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Custom .Net Outsourcing Software (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In 2000, a blind man sued the Organizing Committee of the Sydney Olympic Games over the inaccessibility of their website. He won his case. The committee was fined AU$20,000 in a landmark decision, the first ever to categorize web accessibility as a legal obligation.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
AMHERST, N.Y., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Janya, Inc. (www.janyainc.com), a leading innovator in text analytics solutions, today launched Semantex(TM)4.5, the latest version of its advanced text analytics platform. Key new features include: enhanced processing capabilities for Web 2.0 applications like chat, blogs, email, and other social media; UTF-8 Unicode compliance to support multilingual extraction;...
Drools - Business Logic integration Platform (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Two great pieces of news from the Drools team: Mark Proctor to join RuleML as a Director and US Navy and OSDE community involvement. (pdf version) Mark Proctor has been invited to join RuleML as a director, to which he has graciously accepted. RuleML is best known for its work in relation to standards, both the RuleML standards and W3C's RIF standard. However the remit of the RuleML group extends...
Shape Shed (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Some good news Thankfully we are through the worst of the Browser Wars where sites were created specifically for one browser. Much work has been done to get the web community in general to embrace web standards under the guise of the W3C . We are in a much better position than we were 5 years ago and developers can now create standards compliant sites safe in the knowledge that they will work on the...
Custom .Net Outsourcing Software (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The W3C standards summary for Rich Internet Applications is the solution to the accessibility and usability problems of the Web 2.0. Web 2.0 has the issues of usability and accessibility due to the limitations of the XHTML. However, the Rich Internet Application offers novel ways of filling up the gaps in the XHTML through effective communication.
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
It only took 3 years to go from HTML2 to HTML4, but the HTML4.01 specifications were published 10 years ago and even though today's web looks very different, we are still waiting for HTML5. The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started preliminary work on HTML5 in 2003 and the W3C HTML Working Group was formed in 2007. Some modern browsers already offer partial support for HTML5, but there are still...
Lawsie Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I was in London yesterday speaking at a seminar being held by the rather exciting and excellent web development company ‘ Pixl8 ’, I was there to help demonstrate their marvellous and insightful ways to a collection of possible future clients and current clients. One of the other speakers was a rather interesting chap called David Hollands-Hurst , the founder of the S earch Engine Marketing...
Premium Wordpress Themes (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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SEO Blog and Entertainmet Blogger (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Snapz Pro X 2.2.1 MacOSX | 11 MB Once Snapz Pro X is installed, a single keystroke can immediately save anything visible on screen in a wide variety of image file formats. Using Snapz Pro X, you don’t have to tell people about how cool a game is or how to use a particular program — you can just take a picture or movie of it and show them. Snapz Pro X supports saving screen images as .bmp,...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A major milestone for ODF 1.2 was reached on Friday. Part 3 of ODF 1.2, which specifies document packaging (how a document's XML, images and metadata are combined into a single file and are optionally encrypted or signed), went out for a 60-day public review period. This public review period will run through January 12th, 2010. A public review is a necessary OASIS procedure before a Committee Draft...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, has embarked on a trip through Africa on behalf of the non-profit Web Foundation - which today announced two new projects. The Web Foundation exists to bridge the 'digital divide' in Internet usage. Only about 25% of the world population uses the Web today, however more than 70% of people have access to mobile or fixed communication devices capable of displaying...
World Wide Web Consortium (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Speaking at the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Tim Berners-Lee announced today that World Wide Web Foundation is open for business. World Wide Web Foundation was created with W3C's support in September 2008, and focuses on advancing...
Top Questions - Stack Overflow (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I execute following code on windows xp and python 2.6.4 But it show IOError. How to open file whose name has utf-8 codec. >>> open( unicode('한글.txt', 'euc-kr').encode('utf-8') ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> open( unicode('한글.txt', 'euc-kr').encode('utf-8') ) IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('r')...
Life Rocks 2.0 (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Outlook Data Export is a free add-in for Microsoft Outlook which allows you to export emails, contacts, appointments, tasks and notes to several file formats. This add-in is supported both on Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 versions. Currently the application supports export to MSG, unicode MSG, RTF, TXT, CSV, ICS, vCard, HTML and XML formats. [...]
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imrozz | 15/10/2009
Designing good websites is not simply a case of throwing a load of funky graphics at the screen, there are 3 main areas to consider, here I give a brief overview of these key areas and explain why they are so important. Content The whole point of the majority of websites is to provide content, be it text, pictures, mp3s or videos to users. When you build a site the first thing you should consider is...
htmlcut | 28/07/2009
"Introduction to PSD-to-XHTML Services: Consumer Guide" this is the title of a new e-book just issued by HTMLcut.com, a leading PSD to XHTML/CSS slicing company. Conversion of digital images (e.g., prepared as Adobe Photoshop *.psd files) into XHTML/CSS markups is a necessary phase of most web development projects. As a stand-alone service design-to-XHTML slicing emerged a few years ago. Its appearance
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