Google Readertag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06695600793452742441/state/com.google/broadcastbrian's shared items in Google ReaderCPGdxb-btJgCbrian2009-12-19T14:27:23Ztag:google.com,2005:reader/item/eaa3e07b30e3fc08Top Twitter Trends of 20092009-12-15T21:19:00Z2009-12-15T22:19:10Z<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_14cEenKeR04/SygI8Gp0F9I/AAAAAAAAADY/hELPQB1mQKo/s1600-h/2009trends_large.png"><img style="width:400px;height:309px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_14cEenKeR04/SygI8Gp0F9I/AAAAAAAAADY/hELPQB1mQKo/s400/2009trends_large.png" alt="" border="0"></a><br><br>My name is Abdur and I'm part of the Research team here at Twitter. As Chief Scientist, it's my job to interpret data so we can understand and appreciate how Twitter is constantly evolving. Since it's the end of the year, we thought it would be interesting to review the topics and issues that captured global attention over the year. In 2009, Twitter’s Trending Topics helped us understand what was happening around the world showing us that people everywhere can be united in concern around important events; excited about a new movie; or geek-out about a major new technology.<br><br>Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly. Twitter users found the Iranian elections the most engaging topic of the year. The terms #iranelection, Iran and Tehran were all in the top-21 of Trending Topics, and #iranelection finished in a close second behind the regular weekly favorite #musicmonday.<br><br>These are Twitter’s top Trending Topics across several categories—an interesting time capsule of what was happening as this decade came to a close.<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">News Events</span><br> 1. #iranelection<br> 2. Swine Flu<br> 3. Gaza<br> 4. Iran<br> 5. Tehran<br> 6. #swineflu<br> 7. AIG<br> 8. #uksnow<br> 9. Earth Hour<br> 10. #inaug09<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">People</span><br> 1. Michael Jackson<br> 2. Susan Boyle<br> 3. Adam Lambert<br> 4. Kobe (Bryant)<br> 5. Chris Brown<br> 6. Chuck Norris<br> 7. Joe Wilson<br> 8. Tiger Woods<br> 9. Christian Bale<br> 10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Movies</span><br> 1. Harry Potter<br> 2. New Moon<br> 3. District 9<br> 4. Paranormal Activity<br> 5. Star Trek<br> 6. True Blood<br> 7. Transformers 2<br> 8. Watchmen<br> 9. Slumdog Millionaire<br> 10. G.I. Joe<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">TV Shows</span><br> 1. American Idol<br> 2. Glee<br> 3. Teen Choice Awards<br> 4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)<br> 5. Dollhouse<br> 6. Grey’s Anatomy<br> 7. VMAS (Video Music Awards)<br> 8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)<br> 9. BET Awards<br> 10. Lost<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Sports (Teams, Events, Leagues)</span><br> 1. Super Bowl<br> 2. Lakers<br> 3. Wimbledon<br> 4. Cavs (Cleveland Cavaliers)<br> 5. Superbowl<br> 6. Chelsea<br> 7. NFL<br> 8. UFC 100<br> 9. Yankees<br> 10. Liverpool<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Technology</span><br> 1. Google Wave<br> 2. Snow Leopard<br> 3. Tweetdeck<br> 4. Windows 7<br> 5. CES<br> 6. Palm Pre<br> 7. Google Latitude<br> 8. #E3<br> 9. #amazonfail<br> 10. Macworld<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Hash Tags</span><br> 1. #musicmonday<br> 2. #iranelection<br> 3. #sxsw<br> 4. #swineflu<br> 5. #nevertrust<br> 6. #mm<br> 7. #rememberwhen<br> 8. #3drunkwords<br> 9. #unacceptable<br> 10. #iwish<div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23958943-2487218339914255110?l=blog.twitter.com" alt=""></div>Abdur10503737320383735337050508505661978911240422999244936744038414503419454194201131138429703315404458940775321609566599684617897000996506301665092646492498927601140992930685265098311909189180182281835385087261765924838567400966113762370905711200697033416999003258137052651274818327171376188992131307212605197761701252991544101727569949903502921186984583102743906313543699763013298644084513521405430182440390885974022739116508979482898648463054145238341722635182631462447812479044147605527797238919442401043190043004309940250716048435664210234713261528739837105249101842319782735691211499123823224096674000410117590620400428017980025574370771271526892760106772776207359530199320630396014318100090584288561097610073044257946106077597975116316224130883191324043026140354044162426279986301739009189021412689066956007934527424410036364747947051943412509578172829442541099867134363821982820826606325482384934304259768844009721469086012294057711260301135811687846530086012925781074331991708174362407681951825340141833940471124861105101743104845469287122842500546632157881622424793222526849809570406968655940145011532239990071968941046171068690585616517290896846098732159087256331139698969710200460980169372057014539414522094354710105931476470895411540779013972054348967606653292896273312159102079617331121118431023556456020493680902987970515599322154116348078402347460621281070288583284642604059552073189437262033139096060399724990906961334584873757906880552658224173818167890964622533613230101444653999860109903710515902568283455079101368006090771770946250629810750765107483340965016433821170425757786711609871215922776179921951300435122174156151776070015756439841392921154516744792259642601485752614436977235160481332460610633821675675249302513466606442992541313269596049444822352080341160192239919084152725109925506920815596634137949473023409389030280017857941003288401205387106051415447005835314063290269911156678970026452506214427034331383364281037881509234581820060521304478062989766502303758946127639076tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/TwitterBlogTwitter Blogtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/abf32b30322a7c12It’s a hard-knock life2009-09-22T14:21:54Z2009-09-22T14:21:54Z<p>Please, please watch this video of a dancing flash mob made up of Point Park University students.  This took place yesterday at the US Steel plaza and was their attempt to greet the G-20 with peace, art, and kickass motherlovin’ DANCING!</p> <p>The good stuff starts at :45 in, so watch it and then we’re going to talk about it and by that I mean, I’m going to tell you how I feel about it.</p> <p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://thatschurch.com/2009/09/22/its-a-hard-knock-life/"><p><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></p></a></p> <p>I know! SQUEE!</p> <p>Why squee? SO many reasons, but let me tell you three:</p> <p>1. Whoever that brave soul is that started the dance all by himself. HUGS!</p> <p>2. Since Footloose, since Grease, since Grease 2 (I KNOW!), since Scrubs, since Buffy, since Enchanted, since High School Frickin’ Musical, I have always thought <em>why can’t we live in a world where suddenly large crowds of people burst into choreographed song and dance</em>?!  How awesome, I have thought, would it be to be walking through Point Park when suddenly, out of nowhere, “It’s a Hard-knock Life” starts blaring and all the people who take their lunch to the Point because they hate their jobs and wish life were different, suddenly burst into a dance that fully utilizes the entire rim of the fountain? And umbrellas.  Lots of colorful umbrellas a-twirling and a-tossing.</p> <p>I am so so so jealous that I wasn’t there when this happened because I would have freaked the hell out at the sheer awesomeness of this.</p> <p>3.  THIS is how you get your message across. You throw a brick through a window in Pittsburgh and I will hate you and everything you stand for and if you so much as ask me for directions to your tent city, I will send you on a path so ridiculous you’ll end up in the scariest parts of the Hill District, or as we call it, Westhampsminstershire, where you’ll beg those very police you hate, to save your miserably misguided life.</p> <p>However, you sing and dance about it, you bring me joy while telling me what you’re so pissed off about, hell, I’m going to listen to you and then quickly guide you back to your tent city, and maybe even stop on the way to buy you a donut.</p> <p>Just think, anarchists, instead of pissing this entire city off with your stupid destruction, why not use this rainy downtime to make up a song and dance that speaks to your cause? Call it “Capitalist Pigs” set to the tune of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General” and I, along with 20 world leaders, will pull up a lawn chair and clap like you’re killing pigeons.</p> <blockquote><p><em>I am the very model of a modern major anarchist</em></p> <p><em>I’ve information scary ’bout those nasty pigs capitalist.