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Ailing UK School Makes Dramatic Turnaround

A new video profiles Essa Academy, a once struggling school in one of the most disadvantaged areas of England. New principal Showkat Badat has reinvented the school as a hub of technology-assisted learning, and helped incorporate an ecosystem of Apple products, including iPad, Mac, and iTunes U, into the classrooms. The students’ excitement about the technology and direct access to information is reflected in dramatically improved test scores. Since adopting the technology, Essa went from a...

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A Peek into Common MySQL Database Corruption Errors and Recommended Solutions

MySQL is considered a reliable, performance-driven database that is used by many organizations to develop cost-effective database applications. Albeit database corruption is rare with MySQL, you will find cases where your database fails to respond to queries, exhibits abnormal behavior, or becomes inaccessible. Let us delve deeper into some of these cases and discuss their ...The post A Peek into Common MySQL Database Corruption Errors and Recommended Solutions appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Apple is Tops When It Comes to Computer Tech Support

According to the latest Consumer Reports reader survey, Apple tops the list of brand-name computer manufacturers for the quality of its tech support, far surpassing other large companies. The report points to “ease of contacting staff, clarity of advice, technical knowledge, patience, and time for follow-up” in the phone and online support areas. Service at the Genius Bar rates equally highly. In addition, Apple improved on its own scores from last year’s survey.

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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013, posting revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share. During the quarter, Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones, compared to 35.1 million in the year-ago quarter. And it sold 19.5 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 11.8 million in 2012. “We are pleased to report record March quarter revenue thanks to continued strong performance of iPhone and iPad,”...

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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 10 in San Francisco

Apple announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 10 through June 14 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. At the five-day conference, developers from around the world will learn about the future of iOS and OS X. WWDC will also feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by over 1,000 Apple engineers and hands-on labs to help developers integrate new technologies. And the popular Apple Design Awards will showcase the most outstanding apps available through...

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Compare, Ponder and Choose- The Right PHP framework

Right from facing criticism and rejection by a few and praises by others, frameworks have had a long run and are being accepted with wide arms in the current web scenario. The framework way of doing things has definitely made the websites much easier to manage and a good framework makes a lot of difference ...The post Compare, Ponder and Choose- The Right PHP framework appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Exploring Different Backup options of ‘mysqldump’ Tool

The ‘mysqldump’ is a tool to back up a single database or a set of databases, and then move the backed up copies to a different server (can be SQL Server or MySQL server). This backup program creates a ‘dump’ of select databases to a preferred location. Typically, the process involves forming a group of ...The post Exploring Different Backup options of ‘mysqldump’ Tool appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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10% Conference Discount for Scriptiny Readers

As a media partner for Future Insights Live, we just wanted to let you know about their big US conference coming up in April / May, in Las Vegas. As a Scriptiny reader, you can get 10% off your ticket price using promocode: Scriptiny. Future Insights Live 2013 is a 4-day event, comprised of one optional workshop day followed by 5 ...The post 10% Conference Discount for Scriptiny Readers appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Unlocking the Power of iPad for the Blind

Bloomberg West profiles Ed Summers, who, as head of accessibility at international software company SAS, “has made it his mission to help other visually impaired people unlock the power of the iPad.” Summers is traveling around the United States to teach educators how to maximize the device’s built-in accessibility features in their classrooms. Bloomberg notes that tablets are growing in popularity among educators, and Summers says iPad is “opening up a whole world” for visually impaired students....

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Five unusual ways to speed up your website

We have already seen many great tips for speeding up a website. These tips are great, but I want to share with you five more tips that are less common. Generally these tricks can’t be used in every situation (just like any other trick), but they are useful to speed up your website even more ...The post Five unusual ways to speed up your website appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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What to do after Facing Corruption in MySQL InnoDB tables

MySQL is known for its ease-of-use, performance, and scalability. The versions prior to MySQL 5.5 have MyISAM as their default database storage engine. In MySQL 5.5, the default settings have been changed as InnoDB becomes the default database storage engine. This change has brought a handful of significant improvements in the lives of database users ...The post What to do after Facing Corruption in MySQL InnoDB tables appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Scrutinizing SharePoint 2013 Application Development Models

The new version of Microsoft’s SharePoint document management platform is the latest SharePoint 2013 App. Well, you might be quite familiar with the recent gossips about this state-of-the-art application development model included in the Microsoft’s release list. A Brief Introduction to SharePoint Apps Well, Microsoft is in big plans of moving their discipline to a ...The post Scrutinizing SharePoint 2013 Application Development Models appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Apple Takes Laptop Magazine’s Top Rating

Laptop Magazine has awarded Apple the top prize in its Best Brands feature for the fourth year in a row, placing first in five of the eight categories it measures. In addition, the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display took honors as the magazine’s top notebook of 2012, with editors praising the screen, performance, battery life, and design. Software and tech support were also highlighted. “Apple continues to epitomize the best of the best,” say the magazine’s editors.

