Is there a significant difference between MS Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit versions? In practice, what a user typically notices is OS boot speed and application launch speed. It is harder to notice a performance improvement in multimedia applications or games, unless the performance gain measures at least tens of percent.
A "zebra" refers to colouring every n-th row of a table or numbered list, significantly improving readability - especially for long tables. This article covers various ways to achieve alternating row colouring using different techniques: CSS, CSS3, jQuery and Smarty.
A constant is an identifier for a simple value (number, text) that cannot be changed during script execution. Constants are case-sensitive and by convention are written in uppercase. Alongside many constants automatically available during script execution, there are also "magic" constants whose value depends on where they are read.
Positive changes have touched not only the visual appearance of draugiem.lv, but a step has finally been taken in the direction of socialisation - a draugiem.lv page follower (fan) widget has been created. It must be said, previously it was also possible to load page followers in JSON format using JavaScript, but that stopped working with the launch of the new design. And as is customary in the best of manners - without prior notice and without offering an alternative. And here I discovered that draugiem finally has a fan widget that can very conveniently be integrated into any page using iframe.
The popularity of iPhone and Apple's principled non-support of Flash on these devices has brought web developers close to a process that could be called the search for the Holy Grail. Adobe itself is also taking small steps in this direction.
Recalling the troubles with NEO (Ilmārs Poikāns), who not so long ago, possibly without intending to, managed to obtain possibly very important data from a possibly not very well-protected information system (EDS, presumably), someone older or non-IT-related might get goosebumps seeing this.
Today I found a still-young but no less interesting app - Google Goggles. The app is based on two things - image recognition using the phone's camera and online connection with Google Labs.
One of Android's bigger drawbacks (from a user perspective) has always been that apps could only be installed in the phone's internal memory, which is and remains extremely small. The good news is that since Android 2.2, the ability to move apps to an SD card appeared.
While digital camera manufacturers compete over megapixels, offering 5, 7, 12 and more megapixel cameras, technologically-minded people conducted the following experiment - they took several high-resolution photographs...
Surely the inventors of the internet are nervously puffing away, watching how it has changed. How the trivial transmission of bits and bytes has transformed into a new quality providing communication possibilities that no longer remotely correspond to classic communication principles and very often prompt questions about ethical norms.