Earlier this week, I attended the FutureGov Forum Australia. It was an interesting event, not least because the talking head component was kept to a reasonable minimum, with the model focussed on rotating tables with each new table hosting a discussion with attendees on a particular topic associated with the future of government. It worked [...]

New limited-time offer – discount pricing on award-winning Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 8 software… Make summer photos look extraordinary! Adobe’s Elements 8 products make it easy to edit, enhance and share photos and video clips. Create amazing images and incredible movies, and use them together in cinematic slide shows and more. The [...]

FoursquareCFC is starting to gain traction. I've gotten emails from developers who rave about it, and one email asking if it was possible to return pure ColdFusion. Well Matt Gersting, this one's for you....

Via Fonearena the Nokia E63 upgrades the firmware to v500.21.009. Here is the full changlog: Changelog: NEW FUNTIONALITIES: Following baselines/functionalities have been upgraded. • Comes with Music along with Music Player upgrade • Quick Office v6.2 which has Office 2007 support • Ovi Store upgraded to 1.6.0.18 and Download! removed • Lotus Notes traveler v8.5.1 -> Localization support is present only for 10 [...]

BreakDesign has posted a new Flash Lite game: Horseface – Running the forest, you can download from OVI Store. “Horseface was born blue with a face like a horse. Take Horseface on an adventure by running him through the forest, jumping over objects and collecting items. Sausage his BFF is there to help, together rack up [...]

Because learning two or three new programming languages at once just isn’t challenging enough, I’ve also decided to learn a new Russian word every day, facilitated by this widget from Declan Software: My brother Peter took an immersive Russian language course one year. I wonder how much he remembers? Of course, that was — bozhe [Read full post]

I struggled a bit this afternoon getting Datamapper’s dm-is-remixable plug-in as there aren’t too many posts out there and some are out of date. Hopefully this quick overview will spare you my pain Many sites allow you to comment on blog posts, images, videos, status, etc. having one comments table with post_id, image_id, etc. [...]

Ever since Barack Obama came to the US Presidency on the back of a grassroots campaign, a good proportion of which was activated via a thorough and well-executed social media campaign, various pundits have been breathlessly predicting that, in Australia, the election campaign currently underway would be the social media election. Not least of all, [...]

Look at the world from a different perspective.

Get your knees dirty for the sake of photography.

Disney's announced purchase of Mountain View gaming startup Playdom, follows on the heels of EA's purchase of London-based Playfish last November. Based on active users Zynga remains by far the biggest online social gaming company, but what other independent companies are growing? To see which companies are expanding, I used our data warehouse of online job postings1 to detect recent...

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seoulbrother: Why would anyone do this? Why would anyone feign disgust and repost this song? Why do I feel like I’m in an 80s shopping montage while I’m listening to this? Why do I hate(love) Kelly fucking Deal so much? SO MUCH@! kellydeal: purns: bestrooftalkever: “Invisible Gurls” (Katy Perry vs. Genesis) - Chambaland Chambaland has made all necessary adjustments to Katy Perry’s first draft, and we now have the song of the summer. Oh how I hate loving this with every fiber of my pop sensibilities. It makes me shudder.

Just a quick reminder that there is Birds of a Feather session for Mach-II at CFUnited this year.  This BoF is hosting by our very own Kurt Wiersma. When: Thursday, July 29th from 6:30 - 7:30 Where: CFUnited - Conant Whether or not you are a user of Mach II consider attending this discussion about Mach II and building object orientated applications. We will chat about the news on the latest features in 1.8 and 1.9 releases, how to get started learning the framework and OO programming, and where Mach II is headed in the future. We will also share

If you're at CFUnited, swing by Potomac A on Friday at 5:30pm for our Birds of a Feather session: FW/1 (Framework One) is a relatively new framework but rapidly gaining mindshare. It's designed to be simple to use, just like ColdFusion itself! Come to this session and hear how people are using FW/1 in production and what's coming in version 2.0. We'll discuss best practices, look pragmatically at migrating legacy applications to FW/1 and gather all your feedback for 2.0 and beyond. We might even talk about DI/1, the extremely lightweight dependency injection / inversion of control framework that will

Well, okay, so I don't know that the title of this post is strictly true: you may be able to run the Adobe Updater even if you're not logged into Windows as a user with administrative rights--but I don't know how you launch Adobe Updater other than from the Help menu of an Adobe product and the point I'm really making in this post is that if you aren't logged into Windows with administrative rights, you either won't have the menu option "Check for Updates" (this was the behavior I observed in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader) or the menu

Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the HTML5-powered web of tomorrow … and encouraging us to design that web today. We want beauty. We want utility. We [...]

Recall for entries for photography challenge at Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea Football Club.

Serif launches powerful photo editing software PhotoPlus X4.