Prompted by a question from my wife, I finally went off and figured out the difference between a URI and a URL and a URN. I gleaned my analysis from the W3C’s article, URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0. This might be the key paragraph: Over time, the importance of this additional level […]
The Origins of Ctrl Alt Del
Ever wonder where Ctrl Alt Del came from? Watch this short video: The Origins of Ctrl Alt Del
DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM
I found DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM reviewed in Slashdot. The review makes it sound good enough that I will at least drop by the bookstore and take a look at it… and will probably buy a copy.
Taking the Fingerprint of a Piece of Paper
Scientific American has a short article on-line about “finding” the fingerprint of virtually any surface, such as paper, cardboard or plastic. By bouncing a laser off of the surface and measuring how the light scatters, researchers can identify one piece of paper from a package… and the fingerprint does not change even if the paper […]
Migrate Applications from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
IBM has published an article about porting IE-specific applications to work on Firefox and Mozilla, Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla. Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. You’ll first learn basic cross-browser […]
RSS: The Executive Summary
Demystify the buzz. ION RSS printed* a good article in April titled Of course, you know what RSS is … so here’s an article for your clueless boss. The good news is that you don’t have to be a clueless boss to learn from Nick Aster’s words. * How long will it be until nothing […]
What New Users Need to Know About OpenOffice.org
Linux Journal recently published a nice article which introduces OpenOffice.org. If you have heard me (or someone else) rave about how great OOo is but have been hesitating to try to out, give OOo Off the Wall: What New Users Need to Know About OpenOffice.org a quick read. Then download and try OpenOffice.org (it’s free).
VOIP Round-Up
Slashdot has nicely pulled together a few links about a Keynote Systems study on VOIP call quality in New Study Finds VOIP is Getting Better I feel like I have been conducting my own survey over the last couple of years. I started with Vonage, used it for a year, and then installed my own […]
The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs
Sharon Housley of FeedForAll hits the nail on the head in her article The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs. RSS feeds give readers a tremendously powerful tool to find and read the stuff which interests them. Blogs give writers soapboxes from which to spread their witticism. Most people are readers and “should” care […]
Alternatives to Passwords
The CNN article Bank to require more than passwords describes Bank of America’s plan to query web site users for personal information after they enter their passwords. The idea is to more firmly establish their identity. It makes me wonder, though. Why bother with the password at all? How well would an authentication system work […]
Interview with the Search Engine
Reminiscent of the old Eliza artificial intelligence program, and a lot more “relevant,” SatireWire has interviewed Jeeves of AskJeeves.com in their article, Interview with the Search Engine 🙂 You can try talking with Eliza here and read about Eliza in Wikipedia. My thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for finding this and brightening my day!
particletree · API Roundup
Chris Campbell did a very nice job of collecting a bunch of key web APIs onto one page in his API Roundup. Now all I need to find is the time to play with all of them. Thanks, Chris!
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
Scoble rants about RSS feeds that aren’t full text. Rather than being “bad,” I think that the style of RSS feed simply tells you something about the author’s motivation. Does he want the reader to have the information? Or is it more important to get the reader to visit the actual web site and view […]
Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web
Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it—bringing us into the Internet age—was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of […]
Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange
I have two reactions to Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange from NewScientist.com Doh! I knew that! How do I get paid to do “research” like this? Isn’t that interesting? I’ll bet there are a lot of people who never thought of that. I am a bit fascinated that people actually study this stuff. […]
Google Toolbar
Google just released a Firefox version of their Google Toolbar. This is a wonderful and free tool that can make your web browsing much easier. Installation is a snap and, if you don’t like it, you can simply uninstall. The platypus of the Internet, from the Google Blog, has some details about the development. Or […]
PHP Filters
OWASP has a collection of PHP Filters (a/k/a functions) to sanitize user inputs. I have not used them but they sure look useful!
MIT Weblog Survey
If you use IM or email or blogs, take a few minutes and take the survey. This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically […]
Search gets personal
The Google blog contains this article, Search gets personal, about “remembering” what you searched for and clicked on and using those data to improve your search results. It’s very early but very interesting. Definitely worth a look. Click to check out Google Personalized Search.
Diamonds in the Rough: RSS Aggregators
Would you be interested if I told you that you could have your own, personalized newspaper, for free, cleanly organized, with up-to-the-minute information, and with sources from the local paper, the newswires, the web sites that you like, and people “in the know” who you trust? Get interested because you can have all this. The […]
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