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Mobile Proxies: A New Era Dawns

This week, Chrome For Android M26 was announced. It has the literally-awesome ability to record video via `getUserMedia()`, but enough about making Skype irrelevant. What’s even more interesting is the new data compression feature. Which, to be clear, is experimental, has to be switched on, doesn’t apply to secure (SSL) sites, and it’s only running Read the rest...

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Apple Launches iBookstore in Japan

Apple has announced the launch of the iBookstore in Japan. The iBookstore has a wide selection of emerging and established authors, including Shyotaro Ikenami, Jiro Akagawa, Atsuko Asano, and Ryu Murakami. “We’re excited to launch the iBookstore in Japan with a wide selection of Japanese publishers and authors,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We think customers are going to love how engaging and interactive the books are to read, and how beautiful they look on iPad.”

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Creating New Possibilities in the Classroom with iPad

With an eye toward helping students navigate the digital world, Burlington High School outside Boston adopted the iPad one-to-one program, which provides every student with an iPad. In its first year, the program has already made a big difference — students say they’re more excited and organized than in previous years, and teachers say they see a deeper level of learning. “Having a say in your education is really powerful,” says one student. “With iPad, you feel like you’re more in charge.”

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Backup database cron script

In information technology, a backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.The primary purpose is to recover data after its loss, be it by data deletion or corruption. Backing up your database as a cronjob is an easy,efficient way of getting your database ...The post Backup database cron script appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Fortune Names Apple World’s Most Admired Company for the Sixth Year in a Row

In its annual rankings, Fortune magazine has named Apple the world’s most admired company for the sixth year in a row. Fortune calls Apple “a financial juggernaut,” citing Apple’s $13 billion in net income last quarter — earnings that made it the most profitable company in the world during that period. The magazine also applauds Apple’s “fanatical customer base” and the unprecedented success of the iPhone and iPad product lines.

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iTunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads

Apple announced that iTunes U has reached a new milestone — over one billion content downloads. iTunes U features the world’s largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools and prominent libraries, museums, and organizations. Educators are using this content to create courses that include lectures, assignments, books, quizzes, and more for iOS users around the world. “It’s inspiring to see what educators and students of all types are doing with iTunes U,” said Eddy Cue,...

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Add watermark to images in php

A watermark is a visible image imprinted or embossed directly onto the paper or digitally added onto an image later.  There is a danger factor in publishing your images online. Hence adding a watermark to your image will prevent others from downloading and using it directly.Also if you have a website where users upload their ...The post Add watermark to images in php appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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smtp email validation

SMTP is a core Internet protocol used to transfer e-mail messages between servers (first defined in RFC 821 in 1982). This contrasts with protocols such as POP3 and IMAP, which are used by messaging clients to retrieve e-mail. SMTP servers look at the destination address of a message and contact the target mail server directly. SMTP was designed to ...The post smtp email validation appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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$1.99 iPhone App Saved Oscars Film

In this video report from CNN, documentary film director Malik Bendjelloul talks about how he used a $1.99 iPhone app to finish shooting his Oscar-nominated film, “Searching for Sugar Man.” The film tracks the rise to fame of the Detroit musician Rodriguez, who never made it big in the United States but became a legend in South Africa. Bendjelloul started shooting the movie on film, but with just a few shots remaining, he found his budget depleted. That’s when he turned to an iPhone app called...

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Extract thumbnails from video using ffmpeg

FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data.It can help us to get frames of video at an interval of time and we can use these frames as thumbnails which when clicked starts the video.Also we can extract multiple frames and create an onmouseover image change effect of this ...The post Extract thumbnails from video using ffmpeg appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Auto post to facebook

Social websites like facebook plays a vital role in increasing traffic for any website.So posting events of your website like new registration,new scheme etc on your facebook fan page will let others know about it and eventually increase traffic and income. The Facebook Graph Api allows websites to interact with Facebook users. In order to post ...The post Auto post to facebook appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Apple Updates Processors and Prices of MacBook Pro with Retina Display

Apple is making the MacBook Pro with Retina display faster and more affordable with updated processors and lower starting prices. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now starts at $1,499 for 128GB of flash, and $1,699 for a new 2.6GHz processor and 256GB of flash. The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now features a faster 2.4GHz quad-core processor, and the top-of-the-line 15-inch notebook comes with a new 2.7GHz quad-core processor and 16GB of memory. Apple also announced that...

