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A shorthand for designing UI flows - (37signals)

2010-01-04T11:00:00.000-06:00

A shorthand for designing UI flows - (37signals): "Flows are just as important to good interfaces as individual screens are. Customers don’t land on screens from out of nowhere. Specific sequences of actions lead customers through your app as they try to accomplish their tasks.

But as important as they are, flows are hard to communicate during the design process. Drawing out every state of a flow is too time-consuming. And drawings become instantly outdated as screens change. On the other extreme, flows written down into stories or paragraphs are hard to reference and they don’t easily decompose into checklists for design and review."

Large scale application development and MVP - Google Web Toolkit - Google Code

2010-01-04T10:58:00.001-06:00

Large scale application development and MVP - Google Web Toolkit - Google Code: "Building any large scale application has its hurdles, and GWT apps are no exception. Multiple developers working simultaneously on the same code base, while maintaining legacy features and functionality, can quickly turn into messy code. To help sort things out we introduce design patterns to create compartmentalized areas of responsibility within our project."

Video: Build a static-safe workspace for computer repair | TR Dojo | TechRepublic.com

2010-01-04T10:58:00.000-06:00

Video: Build a static-safe workspace for computer repair | TR Dojo | TechRepublic.com: "Build a static-safe workspace for computer repair"

Nine Javascript Gotchas

2010-01-01T23:13:00.000-06:00

Nine Javascript Gotchas

generatedata.com

2010-01-01T21:50:00.000-06:00

generatedata.com: "Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that's the idea of the Data Generator. It's a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software, populating databases,"

About Universal Radio Inc.

2010-01-01T21:23:00.000-06:00

About Universal Radio Inc.: "Universal Radio carries all major lines of amateur and shortwave radio equipment, antennas and accessories. In recent years other product lines have been added to include: scanners, CB, FRS, GPS and weather instruments. Universal also offers an excellent selection of radio related books."

MLstate :: Rethinking SaaS

2010-01-01T21:21:00.000-06:00

MLstate :: Rethinking SaaS: "OPA is a language with built-in database and server capabilities. From a single source file, OPA will produce a complete web application, ready to run on your server"

Bespin » Code in the Cloud

2010-01-01T03:09:00.000-06:00

Bespin » Code in the Cloud: "Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology."

Asterisk Radio Networks

2010-01-01T02:56:00.000-06:00

Asterisk Radio Networks: "Asterisk Radio Networks brings diverse communication systems together through total flexibility. Via Internet, PSTN and RF Gateways"

Hackers Show It's Easy to Snoop on a GSM Call - Yahoo! News

2009-12-28T23:32:00.000-06:00

Hackers Show It's Easy to Snoop on a GSM Call - Yahoo! News: "Computer security researchers say that the GSM phones used by the majority of the world's mobile-phone users can be listened in on with just a few thousand dollars worth of hardware and some free open-source tools"

His Healing Now

2009-12-28T21:30:00.000-06:00

His Healing Now: "You Can be Worthy Now"

Mormon

Napkin Folding Secrets - NapkinFoldingSecrets.com

2009-12-27T23:44:00.000-06:00

Napkin Folding Secrets - NapkinFoldingSecrets.com: "We hope that you will enjoy our selection of napkin folding tutorials. Please feel free to bookmark us and come back often as we will be continually adding more designs!"

How would you study the Bible with people who can't read? :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library

2009-12-26T00:20:00.000-06:00

How would you study the Bible with people who can't read? :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library: "Now bring that back to the situation in this question. You want to study the Bible with simpler folks, maybe, young children or those who are older and haven't had the chance to do any extensive education. Or maybe they're seriously dyslexic and just don't read.

In that case, I would say that you lean far more heavily on oral material. You speak more. You help them to memorize things and to study, through the conversation that you're having.

But I wouldn't ever want to imply that you put the Bible aside. 'Because this is a book and they don't read, therefore we don't use this.' No way! You open this and you become the mediator. You can read, they can't read. And you read to them and provide whatever translation and help you can between the book and their hearts and their minds."

YBox2 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits

2009-12-25T18:29:00.000-06:00

YBox2 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits: "The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. Connect it to your TV and you can design customized content to be delivered direct from the Internet."

