Created by BarCampers (Raven Zachary, whurley, and Chris Messina) iPhone Developers Camp is an upcoming gathering to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. The event is being held the week following the public release of the iPhone.
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June 16, 2007
Must Watch: Pixar’s Wall-E Movie Trailer
The trailer for Pixar’s 2008 movie Wall-E is attached to Ratatouille. But you don’t have to wait until June 29th to see it. Watch it here right NOW!
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June 15, 2007
22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager
A former Dell kiosk manager writes us to share helpful tips about doing business with Dell. He has no particular problems with Dell, he just wanted to share some helpful tips for consumers looking to get the best deal. He includes info on getting the best deal from the website, different kinds of promotions the Dell offers, insider details
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Jon Stewart: Don't they know we're recording all this stuff?
Another hilarious take: Stewart catches Tony Snow telling yet another series of lies about fired US attorneys. "Don't they know we're all recording this stuff?" he asked incredulously, before announcing a new segment on candidate websites, http.//.indecision.2008.net/clusterf@#k.html.
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Ten Surprising Nutrition Facts
"The American diet circa 2007 is a disaster - but positive change has begun. Those were the twin themes of the "Fourth Annual Nutrition and Health Conference" held in San Diego, Calif., May 14-16, 2007."
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Human Genome further Unravelled. Its far more Complex than first Thought
The study, which was carried out on just 1% of our DNA code, challenges the view that genes are the main players in driving our biochemistry. The Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements (Encode) study was a collaborative effort between 80 organisations from around the world.
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Nanotechnology Now Used In Nearly 500 Everyday Products
The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world’s first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.
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Panel of Anonymous Doctors Tell of Mistakes / Deaths They've Caused
An interview with several anonymous doctors who tell of mistakes they've made and deaths that they have caused.
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Do You know Self-effacing People are Secretly Confident? Study reveals
No matter how meek they might appear, most people are endowed with the same self-confidence, new research reveals. For some, however, that confidence is buried deep inside. “A given person with high implicit [or inner] self-esteem may be outwardly self-promoting or may be outwardly very modest,” said study team member Anthony Greenwald
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Are you Lazy? How to Make Laziness Work for You!
You’re feeling lazy right now, and reading blogs instead of doing what you’re supposed to be doing. That’s OK — we all do that. But let’s look at how to make that laziness work for us, and how to turn lazy into productive.
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The Hottest Female Podcasters of 2007
Ever wanted to see some of the women behind your favorite podcasts? Make sure you don't check this link out while at work, things could get awkward!
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Thinking Outside the Design Box
Check out the work of 10 professionals working at the very edges of their disciplines in order to redefine their industries.
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How to: Get Safari's best features in Firefox
As we're all aware by now, Safari is now available for Windows. So the question is, is there any compelling reason you might want to switch from the venerable Firefox to Safari? To its credit, though, Safari does have several enviable features. Rather than suggesting anyone move, here's a list of it's best features and the matching FF extensions
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Hello, from the car in front
Researchers are turning cars into nodes that 'talk' to each other, forming a new type of wireless network. As cars enter the mobile network, drivers can download multimedia - including movies, images and songs - or get real-time information about traffic.
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Exclusive: Details on Justin.TV's Live Video System
The idea behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. The hardware behind the idea wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called up a friend, Kyle Vogt, to hand build version 1.0 from some off the shelf and homemade parts, a grip of EVDO cards, and some "borrowed" tools from MIT.
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ARS Technica's Do-It-Yourself Computer Building Guide
If your looking to build a custom PC soon you should definitely check out arstechnicas' PC building guide. In it they'll help you build any level of hardware from a 'Budget Box' to a 'Hot Rod' or for those with the cash a 'GOD MACHINE'.
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Fantastic New App That Syncs iTunes with ANY MP3 Player!
Do you have iTunes? Do you have an iPod? I have iTunes, I don’t have an iPod, but I wanted to be able to sync my MP3 player with iTunes, regardless of what brand it was… and so iTunes Sync was born. In just a few easy steps you can synchronize any iTunes playlist with any MP3 Player. It's like iTunes Agent on Steroids!
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HTML5 differences from HTML4
This document describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes that have been made to the language.
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Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful | Smashing Magazine
Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16×16px box. Designing favicons, it’s necessary to work with miniature images, and every extra pixel can be the wrong one. A good favicon is original, beautiful and - in best case - fits to the logotype and color schemes used in the web-site.
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11 Little Known Killer AdSense Tips You Wish You Knew Earlier
1 Place ads following the F (golden triangle, top-left) pattern, 2 Blend the links with your site, 3 Use a rectangle in top-left, with one paragraph over it, and a link block in the footer, 4 Use two blocks (not more) to get expensive ads, 5 Use alternative color switcher (special AdSense color code) to prevent ad blindness, 6 Read the post.
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June 14, 2007
101 Really Useful Websites
The net's not just about eBay and MySpace. The ingenious sites here can transform your life in the real world. Want to be first in line for gig tickets, find free parking or get paid to shop? It's all just a click away
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How to get rich in America: A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories
A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories: proof that you don't need a lot of money to make a go of it, but you do have to be smart about how you invest your energy.
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A Medical Marijuana Law Gains Momentum in New York
SCOOOORE!Following in the footsteps of Connecticut's Legislature, New York State lawmakers are expected to approve legislation allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
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The 25 Best Careers in 2007 - Is Yours One of Them?
