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webfuelon Impress.js demo - presentation program

I love the concept of impress.js and started making a presentation for the agency I work for: http://kitchdigital.com/about/

Warning, there is a lot of zooming around and you might feel sick.

webfuelon Papa John's faces $250 million spam lawsuit

I wonder if some of those 500,000 messages were relationship or transactional in nature since the FCC does not ban those [1]

1. http://www.fcc.gov/guides/spam-unwanted-text-messages-and-em...

webfuelon The iPad Mini and the cost of Retina

OT: Just so you are aware, "gypped" is a racial slur against gypsies.

webfuelon One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse

> David Pogue can speak for himself

Translation: "I do not agree with David Pogue"

The phrase "speak for" is an idiom and is not meant to be taken literally.

webfuelon One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/speak+for

webfuelon Responsive Text

I like how you also did that with the dates (e.g. "Friday" goes to "Fri")

Unsolicited feedback: At the narrower widths, the sidebar (.secondary) would be better off falling after the main content (.primary) It might also work having "Filter by topic" turned into a drop down.

webfuelon Google Adjusts Political Posture With Sponsorship Of Conservative Conference

More info here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-03/google-sponsoring-c...

webfuelon Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

I just did the speed test on linode (Atlanta) and got 52.1 MBps. I can't say enough good things about their service.

http://imgur.com/BLmCH

webfuelon Poll: Do you use app hosting or run your own server?

I like how there is no option for shared hosting.

I did a php app for a client on Media Temple's (gs) and it was unbearably slow. The php execution time would vary drastically (.1 seconds to over a minute) even on a simple debugging page. After a lot of back and forth with customer service and never being able to pinpoint the issue, I switch to Linode.

Screenshot of a page taking 1.4 minutes to render: http://i.imgur.com/e310W.png

Same page on Linode: http://i.imgur.com/OTN9l.png

webfuelon The New Web Typography

Maybe things will change with how the browser implements fractions but 112/3 = 11(2/3) and 3431/5147 = 3431/5147 (there is no 1/5) http://imgur.com/a/4FFNy

Edit: Spelling.

webfuelon An email I received from Jimmy Wales regarding SOPA

I think you'll enjoy Lawrence Lessig's talk about the exact issue you brought up. It's call Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It [Link] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I...

webfuelon Should Wikipedia run ads that ask for money, or ads that make money?

I wish they had an opt-in ad program so people who don't want to donate can still help.

webfuelon Microsoft, Apple and Others Withdrawal Support for SOPA

According to this page (http://www.bsa.org/country/BSA%20and%20Members/Our%20Members...) Apple is a member.

webfuelon Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder

No problem! Yes, I have this working:

http://webfuel.org/instaunshredderv2.php

It also works on the test images I created:

http://webfuel.org/a.png http://webfuel.org/b.png http://webfuel.org/c.png

webfuelon Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder

Minor spoiler/hint:

My algorithm, given a strip, would tell you which strip was on the right and also gave a certainty. The last strip would have a "next strip" value shared with an earlier strip (thus wrongly attached) but with less certainty.

Edit: Or (worst case) the last strip would have a high degree of uncertainty.

webfuelon Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder

Can you post some of your test pictures?

Re: your attempt: I think you just need to find the starting strip, looks like your algorithm is working.

webfuelon How the HuffPost gets us to click

The title of the post is ironic.

webfuelon Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

http://db.tt/z7ZNDXX4 Thanks!

webfuelon 16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

The rest of the site is 12px — only this article had a body copy size of 16px.

webfuelon Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

Regardless of where your domain is registered, you can indeed get an SSL cert from Namecheap. I bought a Comodo PositiveSSL for $9/y and couldn't be happier. When I ran into some issues installing it on a Mac mini server, their CS was responsive and friendly.

webfuelon A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm

On the wikipedia page for Autonomy Corporation, under competitors, you'll find SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search plus SAP Business Objects Text Analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enterprise_search_vendo...

webfuelon Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

It's not completely useless, you can "click and drag windows and toolbars from the primary display to the secondary display"

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/11/multiple-displays-full-screen...

webfuelon A graphic illustration of 0.999…=1

Wikipedia has a great article on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.999

webfuelon Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29

Unless I missed something in the presentation, Lion Server isn't free. It's a separate app that costs $50

https://www.apple.com/macosx/server/

webfuelon Hacker News /best RSS

You might consider tweaking the RSS feed a little.

For permalinks: <guid isPermaLink="true"></guid>

Add dc:creator for the submitter of the article: <rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>;

And: <dc:creator></dc:creator>

Also, make sure you site sends the headers Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 with this feed because it is currently sent as text/plain.