50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development : Speckyboy Design Magazine

2009-12-25T17:38:00.000-06:00

50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development : Speckyboy Design Magazine: "The tools have been sorteds into the following categories: Grid and Layout, CSS Optimisers, CSS Menus Tools, CSS Buttons, CSS Rounded Corners, CSS Frames, CSS Sprites, CSS Tables, CSS Typography and CSS Forms."

Moving iTunes to an external drive - Move your iTunes library to an external hard drive - CNET Reviews

2009-12-25T17:12:00.000-06:00

Moving iTunes to an external drive - Move your iTunes library to an external hard drive - CNET Reviews: "here's a step-by-step guide on how to move your iTunes library to an external hard drive. This tutorial is also available as a step-by-step video."

marc4j.tigris.org

2009-12-22T11:00:00.000-06:00

marc4j.tigris.org: "The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use Application Programming Interface (API) for working with MARC and MARCXML in Java. MARC stands for MAchine Readable Cataloging and is a widely used exchange format for bibliographic data. MARCXML provides a loss-less conversion between MARC (MARC21 but also other formats like UNIMARC) and XML."

OAI-PMH Harvester Manager | Get OAI-PMH Harvester Manager at SourceForge.net

2009-12-22T10:12:00.000-06:00

OAI-PMH Harvester Manager | Get OAI-PMH Harvester Manager at SourceForge.net: "OAI-PMH Harvester Manager is an Web Application that manages both one time or regularly repeating harvesting jobs using Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting."

Web Curator Tool | Get Web Curator Tool at SourceForge.net

2009-12-22T10:02:00.000-06:00

Web Curator Tool | Get Web Curator Tool at SourceForge.net: "The Web Curator Tool is a tool for managing the selective web harvesting process. It is designed for use in libraries by non-technical users, while allowing complete control of the harvesting process."

Conversion Tools For Libraries | Get Conversion Tools For Libraries at SourceForge.net

2009-12-22T09:57:00.000-06:00

Conversion Tools For Libraries | Get Conversion Tools For Libraries at SourceForge.net: "A variety of tools to convert different metadata formats used in library environments. ONIX, PICA, MAB, MABXML, MARC, MARCXML, PICA+, OAI DC, ...."

DAFWiki

2009-12-22T09:55:00.000-06:00

Main Page - DAFWiki: "DAF v2.0 provides all the necessary tools required to manage the whole process of a digitization workflow, including its various Phases, User management, file movement and archiving"

Geography Songs: Music for Teaching U.S. and World Geography...and Map-Reading Skills

2009-12-21T23:12:00.000-06:00

Geography Songs: Music for Teaching U.S. and World Geography...and Map-Reading Skills: "Music for Teaching U.S. and World Geography
...and Map-Reading Skills"

LiveZilla - Freeware Live Help / Live Chat / Live Support - Official Website

2009-12-19T12:48:00.000-06:00

LiveZilla - Freeware Live Help / Live Chat / Live Support - Official Website: "LiveZilla, the Next Generation Live Help / Live Chat and Live Support System connects you to your website visitors. Use LiveZilla to provide Live Chats and monitor your website visitors in real-time. Convert visitors to customers - with LiveZilla!"

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS - Smashing Magazine

2009-12-19T11:36:00.000-06:00

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS - Smashing Magazine: "CSS 3 properties like border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow are starting to gain momentum in WebKit (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and Gecko (Firefox) browsers. They are already creating more lightweight pages and richer experiences for users, not to mention that they degrade pretty gracefully; but they are only the tip of the iceberg of what we can do with CSS 3.

In this article, we will take those properties a step further and explore transformations, transitions, and animations. We’ll go over the code itself, available support and some examples to show exactly how these new properties improve not only your designs but the overall user experience."

Simplify file management with the XCopy Tool | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com

2009-12-19T10:02:00.000-06:00

Simplify file management with the XCopy Tool | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com: "The XCopy command has risen from the ashes of deprecation to save you time and make your file management tasks easier. This tool automates the process for XP, Vista, and Windows 7."