Like you might know, there is this great function in os x: check any word in the dictionary by hovering this word with the pointer and pressing ctrl+command+d. Works in every cocoa application.
Philipp ‘Lipflip’ Brauner provides a package that enhances the dictionary.app with the complete english-german vokabulary from dict.cc for offline usage. You can also [...]
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A teacher from Florida made a toothpick vanish and reappear in front of class and got accused of wizardry. How nuts is that?
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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness …
Watch her talking about this amazing experience: here.
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one is the ipod way. here are the others: http://stuff.twoday.net/
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John Resig ported Processing to JavaScript. Well, not everything thats written with processing will work with his library but it should be interesting for browser only applications which had been running as an applet.
http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/
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upcoming changes and improvements in php 6, like namespaces. removed will be
magic_quotes
register_globals
register_long_arrays
safe_mode
see the announcement here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/?ca=dgr-lnxw01PHP-Future
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Not that it would be difficult enough to land on a huge rock in the sky, heck no!! This one is just 40m wide!
Article here.
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The last Java 6 update by apple only runs on intel macs with 64 bit processors (core 2 duo) and OS 10.5 intalled. Developers working on a 32 bit mac could check this open source project: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte
” SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. [...]
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here some examples, more of is beautiful work on his website: http://www.petercallesen.com
unbelievable!
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eigentlich macht es ja fast unnötig auf bildblog zu verweisen, aber das is dann doch n eintrag wert:
artikel: http://www.bildblog.de/2941/gewissenlose-chaoten
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