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InFormEnter v 0.2.9.9 Freeware Our Rating: Popularity: Updated: 09/10/2005 InFormEnter is a handy add-on for Firefox that adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu. Freeware. 14 kb 98/ME/2000/XP Screenshot 1 user opinion Details...

Transformations

... giving an image a new personality using Photoshop:

CD burning software

Deep Burner.

By Red on freeware

Deep Burner. Free and very useful CD burning software. I’m so fed up with progs like Nero which can’t even do a simple thing like burn a bootable DS Linux CD without pfaffing about for hours working out the interface. Try this instead.

Reporters Without Borders

Introducing Sarah

Sarah works in a government office as an accountant. She becomes aware that her boss, the deputy minister, is stealing large amounts of money from the government. She wants to let the world know that a crime is taking place, but she's worried about losing her job. If she reports the matter to the Minister (if she could ever get an appointment!), she might get fired. She calls a reporter at the local newspaper, but he says he can't run a story without lots more information and documents proving her claims.

So Sarah decides to put up a weblog to tell the world what she knows about what's happening in the ministry. To protect herself, she wants to make sure no one can find out who she is based on her blog posts - she needs to blog anonymously or with just a nickname.

“Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.”

Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders) has just released “Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents,” a manual for bloggers.

Interested bloggers may download tha handbook at the RSF website.
Here is a direct link to the file.

From other bloggers:

Blogging ethics

RSF Guide to Anonymous Blogging… and some thoughts on reactions…

HandBook Without Borders

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents

Press Freedom Group Publishes Cyber-Dissident Handbook

French Government, RSF Support Free Speech

Bloggers’ handbook released to help dissidents

RSF Cyberdissidents Guide

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"Businesspeople are treating public access terminals in airport departurelounges as their home PCs and in the process exposing confidential dataand email messages to all and sundry. A mixture of curiosity and boredomled consultants from the Dubai-based network security outfit Scanit touncover a plethora of secrets left by globe-trotting executives who log onin-between flights. Many airport executive lounges are equipped with PCsthat allow business and first class fliers to surf the web. Rather thanusing a web-based email service and clearing the cache and passwordcompletion forms before shutting down, some execs are using OutlookExpress packages on these machines to write emails. Scanit engineers foundeverything from intimate messages to mistresses to desktop-saved documentsoutlining multi-million dollar deals." Learn more in the Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/21/airport_pc_security_lax/

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China issued regulations 09/24/05 designed to limit information available to Internet users, sharply restricting the scope of news and opinion that can be posted on Web sites.

The rules are part of a broader effort to roll back what the Communist Party views as a threatening trend toward liberalization in the news media.

Under the new regulations, major search engines and portals must stop posting commentary articles and instead make available only opinion pieces generated by government-controlled newspapers and news agencies. Also, private individuals or groups must register as "news organizations" under Chinese law before they can run e-mail distribution lists that spread news or views.

Top Keyboard Tray

3M ATK 100
Best of Breed.

Sells from $200 to $350 everywhere
I've used it on a desk once. It's in good shape. Yours for $100

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Specs below

Designed for stability to minimize keyboard bounce
Single-arm design - lever-free adjustment mechanism for all keyboards, extended length track, best for corner workstationsKeyboard PlatformDesigned for stability to minimize keyboard bounce.

Accepts all keyboard styles including the Microsoft & trade; Keyboard. Gel wrist rest improves comfort for standard keyboards but may be removed when using ergonomic keyboards. Dual-Lock & trade; mounting system keeps keyboard in place during adjustment motions.Mousing PlatformRight or left mountable. Slides 4" on track over keypad to reduce reach and fit corner workstations better.

Integrated gel wrist rest and 3M™ Precise Mousing Surface. Raised lip along back edge and cord clip keeps mouse in place. Optional second platform available (AKT100MP).Arm DesignSingle-arm construction designed for better stability and durability over other single-arm keyboard trays. Extended design clears edges of corner workstations better for improved mousing comfort. Lever-free height adjustment with lockable tilt feature.

Screw

Microsoft Vista May Come In Seven Versions

Javascript Diaries

JavaScript is a versatile language. It can be used to create menus, validate forms, provide interactive calendars, post the current day's headlines, produce background effects on a Web page, track a visitor's history on your site, and play games, among many other things. That's probably why it's one of the most popular languages on the World Wide Web.