<br> </em></p> <p><em>I hate the kings of England, and I fought the fights historical</em></p> <p><em>From Pittsburgh here to London too, in order west to east-acle.</em></p></blockquote> <p>I’m totally on to something, and you know it.</p> <p>DO IT!</p> <p>All you kids that danced are the next Awesome Burghers and your giant pats on the back are in the mail.</p> <p>Also, clearly, I need to write a Broadway musical.</p>Virginia03270942713002770352071480392249114783811748648036321067127810731528477067014578tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://thatschurch.com/feed/That&#39;s Churchtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f7e19a676233b37dVanadium: Semantic client side validation2009-09-18T11:04:04Z2009-09-18T11:04:04Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> Ajaxian » Front Page</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/195199033/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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Devtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/6b0a47e861f101ddHelvetical2009-09-02T09:04:04Z2009-09-02T09:04:04Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> hicksdesign - journal</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/191240891/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" 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Google Calendar is most definitely not the exception to the rule, it hurts my eyes. Helvetical extends the work done by Jon Hicks on Helvetireader, turning the mayhem of the Google interface into something that doesn’t offend. It was created for use with Fluid.app but I’m sure you can hack the <span>CSS</span> to work for your needs.</p> </blockquote> <p>At one point, I had in mind that I would create a minimal Helvetica theme that would work across various google apps. Then I took one look under the hood of GMail and new it would never work. </p> <br> <br> <div> <a href="mailto:?subject=Helvetical&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fhicksdesign.co.uk%2Fjournal%2Fhelvetical&amp;liked=1">Email this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/191240891/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdel.icio.us%2Fsave%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fhicksdesign.co.uk%252Fjournal%252Fhelvetical%26title%3DHelvetical&amp;c=295eb8b2f51aa9c14d316fd51799f51af8fe16f4c687f40c787a5f811e2158e&amp;liked=1">Save to del.icio.us</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/191240891/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digg.com%2Fsubmit%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fhicksdesign.co.uk%252Fjournal%252Fhelvetical%26title%3DHelvetical%26phase%3D2&amp;c=295eb8b2f51aa9c14d316fd51799f51af8fe16f4c687f40c787a5f811e2158e&amp;liked=1">Digg this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/191240891/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technorati.com%2Fsearch%2Fhttp%253A%252F%252Fhicksdesign.co.uk%252Fjournal%252Fhelvetical&amp;c=295eb8b2f51aa9c14d316fd51799f51af8fe16f4c687f40c787a5f811e2158e&amp;liked=1">Technorati Cosmos Links</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/191240891/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dsphereit%3Ahttp%253A%252F%252Fhicksdesign.co.uk%252Fjournal%252Fhelvetical&amp;c=295eb8b2f51aa9c14d316fd51799f51af8fe16f4c687f40c787a5f811e2158e&amp;liked=1">Sphere: Related Content</a>     </div> </div> <br> <hr>Jon Hickstag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542?c=548d22fb43996688166a7e910ce1c84772e677d05a308d0c703cb53f8e80fe5dTechtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/692ab37129221680Web OS? Web VM? Value in both?2009-09-01T12:18:49Z2009-09-01T12:18:49Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> Ajaxian » Front Page</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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There are many other examples of this of course. On the desktop we have had the likes of <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoblin.org%2F&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">moblin</a> and <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jolicloud.com%2F&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">Jolicloud</a> for quite some time. On the phone we have <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.palm.com%2F&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">webOS</a>.</p> <p> <b>The Web as a virtual machine</b> </p> <p>In many ways, it seems obvious that this will happen. When I look at my desktop, I often find it looking like this:</p> <p> <img alt="browserasvm" height="308" src="http://almaer.com/blog/uploads/browserasvm.png" title="browserasvm" width="500"> </p> <p>which looks surprisingly similar to this:</p> <p> <img alt="windowsinmac" height="313" src="http://almaer.com/blog/uploads/windowsinmac.jpg" title="windowsinmac" width="500"> </p> <p>Wait a minute. Can’t you look at the browser as being a virtual machine for the Web? A hugely successful one that has been ported to almost every platform known to man. It is a viral virtual machine that has become so successful due to its simple yet powerful constructs that allowed the platforms to do the porting (oh and it was friggin made to be free! Take that <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGopher_%28protocol%29&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">gopher</a>!). As a virtual machine it grew so fast that it is quickly usurping the hosts themselves. The traditional operating systems. Applications are being written for the VM rather than the OS. This is very different to the diagram that has Windows running inside a VM on the Mac. In that case you are running applications written for Windows on the Mac. The virtualization crew have done wonders to make that emulation possible. With the Web you didn’t quite need those tricks, and instead thanks to Web standards, you just had to write a browser.</p> <p> <b>Going inside out</b> </p> <p>Normally, we have seen systems built natively and then we virtualize them. In the case of the Web, the “Web platform” is the host environment and the VM. As this environment has become stronger and stronger, there is bound to be the time to ask “do we need our host anymore?” We are on the fringe of that time right now where a huge bulk of the applications that people use are Web based.</p> <p>I just ran an experiment in this area myself. The hard drive in my Macbook Pro died and while the kind folks at the local Apple store replaced it I had to pick up a random machine for use. What would life be like if I had to work on a random machine? I purposely didn’t restore from my own backup, and ended up with a week seeing how much of this cloud thing I use.</p> <p>It turned out that all of the apps that weren’t somehow cloud based were now a pain in the arse. Obviously I could get my email with Gmail and the other Web apps were there. However it went further than that. I could download <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atebits.com%2Ftweetie-iphone%2F&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">Tweetie</a> and be instantly up and running where I left off (thanks to the fact that Twitter is just a Web service). I got to see which IM servers did a good job keeping my server based contacts, and what a pain it is when you make changes on the local client to tell you that <em>flubber65</em> is <em>Frank</em> and suddenly you have no idea who anyone is without that (NOTE: if you build a service, for gods sake save everything up there!).</p> <p>It even made me happy for <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbespin.mozilla.com%2F&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">Bespin</a>, as I was able to get to a bunch of my code. That has incentivized me to help make Bespin great :)</p> <p>So, I learned that Web based services won. I was productive on a random machine in minutes, and cursed the situations where this wasn’t the case (mainly around development).</p> <p>If the entire OS was Web based, with a rich cloud infrastructure, then I could literally login to any machine and be ready to roll. X Windows productivity will be back! :) This will greatly change the role of devices too. Seamless upgrades. Multiple devices sharing data. Fun times.</p> <p>So, Web OS it is. Hopefully the Web platform will be complete enough, and where it isn’t this kind of force behind it will push it even faster (this is why I am excited to see the space heat up, and also wanting to keep a watchful eye to see how things get standardized with crazy timelines behind them).