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The Sleuthhound (Dec 11 2003 06:30 GMT) - The Sleuthhound is a document search system for your hard drive. Create search zones, enter keywords and results are instantly displayed. Documents ... |
Mindful Musings
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the three-click rule (Dec 11 2003 06:29 GMT) - I am sure most of you have heard about the three-click rule. The rule simply states that every piece of content on a site should take no more than three clicks to access. Well, it seems that Josh Porter is attempting to debunk the three-click rule through known facts acquired in user testing. [from Nick Bradbury]...excerpt from: |
Mindful Musings
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Busy Busy Busy (Dec 11 2003 06:29 GMT) - This has been one of the busiest days of this year and I still have till the middle of next week before I am completely done with the deluge of finals. There is a small silver lining in the dark clouds which I would like to mention, mostly for the benefit of my parents. Looks like Jennifer is going to get another Cocker after all. I was pretty sure thats what she was going to do, but she needed to come to that conclusion on her own. I am glad for her. |
A Whole Lotta Nothing
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Speaking of contests... (Dec 11 2003 06:28 GMT) - The Creative Commons Moving Images Contest deadline is three weeks from today, and there are lots of great prizes. You can use Flash or video to illustrate how Creative Commons works (here's a sample of how we describe it to musicians), no more than two minutes in length. To be honest, we haven't had a ton of entries yet, so get cracking creative types, there's gold in them thar hills! |
A Whole Lotta Nothing
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Cool contest (Dec 11 2003 06:28 GMT) - Design Within (no one I know's) Reach is holding a contest to design a chair using only champagne corks and wire. Pretty cool concept and I can't wait to see the winners, though it's sad to know the grand prize would only serve as a downpayment on 75% of the products they offer in their inventory. Why not let the winners pick out any chair DWR sells? |
A Whole Lotta Nothing
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Those clever devils at Customized Classics (Dec 11 2003 06:28 GMT) - When I first saw Customized Classics a few weeks ago I felt like kicking myself. It's hard for most people to understand what "public domain" really means, and what value it can give us as a culture, and directly as capitalists and entrepreneurs. Project Gutenberg has recently uploaded their 10,000th public domain book, and Brewster and the gang are working on the "million book project". To demonstrate the potential of the public domain, and show people what movies, music, and stories used to be like when there was an active public domain (that at one time was only 14 to 28 years old -- imagine making new movies and music from 60s stuff totally free of copyright), I've been kicking around ideas of how to exploit these free works (again, for demonstration purposes more than anything else). One idea I called "judge a book by its cover. |
rc3.org Daily
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The Dean problem (Dec 11 2003 06:27 GMT) - I like Howard Dean, but some of his poll numbers really scare me. I think he'd be a fine President, but if he can't beat Bush I want a different nominee. |
rc3.org Daily
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Worse is better, revisited (Dec 11 2003 06:27 GMT) - A common pattern involves someone making a statement that's fairly profound, and then a flood of people adopting it, misinterpreting it (usually through oversimplification), and then misusing it to support arguments that the original person who made the statement never would have agreed with in the first place. That pattern fits for the old "worse is better" essay that is much loved among software developers. Jim Waldo has written a piece for Artima that revisits worse is better and clears up some misconceptions. Here's the crux of his argument: (more ... |
Dean Nation 2004
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Parallel Dean (Dec 11 2003 06:26 GMT) - Not certain, but I think this may be the first mention of Howard Dean in Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World! |
Programmers Heaven latest files and products
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MBBuilder 1.5.1 (Dec 11 2003 06:25 GMT) - MBBuilder is a visual Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for MapInfo MapBasic with features, typical for this products category:- Menu Editor- Toolbar Editor- Project Manager- Component Editor- Object Inspector- Dialog Editor.The main featu... |
Programmers Heaven latest files and products
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Icon Searcher 1.92 (Dec 11 2003 06:25 GMT) - Icon Searcher performs fast scan of all local hard disks for icon images. The program handles lots of different file formats, like DLL, EXE, ICO, ICL, OCX , SCR, CPL, BPL, VBX, DRV and extracts all available icons from files to the user-friendly ... |
Programmers Heaven latest files and products
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RaidenFTPD 2.4.1021 (Dec 11 2003 06:25 GMT) - A full featured & secured ftp server with many advanced functionalities such as SSL , 64-bit addressing , UPnP , scripting interface and of course , full sets of FTP commands support , besides that , the performace is relatively high , anyone wit... |
Programmers Heaven latest files and products
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Compare and Merge 2.1 (Dec 11 2003 06:25 GMT) - Compare and Merge is a visual file comparison utility. It lets you see the differences between text files, and makes it easy to resolve these differences. For programmers, web developers, and anyone else who works with multiple revisions of files. ... |
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