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Wouldn’t it be nice if there was something between a hand-held and a Tablet PC? Well, now there is — its the new Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Marry this with their 6682, a SU-82, TomTom Navigator 5, and you’re unstoppable! This little gem is like a giant handheld with WiFi and Bluetooth support so you [...]

I’m getting tired of waiting on the countertop fliter to prep my water, so its off to see whats up in the undersink world. Consumer Reports and Consumer Research both have recent reviews. A few years ago, reverse osmosis was the recommended way to go — now its fallen out of favor except for extreme [...]

[Bumped from 17-Aug-2005 posting] We’re currently looking into replacing our aging fuel-oil water heater. We’re considering a tankless water heater and while they’re not typically installed in residential settings, the research looks interesting. Theory says traditional water heaters waste hundreds of dollars annually keeping water hot when nobody is using it. Because they’re constantly heating [...]

[Extracted from previous 25-Nov-2005 Universal Remote posting] Yup, things have progressed a lot from those flaky old X10 devices you used to play with. As always, there are two product threads that exist in the market — 1) simple, consumer strategies that are just extensions of the PNP model behind X10, and 2) hard-core automation [...]

Indexing your XML collections can make serious performance differences. Their indexing syntax has four parts: path type node type key type uniqueness The following fragments create indexes on some common W3C Schema access paths: addIndex “xs” element node-element-presence-none addIndex “” id node-attribute-equality-string

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Start by incorporating Prototype (how-to), script.aculo.us, and ProtoPlus have tons of effects plumbing to help dress things out (finish the core functionality first, or this stuff will really become a time suck). You can manage the low-level XML DOM with sarissa. Check out COWS Ajax for a new tact on multi-source remoting. Here’s an example [...]

All you need is cold weather and some coin…

We just adopted a new little pug puppy and want to crate train him (remember, dogs are den animals). Catch is, the crate we have for him is a hand-me-down from his big brother who weights 10x as much. He’s growing like a weed, so we don’t want to invest in 2-3 new crates, and [...]

TinyMCE is one of the most popular embeddable RTEs out there, appearing in almost every BLOG and CMS. Here are some hackin’ notes to get you started… Customization occurs primarily through creating custom plugins. Keep in mind that there’s a bucket of plugin functionality right out of the box. Once you’ve hacked your plugin, you’ll [...]