Hi Everyone!

Need a little help gathering information for my dissertation.

If you can spare 5 seconds, please answer the following poll, your answers will be greatly appreciated!

In response to Sérgio of estudio5.org this morning, i have created a jQuery script that does the same as the Prototype script i created a few weeks ago Ajax Content Load

This is the first time i have ever used jQuery, it is much more light weight, and unless you are using Prototype to its full potential, jQuery is perfect… I am thinking of using it alot more often!

Anyways, here is a link to the demo and a zip for everyones convenience!
jQuery Content Loading Demo
jQuery Content Loading ZIP

!! Don’t be tight, if you use this script, please reference me !!

Just logged onto my Google page, and noticed a cool new feature! Themes!

Captured at 8am.

Captured at 10:30am

digg story

I was sitting at the bus-stop earlier and there was a guy walking past whistling… Im not saying that its a bad thing, just interested in why you do it??
Cast your vote below.

You can add your own answer if these do not cover it

I’m going to assume that we all know, or have atleast heard of Prototype and script.aculo.us the two combine to form one powerful javascript library enabling developers to become designers (well, kind of).
– Example and code at the bottom –

I have created a ZIP file to get you up and running right away: Download it now!

I was showing a friend a few days ago something i made for a university module, Multimedia Applications Desgn (a mouthful i know). Basically we had to create a website promoting our group as a duo, thats all your getting about the project as its not really relevant and a tad embarrassing should anyone find the site!

There was a part of the site that my friend really liked and wanted to incorporate into his final year project… after sketching it out for him on paper i reconed that other people could benefit.
This has probably been splashed everywhere, but i havent seen anything that incorporates all the same characteristics on Digg.

So here is a quick, hopefully easy to understand, tutorial of how its done.

Abstract
We are trying to achieve loading content into a ‘div’ element without refreshing the page, as well as showing a cool loading window inplace of the content as it is loading.

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Saw this this set of jokes in my lecture slides last night.

I’m not sure of the true origin of these jokes, t’internet seems full of them!

Yes, the good ol’ Microsoft guys are at it again!

By www.ZuneBoards.com.

I thought i would put up something to show that im not a total geek…
If thats not something you want to know maybe don’t scroll down the page, your views might (will) be shattered

Yes, Mr Spam in god-knows-what-country (cough cough America!) got smart.

Many of you may have already used Spam prevention software, either server or client side, such as Spam-Assassin or the usual Apple Mail or Microsoft Outlook builtin software.
This type of prevention is usually based on looking at the subject or body and crosschecking the words against a ‘ban list’, if the work is found in the list it is either discarded so you don’t ever see it, or its tagged in some way to notify you that it is potentially spam.
I tend to have it just rewrite the subject line with **SPAM** so it still reaches my inbox and from there i am able to sift the real spam, from the emails the system thinks is spam.

Just when you thought that you were getting used to this type of system, and its all up and working and your ‘ban list’ is growing and filtering much better, you get a dreaded piece of spam that looks like it should have been spotted…
The email has all the words in your ‘ban list’ yet it didnt get pulled.

You wonder why?! Its a bloody image!
Yes, Big Wig Spam has looked at how the most common spam prevention software works, and found a genius way around it.
Because the body of the email is an image, the spam software cannot read it and so it looks like you standard email!
One way of getting around these emails is to block all the emails from the domain it has originated from.
But what happens when you block ‘hotmail.com’?
Well your friends emails will never reach because you have essentially blocked EVERY hotmail.com user, Whoops!

Currently i have not come across any software that is able to read the images within an email to determine if it should be blocked, it must be possible because some websites make use of images with a code word in them that you have to type in to authenticate yourself as an actual human being.
The text in the image is skewed and messed for a reason, so that people with automated software cannot read them easily to make sense of what it says.

That would definatly be a piece of software i can see millions of email users rejoycing about!

Flock is a newish web browser built off the Mozilla (Firefox) source. You may wonder what could be so different if they are using the same backends, but you could not be furthur from the truth.
Flock is being dubbed the ‘Social Web Browser’; it has many features that make it stand out to the usual things, Sharing of files, photos (in the form of albums), RSS reader/updates straight from the browser.

To me it looks like they are trying to make the web browser a desktop, this will couple well with a few new ‘products’ from Google, Google Docs, but that is for another posting.

Reading through the Flock Blog they tell us about a blog editor, this is a great idea, it is cutting out the need to go to the actual blog site eg: Blogger/Wordpress, or your administration area to update or add things, you can do it straight from a program built into the browser.
I will add more to this post as i see new things happening!