If you frequently capture screenshots to add to your site or blog or to send to co-workers, here’s an app you’re sure to like! Screen Dash combines screenshot capturing, image-editing and paint tools, and instant image hosting, complete with HTML code for Web forums, for embedding, and for email. It is unmatched when it comes to instant hosting.
An anonymous reader writes “PlayingWithWire profiles two open source tools for Web development, comparing Joomla! and WordPress through the lens of usability. The article has apparently upset a few people at the Joomla! forum, but it does bring up a good point. Many open source projects are developed by engineers for engineers — should they focus more on usability? PlayingWithWire makes a bold analogy: ‘If Joomla! is Linux, then WordPress is Mac OS X. WordPress might offer only 90% of the features of Joomla!, but in most cases WordPress is both easier to use and faster to get up and running.'” The article repeatedly stresses that blogging platform WordPress and CMS harness Joomla! occupy different levels of the content hierarchy. How fair is it to twit Joomla! on usability?
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jamie found a blog entry by Paul Lamere, working for audio company Echo Nest, in which he experiments with detecting which songs use a click track. Lamere gives this background: “Sometime in the last 10 or 20 years, rock drumming has changed. Many drummers will now don headphones in the studio (and sometimes even for live performances) and synchronize their playing to an electronic metronome — the click track. …some say that songs recorded against a click track sound sterile, that the missing tempo deviations added life to a song.” Lamere’s experiments can’t be called “scientific,” but he does manage to tease out some interesting conclusions about songs and artists past and present using Echo Nest’s developer API.
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Apple is poised to introduce new versions of its Time Capsule wireless backup appliance and AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless routers, regulatory filings with the Federal Communications Commission reveal.
OSLO, March 2 (Reuters) – Norwegian telecom group Telenor (TEL.OL) will not block access to the Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, despite demands from representatives of the entertainment industry, Telenor said on Monday.
MyMediaPlayer is a video browser built for the sole purpose of watching Hulu videos. Developed in Adobe Air.
Hewlett-Packard Co. quietly shuttered its online data storage service after less than a year of operation.
Imagine if “Backrub” had become the verb instead of Google? Could have been, as shown in this collection of historical resources, including: a rundown on the original hardware supporting what was in 1997 a fledgling search engine called Backrub; links to an early version; and, a Stanford paper by Brin and Page explaining the then novel concept.
The latest version of Apple’s popular iLife suite of media applications brings a number of new features, as well as tweaks to some existing functionality. Ars dives deep on two of the members of the suite: iPhoto and iMovie. If you’re wonder whether an upgrade is worth it, read on for our take.
As personal computer sales stagnate, Microsoft and its longtime partner, Intel, are looking to diversify into sophisticated artificial intelligence products like Laura, the virtual personal assistant.
