I'm Living In My Tabset I noticed today that Windows XP pretty much confirms that I no longer use desktop applications like I used to. This is http://twitter.com/ourfounder
ONLINE VIDEO GUIDE ( ovguide.com ) If you've watched all of YouTube's hundred-million-and-counting videos and still have some time to spare, unglue your eyes from the computer monitor, get up, stretch, and then come back and check out this site. Online V
del.icio.us direc.tor is a prototype for an alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us. It leverages the XML and XSL services of modern browsers to deliver a responsive interface for managing user accounts with a large number of records.
digg.com is a social news site and del.icio.us is a social bookmarking or tagging site. Below you can observe a live view of the action on these two sites without having to reload your browser. If a site interests you click on it to check it out, then ret
Digital Free Press [electronic resource]. [S.l. : Detroit Media, 2009- ]. -- Periodicals. -- Mode of Access: World Wide Web. -- In English. -- Title from HTML header. -- Other Titles: Detroit Free Press. -- Description based on contents viewed July 2, 2009. 1. Newspapers
If you've never abandoned your 4th grade obsession with the night sky (and who has?), Star Viewer is a web-based tool for peeking at some of the most interesting and vivid sights in the night sky. Star Viewer is not as complicated as, say, the previously mentioned open-source and feature-rich astronomy tool Stellarium
ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reports today on a new open source navigation project launched by European GPS company TomTom that adds additional functionality to navigational devices, regardless of the make or model. The OpenLR project aims to put navigation data on top of a GPS unit's existing database so drivers can access local traffic, weather, and other useful information as they travel.
Wolfram Alpha to open data feeds Wolfram Alpha, a project from the makers of math software Mathematica, will soon be opening up its data sets, opening up new possibilities for data mash ups
Future of the Screen: After the CRT, a Display Deluge By Jon Stokes | 09.02.09 For the seven decades following the debut of television at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the term "cathode ray tube" (CRT) was virtually synonymous with "display." Shortly after the turn of the millennium, liquid crystal display (LCD) technology began to replace the venerable CRT in desktop-computer applications, and by the middle of the decade LCD was rapidly squeezing the CRT out the television market that the latter had invented. Just two years ago, it seemed obvious that the display space was in the final stages of a relatively straightforward evolutionary shift, with LCD replacing the CRT in the same way that the gas-powered automobile had replaced the horse and buggy.
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It costs more than three times as much to publish an article in a humanities or social-science journal as it does to publish one in a science, technical, or medical, or STM, journal, and the prevailing model used by many publishers of STM journals will not work for their humanities and social-sciences counterparts. Those are some of the eye-opening conclusions released today in a report on an in-depth study of eight flagship journals in the humanities and social sciences.