Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

Get Your Own Social Network!
Ning is the only online service where you can create, cu ...

NLS Historic Maps API: Historical Maps of Great Britain ...
This seamless historic map can be:
embedded in your own website
used for research purposes
... rdnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.

In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bot... fees to attend university? …What if you could get it a... online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as ... suggests, you don’t get something for nothing.
And that brings me to o

Our bodies may some day become extensions for smartphone... devices, if a new Nokia patent is any indication.
Nokia has patented magnetic material that would alert we ...

Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
According t

Multi-touch revolutionised user interfaces, and, if Noki... their way, a mobile device that's sensitive to how it's ... be the next revolution.
At the Nokia World show, the Finnish mobile phone maker ...
While it was a real computing device with a real

Nominatim (from the Latin, 'by name') is a tool to searc... and address and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM p... geocoding). It can be found at nominatim.openstreetmap.org.

What is NoseRub?
NoseRub is a protocol.
What currently can be downloaded is just an example impl ...
How is it a »decentralised« social network?
... . You can build anything on top of the NoseRub protocol.

NoSQL database or Post Relational databases are umbrella... loosely defined class of non-relational data stores that... history of relational databases and ACID guarantees. Dat... under this term may not require fixed table schemas, and...
Trends in c

Everyone has a lot of notes. Some of them are organized,... aren’t. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Notae keeps all of your thoughts together. It lets you t ...

This post is a collection of my notes on Human-Computer ... It is not intended to be a comprehensive guide or a syst... a collection of useful articles, links, videos, books, w... during the last years and that I have been using during ... I think the

University of Nottingham

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.

WAVING your hand to get the bartender’s attention may ...
Miniature projectors may soon have all kinds of new uses ...
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* Microvision Incorporated
... service industry, but also in video games and robotics.

Number of Neurons in a Human Brain
The Physics Factbook%u2122
Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students
An educational, Fair Use website
... brain has more than 100 billion neurons" > 100 billion

Nvu is an open source project and we encourage all who w... involved.
Nvu is in the early stages of development and we are get ...
Nvu's development site (http://www.nvudev.org) will also ...

7.6.1. Mapping Entities to Handlers
Applications can register themselves with Launch Service ...
[23] Although UTI support was introduced in Mac OS X 10. ...
Typically, registration with Launch Services occurs auto ...

behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be some... the user.

What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generat ...
by Tim O'Reilly
09/30/2005
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 m ...

This is what OAuth does, it allows the you the User to g... private resources on one site (which is called the Servi... another site (called Consumer, not to be confused with y... While OpenID is all about using a single identity to sig... OAuth is ab

It is tempting to conclude from this record that functio... have what it takes. They may make sense for certain limi... and contain useful concepts to be imported into other la... imperative and object-oriented languages are simply bett...
Tempting as

The Oculus Rift headset is the cutting edge of virtual r... games. Be part of history by getting your own Oculus Rif...

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.