links for 2009-06-24
Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Kimberly in delicious
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Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating. Open Emu is based on a modular architecture, allowing for game-engine plugins, this means Open Emu can support a host of different emulation engines and back-ends while retaining a familiar OS X native front-end.
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So you’ve got your brand-new Mac with a shiny widescreen display; acres of space sits between the Help menu and Apple’s handful of default menu extras, begging to be used to the full.
Below, in no particular order, are ten of the very best tiny, indispensable (and mostly free) applications for making the most of your menu bar.
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Some educators have expressed an appreciation for the irony of experienced instructors who have had to learn about social media later in their careers teaching it to younger students who have grown up in an Internet environment. Despite what may seem to be somewhat of a disadvantage, the experienced teacher brings life lessons and the ability to guide students in a positive direction no matter the topic being taught. The following tips, tools, and resources can assist any teacher with the basics about social media and ways to share that information with students.
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Melody is an open source content management system for bloggers and publishers where its community of users and contributors is its most important feature. We believe that a vibrant community is the foundation on which all successful products and services are built today.
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Cloud computing is quietly taking over the world and changing the way we use our computers forever. Whether you’re storing your photo collection on Flickr or logging on to Gmail, everyone’s now using the cloud, even if they don’t realise it. But how does it work and how can we as web designers and developers make it work for us?
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Today representatives of Google Search and Microsoft’s Bing teams, Jake Brutlag and Eric Schurman respectively, presented the results of user performance tests at today’s Velocity Conference. The talk was entitled The User and Business Impact of Server Delays, Additional Bytes, and HTTP Chunking in Web Search. These are long-term tests were designed to see what aspects of performance are most important. To know how to improve their sites both Bing and Google need to know what tweaks to page load perceptions and realities help or hurt the user experience. This is one of the first performance tests that has actual data (and is not strictly anecdotal). The numbers may seem small, but they if you are dealing in millions/billions they add up quickly.
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In the first part of this three part series, we cover setting up a simple message model, which will hold the messages posted. Further to this, we will learn how to post a message asynchronously, using AJAX.
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Become a Gmail Ninja
Learn tips and tricks to save time, increase your productivity, and manage your email efficiently. Start with the tips that are right for you, based on how much email you get each day.
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What would be possible if browsing the web was as fast as turning the pages of a magazine? We invite you to join us in exploring and innovating across the entire spectrum of performance – from Internet protocols to the browser to website development. Together, let’s make the web faster!
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The Remember The Milk Gmail gadget allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail:
* Review your upcoming tasks for the week
* Add new tasks and edit existing ones
* Easily complete and postpone tasks
* Review your overdue tasks
* Optionally show tasks with no due date
* Display tasks from a particular list or Smart List -
This might surprise readers who are accustomed to traditional version control systems like CVS or SVN. A git repository can be a completely local undertaking. The whole repository content is stored in a folder named .git in the root of the project folder
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iPhone 3.0 allows you to search for applications, contacts, mail and a lot more with Spotlight on iPhone. It can be accessed by pressing the Home button when you are on the Home/First screen. It will start searching as soon as you start to type. Apart from keeping the most frequently accessed applications on the Home screen, one other way to quickly access your favorite apps is by using Spotlight search.
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You like threaded conversations, googling your inbox, and you prefer labels over folders. You really love Gmail.
If yes: You’ve come to the right place. Continue to use the Gmail web interface you know and love, but from Mailplane instead of your web browser: Mailplane makes you more productive and saves you precious time.
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Visual Editor Temp fix — 2.8 Problems and Solutions
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It is time for enterprise software to take a giant leap forward. MindTouch transforms businesses with a new class of enterprise software that cuts costs, increases revenue, and provides greater transparency across the organization. MindTouch provides wiki like ease of use with a sophisticated web services framework for rapid application development, creating flexible workflows and rapid integration. MindTouch creates a vibrant real-time information fabric by federating content from across enterprise silos; including CRM, ERP, file servers, email, databases, web service and more.
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Kimberly Beaven is a Web Designer and Creative Director of BlueWave Media. She is is truly a gadget girl who loves architecture, photography, design and coding. Learn more via twitter or her Google Profile. If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to our RSS feed.