, open-source, portable, and, most of all, lightning-quick replacement for the bloated Adobe Reader we've all learned to replace. It's only a 1.2 MB download, so why not give it a try?

The ability to redact, commonly defined within the scope of litigation as the action of selectively removing, withdrawing or masking portions of content as a result of privilege or confidentiality, is a critical skill to develop and understand within the legal process. This task is especially important for document reviewers, attorneys who are ...

Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search. When you do a search for [eiffel tower] you'll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in black and white, at sunset and more. With Similar Images, which recently graduated from Google Labs, you can click "Find similar images" to narrow your ...

Os dejo por aqui una interesante implementación de un acelerómetro y un giroscopio utilizados como sistema de medición inercial con Arduino. El sistema es muy sencillo y no necesita de ningún componente extra más que un acelerómetro ADXL y un giroscopio IDG300. Para visualizar los datos, se utiliza un ...

Adam thinks XBMC is the best media center around, but I roll with Boxee for its awesome streaming web content. Here's how I turned a relatively cheap yet powerful home theater PC into a DIY Boxee Box for my HDTV.

You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.

Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond differently to stress than the neurons of slothful rats. Scientists have known for some time that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells (neurons) but not how, precisely, these neurons might ...

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to piece together an interactive picture – aka an image that contains tooltips and popup boxes. This can be useful for showing off a particular aspect of a photo (ie items or people).

Matrix: The Four Social Support Strategies « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing… At the Altimeter Group, I cover Customer Strategy, which encompasses not only marketing, but also support, expect our discussion to grow as social technologies impact the whole enterprise.

Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond differently to stress than the neurons of slothful rats. Scientists have known for some time that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells (neurons) but not how, precisely, these neurons might ...

What do we actually know about effective leadership? One hundred years of research on the topic has led to some clear answers. First, are leaders born or made? The answer is both, but more made than born. Leadership is a complex and sophisticated social role. Although certain qualities do predispose some people to attain leadership positions and ...

Our Rails customers often run into memory issues. The most frequent cause these days is what we in Support dub ‘bloated mongrels.’ To be fair, bloat has absolutely nothing to do with mongrel itself, which is a solid and fine piece of work. You can run into this problem just as easily with thin, passenger, etc. Changing to a different ...

Simon Willison snuck in a last-minute topic change, and is now going to give the server-side Javascript talk. The news of the past 24 hours is ChromeOS. For the first time in years, someone's re-thinking how an OS should work. With Chrome, you turn on your computer and you're in the browser. What's really interesting is to contrast it to the ...

The press would have you believe that Recovery.gov is an $18MM website that collects loan, contract, and grant data from recipients and shows it to end users. But that's only half true in a lot of ways.

You don't even have to make a bid, Randy Shoup, an eBay Distinguished Architect, gives this presentation on how eBay scales, for free. Randy has done a fabulous job in this presentation and in other talks listed at the end of this post getting at the heart of the principles behind scalability. It's more about ideas of how things work and fit ...

With Twitter quickly becoming the hottest site to be seen on, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd. There has already been a range of quality designs showcased on various sites, which has shown an emergence of trends such as the ‘sidebar’. Let’s take a look at some of the best practices around Twitter background design and get to work ...

The recession helped push up the cost of college this year, with students facing bigger bills because of reduced state spending on higher education and diminished campus endowments, according to a College Board report released Tuesday.

Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that criticism is premature: Confrontation doesn’t help with China and can hurt, and so engagement becomes a fine line to navigate. The Obama visit wasn’ ...

Granted, the year’s not done yet, but publishers start to slow down new releases right about now, so it’s not likely we’ll see another contender for “best of 2009” until January. Plus, Christmas is coming up, and I wanted to give you plenty of time to read some of these books before you give copies to your friends and relatives.

As CEO of ChannelAdvisor, Scot Wingo leads the company in its mission to provide retailers and manufacturers with the software and services needed to sell their products via online sales channels. In this eMarketer interview, Mr. Wingo gives his outlook for the 2009 holiday shopping season and talks about how retailers must be present in the ...

If you’re a twittering Android user, you probably already have your preference  of Twitter applications on Android Market. But if you’re still looking for something better, you might want to check out Seesmic which recently landed on Android Market (and BlackBerry devices).

