Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
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"Life in the vault" explains why Intel's new launch (two... chips, code-named Grantsdale and Alderwood) may actually... digital landscape.

She said that consultants coming in were more useful as ... delivering work themselves, so that skills could be pass... advocated deconstructing designs, by working out which p... had created the outcome. 'How do I need to think to do t... teach peopl

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot

The internet and email expand and strengthen the social ... maintain in the offline world, according to a new report... Pew Internet & American Life Project, working in collabo... University of Toronto.

The curve clearly shows that you need to test with at le... discover all the usability problems in the design. So wh... testing with a much smaller number of users?
The main reason is that it is better to distribute your ...
You want to run multiple te

Usability with a twist (updated 20 Feb 2006)
10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, ...

"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ...
(Credit: Project Holodeck)
Infiltrating the Borg or having dinner with Deanna Troi ...
Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

You can use AppleScript to create drag and drop icons fo...
1. Launch Script Editor (Applications -> AppleScript ...
2. Copy and paste this text into a new Script Editor ...
set filecount to 0
... ~/.profile to include the directory which

User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.

You may use this tool to create a Firefox extension (.xp... greasemonkey script.

UEfAP
Using English for Academic Purposes
A Guide for Students in Higher Education
Andy Gillett

This article explains how to use the headless mode capab... Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, formerly referred t...
Headless mode is a system configuration in which the dis ...
Where it is applicable? Let's say that your application ...

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

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up... of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant ... impressive portfolio of real-world applications already ...
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored ...
This articl

People’s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the

This trend makes Utah’s accomplishment even more notew... years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 perce... to end homelessness by 2015.
How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homele ...

What Google has actually done is create a powerful infra... shape of that infrastructure influences everything that ... influences the allocation of mental resources of everyon...
That's a lot of power to put in the hands of a company t ...
But in the

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom v... without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be b... using property drop zones; dynamically positioned using ... directly moved, rotated, and resized using handles. Lyra... data pipeli

London Design Festival 2013: London's V&A Museum has add... first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection a

What is V8?
V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the o ...
V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd e ...
V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ a ...

GOOGLE'S $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility ...
How might Google, a company famously fond of numbers and ...
"Motorola has a portfolio of 24,500 patents and pate ...
Using one of the industries recent patent auctions a ...
... lio and

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For

The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a powerful open-... source code maintenance. It is provided on the the Xcode... accompanies Mac OS X or as a part of the Xcode developme... online. This article covers some of the most commonly us... CVS, with e

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

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