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A one-trick pony that does the trick
well

A one-trick pony that does the trick
well 06/02/2004 03:44 AM
Convergence is something we talk about in this space from time to time and today is one of those times. But it's not convergence of protocols and standards that I want to mention today. Instead, it's a convergence of two of the concepts that intrigue me as they offer a very good ration of reward to risk when combined.

Neat Banner

Neat Banner 01/10/2004 09:06 PM
Picked this up the other day, I like it.

API + glue = neat apps

API + glue = neat apps 08/18/2004 01:31 AM

I love Andre's new dropcash app, because it helps you coordinate a little fundraiser (like this test one) simply using paypal and typekey. It's cool that both systems allow for third party apps like this to spring up, as this provides functionality the amazon donations/payment program has, but paypal never had. Hopefully paypal rolls this into their system or gives Andre a job doing it for them.

Neat color selector

Neat color selector 09/22/2004 07:03 PM
Col or Synth Axis - Useful if you work with color on the web. You'll want to read the man ual.

Update: Neat Image Pro 2.2

Update: Neat Image Pro 2.2 03/19/2005 02:33 AM
The Photoshop noise reduction plug-in adds improved compatibility with older versions of Photoshop running in Mac OS X Classic mode and more digital camera noise profiles.

We're the most advanced nation on earth!
Neat!

We're the most advanced nation on earth!
Neat! 09/23/2004 11:37 PM
Monkey hacks Diebold voting machine. Really.

Neat Stuff In Sin City: CES 2004

Neat Stuff In Sin City: CES 2004 01/10/2004 07:52 PM
Sex, liquor and gambling are not Las Vegas' only tempting vices -- there are electronics, too. The 2004 Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing. Below is a ...

Neat Idea: The Mini-Me Drive

Neat Idea: The Mini-Me Drive 08/01/2004 10:00 AM
By MacMove.com (via MyAppleMenu)

E3 wrapup: Risk aversion and neat
hardware

E3 wrapup: Risk aversion and neat
hardware 05/17/2004 02:44 AM
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is the world's largest computer and video game industry gathering, attracting tens of thousands of attendees and occupied by hundreds of vendors. It's an interesting place to look for trends in gaming. This year, "risk aversion" is the big buzzword, but there's a surprising amount of cool hardware on hand that people haven't taken much notice of yet. There were a few Mac items of note, too.

Fuel cell firm's neat solution for
batteries

Fuel cell firm's neat solution for
batteries 06/21/2004 07:02 PM
MTI Micro's fuel cells use 100 percent methanol to generate electricity, for a longer-lasting power pack. Time to say goodbye to batteries?

E3 wrapup: Risk aversion and neat
hardware (MacCentral)

E3 wrapup: Risk aversion and neat
hardware (MacCentral) 05/16/2004 11:53 PM
MacCentral - The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is the world's largest computer and video game industry gathering, attracting tens of thousands of attendees and occupied by hundreds of vendors. It's an interesting place to look for trends in gaming. This year, "risk aversion" is the big buzzword, but there's a surprising amount of cool hardware on hand that people haven't taken much notice of yet. There were a few Mac items of note, too.

Cin-o-matic is like Metacritic with
watchlists, extensive filtering, and
other neat features

Cin-o-matic is like Metacritic with
watchlists, extensive filtering, and
other neat features 08/10/2004 03:40 AM

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A Nifty Trick

A Nifty Trick 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

I have a nifty trick I wanted to share, since I think Web designers might find it useful when making reductions of bugs to send to browser developers. Basically I had this bug I was working on where content would sometimes shift too far to the right in Safari (don't worry, this bug isn't in 1.0). The bug was timing-related, and it only occurred intermittently when you reloaded the page.

The bug would only happen if layout occurred at a particular time, and usually this happened when a script was stalled loading long enough for the browser to decide it needed to show the user what it had so far.

If a script stalls, it's blocking the parsing of the rest of the content, so if a layout does occur, you're basically guaranteed that you're going to lay out the content of the page exactly up to the opening script tag and no more.

The bug in question would only happen if Safari had to do a layout before the script had loaded. Maciej (the JS guru on our team) came up with a clever idea: instead of pointing the script at an external resource, just make the script do something that would force a synchronous layout. Then you could basically construct test cases that made layout happen at precise chokepoints that you set up yourself! How cool is that?

