Clever Vendor Trick No. 17

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Clever trick speeds sending of group
e-mail

Clever trick speeds sending of group
e-mail 11/03/2003 02:36 PM
Los Angeles Times Nov 3 2003 1:48PM ET

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.

Clever

Clever 05/27/2004 12:36 PM

I have a lot of ideas. Maybe a handful are good ones. Once in a great while I might have a clever idea, but I'm constantly impressed by people that can truly be creative. To take a problem thousands of years old, turn it on its head and solve it with a new clever idea is something to behold.

These two ideas are just about the most clever things I've ever seen.

How clever

How clever 06/23/2004 03:49 PM

A clever URL hijack

A clever URL hijack 08/04/2004 08:26 PM
Wading through the comments on Microsoft's IE blog I discovered a clever URL hijack. The domain http://www.trustworthycomputing.com resolves straight to a Google search: "microsoft security OR privacy flaw OR flaws OR hole OR holes". Trustworthy Computing is the wrapper around...

Too clever by half

Too clever by half 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
On the one hand, I do appreciate that my ISP does security scans, presumably checking for vulnerable and compromised machines on its part of the network. Yay them. On the other, I really wish they wouldn't do this from their nameserver machines. Having all the machines in your resolv.conf black-holed for security violations makes life somewhat less fun than one might otherwise like......

Clever e-mail virus

Clever e-mail virus 03/06/2004 02:08 AM
I received this e-mail today, with an attached file called "Readme.pif". Dear user, the management of Bergersen.net mailing system wants to let you know that,...

El Reg accused: not right, not funny and
not clever

El Reg accused: not right, not funny and
not clever 02/13/2004 10:38 AM
Letters Part I - devoted to the point of dotGNU

Gorilla no think of clever title

Gorilla no think of clever title 08/09/2004 07:59 AM
Koko goes to the dentist
About a month ago, Koko, a 300-plus-pound ape who became famous for mastering more than 1,000 signs, began telling her handlers... she was in pain. They quickly constructed a pain chart, offering Koko a scale from one to 10. When Koko started pointing to nine or 10 too often, a dental appointment was made. (There's a rather funny development at the very bottom of the story)

this clever send-up of boingboing

this clever send-up of boingboing 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
BoringBoring

hanasiana.com/boringboring
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JetBlue's Clever Virus

JetBlue's Clever Virus 06/29/2004 08:58 AM
Taking the edgy carrier for a test drive provides more than a passing grade.

Google IPO: Too Clever by Half

Google IPO: Too Clever by Half 08/18/2004 06:58 AM
TheStreet.com Aug 18 2004 11:37AM GMT

Accredo's Clever Strategy

Accredo's Clever Strategy 07/07/2004 11:33 AM
Accredo's acquisitions have been successful, but is this strategy the best way to grow?

La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy

La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy 06/24/2004 01:05 PM
Things may look bleak, but La-Z-Boy is showing signs that it will right the ship.

Clever as ever, Drudge makes it personal

Clever as ever, Drudge makes it personal 09/24/2004 06:29 PM
Employing some crude editing techniques, Matt Drudge today tried to convey the impression that one of Sen. John Kerry's staunchest defenders was backing off his praise for Kerry's war service. The misinformation attempt forced historian Douglas Brinkley to clarify his statement of full support for Kerry.

IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs

IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs 03/08/2004 11:17 PM
the name's bad, but the idea of wrapping up all these fixes in a behavior is extremely clever

Shark Tank: But it's still a really
clever solution

Shark Tank: But it's still a really
clever solution 01/06/2004 12:57 AM
It's the late 1980s, and this Cobol programmer pilot fish gets a new assignment: Write a program that can slice and dice mainframe security information. But that's not exactly a job for Cobol.

Clever Caller ID Tricks With VoIP

Clever Caller ID Tricks With VoIP 07/07/2004 11:04 AM

Devilishly clever comment spam

Devilishly clever comment spam 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Go to pystl dot org. Looks like your standard open source Wiki, in this case for the Python St. Louis user group, doesn't it? If someone left a comment with that as the url, it would seem pretty innocuous, even if the comment was a little random and unfocused, wouldn't it? But check out the links at the top of the page. All for commercial products that have nothing to do with Python. One almost has to respect the artistry of the scam and the degree to which they have studied bloggers, and know our prejudices. It is amazing the lengths that people will go to get a few links to their site. I guess somebody must buy their trash. I said almost respect them. It is still comment spam, so into the trash bin it goes. But the spammers get points for effort on this one....

