Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Do they ever make sense?
I’m not saying that it’s impossible to be successful ...
Obviously free plans have worked well for companies like ...
We need to stop blindly copying them and start thinking ...
... t skip that free plan and focus on making m

Almost all British general practitioners use compute... consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not
Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner p ...
In hospitals computing was treated as a management o ...
The success of th

An identity built around making things—of being “a m... technology culture. There’s a widespread idea that “... things are simply different [read: better] than those wh...

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
The answer is "yes," of course. B

A group of Chinese scientists published their research i... peer-reviewed, open-source journal on January 5. The stu... paper that looked at the biomechanics of the human hand....
One of the sentences read: “Hand coordination should i ...
The word’

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both... scholarly community and in the general public, and many ... equality is an important social goal. However, when peop... the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they ... unequal soc

It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a... world where opting out of online culture is hardly an op... far more sophisticated view of privacy than adults give ...

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter,... required to do several things at once. But this constant... taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin ex... addiction to technology is making us less efficient

The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up

Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We...
by Maria Popova
“Time perception matters because it is the experience ...
Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ...
That’s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and ps

What follows may just seem to be a story about one cours... university, but it has important ramifications, not only... national debate about economics education, but for econo... politics itself. We, the Post-Crash Economics Society at... Manchester,

Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwr... infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention ... common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you ... chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll ... disgust. Bu

There are currently a million ways to embed distinct sni... and functionality on web pages. The most common two are ... and some form of javascript syndication (you put this sc... we'll document.write some stuff on your page). In the XM...
I (User:Kev

DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured info... Wikipedia and to make this information available on the ... allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedi... other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.

WikiCFP is a semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in scien... fields. There are about 50,000 CFPs on WikiCFP. Over 100... use WikiCFP each month.

Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used acros... It's not replacing existing markup but instead enabling ... transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice... contribute more easily. Creole will create a community o... developers

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 user... Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts ... growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that mi... - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.
Wikipatterns.com is

How to Make Brilliant Stuff That People Love ... and Mak...
Patrick W. Jordan
ISBN: 0-470-84711-5
Hardcover
... October 2002

Ultrawideband (UWB) technology offers great opportunitie... wireless multimedia networking. The WiMedia Alliance is ... open industry association that promotes and enables the ... regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperab... wideband (U

Wind power produces no harmful emissions of carbon dioxi... to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from electricity ...

Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor b... View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to... and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind t...
Frayne's device, which he calls a Windbelt, is a taut me ...
Frayne hope

Windows Live Toolbar Custom Button SDK
The Windows Live Toolbar Custom Button Software Developm ...
In order to use or develop custom buttons, you must have ...

Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable o... applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operati... Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs ... without the performance or memory usage penalties of an ... similar loo

You've Got Smell!
DigiScent is here. If this technology takes off, it's go ...
By Charles Platt
Joel Lloyd Bellenson places a little ceramic bowl in fro ...
... ctrum, all the way from Web surfing to Hollywood movies.

In focus: Incredible raindrops on spiders
By Nate Lanxon
20 July 12
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