links for 2008-04-29 April 29, 2008
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To continue my “starting a business” theme for this weekend, the next concept I am going to introduce is how to successfully launch a web product. Since there is about as much advice for how not to fail as there are ways to fail, I am going to argue m
links for 2008-04-27 April 27, 2008
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Automated domain snapshots are a DreamHost service for keeping a few recent copies of the files in your DreamHosted domain as a backup. See Backup for references to other backup tools and strategies.
links for 2008-04-23 April 23, 2008
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The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods, strolling hand in mittened hand along the edge of the Baltic
links for 2008-04-18 April 18, 2008
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Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into “fourth-generation fuels” — biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feeds
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As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions — Islam, Judaism, Christianity — have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning t
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Performer, web-toymaker and philosopher-comic Ze Frank offers his signature blend of comedy, technology and social theory, with hilarious takes on Google, video games, and haiku, to name but a few. All the while, he makes brilliant use of the screen to tw
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Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demos an amazing new way to use fMRI to show brain activity while it is happening — emotion, body movement, pain. (In other words, you can literally see how you feel.) The applications for real-time fMRIs
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Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as
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Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open t
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Two TEDTalks favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, meet up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary.
links for 2008-04-17 April 17, 2008
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7 Principles of Effective Icon Design, Spoonfed Photoshop Tutorials
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Learning how to create Linux screencasts has been the most frustrating technical challenge that I have tackled for a very long time.
My efforts were, in the end, successful, and you can see the result — my first two screencasts — in my previous bl
links for 2008-04-15 April 15, 2008
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Movie files have a few basic components. First, the file itself is called a container, and the type of container determines where the information in the file goes. Examples of containers are AVI and Quicktime. Next, you have a bunch of streams; for exampl
links for 2008-04-10 April 10, 2008
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Rediff Shopping: India’s No. 1 online shop and gifts store. Buy mobile phones, MP3/4 players, cameras, computers, ACs, flowers, Indian music. Great deals/discounts on Indian jewllery, Indian art, ethnic Indian apparel, books, watches, air tickets. Shop on
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Online Indian shopping store for books, movie dvds, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, online gift shops, traditional apparel & wedding accessories, shoes, jewelry, appliances, home furnishings, housewares, online groceries, furniture, sporting goods, beau
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Future Bazaar is India’s online shopping site partnered by Big Bazaar, India. Here buyers can buy products ranging from Apparel/Clothing, Mobiles, Cameras, Computers, Electronic Gadgets, Jewellery to Fiction/Non-Fiction Books, Indian/Bollywood Movies VCD/
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Online Shopping Mall & Online Gift Shopping Store for Wedding & Special Occasions Shopping. Send Gifts to India like Mobile Phones, Wedding Gifts, Ipod, DVD Player, MP3 Player, Apparel, Books, Gifts, Flowers,Jewels & Pendants.
links for 2008-04-06 April 6, 2008
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ux is the world famous and endearing symbol of Linux. I don’t know any other software mascot that is so loved and venerated other than Tux. There are plenty of reasons for this phenomenon, but I won’t try to enumerate it here. Perhaps seeing my collec
links for 2008-04-05 April 5, 2008
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CHDK, the Canon Hacker’s Development Kit, is an open-source software project that can be loaded on cameras using Canon’s DIGIC II or DIGIC III firmware platforms. It unleashes new features including RAW file format, live histogram display, a battery reado
