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Firefox address bar used to make it really convenient. It did a kind of "feeling lucky" search, taking me directly to the first result if it was the "right" search result, or to google's search otherwise. I don't know how google determined if it should display a results page or not but it used to work very well. I stopped caring about bookmarks and and memorizing URLs and just used keywords to get where I wanted.
Of course it's silly for really popular pages like facebook, but it worked fairly well for pages I used to visit ocasionally.
While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to remove 'Finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge!' from the Application Description
I can understand why that would be appropriate. Most users would have no idea what Google's Android Developer's Challenge is: "How do I download the other finalist apps?" "I bought this application that says it's Android - how do I run it in my wife's Nexus One?".
Not to mention the courtesy of not promoting competitors products in one vendor's own turf.
This is a huge overreaction by the PCWorld editor to linkbait you all. Even the application author thought it was reasonable. I'm surprised no one had picked up on this yet.
Select "Add to Home Screen".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Sheldon%27s_Mistress_of_...
The home button on the Steam client, otoh, I click fairly often. I guess it's because it doesn't have an URL bar.
There's no specific timeframes (and it looks a bit outdated), but here's the latest roadmap:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/no_evidence_to_...
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Seriously, can you imagine everyone doing that in every comment here, for example? It would get annoying real quick.
But on Chrome 4.0.288.1 dev moving the mouse over any of the animations crashes the tab.
This appears to be new and interesting information.
http://they.misled.us/dark-room http://www.baara.com/q10
Dark Room is a clone of writeroom, while Q10 has a few more features while still keeping minimalism.
Anyone has experience with Ommwriter? It looks like the sound effects would get old quick.
Actually yeah. Ways that people reading the code would recognize right away.
I'm not sure if that's intuitive for someone who codes in PHP, but if it belongs in a "PHP Tricks" article then it doesn't sound like the best way to do it.
The one in question is a compressed version of a c program that breaks encryption.
A/B Testing, most likely.
Another similar anedocte: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
In portuguese we tend to use the english words for technical terms and jargon, sometimes slightly corrupted to fit the grammar. Terms like delete, debug and commit are conjugated in as if they were regular portuguese verbs and used frequently even with acceptable translations existing. Delete in particular is quite common even among non-technical people.
For many technical terms, specially newer ones, I can't even think of any acceptable translations without it sounding silly. Most of the time they are left as-is and you need to know the jargon to understand the translation.
I much prefer to read technical documents and books in english.
Took me a bit of head scratching to figure out what that meant.
Consider making the clock like on http://www.sudokuslam.com/ - with an icon right next to it to show or hide it.
I was flying LAN, and the first leg of the flight, in the US, was operated by American Airlines. When I got to Miami for my connection to Peru, I showed my ticked to an AA employee at the gate and asked which gate the flight would leave. She pointed me to a nearby gate, I went there, waited about an hour, and boarded when they called everyone. They manually checked my ticket and gave me the stub back.
When I reached my seat there was someone already there. He showed me his ticked stub and he had the same seat number as I did. As I was cursing the airline for overbooking, we noticed his ticket was printed by AA, mine was by LAN. Since I had just flown with AA with a LAN ticket, I thought it was OK. The flight attendant returned after a while telling me that LAN and AA both had flights to Peru at that same time and my flight was actually leaving from a completely different terminal.
I had to run all the way across the airport, get a new ticket printed, go through security again to get to the right flight. Since my bags had been checked to the final destination, if the AA flight wasn't full and they hadn't sold the seat I had I might have never noticed the mistake.