A trick that works with both Safari and Mozilla is to try to access a property like offsetHeight, so here's an example:

<script>var v = document.body.offsetHeight;</script>

The layout engine basically has to lay out in order to give you a decent answer, so the handy little snippet above can be inserted anywhere in a document to force the layout of a page up to that point!

Armed with this trick I was able to easily fix the bug, since I now had a test case that demonstrated the problem 100% of the time. Thanks, Maciej!

Refresh trick

Refresh trick 03/12/2003 12:38 PM
If you, like me, have stopped using the pop-up comment windows but Google is still pointing people to them (like so: FedEx sucks) then add the following to your Comment Listing Template: <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;<MTEntryPermalink>”> Have fun....

Motorola's Hat Trick

Motorola's Hat Trick 05/08/2004 06:26 AM
Forbes May 8 2004 10:20AM GMT

Clever Vendor Trick No. 17

Clever Vendor Trick No. 17 04/09/2004 11:43 PM
Shark Tank: This software company has just sold its very pricey software to a bank, and as tech pilot fish heads out to install it, his boss reminds him, "Try to distract them when you load the software off the two floppy disks." ...

"The secret finger trick"

"The secret finger trick" 04/23/2004 02:43 AM

RollerMouse: A better mouse trick

RollerMouse: A better mouse trick 02/10/2004 02:48 AM
I type so much that I developed tendinitis in my elbow some years ago. Ever since then I've been keenly aware of ergonomics for my office. Contour Design's $190 RollerMouse, a new pointing device par excellence, quickly let me ignore my old mouse and keep my hands centered on the keyboard, where they are far more comfortable.

Copperfield's Card Trick

Copperfield's Card Trick 12/15/2003 05:42 PM
Copperfield's Card Trick
Pick a card without clicking it or selecting it and the image of David Copperfield will remove that card from the six cards.

How does this work? I've tried it four or five times and it gets it right everytime.

XHTML 2.0: The latest trick (XML.com)

XHTML 2.0: The latest trick (XML.com) 08/08/2002 11:58 AM

CyberNeko Tools for XNI: XML trick bag

CyberNeko Tools for XNI: XML trick bag 08/27/2002 06:47 AM
CyberNeko Tools for XNI (NekoXNI) is an open-source XNI-based suite that includes an experimental pull parser, a framework for automating batch XML transformations, and tools that enable standard XML APIs to be used to access information in HTML documents and DTDs.

Sony's Cheap Trick

Sony's Cheap Trick 09/03/2004 02:48 PM
The electronics giant is making overtures to discounters.

"Fullerton Road Trick"

"Fullerton Road Trick" 09/02/2004 10:09 AM
A poem.

Chiron: No One-Trick Biotech

Chiron: No One-Trick Biotech 11/12/2003 04:27 PM
Business Week Nov 12 2003 2:43PM ET

XHTML 2.0: The Latest Trick

XHTML 2.0: The Latest Trick 08/07/2002 06:32 PM
Kendall Clark looks at the first draft of XHTML 2.0, which makes some interesting and major changes to the current HTML language.

Notes and Tips: SuperDrive Trick

Notes and Tips: SuperDrive Trick 09/07/2004 10:25 AM
Here's a tip for using a Windows PC to expand the capabilities of Apple's SuperDrive.

A simple iTunes rating trick

A simple iTunes rating trick 08/27/2004 01:38 PM
This is a very simple hint, but maybe useful to any of you like me. I have almost 1,500 unrated songs in my 8,000 song iTunes library. Because many of these songs are not my *absolute* favorites, I have never gotten round to ...

Other News: Modem-Dial Trick

Other News: Modem-Dial Trick 08/31/2004 06:12 AM
The FTC warns about sneaky software that makes trick modem calls and sticks you with the charges.

A shell/AppleScript interaction trick

A shell/AppleScript interaction trick 06/18/2004 04:15 PM
In unix, most scripting languages accept line-initial # as a comment marker. This allows the file-inital shebang sequence (#!) to be used to automatically exec the interpreter on a script. I wanted this functionality for A...

Notes and Tips: QuickTime Trick

Notes and Tips: QuickTime Trick 09/02/2004 10:30 AM
Shift-click the volume control for extra amplitude in QuickTime.

Tennis: Serena targets hat-trick

Tennis: Serena targets hat-trick 07/03/2004 12:44 AM
Serena Williams says it will be the "most special moment" if she beats Maria Sharapova in Saturday's final.

