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The World Wide Web project
World Wide Web
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November’s W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .
What’s out there? Pointers to the world’s online information, subjects , W3 servers, etc. Help on the browser you are using Software Products A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode ,X11 Viola , NeXTStep , Servers , Tools , Mail robot , Library ) Technical Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc Bibliography Paper documentation on W3 and references. People A list of some people involved in the project. History A summary of the history of the project. How can I help ? If you would like to support the web.. Getting code Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.
This is the first ever website created on the World Wide Web … (by world wide web inventor Tim Berners Lee) 
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
You see, no Flash, No Banner Ads, no pulsating graphics. Just plain and simple information. (and fast ..)
Courtesy of Barbara Fox: http://twitter.com/travelideas
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How to Get Out of the Money Trap
What’s the money trap?
The money trap is the system of economics that seems to be fair on the surface, but which is specifically designed to drag the average person down until it’s barely even possible for them to survive. This trap is designed and maintained by a few select bankers – in America, they’re the descendants of wealthy American banking tycoons who made it big during the 1920’s. Since then, they’ve increased their stranglehold upon the money structure in this country and around the world, and now use large private organizations like the Federal Reserve to tell the government what to do. During the Renaissance period, many European countries had outlawed banks, because of their tendancy to take control of a country’s money supply and overpower everyone – people, businesses, and even governments. As we’ll see, this is exactly what modern-day bankers have done. They’ve turned the economy into a money trap, and one of the most effective tools in their toolkit has been fractional reserve lending.
Fractional reserve banking, also known as, “Poof! I’ve just created money!”What’s fractional reserve lending?
Fractional reserve lending works like this. Let’s say you have a brand new $100. You either spend it, or put it into
Excellent article on what is wrong with the money system. Maybe JFK’s suggestions should not have been reversed after his assassination.
What do you call a group of Bankers? …. ….., …. a “wunch”
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Google Browser size Tools shows what your users see
People have a whole range of screen sizes and resolutions. Others have installed one, two, and sometimes three different tool bars. As a consequence, the fold isn’t in the same place for every visitor.
That’s where Google’s new ‘Browser Size Tool’ can help you out. This helps you visualise the areas on the page that most people can see. Marked out as a percentage, it’s possible for you to reposition your ‘call-to-action’ buttons so that as many people as possible can see them.
Here’s what it looks like:
Have a go using the browser size tool and let us know what you find out.
Author: Nick Leech of Euston Digital
Well, Marketing and Web Designer guys (and girls) usually sit with Beautiful 27inch Apple iMac’s which give you as much screen space as you can ever want on one screen (yes some of us still have externals screens attached)… I digress…
We have big screens, our prospective site visitors don’t, well we know some do, but how can you easily see who can’t see an important “Call to action” on your website or web application?
Google Browser size tool to the rescue.
Just visit: http://www.browsersize.googlelabs.com – It will make clear sense.
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Student Web Hosting with 123-reg.co.uk for £1!
Student Hosting with 123-reg.co.uk for £1!
Published 28 January 10 11:31 AM
Microsoft have teamed up with 123-reg.co.uk to offer UK students the chance to get themselves premium Windows based hosting with a free domain name for only £1 per month.
You need an ac.uk email address and a voucher code to sign up. (You can request a voucher code here)
Once you have a voucher code you can sign up here – enter your voucher code at checkout to apply the discount.
This is a great opportunity to bag some top notch Windows hosting for a bargain price and don’t forget that all the tools you need to build powerful .NET web applications are available to students for free at DreamSpark.com.
OK, I’m personally not a big fan of Windows based hosting, as all my websites and endeavors are in Linux or open source technologies.
Having said that, every now and then you need to host a ASP.net web application which requires a Windows server. Usually this can be quite a big expense because you will need to Windows host or purchase a license for a Windows server.
Microsoft seems to be embrasing the web 2.0 and Social marketing arena and as you can see from the Microsoft EduHill blogpost, they are even teaming up with registrars to make life easy for academia.
Well done MS.
(I hope my random in flight meeting with Alex D.M Payne from Microsoft wasn’t a co-incidence after all)
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Affordable 3-D printer can print itself!
This affordable 3-D printer can print itself!
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When Adrian Bowyer and Vik Olliver decided to try their hand at creating a printer that could print tangible, 3D objects, they decided that the most important thing it could be designed to do would be to print copies of itself. Using a conventional 3D printer (called a “rapid prototyper”), they had it construct the parts necessary to assemble their own, self-replicating design. Called the RepRap (short for “Replicating Rapid-prototyper”), their first release version (dubbed “Darwin”) was able to print out the parts needed to construct a second, “child” RepRap machine. At 2pm on May 29th, 2008, the child machine was constructed at Bath University in the UK… and a few minutes later it was already churning out the parts to build its own, “grandchild” copy of the machine.
Very interesting self-replicating 3D printing machine. Seems nice to use for creating coat hooks, plastic gears and maybe even plastic replica’s of parts from one of your gadgets that you might have lost.
For the price of only about $500 for the parts, I think I should ask a Product Design lecturer to get one of these…
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Barbeque time
It’s impressive that weatherbis unable to deter Douth Africans
fromhavong a proper barbeque in London.
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Building iPad Applications with Flash (Adobe Flash Platform Blog)
Building iPad Applications with Flash
Today Apple announced the Apple iPad and like many of you, we at Adobe are looking forward to getting our hands on one of these devices. This is an exciting time to be a software designer with an explosion of new devices and we look forward to helping Flash developers and designers bring innovative applications to these devices using our tools and frameworks.
We announced the Packager for iPhone at MAX 2009 which will allow Flash developers to create native iPhone applications and will be available in the upcoming version of Flash Pro CS5. This technology enables developers to create applications for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (though applications will not initially take direct advantage of iPad’s new screen resolution). It is our intent to make it possible for Flash developers to build applications that can take advantage of the increased screen size and resolution of the iPad.
Wow, This is a MASSIVE announcement. I know hundreds of Flash developers, but only a few iPhone Developers personally.
Lets hope the apps aren’t as sluggish as some flash games.
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Palindrome of a Lost Generation | Tammy Camp
There is hope if you look at things in reverse… AWESOME and inspirational. 10/10
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