Category Archives: Web

Google Gears

Recently a trend about enabling web apps to be used offline started to emerge and a few companies announced their solutions: Dojo Offline Toolkit, Joyent Slingshot, Zimbra desktop and even Firefox 3. Today Google released the beta of Google Gears. A…
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Interesting links

Just a couple of links I found interesting: When to start a Start-up – Article comparing the age of the founders of different web companies when they started. How to measure a blog network – In quantity of blogs or the quality of the blogs?
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Multilanguage blog

Recently I was talking (well, it was a chat) with a friend about the content of my blog which is primarily in Spanish and he was asking if there is a plugin or something to translate the content to English. I got interested in finding a way to implement a…
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Clickclickclick

I read on Kirai about this competition for clicks from diferent countries. I found a few surprises in the ranking and obviously the last places are the less developed countries.
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VR Defender y3k

Looking for a way to spend 10 minutes before leaving the office I found on Digg this game called VR Defender Y3k, which is a variation of the Tower defense game type. You are a sysadmin with low resources and have to defend your servers against attacks, for…
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Learn to use Floats in CSS

Smashing Magazine has another of their interesting articles, this time is about CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know Besides this article, you can find in that site font recommendations, designs galleries, guides and tutorials of many techniques (tabs, grids, etc…), logos and icons galleries usefull…
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Data visualisation of a social network

Analizing statistical data to get trends, projections, relations, etc… is interesting and most of the time is better to see a visual representation to comprehend the relationships and get relevant data. In Visualcomplexity.com I found this image from a study called Data visualisation of a social
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Your toast with whatever you want

No, it’s not about putting something on top of your toast, it’s about toasting it with whatever you want: an image, a small text, etc… In Evil Mad Scientists they are working on a toaster device to draw with a Hot-air gun and a X-Y motion control system.
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How to create a Start-up

Interesting post from Jesus Encinar in which he recommends the steps to follow in creating a start-up. These are basically: Idea Team Resources Implementation Beside a brief explanation of why each step, he also mentions some of the common mistakes at the start of a business, and I…
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Twitter from the command line

Here we go with another post about Twitter of the many in the web every day. To send a post to your account there are many ways, the most basic is going to the site and write it in the text box provided, or you can add Twitter…
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