U.S. News has sifted through trends in the economy and the workplace and has identified 25 professions that will be in growing demand as baby boomers age, the Internet becomes ubiquitous, and Americans seek richer, simpler lives.
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Scientists Demonstrate Best Way To Use Caffeine
Here is some useful news you can use. Morning "big gulp" coffee drinkers are misusing the power of caffeine.
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BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scandal
Former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, the White House political director who resigned last month, have been issued subpoenas over their connections to the U.S. attorney scandal.
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China Threatens War Over Bush Handshake
In an astounding development that has completely failed to register any attention amongst mainstream U.S. media, China promised to escalate preparations for war in advance of a potential conflict, after President Bush shook hands with a Taiwanese government official yesterday.
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Get Grandpa's FBI File
"Find out now by ordering a copy of their FBI files and learn a bit more about your family history. Best of all, it's free! (Well, except for the cost of a postage stamp.)"
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High-res Graphic: what happens to your body if you stop smoking right now.
A high res info-graphic of what happens to your body when you stop smoking. Free 24"x18" print-quality .pdf download available.
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The Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake
...and other such lake/island records, such as the largest island in a lake on an island. Maps and/or photos for each one.
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Shockingly Huge Wildlife Migration Discovered in Africa, What the Hell?
More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.
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See Your Car in a Crash and then again in Slow Motion - Over 150 Models
Ever wanted to see what your car would look like if a dummy drove it into a wall? Admit it, you think about it when you get a lousy trade-in price. Thankfully, there's the Consumer Reports Crash Test videos, where you can see how your car will hold up against things like short concrete walls and other typical objects found along a highway.
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Web Design-isms: 7 Surefire Styles that Work
Glossy buttons, ornamental backgrounds, futuristic interfaces. We’ve all been guilty at one time or another of committing the 7 design-isms in this article from Larissa Meek. But that’s okay, she tells us, they’re classics for a reason.
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40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we’ve also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. To install and use the script, it’s often enough to include the JavaScript library in the source code and provide the hint as plain text within the “title”-attribute. Sometimes you can also insert URLs, images, tables...
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The Best Commerical on YouTube and It’s Parody Hitting Huge Numbers
Madison Avenue ad agencies are finally opening their eyes to the power of YouTube. Check out the commercial that finally woke up the industry and have a little fun at their expense with a YouTubers take on it.
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15 of the Best CSS Zengarden Designs
"The CSS Zengarden is a great project and helped the web standards cause. Today I’m going to be taking a look back over the hundreds of submissions and choose some of my favorites."
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Frameworks for Designers
These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems like everyone is using some kind of framework to build their sites.
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Popular Science: RFID chips the size of pepper to protect Jewelry
Radio tags are getting small enough that they can protect Diamond Rings & Jewelry.
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The Results from Business 2.0's "Who Matters Now"
You voted, and now see the ranking of all these influential businesspeople today. Kevin Rose comes out at #2 and Jason Calacanis ends up at the bottom of the list.
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Santa Rosa comes to the Mac: a review of the 17" MacBook Pro
Intel's Santa Rosa Centrino Duo chipset makes its first appearance in an Apple portable with the latest MacBook Pro. Ars takes Apple's latest for a spin to see how much difference a slightly faster CPU and a new chipset make.
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How to Format Images for Feed Readers
You’re probably accustomed to using image-handling CSS classes (like left, right, and center) on your own site, but at this time, the associated styles will not carry over into feed readers.
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Virtualize AND dual-boot the same Windows on your Mac
The problem with dual-booting Windows is the inconvenience of having to restart your Mac entirely. The problem with virtualizing Windows is that it can be unreasonably slow for a prolonged session. Now that Boot Camp and Parallels work together, you can choose between virtualizing or booting into your Windows depending on what you have to do.
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iPhone will require iTunes account to set up
Apple will require iPhone customers to have an active iTunes Store account, in order to set-up their device, the company has revealed.
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$120 Cheaper 8800 GTS 320MB Beats Up On $409 Radeon HD 2900 XT w/New Driver
HardOCP had hoped the newer ATI driver revisions would improve performance on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. Sadly the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is not even a match for even the much less expensive and much less power hungry 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS when it comes to real world gaming at 1600x1200 resolutions and above.
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June 11, 2007
100 Most Beautiful Women In the World According To Lesbians
"Let's face it: Maxim doesn't cater to lesbians. In fact, you could say it flies in the face of all that we hold dear, especially when it declares Lindsay Lohan the hottest of them all, as it did when it published The Maxim Hot 100 List last month. So we asked you, our readers, to create your own list of hotties" - Awesome
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"30 Days Of Night" Trailer Hits The Net
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction.
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CSS layouts "for those who want to start a css-driven website quick"
I placed a comment with a link to CSSeasy.com in another story and you're all digging it up so I thought it would be good to write a story about this simple site for people who want to start a css-driven website quick or for those people who want to start learning CSS by trial and error.
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25 Most Popular Blogs June 2007 (Ranked By 5 Traffic Data Sources)
A complete list of the top 25 most popular blogs ranked by a combination of Inbound Links (Yahoo Site Explorer), RSS Subscribers (Feedburner), Alexa Rank and Compete and Quantcast traffic data. The data gives you a real insight into these blogs success which will allow you to judge the relative success of your own blog.
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Essential HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP etc., via Marc Andreessen
There are a ton of free cheatsheets, quick references, and downloadable resources for programming languages and related technologies online -- in this post I've tried to organize and list some of the best for web development.
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