</p> <p> <b>What do we lose?</b> </p> <p>But, wait a minute. We have seen that virtual machines are actually pretty awesome. Having an entire system in a single file that I can suspend, backup, and run multiple off? Cool. I am running multiple “Web OS’s” every day (Firefox, Safari, Chrome). I can update them whenever I want, and they can compete.</p> <p>We also see fantastic features where we can watch over all of the connections from the virtual machine to the host. Tweak how ethernet works, set limits on various usage, etc. Just as we are getting amazing things out of virtual machines…. maybe we don’t need the Web platform to move from there just yet.</p> <p> <b>User-Agent</b> </p> <p>Chris Beard (Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla) is often talking about what it means for the browser to be the “users agent”. There is so much that the s/browser/virtual-web-machine/g can be doing for us, and we have only just begun.</p> <p>We need to be wary of losing out on any of these thoughts if the Web becomes the OS on the computer (whatever that means, of course!).</p> <p>As we think about <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjetpack.mozillalabs.com%2F&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">Jetpack</a> and granting enhanced functionality from Web apps to browser-chrome I am often thinking about a morphing browser. When I am on Gmail, I don’t need the URL bar and all of that jazz. Instead, add new Gmail specific UI for me to use, and let me tie into the local system for contacts etc.</p> <p>In that vein, it has been nice to see a step in that direction when listening to <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Flimi.net%2F&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30" shape="rect">Alexander Limi</a> speak about UX in Firefox last week. He and the UX team showed some concept mockups for future versions of Firefox such as this:</p> <p> <img src="https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/7/7e/Mockup-4-0-Vista-%28TabsTop%29-%28LocBarSearch%29.png" width="500"> </p> <p>By the “home” tab you can imagine other tabs that are for applications. Thin tabs that just have an icon (e.g. an email notification icon showing new message counts). These “app tabs” can be slightly magical. The user has to bless them, and at that time can grant special powers to access local services such as a File API, or a Webcam, or Geo location, or [insert cool thing that native apps can do]. This feels like a small step for the browser, but one that can open up a lot.</p> <p>In conclusion, I am bullish about the Web being called the ‘OS’ on certain computing devices. I am most excited about seeing this driving innovation into the Web platform as a whole, and also exploring the great side of having a platform run as a virtual machine on your hardware. Gotta love the Web :)</p> <div> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3D2CyqhGdtqRA%3AMX1qbhQ12SY%3AyIl2AUoC8zA&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ajaxian?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3D2CyqhGdtqRA%3AMX1qbhQ12SY%3A7Q72WNTAKBA&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ajaxian?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/190911495/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3D2CyqhGdtqRA%3AMX1qbhQ12SY%3AD7DqB2pKExk&amp;c=-377358793c1c6a62180e4a68e2a08bd80846a878777af2efc4c84744dd5b0b30&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ajaxian?i=2CyqhGdtqRA:MX1qbhQ12SY:D7DqB2pKExk"> </a> </div> </div> <br> <hr>Dion Almaertag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305?c=340d17fc6fa2c5082604b85f011c43da439585c92cda9aea5be2534f7edbe8f0Web Devtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7b0c7ea1a0b64d11iPhone becomes most-used camera on Flickr2009-08-17T20:25:00Z2009-08-17T20:25:00Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> MacNN | The Macintosh News Network</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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Rate it to help us learn.</td> </tr> </table> </td> <td align="right" valign="middle" alt="feedhub_feedbackCell"> rate it: <a title="I like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/feedback?c=412930aa3c2ebcbb2f4e0d7ee16d844986a54611d75e96d43937c3d686fab588&amp;liked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsUp.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-up"> </a> | <a title="I don&#39;t like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/feedback?c=412930aa3c2ebcbb2f4e0d7ee16d844986a54611d75e96d43937c3d686fab588&amp;disliked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsDown.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-down"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <div>The iPhone has become the most frequently used camera for Flickr photos, according to the photo site's Camera Finder. While not providing a timeline for when this happened or its percentage of the market, the Yahoo-owned site shows that Apple's smartphone has just recently overtaken the Canon Digital Rebel XTi in overall popularity for submissions. About 12.4 million photos have been identified ...<br style="clear:both"> <br style="clear:both"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3Dd6d307c699f08f87b379c744e83951a5%26p%3D1&amp;c=412930aa3c2ebcbb2f4e0d7ee16d844986a54611d75e96d43937c3d686fab588" shape="rect"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d6d307c699f08f87b379c744e83951a5&amp;p=1" style="border:0"> </a> <br> <br> <div> <a href="mailto:?subject=iPhone+becomes+most-used+camera+on+Flickr&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.macnn.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd6d307c699f08f87b379c744e83951a5&amp;liked=1">Email this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdel.icio.us%2Fsave%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253Dd6d307c699f08f87b379c744e83951a5%26title%3DiPhone%2Bbecomes%2Bmost-used%2Bcamera%2Bon%2BFlickr&amp;c=412930aa3c2ebcbb2f4e0d7ee16d844986a54611d75e96d43937c3d686fab588&amp;liked=1">Save to del.icio.us</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digg.com%2Fsubmit%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253Dd6d307c699f08f87b379c744e83951a5%26title%3DiPhone%2Bbecomes%2Bmost-used%2Bcamera%2Bon%2BFlickr%26phase%3D2&amp;c=412930aa3c2ebcbb2f4e0d7ee16d844986a54611d75e96d43937c3d686fab588&amp;liked=1">Digg this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technorati.com%2Fsearch%2Fhttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253Dd6d307c699f08f87b379c744e83951a5&amp;c=412930aa3c2ebcbb2f4e0d7ee16d844986a54611d75e96d43937c3d686fab588&amp;liked=1">Technorati Cosmos Links</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/187116040/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dsphereit%3Ahttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253Dd6d307c699f08f87b379c744e83951a5&amp;c=412930aa3c2ebcbb2f4e0d7ee16d844986a54611d75e96d43937c3d686fab588&amp;liked=1">Sphere: Related Content</a>     </div> </div> <br> <hr>(author unknown)tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542?c=548d22fb43996688166a7e910ce1c84772e677d05a308d0c703cb53f8e80fe5dTechtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a024abbf3a419b06punypng: crushing your images even more2009-08-17T11:19:43Z2009-08-17T11:19:43Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> Ajaxian » Front Page</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. Show me the available help topics.">help</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-left:1px solid #999;border-right:1px solid #999;border-bottom:1px solid #999;clear:both"> <tr> <td width="1">relevance:</td><td width="12" align="center" valign="middle"><img src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/items/scores/positive-high.png" alt="We very strongly believe you&#39;ll want to read this item." title="We very strongly believe you&#39;ll want to read this item." style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0" border="0"></td> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle"> Front Page </td> <td align="left" valign="middle">  • Utility </td> <td align="left">  (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/memes" style="text-decoration:none" title="Show me all of the memes that helped select this item for me.">tell me more...</a>) </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td align="right" valign="middle" alt="feedhub_feedbackCell"> rate it: <a title="I like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/feedback?c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4&amp;liked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsUp.