Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner. Longtime ALA contributor J. David Eisenberg returns to get us all up to speed on the markup we’re about to be writing. Get Ready for HTML 5 Via A List Apart
August 10, 2009
Dawn Foster from WebWorkerDaily on the information overload of social networks. Love the river analogy: Think about it like a river of information. When you have a few minutes, you can dip your toes into the water for a little break, but you don’t need to spend the entire day swimming in it. Participating in… [Read more…]
August 4, 2009
Jon Zilber announces the Palm Pre’s Canadian availability date: It’s almost here! Bell Mobility announced today that Palm Pre will be available at its retail locations in Canada on August 27 for $199.95 (on a three-year contract with a minimum 500MB data plan). If you want to be sure to get your hands on Palm Pre… [Read more…]
July 30, 2009
I’ve wanted a desktop client that syncs with Google Reader for a long time and I’m glad that Brent Simmons is developing it: The public beta of NetNewsWire 3.2b6 is on nnwbeta.com. Includes Google Reader syncing, send to Instapaper, and a new app icon. Via inessential.com
July 23, 2009
People Emit Visible Light: “An Anonymous Reader writes ‘The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Japanese researchers have shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes… [Read more…]
July 16, 2009
Anand Lal Shimpi: While it would take 70 normal windows to max out the 512MB of video memory on a GeForce GT 120 at 2560 x 1600, it would take less than nine 12MP images open in Photoshop to do the same. And once again, you don’t get that memory back when you close your… [Read more…]
July 15, 2009
Khoi Vinh on social networking: We’re all blindsiding ourselves and one another with trivial obligations. Excuse me while I go and post this to Twitter Hehe. A Good Day’s Busy Work Via Subtraction
July 13, 2009
Congrats to Code Sorcery on the release of Pukka 1.8. One of the major new features is search and although I haven’t tried it yet, it looks pretty cool. Pukka 1.8: now with search! Via Code Sorcery
July 13, 2009
Nice to see some coverage for Linux to-do list apps Getting things done with Linux to-do list programs Via Ars Technica
September 1, 2009
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