iOS5: Sharing Reminders using iCloud

MacOSXHints.com

Based on articles I've read on how to share your Reminders in the Reminders app in iOS5, I thought it would be useful to summarize how to do it here. This tip requires both users to be on iOS 5 or greater, and syncing their accounts through iCloud.com. …

8 November 2011

Answers.com Now Only With Facebook and Own Login

Slashdot

CptnHarlock writes "Today the registered users of Answers.com received an email informing them that the site has ended support for Yahoo, Twitter, Google, or LinkedIn as a way to sign into their site. Facebook is the sole external way left to log in. A…

8 November 2011

Why Google Plus Pages (Will) Beat Facebook. And Twitter

Wired Top Stories

The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.

8 November 2011

Box diagrams in HTML and Unicode

Planet GNOME

diag2box.py. Stupid little script to turn +--------+ +-----------+ | #daft +------+ @diagrams | +--------+ +-----+-----+ | +-----------------+------------+ | | +---+------+ …

8 November 2011

var that = this

Planet Mozilla

I used to think say you should use that in the question “What variable should I name this for closures?” This was because self is already a variable that points to window. However, I’ve since revised my opinion on what is a good variable name in this case.…

8 November 2011

CodeKit

inessential.com

CodeKit looks pretty cool and useful for web developers. I haven’t watched the videos — who has time for video? — but I was tempted enough to download it anyway. (It’s a beta.) (Via TThor, which is just about the only thing to read on a Sunday. I wish it…

7 November 2011

Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about

The Official Google Blog

Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about In life we connect with all kinds…

7 November 2011

Deep dive: Aperture and Photo Stream, how do they work?

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

I'm a bit of a shutterbug, so Photo Stream is something I was really interested in when it was announced as part of iOS 5's feature set way back in June. Frictionless, automated sending of photos from my phone to my computer? Sign me up! Of course, as is…

6 November 2011

Michael Prokop: FAI: switch from Subversion to Git

Planet Debian

Revision one in the Subversion repository of the FAI project dates back to the 27th of June 2000. Over the last few months we were discussing the switch to Git. At the last FAI meeting we decided to finally switch to Git and I volunteered to drive the…

4 November 2011