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‘Twitter’ top word of 2009
Twitter is at it again. This time, the term “twitter” has taken the top spot of the world’s most popular English word.
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Scroll/Follow Sidebar, Multiple Techniques
Really simple concept today folks! A sidebar that “follows” as you scroll down a page. There are a number of ways to go about it. We’ll cover two: CSS and JavaScript (jQuery) with a bonus CSS trick.
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The easiest way to handle this is just to use CSS fixed positioning. Our [...] Continue reading
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UK Pub Owner Fined Due To Unauthorized Downloads On Free Pub WiFi?
A bunch of folks have sent in the story of a nameless pub owner in the UK who has supposedly been fined £8,000 in a lawsuit brought by a copyright holder over unauthorized downloads that were done over free WiFi that the pub offered. Of course, there is a lot of missing information here, so I’m not quite sure how much to believe of this story without further evidence. The name of the pub is not given. The information was provided by a WiFi hotspot provider, The Cloud, which claims that the specific pub owner has not given permission to publicize the case. Yet, if it was a lawsuit, you would think that there would be some court records detailing this. It appears that the laws regarding safe harbors for copyright infringement are not nearly as clear as they are in the US. Under the DMCA it seems that any hotspot owner would have safe harbor protections against such a lawsuit, and it seems odd that a court would fine the pub owner when it was clearly a user of the access point that did the file sharing.
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Free .NET Profilers and Some Paid Ones Too
Profiling is an important part of your software development process and allows you to determine improvements in your applications. In simple words, it is tuning your application to increase its performance. Here are some free and paid .NET profilers to do the job for you
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EQATEC v3.0 – An easy to use code profiler to spot your app’s slow code. Profiles only methods as of this writing. You can use it freely for non-commercial use. Check the pricing page for the free license
CLR Profiler for .NET Framework – Free memory allocation profiler which works for .NET 2.0 and 3.5 as well
slimTune – Free profiler and performance analysis/tuning tool for .NET based applications
Commercial
Visual Studio Team System Profiler – Ships with Visual Studio Team System (Developer and Suite) for finding performance issues in your native, managed or ASP.NET applications
ANTS Profiler v5.1 – Highly recommended profiler to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize performance
dotTrace 3.1 – Performance and memory profiler for .NET
MemProfiler 3.5 – powerful tool for finding memory leaks and optimizing the memory usage in programs written in C#, VB.NET or any other .NET Language
AQTime 6 – performance profiling and memory and resource debugging toolset for .NET applications
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Suing For Patent Infringement No Replacement For Actually Building A Real Business
TiVo has been spending a lot of effort suing others for patent infringement, but apparently not very much on actually improving their own services and giving customers a reason to buy them over the competition. So while it may be winning some of its patent lawsuits, it hasn’t helped much for the business, which is rapidly bleeding customers and losing marketshare. TiVo basically created this market and owned it for years — but then got complacent. Now, since it can’t compete, it’s gone to a litigation strategy. Perhaps it should have focused more on providing value and competing rather than suing.
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Mininova Deletes Most Torrents Under Court Threat
Back in August, we noted that a Dutch court, at the urging of anti-piracy group BREIN (which has a history of questionable tactics), had ordered Mininova to remove all infringing links from its index. Even though the court admitted that Mininova itself was not infringing, it was told to remove any torrents that linked to infringing material. Since there’s simply no way to know whether the torrents link to infringing material, and tests of some filtering solutions proved to not do a very good job, the site has decided to remove all torrents other than those specifically approved by the site. End result? The entertainment industry may have wac’d another mole, as Mininova users simply scatter to other providers. But the industry hasn’t done anything to get people more interested in buying. How many more moles get wac’d before anyone figures this out?
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A slightly unfortunate Twitter billboard
A Twitter billboard for a TV station in Mobile, Ala., manages to marry an image of its three news anchors with the tweet: “3 accused of gang rape in Monroeville.”
Originally posted at Technically Incorrect
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Backup Gadgets in Vista
There are some useful gadgets provided in the Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets. I find the Vista Notes Gadget useful to take down small notes. I recently had to move my data to a new machine and wanted to backup these gadgets. There are some tools that help you take a backup, however if you want to take a backup without using any tools, follow these steps:
1. Browse to C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar
2. You will find a file called Settings.ini. This file contains all the data and settings of your gadgets. Copy this file and save it in your backup drive.
3. In the new machine, replace the Settings.ini with the one you have in your backup drive
Voila!
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Disable Right Click Easily using jQuery
I’ve seen allot of posts on forums on how to disable the right click event in JavaScript. Well the solution is pretty straight forward if you use jQuery! The trick is to bind to the contextmenu event. The code below is an example of how to do this.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head> <title>jQuery disable right click easily</title> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(function() { $(this).bind("contextmenu", function(e) { e.preventDefault(); }); }); </script></head><body> Sed lacus. Donec lectus. Nullam pretium nibh ut turpis. Nam bibendum. In nulla tortor, elementum vel, tempor at, varius non, purus. Mauris vitae nisl nec consectetuer. Donec ipsum. Proin imperdiet est. Phasellus dapibus semper urna. Pellentesque ornare, orci in consectetuer hendrerit, urna elit eleifend nunc, ut consectetuer nisl felis ac diam. Etiam non felis. Donec ut ante. In id eros.</body></html>
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Slurping XML with Groovy
In the early days of using Java in conjunction with XML, it often seemed more difficult than it should be to use the Java programming language with the XML markup language. Besides the non-trivial and often differently implemented DOM and SAX APIs, si… Continue reading
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