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Today: SysAdminDay
Friday, July 25th, 2008, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication…
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Web: Naked Girls for Captcha solving
While reports that online porn sites offering free access when the visitors enter the right response to a Captcha secured entry field have been around for a while (see for example “BoingBoing 2004″ ) with recent rises in spam originating from Google, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts the discussion on that topic is on again.
Captchas or “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” that are within these relay attacks defeated by visitors to the…
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A Cheatsheet for Firebug
During the current renovation of Duvet-Dayz (the next parts come online after the weekend) we have used one great tool extensively - Firebug.
Like with other debuggers or development tools there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts to remember. But forgive us, when you’re working with many different tools - from Photoshop to Development IDE’s to debuggers, not everyone can remember 150 different keyboard shortcuts and then use the right one at the right place.
So like many others we work with cheat sheets aka help sheets - short summaries of the most important commands on one or two pages that are available for almost all tools we use. When we started using Firebug we search on the Internet but we could not find a cheat sheet for this tool.
There is of course the documentation on the “Firebug web site”, well done but quite a few pages to look through whenever you just need a quick glimpse with a help sheet.
So we created our own Firebug cheat sheet and would like to share it with everybody…
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Humor: A White Noise web site
Enough said or to much noise around you - click over to Simply Noise. This web site allows you to enjoy “auditory zen” - “white noise” in configurable comfort zone(s)…
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Video: Making sense of the Semantic web
A video of the full presentation by Nova Spivack from Radar Networks given at the Next Web Conference 2008 that took place on April 3rd/4th this year in Amsterdam.
You’ll find an excellent summary of the presentation at “thenextweb.org” site and the slides are available at “Google docs”.
If you want to understand buzz words like…
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Micro-Blogging: Tumblr documentary
If you’re looking for a different point of view on micro-blogging - here’s a “documentary” on Tumblr. Users are talking about follower, real life meetings, why they are using etc.
Mostly sarcastic but also asking the the right question: Why do you spend so much time on tools like that - or what is it you’re missing from your life…
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Data-Visualization: Tag Clouds with Wordle
There are many tools around to create word clouds from text, tag lists etc.
“Wordle” allows you to copy / paste a text fragment into their user interface or link to a del.icio.us user name to use tags from the saved bookmarks. What differentiates Wordle from other tools are the various features to format the resulting word clouds. You can arrange the text layout in different ways (Horizontal / Vertical / mixed / Free flow), select fonts from a list and apply coloring templates for the display. The results are quite impressive and cover a broad spectrum of popular layouts…
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Humor: Help I’m bored
Another entry to our growing list of “Dada web sites”.
“Help I am bored” provides quick tips and remedies for 16 common situations - from Help - I’m homesick to Help-I feel old and of course Help - I’m bored. Some of the hints are…
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Games: Google Driving Simulator
Japanese Flash developer Kohring has just released a new version of his 2D driving simulator that uses street maps and satellite images from Google Maps as a playing ground.
While the simulation is still quite simply and does not detect collisions or road boundaries, its definitely a new way to use web 2.0 interfaces. We are looking forward to the first 3D simulation within Google Earth and other virtual world databases.
Preset locations include…
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Firefox Download Worldrecord attempt today
Don’t forget that it is Firefox download day today - Mozilla’s attempt to get into the Guinness Book of record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
And expect that it might take some time until you’ll be able to download the new version of Firefox (see below)…
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