36 month ago
kayodeok : Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch - Delay in New Windows Version Drove Giant to Develop Simpler, Flexible Product. Engineers Get Trip to 'Bug Jail'
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Macros an obstacle to office suite compatibility - While many open source office suites are embracing OpenDocument as a common file format, the lack of common macro language support will prevent meaningful file interchange
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Trusted Computing Best Practices - The same system that protects spyware from accessing your data files might also stop you from copying audio and video files. The same system that ensures that all the patches you download are legitimate might also prevent you from, well, doing pretty much
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Pocket-sized computer 'soul' developed - Personal computers could soon fit entirely on a key ring. Researchers at IBM in New York, US, have developed a way to carry a powerful, personalised virtual computer from one PC to the next, without losing the user’s work
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Wearable Computing | SoulPad - Essentially, SoulPad enables a user to hibernate a PC session to a pocket form-factor device and carry the device to some another PC and resume his session on that PC
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Can Apple Make the Switch? - Interview with Bob Wiederhold
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37 month ago
kayodeok : System carries PC soul - SoulPad is a portable USB disk that houses programs, settings and data, and software that automatically sets up the user's application and data environment, including all system settings, when it is plugged into any computer
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Sharing files between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office - How to share files between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla - How to make Internet Explorer-specific Web applications work in Mozilla-based browsers
Andy Baio : Guide to migrating web apps from IE to Mozilla - great intro to cross-browser differences
François Nonnenmacher : Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
Simon Willison : Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla - Surprisingly comprehensive guide to browser differences.
Eric Meyer : Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla - Wow. Talk about a feast of information! [via Simon] [via]
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40 month ago
kayodeok : The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth - America's entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe's biggest broadcasters - the BBC - is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Acid2: Putting Browser Makers on Notice - "Today, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) is putting the makers of Web browsers and Web design tools on notice by announcing Acid2, a test designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards such as HTML, CSS, and PNG"
Paul Hammond : WaSP : Press : Releases : Archive - Acid2, a test designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards such as HTML, CSS, and PNG
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Acid2 Browser Test: The Guided Tour - "Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use."
Paul Hammond : WaSP : About : Acid2: The Guided Tour - how all of this is created
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Eric's Archived Thoughts: That Acid Buzz - Eric Meyer's opinion on Hakon Lie's Acid Test: "An acid test worthy of its name would expose bugs in every browser on the market today"
Paul Hammond : Eric's Archived Thoughts: That Acid Buzz - Why only Microsoft?
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Windows Application Compatibility - The Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 4.0 was designed to help IT Professionals minimize the risks associated with changes to the operating system and to deploy Windows XP SP2 quickly so they can realize the value of the investments Microsoft has ma
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42 month ago
kayodeok : The Acid2 challenge to Microsoft - To ensure that IE 7 does not become another failed promise, the Web community will issue a challenge to Microsoft. We will produce a test page, code-named Acid2, that will actively use features Web designers crave, such as fixed positioning of elements.
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42 month ago
kayodeok : The Acid2 CSS Test Suite - This is the future home of Hakon Wium Lie's acid2 test suite for CSS 2.1
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Building Truly Portable Database Applications in PHP -- Table of Contents - Daniel Convissor's presentation on Building Truly Portable Database Applications for PHP goes into a lot of detail, covering stuff like data type issues, concatenation operators, literal identifiers, handling of booleans, etc for an extensive list of data
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Tips on Writing Portable SQL for Multiple Databases for PHP - If you are writing an application that is used in multiple environments and operating systems, you need to plan to support multiple databases
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