ilike2Flash (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Numericstepper component in Actionscript 3. The Numericstepper component displays a series of numbers which step up and down incrementally. This... Copyright © 2009 ilike2flash. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement....
Atheist Revolution (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Image via Wikipedia Why are you an atheist? When someone learns of your atheism for the first time, I think it makes sense to expect that the why question will soon follow. It is a fair question, especially for those of us who live in areas that are especially hostile to atheists. The thing is, this question can catch one off guard because providing a complete answer can be a lengthy exercise. I'll...
Android Central (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
If you're an avid reader of Google News, you might have noticed a mobile facelift of the news aggregator on your Android devices. That's because Google just released the new Google News for Mobile (Android, iPhone, Palm Pre) and as Google explains it: This new version provides the same richness and personalization on your phone as Google News provides on desktop. Our new homepage displays more stories,...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Eugen Beer is not your average online news aggregator. He hand-picks timely travel-related news articles from well-respected media sources and highlights them at the Web site 27Clouds.
Atheist Revolution (Free subscription) | yesterday
Think Progress is reporting that the Senate version of the health care bill restores funding for abstinence-only sex education after Obama's FY2010 budget eliminate it. I'm sure you will remember that the reason it was cut from the budget in the first place was that abstinence-only sex education does not work. And yet, it has somehow made it into the Senate bill. It sounds like we have Sen. Orrin Hatch...
iPhone News Updated (Free subscription) | yesterday
Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site built for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid. The new version, which can be found at http://techmeme.com/m, is a lot easier to read on your phone than the regular site. It even includes individual pages for each Techmeme [...]
prudent investor newsletters (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Mr. Floyd Norris of the New York Times gives us a good account of how US stocks have fared in a relative sense compared to emerging markets and commodities over the past decade or so... According to Mr. Norris, (all bold highlight mine) ``THE American stock market has soared 64 percent since it hit bottom eight months ago. ``And that leaves it just where it was more than 11 years ago . ``The United...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid.
ilike2Flash (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glow button menu effect in Actionscript 3. The menu buttons will show a glow effect when the mouse is over the menu items, and the glow effect will... Copyright © 2009 ilike2flash. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement....
Chocolate and Zucchini (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Chewing giraffe provided by Wildlife 2008 . This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of idioms featured so far. This week's idiom is, "Ne pas mâcher ses mots." Literally translated as, "Not chewing one's words," it means expressing one's opinion plainly and bluntly , with no concern for how it's going to be received. It...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares fell Friday morning after overnight losses on Wall Street, with shares of exporters among the loss leaders as the yen strengthened. Japan's Nikkei 225 Average was down 0.9% at 9,468.37, and the Topix was down 0.4 at 834.53 in Tokyo. Shares of Sony Corp. fell by 3%, Nikon Corp. [s:ninof] lost 2.8%, and Nissan Motor Co. was down 2.5%. A stronger local currency...
broadstuff (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A very interesting snippette on TechCrunch re Techmeme : About a year ago, tech news aggregator Techmeme hired Megan McCarthy as its first dedicated human editor. Founder Gabe Rivera clearly liked the idea; he’s now added three more, doubling the size of the staff. Signals two things: (i) Pure algorithm aggregation is not efficient enough, it needs an edi.... sorry, "curator" is the...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here’s the latest action: Microsoft releases beta test downloads of Office 2010 — This is basically the first time the public has a chance to play with the much-vaunted web application versions of Office. Due to a bunch of restrictions, I wasn’t able to try the apps out myself, but Harry McCracken at Technologizer took a look and said they were so rough he has to give them “an...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares edged lower Thursday morning, with auto shares mostly declining following losses on Wall Street. Japan's Nikkei 225 Average was down 0.7% to 9,609.86, and the Topix was down 0.8% at 843.30 in Tokyo. Shares of Toyota Motor Corp. lost 1.1%, and Suzuki Motor Corp. fell 2.5%. Among the few gainers were shares of Aiful Corp. , which rose 3%, and Dainippon Sumitomo...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Techmeme Doubles Down On Its Staff — About a year ago, tech news aggregator Techmeme hired Megan McCarthy as its first dedicated human editor. Founder Gabe Rivera clearly liked the idea; he’s now added three more, doubling the size of the staff. — Rich DeMuro (formerly of CNET) …
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