How do you pronounce the image file format GIF (short for Graphics Interchange Format)? The White House Tumblr blog recently sparked a debate by saying it's GIF, with a 'hard G', but they're actually wrong... both the founder of the GIF, the initial GIF file format specification, and the earliest known mention of the pronunciation of the acronym found on the web say it is pronounced "JIF" as in the peanut butter, also because the JIF peanut butter brand at the time of the creation of GIF had a popular TV commercial that said "choosy moms choose JIF", and the specification promoted itself with a parody that went "choosy designers choose GIF".
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Build Native iPhone Apps in HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PhoneGap
Quick overview of how to take a garden variety web app built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and convert it to a native iPhone app using PhoneGap.
In this example, @JonathanStark uses jQTouch (now jQts) to style and animate a web app that gets quickly and easily ported to an iOS native app using PhoneGap, but this would work with any web app or JavaScript framework.
For more instruction or info, see his book Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa.
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PhoneGap For iOS Tutorial - Creating Mobile Applications
The PhoneGap Library (previously in commercial/beta mode only, now also freely available as open source Apache Cordova project) allows you to create iOS, Android and Windows 8 applications with the convenient HTML5, Javascript and CSS stack. PhoneGap acts as intermediary between the hardware and the developer, allow you to create powerful apps that are not only easy to develop using common web languages, but also cross platform.
In this video entitled, PhoneGap iOS: Creating Your application, master instructor Mark Lassoff will guide you through the process of creating a PhoneGap app with PhoneGap's command line create tool, and then tour the application created.
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Objective-C For Dummies inspired video tutorials
There are many videos on YouTube saying they are "Objective-C Tutorials" but none of them are great. They usually just show you how to make a little program or assume you already have an Apple Developer license and xCode IDE fully setup and configured. Here, @ begins a series of videos that actually teach you the language of Objective-C from fundamentals through to advanced concepts required to actually deploy the next big iOS app or game.
Objective-C® for Dummies® by Neal Goldstein, Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., is the main source of information for this video.
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Weirdest Chemical Reaction You Might Ever See
Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposition.
WARNING: Do not try this at home, or anywhere without proper supervision from a professional chemist and/or lab setting with proper ventilation to avoid inhaling the fumes and possible Mercury poisoning.
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Machine Learning (Introduction + Data Mining VS ML)
This eight-minute tutorial acts as both an introduction to machine learning and a comparison/contrast with data mining.
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John McWhorter - Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it's all good news.
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Erik Brynjolfsson - The key to growth? Race against machines
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it's simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy. A riveting case for why big innovations are ahead of us ... if we think of computers as our teammates. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Robert Gordon.
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Robert Gordon - The death of innovation, the end of growth
The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors like epidemic debt and growing inequality, which could move the US into a period of stasis we can't innovate our way out of. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Erik Brynjolfsson.
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Douglas Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos (1968)
"The Mother of All Demos" is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.
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Crockford on JavaScript - Function the Ultimate
Yahoo!'s former JavaScript lead architect Douglas Crockford continues his lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with a discussion of functions in JavaScript. "Functions are the very best part of JavaScript," Crockford says. "It's where the power is, it's where the beauty is." Watch the video to learn why.
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Crockford on JavaScript - Then There Was JavaScript (VOL.2)
Yahoo!'s former JavaScript lead architect Douglas Crockford surveys the features of the JavaScript programming language.
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Crockford on JavaScript - The Early Years (VOL.1)
Douglas Crockford puts the JavaScript programming language in its proper historical context, tracing the language's structure and conventions (and some of its quirks) back to their roots in the early decades of computer science.
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Arthur C. Clarke - Reflections on his Nineteeth Birthday
The world's best known writer of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke was the first to propose satellite communications in 1945. One of his short stories inspired the World Wide Web, while another was later expanded to make the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-wrote with director Stanley Kubrick. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.
Read full transcript of the video at http://www.tveap.org/news/0712art_tra...
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Arthur C. Clarke - Fractals The Colors Of Infinity
Fractals: The Colors of Infinity.
The Mandelbrot set -- someone has called it the thumb-print of God -- is one of the most beautiful and remarkable discoveries in the entire history of mathematics. Arthur C. Clarke describes this phenomenon.
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and Home PCs
Looked at today, this interview - where Arthur C. Clarke appears to predict future technologies such as the internet and Computers as small as laptops - is particularly powerful because it takes place amidst those enormous computers of the mid-1970s. We see spinning tape drives and punch-card readers and cabinet-sized printers.
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Pavel Datsyk channels NHL 94 as he goes end-to-end and single-handedly takes on the entire Nashville Predators' team, a feat common in the classic video game but much less so in real life.
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NHL 94 - The Best Hockey Video Game Ever Made?
Electronic Arts' EA Sports division produced a iconic hockey game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and Sega Genesis consoles. 20 years later, it remains a landmark game and fan favourite.
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Elon Musk - The Mind Behind Tesla Motors, SpaceX & SolarCity
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.
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50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps & sites faster
Creating high performance web apps is crucial for every web developer. Learn directly from the Internet Explorer Performance team about what actually drives performance across the web and how you can make your sites faster. This is the same team that brought you GPU accelerated graphics and compiled JavaScript, and they will share their favorite 50 best practices for web developers.
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