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-up"> </a> | <a title="I don&#39;t like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/feedback?c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4&amp;disliked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsDown.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-down"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <div><p>Conrad Chu, Design Director at Ask.com, thought he needed an image compression tool better suited for designers and front-end developers (compared to smush.it) and scratched the itch with <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gracepointafterfive.com%2Fpunypng-making-the-web-a-more-puny-place&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">punypng</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p> punypng is serious about image compression — it handles 8-bit PNGs, 24-bit PNGs, JPEGs, GIFs and animated GIFs. It also leverages dirty transparency techniques to further optimize transparent images beyond what typical compressors like pngcrush can handle. </p> </blockquote> <p> <b>Features</b> </p> <ul> <li>Fully supports for PNG, .GIF, .JPG</li> <li>Clear affordances for # of bytes saved (as well as being pretty bar graphs)</li> <li>JPEG Compression — punypng doesn’t leave JPEGs out in the cold.  JPEGs are analyzed to see if a compressed PNG format is better (ex: JPEGs with heavy solid areas benefit from this).  But if not, don’t despair, punypng is backed with <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjpegclub.org%2F&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">jpeg-tran</a> and <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreshmeat.net%2Fprojects%2Fjpegoptim%2F&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">jpegoptim</a> for further JPEG optimzation.</li> <li>“Fire-and-forget” batch processing: You can upload up to 50 files in a single session.  Optimized versions are clearly labeled, and if no further optimization can be made to the uploaded file, you get the original back untouched.  After you upload a batch, you can go ahead and upload another batch without having to reload the page.</li> <li>Download batch jobs as a single time-stamped ZIP.</li> <li> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gracepointafterfive.com%2Fpunypng-changelog&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">See the changelog</a> for future updates</li> </ul> <p> <b>More info</b> </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gracepointafterfive.com%2Fpunypng-making-the-web-a-more-puny-place&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">Blog post on launch</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gracepointafterfive.com%2Fpunypng-benchmarks&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">Side-by-side comparison</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gracepointafterfive.com%2Fpunypng-now-supports-dirty-transparency&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">Dirty Transparency Support</a> </li> </ul> <p> <img alt="" height="379" src="http://ajaxian.com/wp-content/uploads/punypng.png" title="punypng" width="493"> </p> <p>Ray Cromwell had an informative note (as per usual):</p> <blockquote> <p> Also add <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raymond.cc%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F03%2F19%2F4-free-tools-to-optimize-and-compress-png-images-without-loosing-quality%2F&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4" shape="rect">AdvancedCOMP’s superior-than-zlib/gzip compression</a> which they don’t appear to be using. </p> </blockquote> <div> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DTf2VQXA_10E%3Ac_qeW2JHdhY%3AyIl2AUoC8zA&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ajaxian?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DTf2VQXA_10E%3Ac_qeW2JHdhY%3A7Q72WNTAKBA&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ajaxian?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/186980522/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DTf2VQXA_10E%3Ac_qeW2JHdhY%3AD7DqB2pKExk&amp;c=-129d4824f4f30928db1fc41fd6b90b0eb4331a045b4b6a4988d9540f000764e4&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ajaxian?i=Tf2VQXA_10E:c_qeW2JHdhY:D7DqB2pKExk"> </a> </div> </div> <br> <hr>Dion Almaer07148039224911478381tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305?c=340d17fc6fa2c5082604b85f011c43da439585c92cda9aea5be2534f7edbe8f0Web Devtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e71d30987155d9a6Got a Twitter Spam Problem? Try TweetBlocker.2009-08-13T07:35:03Z2009-08-13T07:35:03Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums - </span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/185984439/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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(Free)2009-08-10T12:18:07Z2009-08-10T12:18:07Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> MacUpdate - Mac OS X</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/185102934/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/21343/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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Navigation2009-08-06T12:43:23Z2009-08-06T12:44:49Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" 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The application offers real time maps and traffic information based on "the wisdom of the crowds". Here's how the developers describe Waze: <p></p> <div style="text-align:left"> <br> </div> <blockquote> <p>Waze is a free social mobile app that enables drivers to build and use live maps and real-time traffic updates for a better daily commute. Waze is 100% user-generated, and drivers can easily update each other on traffic, police traps, road construction, sped cams, hazards and more. Waze also provides turn-by-turn navigation and rerouting options as conditions on the road change. The more people use Waze, the better the map and driving directions get, so get involved in building your area's driving community today!</p> </blockquote> <blockquote></blockquote> <p>Go <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ismashphone.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fdrivergenerated-live-maps-waze-review.html&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect">here</a> for our full review of Waze on Android.</p> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" valign="top" width="570"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fismashphone.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00e55225079e88340120a4cbc327970b-popup&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect" style="display:inline"> <img alt="Waze_1" src="http://ismashphone.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55225079e88340120a4cbc327970b-200wi" style="width:165px"> </a> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fismashphone.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00e55225079e88340120a5230a17970c-popup&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect" style="display:inline"> <img alt="Waze_2" src="http://ismashphone.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55225079e88340120a5230a17970c-200wi" style="width:165px"> </a> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fismashphone.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00e55225079e88340120a5230a2e970c-popup&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect" style="display:inline"> <img alt="Waze_3" src="http://ismashphone.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55225079e88340120a5230a2e970c-200wi" style="width:165px"> </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center> <p> <br>Download Waze from the iTunes App Store <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewSoftware%3Fid%3D323229106%26mt%3D8&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect">here</a> (link opens iTunes).</p> <p style="text-align:center">Waze has a built-in safety feature - you cannot type while driving!</p> <p style="text-align:center"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fismashphone.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00e55225079e88340120a5245c82970c-popup&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect" style="display:inline"> <img alt="Waze_safety" src="http://ismashphone.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55225079e88340120a5245c82970c-200wi" style="width:200px"> </a> </p> <br> <div>Waze is 100% free.