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A Cheatsheet for Firebug
During the current renovation of Duvet-Dayz (the next parts come online after the weekend) we have used one great tool extensively - Firebug.
Like with other debuggers or development tools there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts to remember. But forgive us, when you’re working with many different tools - from Photoshop to Development IDE’s to debuggers, not everyone can remember 150 different keyboard shortcuts and then use the right one at the right place.
So like many others we work with cheat sheets aka help sheets - short summaries of the most important commands on one or two pages that are available for almost all tools we use. When we started using Firebug we search on the Internet but we could not find a cheat sheet for this tool.
There is of course the documentation on the “Firebug web site”, well done but quite a few pages to look through whenever you just need a quick glimpse with a help sheet.
So we created our own Firebug cheat sheet and would like to share it with everybody…
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Data-Visualization: Tag Clouds with Wordle
There are many tools around to create word clouds from text, tag lists etc.
“Wordle” allows you to copy / paste a text fragment into their user interface or link to a del.icio.us user name to use tags from the saved bookmarks. What differentiates Wordle from other tools are the various features to format the resulting word clouds. You can arrange the text layout in different ways (Horizontal / Vertical / mixed / Free flow), select fonts from a list and apply coloring templates for the display. The results are quite impressive and cover a broad spectrum of popular layouts…
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Games: Google Driving Simulator
Japanese Flash developer Kohring has just released a new version of his 2D driving simulator that uses street maps and satellite images from Google Maps as a playing ground.
While the simulation is still quite simply and does not detect collisions or road boundaries, its definitely a new way to use web 2.0 interfaces. We are looking forward to the first 3D simulation within Google Earth and other virtual world databases.
Preset locations include…
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Firefox Download Worldrecord attempt today
Don’t forget that it is Firefox download day today - Mozilla’s attempt to get into the Guinness Book of record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
And expect that it might take some time until you’ll be able to download the new version of Firefox (see below)…
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Internet: Malware with 24h support services
So called Trojan and Malware kits have been around since quite some time and most of the people working with or on the Internet should by now have realized that the creation of Malware and spying on computers has developed into a full-fledged industry. And half-hearted security on web sites, corporate and private computers provides their share to the continuously growing size of bot networks together with operating systems that could sometimes best be described with the infamous term “unsafe at any speed”.
We’ve seen the first of these Malware kits in the 1990s - then targeted at so called script kids - but since these years of …
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Video: Linux running 165 applications simultaneously
A few weeks ago stories were going around and people were proudly showing images of a Mac that was running 150 applications at the same time.
Then someone created “a video” showing MS Vista running about a 100 apps with just 30% processor load. The computer used was one bit of a heavy iron, nevertheless still impressive.
Here’s a video of a Linux machine that runs 165 applications simultaneously and is still smoothly cruising
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Data-Visualization: OpenStreetMap London Progress
You might have heard about the “OpenStreetMap” project that creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to everyone. What most users of mapping software and services don’t know - there are often license or technical restrictions how you can use data and maps available commercially or by other providers. That’s what OpenStreetMap is trying to overcome.
Particularly with mapping data from the UK, where the government agency in charge…
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Learning: Computer Science unplugged
From Binary Numbers via Steiner Trees and Finite State Automata to the Turing Test - teaching people computer science without computers.
That’s what “Computer Science Unplugged” does. They use a series of activities to explain basic concepts of…
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Linux: 9000 PCs in Swiss schools will switch to Ubuntu only
Beginning from next term, all computers at schools in the Swiss canton of Geneva will be switched to Ubuntu Linux only.
Geneva newspaper Tribune de Geneve reports today that from September 2008 all computers at schools that currently are dual-boot MS Windows and Linux will have MS Windows removed and become FOSS (Free Open Source Software) only.
Besides lower costs for the administration, students will also profit from the use of Ubuntu, as they then will be able to…
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Advertising: Virtual Honda Motorcycle Testdrive
An interactive game that uses the motion-based hardware data-protection system of Apple notebooks to steer a virtual motorcycle around a course.
The application was designed by Raul Arantes and is available for download as a screensaver or standalone application.
More information and a video…
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