Category: Application design
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How access a laptop or phone camera in a web page
It is now possible to access a laptop or phone camera using a web page and standard HTML5. This is amazing. There is documentation and a working example here. Check it out, it worked for me. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ —(update 2015-02-07 20:08)— This works in Chrome on PC and Android phone. It does not work in IE…
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Why you will need a new desktop one day
The basic problem for PC manufacturers is that there is no reason to replacement. Most PCs will now happily run Microsoft Office and process video. What more do you need? Microsoft’s (possible) response, 3D everywhere; 3D interfaces (think Kinect), 3D printing and 3D visualisations. There is a good article here, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/29/windows_10_heralds_the_minecraftisation_of_microsoft/
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Excel coding style guide
I am introducing some students to Excel and have produced this brief style guide to producing more readable code which I think gives you 80% of everything you need to know. The strategy is to use Excel’s built-in ability to name sets of cells. Please add your comments. All tabular data must be in a…
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How to choose nice font pairings
http://www.sitepoint.com/3-principles-for-perfect-typeface-pairing/
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How to choose fonts for your website
Font pairing isn’t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with Google Fonts pairing suggestions.
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How to use Snagit to capture images, and even YouTube videos
I am a presentation today and I was concerned that a link to a YouTube video might not work because of a poor network connection. I decided to capture the video and insert it directly into my PowerPoint file. I found that Snagit 12 was perfect for this. You can see how it is done in this…
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A good comparison of open source RDBMS
Here is a good comparison of open source RDBMS. This site also has a comparison of NoSQL databases.
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What Microsoft does not want you to know about OneDrive
If you are DropBox user you will love it. It simply works and you can share files with co-workers and they stay in sync on your laptop. Here is screenshot of the folder structure in Windows Explorer on my laptop. You can see a folder that I have shared with a client. They can update…
Dr James Bayley 