</div> <br> <div>While the crowd-sourced traffic sharing aspect of the application is exciting, what&#39;s even more exciting is the fact that the app is also a fully functional turn by turn navigation system. &quot;So what...&quot;, you say? Well, the average price of turn by turn navigational iPhone apps is way north of $50. So to get one that&#39;s completely free, and also packed with other highly useful features, is incredible. The design of the application is also phenomenal. </div> <br> <div>For a quick video guided tour of Waze, head over to their <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waze.com%2Fguided_tour%2F&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect">website</a>. Remember, since this application is crowd-sourced, it's not going to be packed with data right off the bat. But if we all actually <em>use</em> it, we can collectively wave goodbye to traffic (or atleast wave goodbye to being surprised by traffic).</div> </div> <p> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedads.g.doubleclick.net%2F%7Ea%2FIc39fS5Iwb9UHKhtyQfeL9GMnbo%2F0%2Fda&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect"> <img border="0" ismap src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ic39fS5Iwb9UHKhtyQfeL9GMnbo/0/di"> </a> <br> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedads.g.doubleclick.net%2F%7Ea%2FIc39fS5Iwb9UHKhtyQfeL9GMnbo%2F1%2Fda&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947" shape="rect"> <img border="0" ismap src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ic39fS5Iwb9UHKhtyQfeL9GMnbo/1/di"> </a> </p> <div> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Ftypepad%2F1209935315s4903%2Fismasher%3Fa%3D0SNZvLR1BGo%3Awv50Qmk_XEk%3AyIl2AUoC8zA&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/1209935315s4903/ismasher?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Ftypepad%2F1209935315s4903%2Fismasher%3Fa%3D0SNZvLR1BGo%3Awv50Qmk_XEk%3AF7zBnMyn0Lo&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/1209935315s4903/ismasher?i=0SNZvLR1BGo:wv50Qmk_XEk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Ftypepad%2F1209935315s4903%2Fismasher%3Fa%3D0SNZvLR1BGo%3Awv50Qmk_XEk%3AV_sGLiPBpWU&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/1209935315s4903/ismasher?i=0SNZvLR1BGo:wv50Qmk_XEk:V_sGLiPBpWU"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Ftypepad%2F1209935315s4903%2Fismasher%3Fa%3D0SNZvLR1BGo%3Awv50Qmk_XEk%3Aqj6IDK7rITs&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/1209935315s4903/ismasher?d=qj6IDK7rITs"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Ftypepad%2F1209935315s4903%2Fismasher%3Fa%3D0SNZvLR1BGo%3Awv50Qmk_XEk%3AgIN9vFwOqvQ&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/1209935315s4903/ismasher?i=0SNZvLR1BGo:wv50Qmk_XEk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/184328169/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Eff%2Ftypepad%2F1209935315s4903%2Fismasher%3Fa%3D0SNZvLR1BGo%3Awv50Qmk_XEk%3AI9og5sOYxJI&amp;c=-7e3009a74e89d8b54cda58d7ce40fcd2dd611950fe5d9b1e4ec0221ff0163947&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/1209935315s4903/ismasher?d=I9og5sOYxJI"> </a> </div> <img height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/1209935315s4903/ismasher/~4/0SNZvLR1BGo" width="1"> </div> <br> <hr>iSmashertag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542?c=548d22fb43996688166a7e910ce1c84772e677d05a308d0c703cb53f8e80fe5dTechtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/13c7899b19b8430bDenial of Service Attack2009-08-06T15:00:00Z2009-08-06T15:03:24ZOn this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack">denial of service attack</a>. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. 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Show me the available help topics.">help</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-left:1px solid #999;border-right:1px solid #999;border-bottom:1px solid #999;clear:both"> <tr> <td width="1">relevance:</td><td width="12" align="center" valign="middle"><img src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/items/scores/positive-high.png" alt="We very strongly believe you&#39;ll want to read this item." title="We very strongly believe you&#39;ll want to read this item." style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0" border="0"></td> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle"> Palm; PDA </td> <td align="left" valign="middle">  • Palm V </td> <td align="left">  (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/memes" style="text-decoration:none" title="Show me all of the memes that helped select this item for me.">tell me more...</a>) </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td align="right" valign="middle" alt="feedhub_feedbackCell"> rate it: <a title="I like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/feedback?c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb&amp;liked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsUp.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-up"> </a> | <a title="I don&#39;t like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/feedback?c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb&amp;disliked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsDown.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-down"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <div><p> <img alt="palmv" height="200" src="http://the-gadgeteer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/palmv.jpg" title="palmv" width="500"> </p> <p>It’s hard to imagine that 10 years have passed since I reviewed the <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthe-gadgeteer.com%2F1999%2F02%2F28%2Fpalm_v_review%2F&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb" shape="rect">Palm V</a>. It was the latest and greatest Palm OS device on the market and was released back in the day when Palm was the king of PDA makers. The Palm V was a real change from Palm’s previous chunky plastic PDAs. The thin metal body made it one of my all time favorite devices.</p> <p>Do you remember the Palm V as fondly as I do and do any of you <strong>still</strong> use one?</p>           <p>Filed in categories: <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthe-gadgeteer.com%2Fcategory%2Fdiary%2F&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb" rel="category tag" shape="rect" title="View all posts in Gear Diary">Gear Diary</a>, <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthe-gadgeteer.com%2Fcategory%2Fpalm_os_related%2F&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb" rel="category tag" shape="rect" title="View all posts in Palm OS related">Palm OS related</a> </p> <p>Tagged: <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthe-gadgeteer.com%2Ftag%2Fpalm-v%2F&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb" rel="tag" shape="rect">Palm V</a> </p> <p style="background-color:#ddd"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthe-gadgeteer.com%2F2009%2F03%2F01%2F10-years-ago-on-the-gadgeteer%2F&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb" shape="rect">10 Years Ago on The Gadgeteer</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthe-gadgeteer.com&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb" shape="rect">The Gadgeteer</a> on March 1, 2009 at 12:45 pm.</p> <br> <br> <div> <a href="mailto:?subject=10+Years+Ago+on+The+Gadgeteer&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fthe-gadgeteer.com%2F2009%2F03%2F01%2F10-years-ago-on-the-gadgeteer&amp;liked=1">Email this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdel.icio.us%2Fsave%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthe-gadgeteer.com%252F2009%252F03%252F01%252F10-years-ago-on-the-gadgeteer%26title%3D10%2BYears%2BAgo%2Bon%2BThe%2BGadgeteer&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb&amp;liked=1">Save to del.icio.us</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digg.com%2Fsubmit%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthe-gadgeteer.com%252F2009%252F03%252F01%252F10-years-ago-on-the-gadgeteer%26title%3D10%2BYears%2BAgo%2Bon%2BThe%2BGadgeteer%26phase%3D2&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb&amp;liked=1">Digg this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technorati.com%2Fsearch%2Fhttp%253A%252F%252Fthe-gadgeteer.com%252F2009%252F03%252F01%252F10-years-ago-on-the-gadgeteer&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb&amp;liked=1">Technorati Cosmos Links</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136712905/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dsphereit%3Ahttp%253A%252F%252Fthe-gadgeteer.com%252F2009%252F03%252F01%252F10-years-ago-on-the-gadgeteer&amp;c=598b3390a5f32cc75b63ce3ab101c07876360563a6e1fd552c7b9772668080cb&amp;liked=1">Sphere: