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August 27 2008

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Mousers vs Keyboardists

The geek web trembled with the announcement of Ubiquity, the QuickSilver for the web. Well, it happens that I am not a fan of that application. I rarely use Spotlight to open my apps (which is fine for me). Why? Because I’m a Mouser, I am more productive using it, and shortcuting through all applications.

I’m happy that I wasn’t the one thinking the same:

Now don’t get me wrong, I am a fairly fast typist. But my problem is I can’t remember commands. Putting a keyboard command in my head is like putting sand in a sieve. The reason I love graphical interfaces is because I can’t remember shit. I wish I could, because I am sure I would be much more efficient. Keyboards are much faster than mice and GUIs. The problem is when you are staring at a keyboard you have to remember what to do. A GUI is for me a giant cheat sheet.

Same applies to me. I have two modes. The one when I’m writing code from scratch and my both hands are on the keyboard, and using the cmd+s shortcut a lot! Or I have one hand on the mouse, poping up menus, and clicking in buttons, and the other in cmd+c,v.

Even a long, long time ago, when I used to live without a mouse in Windows 3.1, I use the Alt shortcuts that allowed me to navigate through the menus, instead of the Cntr shortcuts that had to be memorized.

So most of the geeks are productive with their keyboard, and even in terminals and terminal-based editor like emacs or vim, but I’m really happy in my GUI software just like the majority of users, to whom the only keys they use in the keyboard are the letters, numbers, space and enter :)

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IE8 Beta2 out

And IE8 beta2 is out

I’m a critic of IE7 and now IE8’s UI layout, because it steals the worst parts of the new Vista organization, and the Vista organization is just not that good. (Short aside on the Vista organization if you missed it: menus are gone, except when they’re not. If you’re going to uproot things, go all the way because that’s the only way you’ll make it work. Also, many programs are now somehow web pages with flow layouts and links. That’s the closest analogy I can find, but it’s not perfect because it implies that IE should fit hand in glove, and it just doesn’t.)

Read the whole post from Jesper about IE8 beta2.

Beta 2 has yet to provide any new breakthroughs, which is a bit unnerving since a fair bit of the previous process turned out to be the same old game of providing the solution using new standards — even standards that had been shot down in the HTML5 working group before!

Outch!

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How to use WordPress as a Truly Customized CMS (Multiple Headers, Footers, Sidebars and more!) | Web Designer Front-End Web Developer | Selene M. Bowlby

I love WordPress... ok scratch that... I ADORE WordPress! I have used it for several of my own personal blogs, as well as to develop blogs and web sites for
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Cartoon Papa
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Pedro Aniceto: Oh simple things

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Paula Simões: Debian Day 2008 follow up


Já estão disponíveis as apresentações do Debian Day 2008, que teve lugar em Aveiro no passado dia 16 de Agosto.

Para (re)ver aqui.

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Making money on YouTube with Content ID

Late last year, we introduced our newest tool for YouTube's content identification and management system, Video ID. While we have long provided copyright owners with similar content policies and tools, Video ID was revolutionary because it provided real choice and control to content owners by combining a sophisticated policy engine with cutting-edge video matching technology. With the other tools in our content ID system, Video ID helps content owners decide exactly what they want done with their videos, whether to block, promote, or even—if a copyright holder chooses to license their content to appear on the site—monetize them.

We've been curious to see what copyright holders would choose. Would the vast majority of partners block user-uploaded videos? Or would they embrace Video ID as an opportunity to generate revenue and exposure for their content online?

As it turns out, our partners are choosing the latter, monetizing 90% of all claims created through Video ID. This has led directly to a similarly significant increase in monetizable partner inventory, as our Video ID partners are seeing claimed content more than double their number of views, against which we can run ads. This means that if a partner has, say, 10,000 views of its content, leaving up videos claimed by our system will lead to an average additional 10,000 views of that same content. We call this "partner uplift," and for some partners we've seen uplift as high as 9000%.

Access to our copyright management tools is open to all rights owners, regardless of whether they choose to license their content to YouTube. But it's clear to our 300+ Video ID partners that our technology has created a framework that allows copyright holders to sanction the creativity of their biggest fans. These partners now have a new way to successfully distribute and market their content online, and with the help of our users, they are finding Video ID critical to discovering such opportunities.

You can learn more about our content identification and management system on its new home page.

Posted by David King, YouTube Product Manager
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Vobis Online » 365 dias de preços baixos, 24h por dia.

A sua loja Vobis na Internet. Tudo para informática aos melhores preços. Vasta gama de produtos com descrição detalhada e passatempos incríveis.
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WebcamInput

WebcamInput

This project aims to be a easy-to-include unobtrusive code to transform a input type=file into a webcam input. People can then click to get a picture, and upload it.

It consist of a Flash swf file to get the webcam, and some javascript glue. In the server side, you just have to guess if you are receiving a file (if the user is not using javascript) or if it is a string and base64 decodeit.

A simple php file that has that condition for you is included.

I am developing this in order to scan some book covers easily, but I believe this could also become very popular in the Social Network world, where you take an instant picture for your avatar.

Show me the files!

Here they are

Todo List:

  • Transform the PHP file, in a real upload code.
  • Improve the user-interface, some apple-like icons
  • Move the click and show logic form the JS to the AS, so it works in IE and other browsers without the data: protocol.
  • Make it optional to use the webcam.
  • Make a Django Widget out of this

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Schoolgirls bullied over their looks are being given plastic surgery, doctor reveals

A leading surgeon today revealed he has carried out cosmetic surgery on schoolgirls who were being bullied because of their appearance.


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The Untrustworthy Pharmacy

Thanks to Rachel for:

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Holedar Earphones

Este protótipo da Phillips está dando o que falar e provocando muitos suspiros de desejo, tanto em geeks como em loucos por design. Os fones de ouvido Holedar, do designer Yoonsang Kim, destacam-se pelo diferencial inusitado na parte mais tradicional do acessório: a parte que vai no ouvido.

Sua forma vazada não apenas é mais higiênica (menos área de contato, menos bactérias) como também é muito prática: os fones se encaixam como em um colar quando não estão em uso. 

Outro ponto muito inteligente é que sua forma também ajuda o branding da empresa. O formato em “P” remete diretamente à marca, mesmo que o logo não esteja assim tão aparente. Tão bacana! Não vejo a hora de encontrá-los a venda por aí!!!

via Yanko Design e Core 77 

August 26 2008

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Porting Aware To Django | Django Aware

A few years back I started a PC profiling service known as Aware Labs. It was originally written in C++ with a Windows MFC downloadable client. Six months ago
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Coda 1.5

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Coda with SVN! That that Versions and CornerStone

Free update to Panic’s excellent $99 “hyphen-busting all-in-one web development app”. New features include Subversion support, multi-file search and replace, and much-improved syntax coloring.

I wrote about Coda 1.0 in April last year.

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Choosing An XMPP Server « metajack

lable daemons; this is great.  Unfortunately, all database calls use the blocking database API and a single database connection.  This means that even with light load, packet latencies can be quite high if the database isn’t ridiculously fast.
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