Month: April 2005

Intel’s Dual-Core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Performance Pre-Preview

Intel’s Dual-Core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Performance Pre-Preview

There are already many environments where a dual-core processor will outclass a non-threaded chip, such as media encoding, rendering, and the everyday multi-tasking in which you engage, behavior that’s very hard to quantify.

Already we can see some cases where dual-core really shines, but is the technology ready for primetime? Only time will tell…

Drool…wow, I definitely want to get one of these. cool cheese How in the hell are you going to effectively cool this beast though? There are already problems cooling a single prescott…I know the next generation is going to be based off of a different architecture, but still..wow.  big surprise 

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MSN Spaces has Gone Final

MSN Spaces

This isn’t new news, but MSN Spaces has gone final today. This is convient because MSN Messenger v7.0 also went final today. This includes a link in Messenger that goes directly to an individuals “Space” …a very cool idea, and a nice alternative from Blogger, Livejournal, or any of the other ones out there…

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Robert’s Talk: Why XHTML?

Robert’s Talk: Why XHTML

This is a well-discussed and very important topic. Personally, presently I write XHTML for my web interface code, but lately I’ve started to stagger in my standpoint. For normal general web page design, what’s the gain? If you don’t extend the code with namespaces, use MathML, have your own DTDs and so on, why would you want to use XHTML?

An incredibly well written and interesting article that will make any web designer at least think twice about there use of XHTML.

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Neowin.net -> Gmail Space Calculation

Gmail Space Calculation

Gmail storage is currently rising at 1/1000 MB every 25 seconds. This means that:

* It takes a little over 6 hours 56 minutes to increase one MB

* Every day storage increases by 3.456 MB

* By next April 1st, Gmail users will have about 3300 MB

* It takes 289 days to increase 1 gigabyte

* By the turn of the next millenium, Gmail users will have 1,257,183 MB of storage, enough to store about 100 million emails

* Every .003125 seconds, Gmail users get one additional bit of storage, enough to store either a 1 or a 0

Lol…I have 2,069MB on 3 different accounts right now…I am using at most 225MB across those 3 accounts. Interesting calculation though.

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Send HTML e-mail with gmail (updated 3)

Send HTML e-mail with gmail (updated 3)

It’s possible to send HTML formated e-mail messages with Google’s gmail. In the compose form is a hidden input with the name ishtml. The form is two frames down from the main window. To make things easier, I’ve created a bookmarklet (in IE speak: favelet).

This of coarse, has now been made useless with Google’s recent update to Gmail: Gmail’s New Formatting Options

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Hybrid CSS Dropdowns: A List Apart

Hybrid CSS Dropdowns: A List Apart

The problems with dropdown menus are:

1. their secondary options are inaccesible unless you activate the entire menu system; and

2. they offer insufficient orientation cues for the user. It can be difficult to navigate within a particular section of the site because you have to go back to the dropdown to change pages.

This technique is a bulletproof way to ensure browser compatibility and to maintain usability even for people who have old browsers or difficulty accessing dropdown menus, either because of a disability or a low level of comfort with the dropdown paradigm.

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SimpleBits | Publications › SimpleQuiz

SimpleBits | Publications › SimpleQuiz

In response to Jason Kottke’s post on semantics and markup, I thought I’d try out a new series here called SimpleQuiz (I know… but it’s better than “Markup Quiz” or “Web Standards Quiz”). The objective is to ask some questions about markup and generate some discussion about preferred methods.

This is pretty interesting (and dorky), but any web designer should enjoy this.

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San Francisco May Regulate Blogging | Personal Democracy Forum

San Francisco May Regulate Blogging | Personal Democracy Forum

Just when you thought the Federal Election Commission had it out for the blogosphere, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took it up a notch and announced yesterday that it will soon vote on a city ordinance that would require local bloggers to register with the city Ethics Commission and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.

Blogs that mention candidates for local office that receive more than 500 hits will be forced to pay a registration fee and will be subject to website traffic audits, according to Chad Jacobs, a San Francisco City Attorney.

Oh hell no. If this manages to pass I will make it a point to specifically mention all the candidates on my blog just as a “F*** You!” to them…how ridiculous is this?  gulp 

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