Related Content</a>     </div> </div> <br> <hr>Julietag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542?c=548d22fb43996688166a7e910ce1c84772e677d05a308d0c703cb53f8e80fe5dTechtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/71d4b11999615239MobileMe users targeted in spreading phishing scam2009-02-27T20:35:00Z2009-02-27T20:35:00Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> MacNN | The Macintosh News Network</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. Show me the available help topics.">help</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-left:1px solid #999;border-right:1px solid #999;border-bottom:1px solid #999;clear:both"> <tr> <td width="1">relevance:</td><td width="12" align="center" valign="middle"><img src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/items/scores/positive-med.png" alt="We believe there is a strong chance that you&#39;ll want to read this item." title="We believe there is a strong chance that you&#39;ll want to read this item." style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0" border="0"></td> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle"> Internet forums </td> <td align="left">  (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/memes" style="text-decoration:none" title="Show me all of the memes that helped select this item for me.">tell me more...</a>) </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td align="right" valign="middle" alt="feedhub_feedbackCell"> rate it: <a title="I like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/feedback?c=511eba130e35d263922eafe446220c3d65417387fe4cf8174257a07a5ff94be6&amp;liked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsUp.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-up"> </a> | <a title="I don&#39;t like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/feedback?c=511eba130e35d263922eafe446220c3d65417387fe4cf8174257a07a5ff94be6&amp;disliked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsDown.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-down"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <div>MobileMe subscribers are again being targeted in an updated phishing scam, investigation reveals. Similarly to earlier attempts, the scam beings with an e-mail, prompting people to update their credit card information in advance of an upcoming renewal date. A link is provided to log into MobileMe, but in reality it guides users to a different domain -- "http.apple-billing.me.uk" -- which spoofs ...<br style="clear:both"> <br style="clear:both"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3D1acc6a4dd8d95a87d7b45ae6e3a1dd85%26p%3D1&amp;c=511eba130e35d263922eafe446220c3d65417387fe4cf8174257a07a5ff94be6" shape="rect"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1acc6a4dd8d95a87d7b45ae6e3a1dd85&amp;p=1" style="border:0"> </a> <br> <br> <div> <a href="mailto:?subject=MobileMe+users+targeted+in+spreading+phishing+scam&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.macnn.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D1acc6a4dd8d95a87d7b45ae6e3a1dd85&amp;liked=1">Email this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdel.icio.us%2Fsave%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253D1acc6a4dd8d95a87d7b45ae6e3a1dd85%26title%3DMobileMe%2Busers%2Btargeted%2Bin%2Bspreading%2Bphishing%2Bscam&amp;c=511eba130e35d263922eafe446220c3d65417387fe4cf8174257a07a5ff94be6&amp;liked=1">Save to del.icio.us</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digg.com%2Fsubmit%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253D1acc6a4dd8d95a87d7b45ae6e3a1dd85%26title%3DMobileMe%2Busers%2Btargeted%2Bin%2Bspreading%2Bphishing%2Bscam%26phase%3D2&amp;c=511eba130e35d263922eafe446220c3d65417387fe4cf8174257a07a5ff94be6&amp;liked=1">Digg this</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technorati.com%2Fsearch%2Fhttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253D1acc6a4dd8d95a87d7b45ae6e3a1dd85&amp;c=511eba130e35d263922eafe446220c3d65417387fe4cf8174257a07a5ff94be6&amp;liked=1">Technorati Cosmos Links</a>     <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/136475291/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dsphereit%3Ahttp%253A%252F%252Ffeeds.macnn.com%252Fclick.phdo%253Fi%253D1acc6a4dd8d95a87d7b45ae6e3a1dd85&amp;c=511eba130e35d263922eafe446220c3d65417387fe4cf8174257a07a5ff94be6&amp;liked=1">Sphere: Related Content</a>     </div> </div> <br> <hr>(author unknown)tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542?c=548d22fb43996688166a7e910ce1c84772e677d05a308d0c703cb53f8e80fe5dTechtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/77813609dc098731JavaScript Function Call Profiling with FireUnit2009-02-24T05:23:53Z2009-02-24T05:23:53Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> Ajaxian » Front Page</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. Show me the available help topics.">help</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-left:1px solid #999;border-right:1px solid #999;border-bottom:1px solid #999;clear:both"> <tr> <td width="1">relevance:</td><td width="12" align="center" valign="middle"><img src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/items/scores/positive-high.png" alt="We very strongly believe you&#39;ll want to read this item." title="We very strongly believe you&#39;ll want to read this item." style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0" border="0"></td> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle"> Performance </td> <td align="left" valign="middle">  • Object-oriented programming </td> <td align="left">  (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/memes" style="text-decoration:none" title="Show me all of the memes that helped select this item for me.">tell me more...</a>) </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td align="right" valign="middle" alt="feedhub_feedbackCell"> rate it: <a title="I like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/feedback?c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4&amp;liked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsUp.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-up"> </a> | <a title="I don&#39;t like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/feedback?c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4&amp;disliked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsDown.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-down"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <div><p>John Resig has posted on <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fejohn.org%2Fblog%2Ffunction-call-profiling%2F&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4" shape="rect">JavaScript Function Call Profiling</a> and new methods he has added to <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffireunit.org%2F&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4" shape="rect">FireUnit</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p> <b>fireunit.getProfile();</b> </p> <p>Run this method after you've run <code>console.profile();</code> and <code>console.profileEnd();</code> to get a full dump of the profiling information. For example, given the following profile run:</p> <p> <img src="http://ejohn.org/files/jquery-profile-run.png"> </p> <p>You'll get the following JavaScript object returned from <code>fireunit.getProfile()</code>:</p> <div> <a shape="rect">PLAIN TEXT</a> </div> <div> <span style="color:#000000;font-weight:bold">JAVASCRIPT:</span> <div> <div> <ol> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">{</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">  <span style="color:#3366CC">"time"</span>: <span style="color:#800000">8</span>.<span style="color:#800000">443</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">  <span style="color:#3366CC">"calls"</span>: <span style="color:#800000">611</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">  <span style="color:#3366CC">"data"</span>:<span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">[</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">  <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">{</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"name"</span>:<span style="color:#3366CC">"makeArray()"</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"calls"</span>:<span style="color:#800000">1</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"percent"</span>:<span style="color:#800000">23</span>.<span style="color:#800000">58</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"ownTime"</span>:<span style="color:#800000">1</span>.