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How do people use products, systems and environments?
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research interests on the integration of mobile activities (working, learning, playing) in real-world ubiquitous environments.
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The title, Transcendent Interactions, refers to the goal of designing and developing software with the explicit understanding that any given interaction may exist outside the applications and systems produced. People will carry their -
a few weeks ago, while in hospital, Pierre and I were talking about a system to retrieve web document for later browsing - Piere was refering to Richard Richard Stallman’s use of the mail to retrieve documents.
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links for 2008-07-31
July 30, 2008Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, api, application, apps, architecture, art, blog, code, coding, communication, design, development, email, environment, hack, installation, interactive, mail, mobile, mobility, pattern, performance, pervasive, research, robot, sustainability, tool, urban, web | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-06-04
June 04, 2008
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37signals: When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.
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a bog for a fascination for the Ampersand glyph, scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word “et.”
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system wide use of javascript via OSA; replacing Applescript - sounds good. it would be nice to even plug jQuery on top of that
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multidimensionnal array sorting in one go. look at the script, post #4
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links for 2008-04-17
April 17, 2008-
The problem caused by scripts is that they block parallel downloads. The HTTP/1.1 specification suggests that browsers download no more than two components in parallel per hostname. If you serve your images from multiple hostnames, you can get more than t
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The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 6 categories. Filter rules by category: content, server, cookie, css, javascript, mobile, all
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Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, even in Wall Street’s rarefied realms.
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, business, caching, coding, development, economy, finance, hedge_fund, javascript, optimisation, performance, tuning, web, webdev | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-02-26
February 26, 2008-
a very nice color picker to be integrated wherever is needed, just adding a form/input and hop!
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use javascript, png and css to simulate gradients in a css compliant manner - nice!
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a nice use of the mdfind command to export xml out of searches… big potential there, i think: SpotLight to Atom (rss) - it sounds a bit like the electronest.com website build on top of Apache very standard features
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dictionnary of AppleScript for the Microsoft Word application
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the wikipedia page for AppleScript, giving informations about one of the most powerful resource in an Apple computer: it’s automation ability(tags: applescript osx)
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using the Finder as development and production environment; remembered me a bunch of ideas we explored with Andreas Schneider about using the standard tools of a computer system to generate presentations, website, weblog, etc.
Tags: agregation, applescript, atom, automation, code, color, colorpicker, css, development, filesystem, finder, gradient, IDE, javascript, jQuery, osx, plugin, reference, RSS, spotlight, syndication, system, terminal, word, workflow, xml, _playbill | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-02-25
February 25, 2008-
Tarantino and Avary decided to write a short, on the theory that it would be easier to get made than a feature… the film became a trilogy, with one section by Tarantino, one by Avary, and one by a third director who never materialized. Each eventually e
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Del.icio.us API / help. This document and the APIs herein are subject to change at any time.
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article describing a simple use of the delicious API on a mail server
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tracking software for website statistices - tehy pretty much evolved form the evrsion i use to know a couple of years back… it seems like they developped quite neat services and smart tools
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enables you to have your posts submitted automatically to social bookmarking sites like delicio.us
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a nice summary of a few features and softwares to betterise your experience with delicious bookmarks
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this gallery has both onsite and online exhibition
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an overview of the reputation economy, using delicious - the via: tag to give credits; it’s weird this system could not be automatically generated when you use the “copy this” functions.
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a kind of GTD tricks using GMail as the main tool - it’s nice to see good old emails back on tracks in the middle of RSS. it’s a “now old” media on the internet and pretty much everybody feels comfortable with it. A bit of automation oculd bring emails to
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a unique flexible identity system which help to login multiple online services and centralise information regarding personal electronic presence
Tags: advertisement, aggregator, analytics, api, architecture, art, auckland, automation, body, book, business, car, code, coding, color, community, connection, delicious, dev, development, digital, documentation, electronic_presence, email, fashion, filter, gallery, get, gmail, google, gtd, ideas, identity, interface, internet, lifehack, login, management, marketing, microformats, monitoring, movie, network, networking, nz, optimization, organisation, photography, picture, plugin, post, privacy, process, productivity, protocol, reputation, RSS, r_echos, service, shoes, social, software, statistics, submission, tagging, tip, tool, tracking, traffic, twitter, url, vehicle, visualization, webdev, webservice, wikipedia, wireless, wordpress, workflow, __ofs | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-02-24
February 24, 2008-
an insight - back in the days (2005!) - on how to insert metainformation in delicious’ bookmarks
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a daily selection of website from the french newspaper Libération; via Tex Server who has been linked from them
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it’s good to see there are bigger company exploring new path of doing things - the exact same way ElectroNest decided to explore new way of managing relationship, workflow and business…
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a guide and some explanations on how to setup a FaceBook application
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an application which lets you change your boot image on apple computer
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»Internet art, net art, and networked art in relation.« A collection of conversations and interviews (with: Isabelle Arvers, Marc Garrett, Benjamin Weil, Charlie Gere, Christiane Paul, Cory Arcangel, Jemima Rellie, Sara Tucker , Jon Ippolito and Dirk De
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a semantic approach to “related tags” in delicious bookmark. Applying language algorythms to RSS feed parsing.
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Indexhibit is a web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound. Daniel Eatock is behind this nice project aimed at easily realising online collections
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, application, business, collection, datamining, delicious, design, development, facebook, feed, filesystem, hack, links, management, marketing, meta, metadata, netart, opensource, organisation, osx, practice, process, reference, research, RSS, semantic, software, tagging, theory, tool, to_read, webdesign, website, zeitgeist | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-02-11
February 11, 2008-
Tommi found a couple of nice trick on wordpress this weekend; this one is naked wordpress theme so that it’s easier and faster to kick off a custom theme design.
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via Tommi (again) - let’s you replace any html text by a flash file generated on the fly which let’s you use custom not standard typefaces…
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nice writing about a Moleskine competitor
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Via Markus - another rant against FaceBook after the one send by Adriana, makes me wonder why not to start a kind of workshop to teach people how to get the same thing as FaceBook with their own tools and intelligence
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it seems like electricity is magic!
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Laxton fields seems to be the last common land in the UK after the enclosure; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
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This term marked the end of the Common Land, the open field system in the UK
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WordPress can displace or pass over one or more initial posts which would normally be collected by your query through the use of the offset parameter.
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to check; it seems to crash with WP2.3.3 but it might be just a problem of header
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another Flash text replacer for WordPress
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Father of the modern Chemistry; he established that matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged (Conservation of mass Law). This evening, Amandine used it very nicely to explain her work.
Tags: article, chemistry, common, custom_query, development, electricity, flash, flickr, font, fonts, hardware, history, internet, life_hack, light, map, moleskine, neon, networking, php, plugin, politics, privacy, reference, self_organisation, sifr, sketchbook, social, theme, typography, webdesign, wikipedia, wordpress | Comments (0)
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