Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, whe...
Since the PHP allows you to create an OLE compatible COM ...
Before we start, let’s introduce input parameters of t ...
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Many of the emerging technologies that will be entering ... are already known in some form in 2008, according to Gar... industry analysts examined seven of these long-term inno... “IT Grand Challenges” — and what IT leaders ought ... them now, d

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific... in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these... frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertain... can think of them as academic urban legends. The explana... phenomenon

Many of you have shared with us difficulties you’ve ex... using traditional path analysis tools. For instance, man... don’t sensibly group related visitor paths and pages, ... analysis can be difficult. You’re looking for better w...
The Google

Many people in the UK feel a growing connection with oth... neighbourhood and the wider world, but shrinking ties wi...
The figures come from a survey for the BBC's Who Do We T ...
Graphic on connectedness
More people said neighbourhood ties and links w

Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable
contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. H ...
engines do not index this valuable information. One wa ...
to "hidden-web" databases is through commercial Yahoo! ...
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Many web screen scraping tools exist. They are hard to l... fully satisfy your specific requirements and changing de... need custom Web scraping services rather than ready-made... nor any Web scraping software. In a custom scraping proj... you scrape

Map of Salopek's route
About 60,000 years ago, our ancestors took the first ste ...

Map showing the Modern Distribution of Celtic Languages In The 21st Century by reddit user targumures

MaPit is our database and web service that maps postcode... current or past administrative area information and poly... United Kingdom. It has been rewritten from the ground up... PostGIS, providing us with a large array of improvements... a lovely ad

Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final d... Commune the military advances of the Versailles army wer... basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay.... nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again m... altogether

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily unders... appreciated regardless of culture or language. This trul... introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever cons... volume: maps from different time periods and a variety o... made for di

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

MARVIN THE ROBOT, a supporting player in "The Hitchhiker... Galaxy," speaks in the dull monotone of the chronically ... "Star Wars" films, C-3PO is a bundle of anxiety and neur... "2001: A Space Odyssey," the HAL 9000 is creepily homicidal.

Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the e... 1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatisation of T... Worlds sent untold thousands of people into the streets ...
The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of inva ...
Or, more ac

Materials scientists know that things behave differently...
The MIT team, comprised of Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Jos ...
How the heck is that possible? The long answer looks lik ...
The researchers chose a light-emitting diode with a ...
The gist of

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for ...
No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No m ...
LaTeX:
Jα(x)=∑m=0∞(−1)mm!Γ(m+α+1)(x2)2m+α
... (Math rendered by MathJax)

MATT REYNOLDS, an assistant professor in the electrical ...
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Jochen Teizer
Using only radio waves for its electrical power, the Sma ...
... uipment to determine if the hat’s wearer is too close.

Mayhem is a Windows-based application lets people set a ...
Receive an email reminder to winterize your house wh ...
Add an auto-save feature to a program that doesn’t ...
Pause a video automatically when you leave the room.
Automatical

McDonald’s restaurants with staff predominantly aged o... profitable

MD5 Collision Generation
http://www.stachliu.com/md5coll.c - Faster implementat ...
http://pub1.positivenetworks.net/~dispensa/md5coll.zip ...
Old (Wang, et al.) average run time on IBM P690 superc ...
New average run time on P4 1.6ghz PC - 45

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharin... It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trend... to like-minded academics. To achieve our long-term visio... for research“, we’re working with the former foundin... Skype and L

menu-aim is a jQuery plugin for dropdown menus that can ... between a user trying hover over a dropdown item vs tryi... a submenu's contents.
menu-aim assumes that you are using a menu with submenus ...

Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying ... electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previou... the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world a... Engineers at Duke University have come up something that... the latter

Microdata is a proposed feature of HTML 5 that allows se... information to be embedded within the markup of a web pa...
Why PHP Microdata?
One of the most interesting features of the Microdata sp ...
The library allows one to parse out the structured Mi

Microformatique is an unofficial blog covering all thing... “data at the edges”. Latest specifications, presenta... publications and more. It’s put togther by John Allsopp

Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to... order to make it possible to present summaries of the in... page without having to know how to parse the document it... implements a global Microformats object that provides ac... microformat

Microsoft Excel supports two different date systems: the... and the 1904 date system. This article describes the two... the problems that you may encounter when you use workboo... different date systems.