<span style="color:#800000">991</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"time"</span>:<span style="color:#800000">1</span>.<span style="color:#800000">991</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"avgTime"</span>:<span style="color:#800000">1</span>.<span style="color:#800000">991</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"minTime"</span>:<span style="color:#800000">1</span>.<span style="color:#800000">991</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"maxTime"</span>:<span style="color:#800000">1</span>.<span style="color:#800000">991</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">    <span style="color:#3366CC">"fileName"</span>:<span style="color:#3366CC">"jquery.js (line 2059)"</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">  <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">}</span>,</div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">  <span style="color:#009900;font-style:italic">// etc.</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">]</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">}</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> </ol> </div> </div> </div> <p> <b>fireunit.profile( fn );</b> </p> <p>The second method added to FireUnit provides an easy way to execute and profile a single function. Roughly, this method starts the profiler, executes the function, stops the profiler, and then returns the results from getProfile(). Additionally, it watches for any exceptions that might be thrown and makes sure that the profiler is cleanly turned off anyway (a frequent frustration of mine).</p> <p>You would use it like this:</p> <div> <a shape="rect">PLAIN TEXT</a> </div> <div> <span style="color:#000000;font-weight:bold">JAVASCRIPT:</span> <div> <div> <ol> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">fireunit.<span style="color:#006600">profile</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span> <span style="color:#003366;font-weight:bold">function</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">{</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">  document.<span style="color:#006600">getElementsByClassName</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span> <span style="color:#3366CC">"foo"</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span>;</div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">}</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span>;</div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> </ol> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>John then setup a <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fejohn.org%2Ffiles%2Fjquery-profile.html&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4" shape="rect">test page</a> and found out some interesting bottlenecks in jQuery, including the current implementation of <code>remove</code>. He has already submitted a patch that <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.jquery.com%2Fchangeset%2F6253&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4" shape="rect">cleans it up</a>.</p> <p>This is great stuff. We used Firebug's profiling for Bespin but found it a little hard to extrapolate on the data, and we ended up using <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.apple.com%2Ftools%2Fsharkoptimize.html&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4" shape="rect">Shark</a> on the Mac to get more detail on the application as a whole (not just JavaScript).</p> <div> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3D5X0c2z.Q&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=5X0c2z.Q"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DQP0Vsu.Q&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=QP0Vsu.Q"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/135641949/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3Dm3xcg7.q&amp;c=435bbc51467c1e0d9ecd341e4f217df9b38bdd0edea4ff9bc7dc2dee63c0abb4&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=m3xcg7.q"> </a> </div> </div> <br> <hr>Dion Almaertag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305?c=340d17fc6fa2c5082604b85f011c43da439585c92cda9aea5be2534f7edbe8f0Web Devtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/dc0628d0c145cc0fNative JSON in Firefox 3.1; Joins IE 82009-02-16T09:05:09Z2009-02-16T09:05:09Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> Ajaxian » Front Page</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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It’s also API compatible with json2.js, as you note, so many many web users will get the performance win without apps needing to update.</p> <p>I suspect that the performance advantage for native JSON is even more pronounced on the encoding side, but I don’t have tests to hand to back it up. </p> </blockquote> <p>This was a comment by Mike Shaver, VP of Engineering at Mozilla (<em>disclaimer: where I work</em>).</p> <p>The comment related to the post on the <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.mozilla.com%2Fwebdev%2F2009%2F02%2F12%2Fnative-json-in-firefox-31%2F&amp;c=-5d227b9b4bef6f1e65287f6f928d3911a26f6e921f259a8235828d43b20c6226" shape="rect">native JSON support in Firefox 3.1</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>In case you haven’t heard, one of Firefox 3.1’s awesome new features will be <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.mozilla.org%2FEn%2FUsing_JSON_in_Firefox&amp;c=-5d227b9b4bef6f1e65287f6f928d3911a26f6e921f259a8235828d43b20c6226" shape="rect">native JSON</a> support. This is totally sweet for two reasons:</p> <ol> <li>eval’ing JSON in the browser is <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fyuiblog.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F04%2F10%2Fjson-and-browser-security%2F&amp;c=-5d227b9b4bef6f1e65287f6f928d3911a26f6e921f259a8235828d43b20c6226" shape="rect">unsafe</a>. Using native JSON parsing protects you against possible code execution.</li> <li>Safely eval’ing JSON with a 3rd party library can be orders of magnitude <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstarkravingfinkle.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F02%2Fextension-developers-native-json-parsing%2F&amp;c=-5d227b9b4bef6f1e65287f6f928d3911a26f6e921f259a8235828d43b20c6226" shape="rect">slower</a>. Native JSON parsing is much faster.</li> </ol> <p>How does native JSON work compared to plain old eval? Simple:</p> <pre>var jsonString = '{"name":"Ryan", "address":"Mountain View, CA"}'; var person = JSON.parse(jsonString); // 'person' is now a JavaScript object with 2 properties; name and address</pre> <p>Pretty easy huh? And here’s how to get a JSON string from an object:</p> <pre>var personString = JSON.stringify(person); // 'personString' now holds the string '{"name":"Ryan", "address":"Mountain View, CA"}'</pre> <p>“But wait!”, you say. “How is it safer? How much faster is it compared to eval?”. Ok, I’ll show you.</p> </blockquote> <p>Gotta love it when browsers implement something that just starts to make apps faster without potentially knowing about it.</p> <div> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DY0pzTS.Q&amp;c=-5d227b9b4bef6f1e65287f6f928d3911a26f6e921f259a8235828d43b20c6226&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=Y0pzTS.Q"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3D4d5tvK.Q&amp;c=-5d227b9b4bef6f1e65287f6f928d3911a26f6e921f259a8235828d43b20c6226&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=4d5tvK.Q"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/134355362/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DcX5cQr.q&amp;c=-5d227b9b4bef6f1e65287f6f928d3911a26f6e921f259a8235828d43b20c6226&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=cX5cQr.q"> </a> </div> </div> <br> <hr>Dion Almaertag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305?c=340d17fc6fa2c5082604b85f011c43da439585c92cda9aea5be2534f7edbe8f0Web Devtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e78cbdbc062e705aPiano Etudes: Garage Band, Piano Style2009-02-10T10:12:14Z2009-02-10T10:12:14Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> Ajaxian » Front Page</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/133336514/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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Jason Freeman, a prof in the music department of the Georgia Institute of Technology has created an interface using GWT called <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/133336514/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jasonfreeman.net%2Fpianoetudes%2F&amp;c=22381fd3607777847adae3a3a883f4aeeea18f7ae0818c0e4df73bfafc5a59b7" shape="rect">Piano Etudes</a>.