Dell unveils hat trick of products

Dell unveils hat trick of products 09/01/2004 01:33 PM
The PC maker is gearing up for the fall with new printers, TVs and a spiced-up desktop.

Shark Tank: Never reveal how the trick
is done

Shark Tank: Never reveal how the trick
is done 09/01/2004 11:11 PM
This pilot fish signs on to support the minicomputers at a paper mill and is told that the biggest problem will be maintaining several printers scattered throughout the plant -- not the computers, which have never caused a problem.

How Houdini's escape trick worked

How Houdini's escape trick worked 06/06/2004 10:16 PM
The secret of Harry Houdini's signature "Metamorphosis" escape trick is out of the bag. Do not visit that page if you don't want to know how he did it.

DVD Jon Pulled Off Old Trick with iTunes
(NewsFactor)

DVD Jon Pulled Off Old Trick with iTunes
(NewsFactor) 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
NewsFactor - Despite the froth and fury being generated in the press about the breaching of iTunes' song locks by the infamous hacker DVD Jon, the "accomplishment" really is nothing new.

Atlantis' Dividend Magic Trick

Atlantis' Dividend Magic Trick 03/28/2005 01:30 PM
The plastics maker is offering a huge payout, but it's financed with debt.

Christie single scores hat-trick

Christie single scores hat-trick 04/04/2005 03:56 AM
Crooner Tony Christie notches up three weeks at number one in the UK singles chart with (Is This The Way To) Amarillo.

Papa's Sneaky Pizza Trick

Papa's Sneaky Pizza Trick 04/08/2005 03:41 PM
Papa John's builds another quarter of strong sales and upstages Domino's on "The Apprentice."

Gervais hopes for Bafta hat-trick

Gervais hopes for Bafta hat-trick 04/18/2004 01:43 PM
Rain ruins the red carpet as the Bafta TV awards, which Ricky Gervais could dominate for a third time, begin.
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Progress Indication: Concepts, Design,
and Implementation

Progress Indication: Concepts, Design,
and Implementation 09/03/2002 11:37 AM

Toshiba, Samsung unveil advanced chip
progress

Toshiba, Samsung unveil advanced chip
progress 06/16/2004 09:48 AM
Toshiba Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have both unveiled progress they are making in independent research projects aimed at realizing chips that are two generations down the line from today's most advanced semiconductors.

I.B.M. Will Collaborate Somewhat More on
Chip Design

I.B.M. Will Collaborate Somewhat More on
Chip Design 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
I.B.M. announced yesterday that it planned to adopt a more open strategy in its microprocessor business, borrowing a page from successful collaborative software projects like Linux.

Design: Chip Kidd

Design: Chip Kidd 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Kidd makes the postmodern assumption that potential book buyers have learned to decipher media meanings; his cover gambits are a game he plays with your mind.

Microsoft moving into chip design

Microsoft moving into chip design 11/10/2003 11:38 PM
ZDNet Nov 10 2003 7:54AM ET

Chip Design Reverses a Hot Trend

Chip Design Reverses a Hot Trend 11/13/2003 06:31 AM
A new technology that uses a reversal effect in computing produces less heat than the current type of chip, but the big manufacturers are sitting on the sidelines for now. By Amit Asaravala.

Sun gambles big on future chip design

Sun gambles big on future chip design 04/12/2004 07:28 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc.'s recent surprisedecision to drop work on its UltraSparc V processor could be seen as either a desperate cost-cutting measure by a troubled company, or a vote of confidence for the next generation of multithreaded, multicore "throughput computing" processors that Sun has been readying since its 2002 acquisition of Afara WebSystems Inc.

Sun completes 'Niagara' chip design

Sun completes 'Niagara' chip design 05/11/2004 07:31 PM
Sun Microsystems has completed the design of its Niagara processor, a crucial product in the server maker's effort to keep its own UltraSparc chip family competitive, a source familiar with the project says.

Chip maker shifts design to India

Chip maker shifts design to India 04/22/2004 06:29 AM
The world's second largest chip maker AMD is to set up a design centre in Bangalore in India.

Sun takes big gamble on future chip
design

Sun takes big gamble on future chip
design 04/13/2004 04:52 PM
In an interview, David Yen, Sun's executive vice president of processor and network products, explains the company's decision to drop the UltraSparc V and its commitment to throughput computing.