Those clever devils at Customized
Classics

Those clever devils at Customized
Classics 12/10/2003 04:20 PM

When I first saw Customized Classics a few weeks ago I felt like kicking myself. It's hard for most people to understand what "public domain" really means, and what value it can give us as a culture, and directly as capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Project Gutenberg has recently uploaded their 10,000th public domain book, and Brewster and the gang are working on the "million book project". To demonstrate the potential of the public domain, and show people what movies, music, and stories used to be like when there was an active public domain (that at one time was only 14 to 28 years old -- imagine making new movies and music from 60s stuff totally free of copyright), I've been kicking around ideas of how to exploit these free works (again, for demonstration purposes more than anything else).

One idea I called "judge a book by its cover." Take these public domain classics, create exciting, artistic cover designs (perhaps by famous designers), and sell them via the new crop of print-on-demand services. A few months ago there was news of Oprah's book club coming back to life and only selecting classics from the public domain, and how publishers would have to rush to meet the demands, but how anyone could print them up.

I've been coming up with other ideas but nothing is as good as customized classics. They just do a search-and-replace on names of your choosing, and spit out a custom book to you for 25 bucks or so. Brilliant and simple.

How to shield your network from clever
hackers

How to shield your network from clever
hackers 07/23/2004 09:55 PM
Microsoft Jul 24 2004 1:41AM GMT

"Print: The Chronicle: 4/15/2005: Clever
Canines"

"Print: The Chronicle: 4/15/2005: Clever
Canines" 04/19/2005 08:36 AM

clever solution for filtering your kid's
mail

clever solution for filtering your kid's
mail 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
i have to agree, there's a huge market for a category-killer app here

Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book

Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book 07/23/2004 11:21 AM
Letters It's a Children's Encyclopedia

GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince a Clever Time

GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince a Clever Time 12/24/2003 05:59 PM
AP via Daily Press Dec 24 2003 5:40PM ET

VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince's clever

VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Voodoo Vince's clever 12/24/2003 12:13 PM
Boston Globe Dec 24 2003 10:01AM ET

Clever zooming tricks improve mobile
user interfaces

Clever zooming tricks improve mobile
user interfaces 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: In my latest piece for TheFeature, I wrote about way researchers are using zooming tricks to make web sites easier to use on mobile phones.

[Patrick] Baudisch's solution to this problem is called "summary thumbnails," which he developed in collaboration with Heidi Lam at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. It is a mobile browser that renders pages as thumbnails, but keeps the text large enough to read. It achieves this by displaying readable text fragments. For example, a CNN.com headline that reads "Chimpanzee Attacks Supermodel at Circus" might be shortened to "Chimpanzee Attacks." All the other headlines and story summaries on the page get the same treatment. There's no artificial intelligence at work here -- it's simple truncation. But it's surprisingly effective. Baudisch and Lam conducted a user study and discovered that users found what they were looking for in web pages 41% faster and at a 71% lower error rate than they did when they looked for the same content on browsers that rendered pages as single columns, and that they zoomed 59% less than when they used ordinary thumbnail rendering browsers.

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Creeper Sweeper Caster - Clever New
Product is Long Overdue

Creeper Sweeper Caster - Clever New
Product is Long Overdue 05/31/2004 02:11 PM
Any auto mechanic who has used a creeper knows the frustration of rolling into a stray nut or bolt; it's like an unforseen panic stop.Inventor Bob Butler knows all about that problem..... [PRWEB May 24, 2004]

Everybody still think it was clever of
the Republicans to spend all that money
to give this man a platform? Ben Stein?
Anybody?

Everybody still think it was clever of
the Republicans to spend all that money
to give this man a platform? Ben Stein?
Anybody? 08/13/2004 06:00 PM
Nader has fired back

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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

Neat trick, Ole

Neat trick, Ole 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
Props to Ole for finding a really neat way to access his mobile’s filesystem .. It’s a shame it doesn’t...

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!

Boxing clever How small internet firms
boost sales at Christmas

Boxing clever How small internet firms
boost sales at Christmas 12/18/2003 05:46 AM
BBC Dec 18 2003 4:53AM 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.

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.

"Fullerton Road Trick"

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

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.

XHTML 2.0: The latest trick (XML.com)

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

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