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10th February 2012
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Why We Need a New Definition of ‘PC’

What is a PC?

At first blush, it seems like a straightforward, uncontroversial question, not unlike “What is a bicycle?” But it’s actually a surprisingly tough one to answer–and even if you’ve been using PCs for decades, you might have have trouble deciding what one is, and isn’t, in 2012 and beyond.

Research firm Canalys thinks it knows, and last month it announced that Apple was now the planet’s leading maker of PCs. It achieved this distinction not by selling more Macs than ever–although it did–but because Canalys’s definition of PC now includes something it calls “pads,” such as the iPad, Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. (You and I are more likely to refer to them as tablets.) Apple’s iPad utterly dominates pad sales and outsells the Mac by three-to-one, which allowed the company to sail past HP for the top spot in PC sales.

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10 Tips For Achieving Email Bliss

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Over the last few years I’ve learned that the best way to manage my inbox was to follow the Inbox Zero technique, widely advocated by Merlin Mann. As stated on the official website, it’s not about literally having zero items in your inbox (though I do get there), but rather how much of your…

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Why You’ll Probably Never Own A Mac With An ARM Processor

Ever since Apple launched the new MacBook Air, analysts and Mac fans alike have gone wild speculating that Cupertino might dump Intel and use custom-made, ARM-based chips in their laptop line instead. Yesterday, more fuel was thrown on the fire when it was revealed that an Apple intern worked on porting OS X to ARM devices back in 2010. Even Intel has said it would be “remiss” of them to dismiss the possibility that ARM might steal their Apple business. On the surface of things, it looks like ARM might make its way to our MacBooks soon.

Is ARM really a threat to Intel? Yes, absolutely, and especially as we transition into Apple’s Post-PC world. But there is next to no chance Apple will replace Intel chips for ARM-based ones any time in the next five years. In fact, there’s a good chance the exact opposite could be true, and Intel chips will be powering our iPhones and iPads by then.

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nude.js: Nudity Detection with JavaScript

When I first heard about nude.js, the client side nudity detection software, I was very skeptical for a number of reasons:

Ideally, nudity detection should be done on the server side so that adult materials don’t make it to the client at all.
I don’t have faith in automated nudity detection as a whole (which, as a programmer, may seem stupid)
Would nudity in greyscale imagery be detected? How accurate can the detection be?
If you did detect nudity in an image, what would you do? What’s a practical usage?

I’ve spent some time with the nude.js software and wanted to show you how to use it and let you know if my skepticisms were answered.

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Managing Global Lists in TFS

From the Visual Studio command line prompt (this works fine on a client), do this:

glexport /f AllGlobalLists.xml /t myTfsServerName

Credentials used are the local login credentials.

Now the question I had was this, “Should I edit this master global lists file and import the whole thing, or should I just try to import changes to one list?” Obviously I wanted to work only on the one list I needed to change, but what effect would it have if I pulled out all the other lists from the file and uploaded just a single list in a smaller XML file?

I was scared to death of deleting all the other lists in the file. I saved a copy of the master, and then took out all the global lists except the one I was interested in, changed the values, and ended up with something like this:

    <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”utf-8”?>
    <gl:GLOBALLISTS xmlns:gl=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/workitemtracking/globallists”>
      <GLOBALLIST name=”Teams - Product Backlog”>
        <LISTITEM value=”Team A” />
        <LISTITEM value=”Team B” />
        <LISTITEM value=”User Experience” />
        <LISTITEM value=”Team C” />
      </GLOBALLIST>
    </gl:GLOBALLISTS>

So, on a wing and a prayer I ran this command:

glimport /f TeamList.xml /t myTfsServerName

And guess what happened: It worked great! All of my other lists were intact and my new team names showed up just fine.

So I learned 2 things in this little exercise.
- You can import a single global list XML file into your TFS server without affecting other lists.
- glimport and glexport work just fine on a VS2008 client talking to a 2005 TFS server.

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Notepad++: A guide to using regular expressions and extended search mode

What’s so good about Extended search mode?

One of the major disadvantages of using regular expressions in Notepad++ was that it did not handle the newline character well—especially in Replace. Now, we can use Extended search mode to make up for this shortcoming. Together, Extended and Regular Expression search modes give you the power to search, replace and reorder your text in ways that were not previously possible in Notepad++.

Search modes in the Find/Replace interface

In the Find (Ctrl+F) and Replace (Ctrl+H) dialogs, the three available search modes are specified in the bottom right corner. To use a search mode, click on the radio button before clicking the Find Next or Replace buttons.

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Disposable body metric patch from BodyMedia coming later this year | The Verge

The Body Monitory Patch is a disposable body patch designed to track calorie burn, steps, and more — BodyMedia claims it collects 5,000 data points per minute.

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