</p> <p>His project lets users create and share their own versions of short piano pieces (and print them out as musical scores for use in live concert performances). It was built using GWT and, among other things, it shows that it’s relatively easy to put together a simple GarageBand-style music editing interface using Ajax.</p> <p> <img alt="" height="306" src="http://ajaxian.com/wp-content/uploads/pianoetudes.png" title="pianoetudes" width="500"> </p> <div> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/133336514/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DHaEbkU.Q&amp;c=22381fd3607777847adae3a3a883f4aeeea18f7ae0818c0e4df73bfafc5a59b7&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=HaEbkU.Q"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/133336514/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DB7z18R.Q&amp;c=22381fd3607777847adae3a3a883f4aeeea18f7ae0818c0e4df73bfafc5a59b7&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=B7z18R.Q"> </a> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/133336514/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Ef%2Fajaxian%3Fa%3DTOHEW8.q&amp;c=22381fd3607777847adae3a3a883f4aeeea18f7ae0818c0e4df73bfafc5a59b7&amp;liked=1" shape="rect"> <img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ajaxian?i=TOHEW8.q"> </a> </div> </div> <br> <hr>Dion Almaertag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/22305?c=340d17fc6fa2c5082604b85f011c43da439585c92cda9aea5be2534f7edbe8f0Web Devtag:google.com,2005:reader/item/fa19649afbd7feb3First probabilistic CPU 30x more power-efficient2009-02-08T21:25:00Z2009-02-08T21:25:00Z<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #999;background-color:#e0e0e0;clear:both"> <tr> <td align="left">  <span title="This item is from "><font size="-1">via:</font> MacNN | The Macintosh News Network</span> (<a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/132949939/sourceDeletion" style="text-decoration:none" title="Do not use this feed to find content for me.">drop this source</a> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/feeds/1542/sources" style="text-decoration:none" title="Edit the sources for this personalized feed">show all sources</a>) </td> <td align="right"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="right"> <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/"><img style="display:block;border-style:none" src="http://www.feedhub.com/images/feedhub_small.png" alt="feedhub logo"></a> </td> <td align="right"> • <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/help/feedChrome.html" style="text-decoration:none" title="I need help using FeedHub. 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Rate it to help us learn.</td> </tr> </table> </td> <td align="right" valign="middle" alt="feedhub_feedbackCell"> rate it: <a title="I like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/132949939/feedback?c=-16810289ba4c0738cad6dafd4f1bbe2bf9c8d814479c6bc6f696bf8812919675&amp;liked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsUp.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-up"> </a> | <a title="I don&#39;t like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/132949939/feedback?c=-16810289ba4c0738cad6dafd4f1bbe2bf9c8d814479c6bc6f696bf8812919675&amp;disliked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsDown.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-down"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <div>Rice University today used the International Solid-State Circuits Conference to reveal that it has tested a real-world example of a processor founded on probability math. Called a PCMOS (probability-based complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), the chip abandons the either/or Boolean logic of all current processors in favor of calculations that rely on the most likely answer in most cases. 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</table> </td> <td align="right" valign="middle" alt="feedhub_feedbackCell"> rate it: <a title="I like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/131717103/feedback?c=-756d0c5cac44f14387dc011bf743465058b357a44c00840a7479f591868d8550&amp;liked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsUp.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-up"> </a> | <a title="I don&#39;t like this post" href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/131717103/feedback?c=-756d0c5cac44f14387dc011bf743465058b357a44c00840a7479f591868d8550&amp;disliked" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://mspoke-pub.s3.amazonaws.com/feedHub_thumbsDown.jpg" style="margin:0;padding-bottom:0;border:none" alt="thumbs-down"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <div>Victor Agreda over at TUAW has reported a problem that everyone should be careful about before updating their iPhone with the latest firmware update using iTunes.His warning message:"Turn off Airplane Mode before updating your iPhone firmware"It looks like Victor is not the only one who puts his iPhone in Airplane...<br> <br> <div> <a href="mailto:?subject=Warning%3A+Turn+Off+Airplane+Mode+before+Updating+your+iPhone+with+the+latest+Firmware%3B+Tip+to+Fix+the+Problem&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fiphonehacks%2F%7E3%2F529090454%2Fwarning-turn-off-airplane-mode-before-updating-your-iphone-with-the-latest-firmware-tip-to-fix-the-p.html&amp;liked=1">Email this</a>     <a 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The other notable was:</p> <div> <a shape="rect">PLAIN TEXT</a> </div> <div> <span style="color:#000000;font-weight:bold">JAVASCRIPT:</span> <div> <div> <ol> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">IE=top.<span style="color:#006600">execScript</span>?<span style="color:#800000">1</span>:<span style="color:#800000">0</span> </div> </li> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> </ol> </div> </div> </div> <p>Huh :)</p> <p>Gareth Heyes (the chap who did the v trick) has <a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/130663343/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thespanner.co.uk%2F2009%2F01%2F29%2Fdetecting-browsers-javascript-hacks%2F&amp;c=2efe0e1ed6a02d6034d41da0226ec281e4293f85d3fa9ebdb3be49413802b167" shape="rect">posted on this himself</a> and comes up with One Line To Rule Them All:</p> <div> <a shape="rect">PLAIN TEXT</a> </div> <div> <span style="color:#000000;font-weight:bold">JAVASCRIPT:</span> <div> <div> <ol> <li style="font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;color:#3A6A8B"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal"> </div> </li> <li style="font-weight:bold;color:#26536A"> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;font-weight:normal">B=<span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span> <span style="color:#003366;font-weight:bold">function</span> x<span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">{</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">}</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">[</span>-<span style="color:#800000">5</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">]</span>==<span style="color:#3366CC">'x'</span>?<span style="color:#3366CC">'FF3'</span>:<span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span> <span style="color:#003366;font-weight:bold">function</span> x<span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">{</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">}</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">[</span>-<span style="color:#800000">6</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">]</span>==<span style="color:#3366CC">'x'</span>?<span style="color:#3366CC">'FF2'</span>:<span style="color:#0066FF">/a/</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">[</span>-<span style="color:#800000">1</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">]</span>==<span style="color:#3366CC">'a'</span>?<span style="color:#3366CC">'FF'</span>:<span style="color:#3366CC">'<span style="color:#000099;font-weight:bold">\v</span>'</span>==<span style="color:#3366CC">'v'</span>?<span style="color:#3366CC">'IE'</span>:<span style="color:#0066FF">/a/</span>.__proto__==<span style="color:#3366CC">'//'</span>?<span style="color:#3366CC">'Saf'</span>:<span style="color:#0066FF">/s/.<span style="color:#006600">test</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">(</span>/a/</span>.<span style="color:#006600">toString</span> <span style="color:#006600;font-weight:bold">)</span>?<span style="color:#3366CC">'Chr'</span>:<span 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