This introduction is about the little things. Things that help ease everyday tasks but go a long way into making you a better user, editor, programmer - a better computer user.
gD - takes you to the first (intelligent) instance of the word under the cursor in the same file. It is intelligent, since in a programming language, it takes you to the definition or the declaration of the function or variable. gj…
Furthermore, we are forced to trust web applications provider with our data (bookmarks, text documents, chat transcripts, financial info, ? and now health records) that no longer resides on our hard disks, but are stored somewhere in the cloud?.
Its not a nice situation when you have to chose between convenience and freedom.
I’m also currently researching the web apps space to mash up of what I think is important to access for everyone everywhere. So far I haven’t gotten very far as there doesn’t seem to be much choice. I hope something…
Microsoft today lifted the lid on 14,000 pages of sketchy versions of tech documentation for core software code. On show for the first time in public are underlying protocols for Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
The EC is scrutinising several server products and Office Open XML (OOXML) on the grounds that the specification doesn't work with those of competitors. Just last week OOXML bagged enough votes to be passed as an international…
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Get to know your USB intimately
The Universal Serial Bus is host controlled. There can only be one host per bus. The specification in itself, does not support any form of multimaster arrangement. However the On-The-Go specification which is a tack on standard to USB 2.0…
Dive Into Python is a free online hands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together again in a summary at the end.
A GREAT opportunity for you who have been thinking about learning Python for a while now…go for it! 
Want to mirror this web site? Publish this book on your corporate intranet? Distribute it on CD-ROM? Feel free. This book is published under the GNU Free Documentation License, which gives you enormous freedoms to modify and redistribute it in…
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AMD and Intel both now support open-source video drivers and release their programming specifications to the OSS community. Let’s get NVIDIA to do this too!
We stand united under the name OpenTheBlob.com, but realize that legally it may be next to impossible to open-source the binary portion of your graphics driver due to patents and preserving some intellectual property in this competitive…
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Title pretty much says it all. Claims to be Windows, Mac and Linux compatible. Looks to be free currently…
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