China looks to Indian partnership in
chip design

China looks to Indian partnership in
chip design 04/10/2005 05:49 AM
indiaexpress.com Apr 10 2005 10:12AM GMT

ARM unveils multi-core chip design

ARM unveils multi-core chip design 05/18/2004 05:53 AM
License now, punch out silicon in Q2 2005

AMD Sets Up Indian Chip Design Center

AMD Sets Up Indian Chip Design Center 04/22/2004 03:59 PM
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that it plans to establish a chip design center in Bangalore, India for use in next-generation designs.

Microsoft Moving Into Chip Design With
Xbox Next

Microsoft Moving Into Chip Design With
Xbox Next 11/10/2003 11:10 PM
adamsmith_uk writes "According to ZDNet, Microsoft will more actively participate in chip design for the next version of its Xbox gaming console, tentatively ...

Poor chip design led to Microsoft flaw

Poor chip design led to Microsoft flaw 02/18/2004 05:38 PM
New Scientist Feb 18 2004 9:47PM GMT

Infineon opens chip design center in
China

Infineon opens chip design center in
China 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG announced on Wednesday the establishment of a chip design center in China as the company looks to build a bigger presence in China's growing market for semiconductors.

Motorola to close its Singapore chip
design centre

Motorola to close its Singapore chip
design centre 03/08/2004 11:18 PM
Today Online Mar 8 2004 9:51PM GMT

Intel's Fister named CEO of chip design
firm

Intel's Fister named CEO of chip design
firm 05/17/2004 08:51 AM
Computer Weekly May 17 2004 1:25PM GMT

LSI Logic Unveils Custom Chip Design
Tech

LSI Logic Unveils Custom Chip Design
Tech 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In a bid to make custom chip design much faster and less expensive, LSI Logic has introduced a new semiconductor platform called RapidChip, along with a new design methodology and tool set.

Qualcomm to build Austin chip design
plant

Qualcomm to build Austin chip design
plant 06/04/2004 08:37 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 5 2004 0:37AM GMT

Motorola moving chip design units to
China, India

Motorola moving chip design units to
China, India 03/08/2004 11:18 PM
Forbes Mar 9 2004 3:52AM GMT

AMD dual-core design fuels chip race
with Intel

AMD dual-core design fuels chip race
with Intel 09/06/2004 12:27 PM
Infomatics Sep 6 2004 5:04PM GMT

Motorola Moving Chip Design Units to
China, India (Reuters)

Motorola Moving Chip Design Units to
China, India (Reuters) 03/09/2004 12:15 AM
Reuters - Motorola Inc, the world's second-largest cell phone maker, said on Tuesday it was shutting its semiconductor chip-design units in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and moving them to India and China.

Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page

Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page 02/17/2004 06:09 AM
The President's Pal and Business Partner Will Make Millions From Drug Card Program He Helped Design .. The Progress Report: 'Imminent' Semantics; Playing the Blame Game 1/30 .. IRAQ - Intel Warnings Ignored

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APT Indicator 0.0.4rc1

APT Indicator 0.0.4rc1 04/28/2004 08:56 AM
An applet for indicating when newer packages are available.

Owens Design Announces Family of ATE
Prober Products Miniature Robotic
Devices Calibrate LSI Chip Testers

Owens Design Announces Family of ATE
Prober Products Miniature Robotic
Devices Calibrate LSI Chip Testers 07/08/2004 03:51 AM
Owens Design Inc., an outsourcing company providing capital equipment engineering, design and manufacturing services for high tech industries, announced today that it has developed a new addition to its family of robotic probers for the high-end semiconductor test industry. [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

PageRank Indicator for Linux and Mac OSX

PageRank Indicator for Linux and Mac OSX 06/09/2004 03:59 PM
Linux and Mac browser toolbars with PageRank indicators. Hurry while it lasts.

Leading Indicator Index Up 0.3 Percent
(AP)

Leading Indicator Index Up 0.3 Percent
(AP) 04/19/2004 09:42 AM
AP - A barometer of future economic activity edged higher in March, following a pause in February, suggesting that the economic recovery may be gaining a more solid footing.

Leading Indicator Index Edges Higher
(AP)

Leading Indicator Index Edges Higher
(AP) 04/19/2004 10:59 AM
AP - A barometer of future economic activity edged higher in March, following a pause in February, suggesting that the economic recovery may be gaining a more solid footing.

Valley bash indicator shows life

Valley bash indicator shows life 05/31/2004 06:45 AM
SiliconValley.com May 31 2004 10:57AM GMT

Neat trick, Ole

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