Submitting her phone to the powers of a forensics lab, Louisa Hearn finds out just how dangerous it can be when our phones fall into the wrong hands. Silly text messages sent to girlfriends, pictures of my injured toddler and private details from my address book. These are snippets of my life that I wouldn't readily share with the world.

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Some days back I wrote a post regarding "Beautiful Thumbnail Hover Effect". On getting such a good response about the javascript effect I am again presenting a different thumbnail presentation.

5 hours ago by Rasmus Andersson, tagged scrup, osx, application and open source, filed under software I’m a big fan of integrated non-intrusive, productivity-enhanching applications. One category which is especially useful for me is the automatic publishing of screenshots, making conversations about looks and state so much easier.

Have you ever wished you knew everything your competitors where up to? Well online it isn’t that hard. 1. SpyFu – Want to know what keywords your competitors are targeting in the search engines? Use this tool to download the list of keywords and adwords they are using. Don’t forget to visit their SpyFu Universty.

Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

Today I have a treat for you. Cal Newport from Study Hacks is going to share some of his insights on productivity. Cal is also the author of How to Become a Straight-A Student and How to Win at College. He is currently studying for a PhD at MIT.

It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post. Poker hasn’t really picked up any for me, but I felt like I should keep writing in this blog and try my best to keep it alive in some way. Today I’m going to sell out a bit and write not about myself, but about online poker and recent events. My topic is vague enough that ...

In my last post, I compiled an installed the MediaTomb UPnP server on Solaris in order to stream movies, photos and music to my PS3 and it worked well. But I wasn't quite satisfied with it's features: No support for tags/covers in AAC encoded music (>95% of my music library is encoded in the superior AAC format) and a few other quirks here and ...

President George W. Bush meets with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in O'Neill's office on March 7, 2001, to discuss Bush's tax cuts. When the cuts sunset at the end of 2010, the previous administration will have left the government holding the bag for well over $2 trillion in lost revenue.

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It's been very long time now the Flex being introduced by Adobe into the market. As all of us know from version 2, Flex Builder was built on Eclipse. Adobe has done well in coming up with idea of two installers, one being a standallone installer & the other being the one which allows you to pick the eclipse folder and install the builder ...

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Orange UK has teamed up with Universal Music Group and Channel 4 to launch a new unlimited mobile music service called Monkey. However, it’s not downloads like Nokia’s Comes With Music, and it’s not streaming over the network like Spotify. Its 16-24 year-old target demographic will access the music via voice call.

Ever since launching my Information Portfolio, BrianHoff.net, I’ve received many emails with similar variations to the question “How do I become better with typography on the web?” or “Why does your type look nice on your site?”

100 The Position by Meg Wolitzer (2005) An hilarious, serious novel about sex and love and family. Paul and Roz Mellow publish Pleasuring (think of The Joy of Sex) in 1975 — it’s a bestseller, but what do you think their four children make of this?

Barrow County Schools received this photo of Ashley Payne from a concerned parent who said her daughter accessed the picture through Payne's Facebook page.

Adrianna: Married to a great man who helps clean the house and encourages my craftiness (remember, he's taken), mom to 2 beautiful girls, Z, age 3 and P, age 1. Likes baked goods, holidays, and dinner cooked by someone else, dislikes cleaning kitchen, sitting in traffic, and surprise visitors. Susan: Married to a quick-witted mountain marathoner ...

Last month, the American Booksellers Association published an open letter to the Justice Department, asking Justice to investigate Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon after they lowered prices of best-selling books to under $10. The threat, the ABA says, is dire: “If left unchecked, these predatory pricing policies will devastate not only the book ...

Both at work and during our leisure time, our hours are increasingly spent typing away on our keyboards—which only ups the odds of getting carpal tunnel syndrome and other desk-related injuries. Here are some exercises to reduce the risk.

we end up with classes that don't fully implement the functionality that's eventually needed, and when others come around to use those classes, and eventually fuller implementations are required, then it turns out that the original design is not adequate, a new design is required, some expectations (tests) need to change and previous uses of the ...

Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the Surface software developer kit, or SDK, to the public. It will also be freely available through Surface.com.

As more data about 2008 Internet usage in the US is released, online video increasingly looks like one of the year’s big winners. US Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during November 2008 alone, up more than one-third over November 2007, according to data released in January 2009 by comScore Video Metrix.

I’ve seen many posts asking for the simplest feature in Django admin… the ability to add custom actions next to History and View On Site in the Django admin form. The page where the actual object is edited, not the list pages. Imagine adding actions like: