Tuesday, May 23, 2006
PHP5 function benchmarks
PHP has a lot of functions that produce identical results (eg. ereg vs preg_match). Ever wondered which ones are fastest? Use the right ones and speed up your code.
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FBI to get veto power over PC software?
Americans don\'t have the right to use software such as Skype or PGPfone if it doesn\'t support mandatory backdoors for wiretapping?\r\n\r\nThat interpretation was confirmed by an FCC spokesman
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Free Stock Photos, Images and Textures
Issue 12 of Free Software Magazine is out
Another great issue with 10 articles on various aspects of free software. It\'s available in HTML and PDF download... for free!
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The Future of Neurotechnology
\"Now experts say new technologies, such as electrical stimulators, could revolutionize the treatment of brain disorders. Scientists hope that within the next 5 to 20 years, these technologies will deliver some of the most sought-after breakthroughs in neuroscience...\"
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Evolutionary art (vote for the good pictures)
\"Once enough votes have been collected, the genetic algorithm gets to work. It picks the good images and breeds them using either mutation or crossing-over. Since the images\' genes are just trees, it is simple to cross-over two of them and produce new ones.\"
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Newsweek: Nintendo\'s Remarkable Comeback
\"The Wii\'s strong showing at the 2006 expo earlier this month, combined with Sony\'s announcement of two PS3 models for the mind-blowingly high prices of $499 and $599, has prompted many of the same analysts who dismissed Nintendo to predict its continued resurgence,\" reports Newsweek.
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Skype WiFi Phone
In July Skype will offer a WiFi Phone that allows you to use Skype WITHOUT a PC for $300. Totally worth it, so long skype keeps their calling any phone from US and Canada for free.
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USB digital TV tuner roundup
There was a time when adding a digital tuner to a desktop PC was cumbersome, and adding one to a notebook was impossible. Not anymore - these guys have put three USB DVB-T tuners through their paces to see if any of them are worth the money.
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Ajax Tabs Content script
A tab content script that combines Ajax and CSS to let you display a selection of external content on the page, inside a DIV and via CSS tabs. For each tab, you can also dynamically load external .css and .js files associated with the external page if desired.
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