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Re:A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python on Friday July 16, 2010 @06:17AM (#1520780)

I <3 you.

Android gains web marketshare at expense of iOS

Posted by ilike on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @10:04AM
from the boygeniusreport.com dept.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/14/android-gains-web-marketshare-at-expense-of-ios/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28Boy+Genius+Report%29

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FTC to probe Apple's business practices

Posted by ilike on Saturday June 12, 2010 @05:36AM
from the online.wsj.com dept.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509404575301242754089172.html

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Copper nanowires enable bendable displays and solar cells

Posted by ilike on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:50PM
from the esciencenews.com dept.

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/06/01/copper.nanowires.enable.bendable.displays.and.solar.cells

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How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery

Posted by ilike on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:44PM
from the mindyourdecisions.com dept.

http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/06/10/how-game-theory-solved-a-religious-mystery/

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Steve Jobs Both Smacks And Kisses AT&T

Posted by ilike on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:08PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/01/steve-jobs-att/

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What makes Apple so sticky

Posted by ilike on Monday May 31, 2010 @12:11PM
from the tech.fortune.cnn.com dept.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/29/what-makes-apple-so-sticky/

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Actionscript Lisp interpreter

Posted by ilike on Sunday May 30, 2010 @08:03PM
from the solve-et-coagula.com dept.

http://www.solve-et-coagula.com/As3Lisp.html

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Sun's recent odd behavior

Posted by ilike on Sunday May 30, 2010 @01:07PM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=solar-minimum-forecasting

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Re:Flash proven to ruin Android 2.2 performance on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @03:01AM (#1379697)

There is an option to set Flash to "on demand" mode on mobile devices.

There is so much flash content out there on the web, and being able to play flash content on-the-move, on-demand is obviously a good thing.

Adobe's PDF Reader app comes to Android phones

Posted by ilike on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @12:04PM
from the news.cnet.com dept.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20005815-248.html

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Google acquires Ruba.com

Posted by ilike on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @09:44AM
from the ruba.com dept.

http://www.ruba.com/blog/2010/05/21/ruba-team-joins-google/

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Re:Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Dir... on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @02:49PM (#1361917)

As the article mentioned, you can see the implementation in wild here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

Re:Adobe Flash To Eliminate Bandwidth Costs With P2P on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @10:38AM (#1361087)

Omegle and chatroulette, both use Adobe Stratus . Both sites depend on advertising revenue.

I dont think Adobe actively bans commercial projects/products from using Straus. Stratus is in beta, and Adobe doesnt provide any official support. So if you want to run a business that uses RTMFP with Adobe support, then LCCS (LiveCycle Collaboration Services) is the way to go.

Re:Adobe Flash To Eliminate Bandwidth Costs With P2P on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @10:10AM (#1360980)

Chatroulette uses Stratus and RTMP. RTMP, when Stratus fails because of firewall restrictions.

Cracking the Caesar Cipher - The Hard Way

Posted by ilike on Monday May 17, 2010 @12:39PM
from the 12robots.com dept.

http://www.12robots.com/index.cfm/2010/5/17/Cryptography-Part-3--Frequency-and-Pattern-Analysis--Security-Series-162

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10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive

Posted by ilike on Monday May 17, 2010 @07:41AM
from the reuters.com dept.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE64F0J420100516

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Volunteering on open source projects, lessons learned.

Posted by ilike on Monday May 17, 2010 @07:38AM
from the breaking-catch22.com dept.

http://breaking-catch22.com/?p=149

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A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC

Posted by ilike on Sunday May 16, 2010 @12:53PM
from the bothsidesofthetable.com dept.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/08/08/wtf-is-traction-a-6-step-relationship-guide-to-vc/

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Re:Scribd’s HTML5 is a mess on Saturday May 15, 2010 @01:58PM (#1350322)

In my opinion, web based documents should have certain level of semantic purity. Of course there will be technical difficulties to achieve it, but that is what hackers are for. Right?

While you have the right to justify the lack of semantic markup in Scribd html docs, he has the right to expect a non-messy markup underneath.

Calling someone's expectation "ignorance" isnt very fair.

Re:Adobe: We Love Choice on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:51PM (#1348011)

Apart from the links 'geeymb' posted, FlashDevelop is a popular free tool to create flash content [flashdevelop.org]

Scribd uses 'pdf2swf' from swftools.org to convert pdfs(Not sure if they still use it. ref: http://www.swftools.org/references.html )

Scaleform depends heavily on Flash[scaleform.com]. Ming library is a nice option to create dynamic swf files on server side[libming.org].

A nice little online editor and compiler can be found here: http://www.victordramba.com/?p=31

Although there are so many nice, robust open source tools built around Flash, i haven't heard of Adobe actively promoting any of them.

Re:Adobe: We Love Choice on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:03PM (#1347833)

>The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications.

That statement is wrong. Anyone can create tools that can 'create' and/or 'run' swf files. Adobe itself provides Flex SDK cost free. It is an opensourced framework.

http://osflash.org/projects has a list of opensource tools available to create flash content.

Re:HTML 5 Asteroids on Thursday May 13, 2010 @05:44AM (#1343762)

I would like to know what Flash game are you comparing this simple game with.

Re:The HTML5 and Flash Debate from a Flash Developer's Perspective on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @10:46AM (#1341054)

It is more of a (biased?) demonstration than a debate, and obviously video is a better choice.

Google answers privacy questions

Posted by ilike on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @04:08PM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10107691.stm

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Re:Flash for Android running fairly well on the Nexus One on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @05:17AM (#1337329)

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/02/22/flash-player-con...

FTA: Flash Player Mouse Events on Touch Screen Devices- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1hiLnIp_g

The Real Story Behind Twitter's Ridiculous Follow Bug

Posted by ilike on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @05:16AM
from the gizmodo.com dept.

http://gizmodo.com/5535536/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug

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Re:Flash for Android running fairly well on the Nexus One on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @04:00AM (#1337220)

Html5 on iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4

Re:Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter on Monday May 10, 2010 @01:03PM (#1335132)

Official:

http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discover...

Re:Scribd in HTML on Saturday May 08, 2010 @04:49AM (#1329890)

I dont think Scribd made too much investment in Flash developers. On server side they were using "PDF2SWF" released under GPL by Swftools.org. My understanding is that, initially they were using 'FlashPaper' to display documents in front end.