Introduction
Data Types & Variables
Operators
Functions
Conditional Statements and Loops
Objects
Browser-Based Objects
Window Methods
Window Event Handlers

Ajax is coming

via Tomorrow's Trends:
What's the big deal? It's a very big deal. There will come a time when it won't make sense to download most software onto a computer to use it. Once Internet connectivity is ubiquitous and the experience of using a web page is the same as an installed application, then most installed apps will be replaced by online apps.

Defining Ajax
Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:

• standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
• dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
• data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
• asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
• and JavaScript binding everything together.
  
  From AdaptivePath.com

And then?
And then we'll have 6,000 interfaces with endless "intuitive" buttons and icons; a million variations of so-called ingenious intellectual property controls. Navigating many websites today, merely 2-dimensional static pages and catalogues, is already a cybernetic chaos for our poor mouse-tired wrists and labored sense of interpretation. Ask, for example, why important activity such as moving to the next page is so often a very, very small [Next] or >>. If anyone was truly thinking about the science of interface, thousands upon thousands of sites would increase the size of navigation symbols -- just a smidge.

In many cases, site designers need lessons in the graphical user interface, GUI, and issuing commands following Common User Access CUA standards -- File, Edit, View etc. plus adhering to a basic mouse interface. Microsoft Windows and Unix X Windows both have roots in the IBM Common User Access (CUA) guidelines. What are the roots in site design?

Didn't Bill Gates do a great job? The GUI and CUA, though corrupted with excess dialogues, excess nesting, excess fly outs, excess blocked screen real estate, obtuse language purely for excessive copyright, narrow usefulness that locks out customization and user control, is something we understand. I shouldn't say too much. An upcoming interface, sleek and cool, will be black on black in tiny raised letters like my stereo and television.

And then.
And then there's Blogger, with more than 25% of the important editing screen wasted with tips, prompts, grey space, beige space, white space, blue space, orange space...and various tabs to chase with your fingers and wrist.. The graphical theory of ????

Delicious Monster

Gear Live: "Delicious Monster -- their award winning program -- Delicious Library.

Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world."

Internet Archive

Internet Archive: "Live Music Archive
25,692 concerts"

SONG STORM

SONG STORM: "VOTED WORLD'S HIGHEST QUALITY LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOAD SITE 2004"

Turn your LPs into MP3s

HP Digital Entertainment: "Turn your LPs into MP3s
Digitize your vinyl music in minutes"

audio cleaning lab

audio cleaning lab: "Record, restore and burn: MAGIX audio cleaning lab 10 is the perfect tool for restoring sound on the PC. Automatically remove crackling, hisses and humming from vinyl albums, cassettes and MP3s, optimize, and burn on CD or DVD. " $40.00

Photoshop section

Photoshop tutorials section!
Here I've gathered my different PS tutorials.
Do you have any suggestions about new tutorials,
or do you need help of any kind, please post the questions in the FORUM !
You'll find links to other great PS sites in my hot links section.

Soft desaturated colors

This is the technique
used on one of
Emilie's portraits.

Into the Future

DDJ>Scripting Languages: Into the Future: "What do you think the hottest scripting language of 2010 will be?

Perl 8? Python 2.9.9? Some Ruby derivative? Whatever Microsoft is calling 'Visual Basic' that year? Or something yet to be invented?

The most likely answer is 'None of the above'.

I think that the dominant scripting language of the near future is already with us; we just haven't realized it yet.

Its name? JavaScript.

No, really, I mean it. JavaScript has a better than even chance of elbowing everything else aside."

htaccess Cheatsheet

the jackol's den: "htaccess Cheatsheet "

control your computer from anywhere

Special:: "How to control your home computer from anywhere"

Studying VOIP to Uraine

telecommer.com - Telecom Hacks: "The CBBC reports a teenager who thought to hook his hamster's exercise wheel to a small converter to power his cellphone. I could see many pets being similarly used to contribute to our electrical needs.

If 2 minutes on the hamster wheel generated 30 minutes of cellphone talk time, why aren't we able to power more devices in our homes with human treadmills? UPDATE: I heard this kid only got a 'C' grade for this project. "