Prototype keyboards go against type
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If you attended last week's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you probably weren't on the lookout for ways to become a better typist. This is MIT, after all -- Rocket Science Central. Couldn't they offer something more challenging?
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Exploring PDA 'transmission technologies', apparently
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By JENNIFER C. YATES PITTSBURGH - A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books.
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It&#39;s now possible to enjoy all the benefits of a full featured QWERTY keyboard in a small wireless device, thanks to Research In Motion&#39;s (RIM) new patent-pending SureType keyboard.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted part two in their look at developing an Ajax and PHP chat client. They build on part one and bring some new guests to the party - Prototype and Scriptaculous.   For this chat application we'll be using two popular javascript libraries: Prototype and Scriptaculous. Prototype is a Javascript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Using Scriptaculous, complex effects like sliders, drag and drop and similar features can be implemented quite easily without much effort.   They assume that you can get Prototype and Scriptaculous set up yourself and move quickly on to the HTML for the chat client interface. Some CSS is included to make things a bit more attractive, and they show how to change the IndexController and include the needed Javascript files to make the interface work. Keep an eye out for the next tutorial where it's back to the server side of things...
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Small PCs or big PDAs, 'tweener' devices still struggle with technical and categorization issues.
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Paul Jones is rejoicing a bit about the OpenID and Typekey functionality Wez Furlong shared just the other day on his blog.   Wez Furlong gives us good news about implementing the math functions needed to support TypeKey and OpenID more directly within PHP.   Paul also mentions that the Solar framework has also had the Typekey support integrated for a while now (as an adapter) that uses the "big-number math functions" currently available to PHP developers. Wez's solution, however, would just about make those obsolete.
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With apologies to people who can't type ICANN wants to destroy domain tasters at the expense of poor typists.â¦
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If there is a billion-dollar gamble underlying Appleâs iPhone, it lies in what this smart cellphone does not have: a mechanical keyboard.
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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It's a keypad phone. No, it's a keyboard handheld. Two, two, two tricks in one. 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 out of 10.
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On his blog today, Lorenzo Alberton Talks about DBMS and the character sets they support and issues a call for help for anyone interested to help them (on the PEAR::MDB2 project) set up proper character set support for each database.    We're working on PEAR::MDB2 charset and collation support. That means that we're in the process of figuring out what's the best way to set the charset in each DBMS, and how to make it portable and consistent through all of them.   I'll try to explain how the various DBMS implement charset settings first, then describe the MDB2 status-quo regarding charset support. Finally, we'd like to get some feedback to implement a better charset support in MDB2.    He lists out the types of character sets - client, connection, database/table/field, and result - explaining each of their roles in the average connection. He then breaks out the different databases into the different settings they support for the different character set types.   The call for help comes in with him asking anyone out there with experience and skill in these areas to get in touch and help out if they can. Contact information is in the post. You can also check out some of Lukas Smith's comments over on his blog too.
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The Prototypes column last Sunday, about Scrybe, a personal information management software program, misspelled the surname of a Scrybe user who said he had adopted it because of its interface and because its calendar did a better job of pulling together data than others. He is David Gerbino, not Gerboni.
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Preview version seeks best of both worlds, is based on Firefox.
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Blog: It's only a 2.5-inch prototype, but it's a first
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A discussion of how to use frame styles in OOo Writer.
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New products include keyboards designed for use with Windows Vista and Windows Live online services.