links for 2009-09-22

  • "Toimi terapeuttina. Tarjoa tykinruokaa. Päätä asiakkaasi puolesta. Ylitoimita. Jos sovitat kaikki neljä samaan projektiin, saamasi palaute paranee välittömästi viidenneksellä."
  • Matkatoimistot hyödyntävät Amadeus-tietojärjestelmää. Amadeuksella hoidetaan varaukset, peruutukset ja matkavahvistukset. Amadeusta käyttävät kaikki. Amadeus on ihana matkatoimistojen apulainen. Amadeus on mukava, kätevä ja sulava.

    Sen sijaan matkustajalle Amadeus on suolesta.

  • The Inbox API allows you to access your users' messages, once they grant your application the new read_mailbox extended permission. This lets your applications provide an interface for users to view their messages. For example, your application could pop up an alert when the user receives a new message.
  • "Tuttava meni myymään ideaa eräälle suomalaiselle yritykselle. Idea oli hyvä, suorastaan nerokas. Ideasta pidettiin, mutta sen maksamisesta ei. Yritys päätti toteuttaa idean itse, koska heidän tuotteistaanhan oli ideassa kyse. Kuten monesti käy, yritys ei ollut ymmärtänyt idean kaikkia hienouksia. Eikä heillä ollut edellytyksiä ja tietoa kyseisen idean kunnolliseen toteutukseen yksin. Heidän toteuttamanaan idea oli täysin vesitetty eikä lähtenyt lentoon. Ja se, Lapinlahden lintuja mukaillakseni, “oli niille kusipäille aivan oikein”. "
  • In surface waves or swell, water particles roll in a circular motion. Coming in toward the shore, this energy is squeezed by the reducing depth. Below the surface swell, at a depth half of the length of the swell, the circular rolling motion becomes more elliptical, and at the sea bottom the water particles rock back and forth up to the breaker line.

    WaveRoller captures this kinetic energy, using a specially designed bottom-mounted moving wing. The captured energy is converted to electricity using traditional technologies.

  • A WaveRoller device is a plate anchored on the sea bottom by its lower part. The back and forth movement of surge moves the plate, and the kinetic energy produced is collected by a piston pump. This energy can be converted to electricity by a closed hydraulic system in combination with a hydraulic motor/generator system.
    (tags: energy)
  • Click on the instructions manual you would like to download for the model: Casio-FX82ES (Calculators)
  • Another secret of developing with mobile devices in mind is to consider accessibility. If you think about it, having a small screen with no keyboard is somewhat like browsing with assistive technologies.

    Many people on expensive data plans browse with images turned off, so sensible alternate text gets the content to them. Many older mobile devices have limited fonts and colours, so by not using those as the sole way of giving information makes your sites both accessible and available to mobile devices.

    The W3C produced a useful cross-reference that rejoices in the title Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) which explains this in more detail.

  • Hi all! Let me introduce you to the Nokia Braille Reader. We here at Nokia, and our partners as well, have been thinking of how to do something concrete about accessibility for quite some while. And now, our new Nokia Braille Reader application gives SMS for the blind and visually impaired. It captures received SMS messages and brings them to the foreground for reading using Braille and tactile feedback.
  • In this fifth-generation version, Opera Mini is staying true to the company’s promise of a superior Web experience on any device. Introducing a new, sleek look and feel, Speed Dial bookmarks and tabs — together with Opera’s renowned speed — make this new version of Opera Mini the easiest-to-use Web browser on a phone. Simply direct your phone’s existing Web browser to http://m.opera.com/next, and download the Opera Mini 5 beta free of charge.
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