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Drag’n drop generally looks hard-to-apply but it is de... using JavaScript frameworks. Here is, how it is done by ... jQuery UI:

websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any we... visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clic... traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

FLESH AND MACHINES
MIT robotic scientist Rodney Brooks foresees a future me ...

Sometimes, it is desirable to annotate content with specific machine-readable labels, e.g. to allow generic scripts t... that are customised to the page, or to enable content fr... cooperating authors to be processed by a single script i...
For this pu

Online DataBase Converter (beta)
Online DataBase Converter allows you to convert your fil ...
There are following directions:
Online Database Converter
... * PDB (Palm database) to DBF

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

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

Copy, moving, renaming and deleting make up around 50% o... usage according to Microsoft’s Windows 7 telemetry dat... 8, we want to make sure that using these core file manag... which we collectively refer to as “copy jobs,” is a ... experience,

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi...
The fibres

In focus: Incredible raindrops on spiders
By Nate Lanxon
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In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delus... Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery mak... Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors... code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers ... implied lic

Fresh out of Harvard in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job a... consultant. One of her first assignments took her to Mum... traveled by auto-rickshaw to a sleek outsourcing center ...
“There aren’t any unions for online workers. They ha ...
Janah, 32,

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

A smart-road design that features glow-in-the-dark tarma... weather indicators will be installed in the Netherlands ...

Cultural anthropologists who have studied teen texting a... just about instant gratification. According to Mimi Ito,... cellie habits of Japanese teens, texting those who could... everyone feel they're part of a larger social network. I... no distinct

It was the fall of 1998, and Schaefer was about to leave... job in the linguistics department at Uppsala University,... Stockholm. Hock announced that he had a going-away prese...
She was a little surprised—a parting gift seemed an od ...
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Screenshot via The Maker Map
We’ve long been fascinated with makerspaces, the DIY e ...
San Francisco is one such locale, with such a robust com ...

EnOcean's self-powering sensors -- found inside these sw...
Humans are inherently inefficient creatures. We leave li ...
And despite the advances in computing power over the pas ...
“Most buildings today are dumb,” says EnOcean Chairm ...
... through

Over the past few years, one of the most important shift... world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semicl... that use the Internet for transport but not the browser ... It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model ... computing,

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.

Why is OpenFlow so advantageous to a company like Google... traditional model you can think of routers as akin to ta... passengers from one place to another. If a street is blo...
With the software-defined network Google has implemented ...
Therefore,

Wiredness Image Manipulation API Information - Version 1.2
The Wiredness system includes a simple API which allows ...