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Export html table as csv

A comma-separated values (CSV) file is a simple file format that is widely supported, so it is often used to move tabular data between different computer programs that support the format. CSV file is a text format for a database table. Each record in the table is one line of the text file. Each field value of a record ...The post Export html table as csv appeared first on Web Development Blog.

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Simple php captcha

CAPTCHA word comes from the word  ”capture” and CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart“.A Captcha is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot. Captcha allows you to protect your website from spam using math logic which can be used for login, registration, resetting password, ...

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iTunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold

Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store. “We are grateful to our users whose passion for music over the past 10 years has made iTunes the number one music retailer in the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. The 25 billionth song, “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch, was purchased by Phillip Lüpke from Germany. As the downloader of the 25 billionth song, Phillip will receive a €10,000 iTunes gift card.

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Re-Enabled

Steven Aquino, who works with special needs children and is himself visually impaired, describes in The Magazine how accessibility technologies like VoiceOver and Guided Access built into iOS “let those with disabilities use their devices with as much wonder and enjoyment as the fully abled.” Calling iOS “nothing short of a godsend,” Aquino notes that with iPad, a cognitively delayed student is able to “tap and swipe like a pro” and even master multitasking gestures without any demoing or prompting....

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Simple file upload using ajax

Ajax ,an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript and Xml is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client side to create asynchronous web applications.With Ajax, web applications can send data to, and retrieve data from, a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Storing  or ...

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Simple Popup Gallery without jquery plugin

Most of the jquery galleries are either only image galleries or are very less customizable .We may like to display any sort of content in our galleries like images,texts ,buttons etc. So  a fully customizable gallery is the topic of this post.The code uses simple div tags as the gallery content, so we can insert ...

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Smartphones May Be the Key to Better Health Care

The best tool to improve and keep track of your health may be in your pocket, says Dr. Eric Topol, a pioneering figure in “wireless medicine” — the practice of using apps and devices in health care. An article from NBC News describes how new apps for iPhone and other devices can measure vital signs and even detect whether someone is having a heart attack. “These days, I’m prescribing a lot more apps than I am medications,” says Dr. Topol. “The smartphone will be the hub of the future of medicine.”

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Image resize using php

Website load time is now a days a key aspect of website designing and development.Images, which play a major role in designing should be nearly the same as of their usable size. For instance to show a small thumbnail of say 50px its not good to have an image of size greater than 200px and ...

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Get Youtube feed in your website search results

All video websites likes to improve their search facility by searching for videos not only those which are in their databases but also on youtube.In this way users will get more results of their keyword search and will be able to play or store these youtube videos into their website’s account. When you retrieve video ...

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Apple Reports First Quarter Results

Apple announced financial results for its 13-week fiscal 2013 first quarter ended December 29, 2012. The company posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion, or $13.81 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $46.3 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share, in the 14-week year-ago quarter. “We’re thrilled with record revenue of over $54 billion and sales of over 75 million iOS devices in a single quarter,”...

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App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012

Apple has announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps — nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, says, “It has been an incredible year for the iOS developer community.” Developers have created over 775,000 apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and have been paid over $7 billion by Apple.

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Jorge Colombo’s iPad Finger Paintings

The cover of the January 28 issue of The New Yorker features work by Jorge Colombo, an artist who creates his pieces exclusively on the iPad. He started out in 2009 working on the iPhone, but now enjoys the larger format of the iPad. “I became more proficient on the tablet and started using more lines and more detail,” he says. His illustration for The New Yorker, titled “Newsstand,” is the first piece Colombo created on the iPad.

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525 million Google Plus accounts as of January 2013

525 million registered Google Plus user profiles are out there in public. You can see them all for yourself. (Data protection concern) How can you see all the profiles? What can you use these many profiles for? What do these numbers indicate? Does Google need to take any corrective measures? How can you see all [...]

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App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012

Apple has announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps — nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, says, “It has been an incredible year for the iOS developer community.” Developers have created over 775,000 apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and have been paid over $7 billion by Apple.

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Animated Alien Ship in the Sky using jQuery Spritely

Hundreds of light years (now don’t ask me what is a light year, all I know it is same as a regular year, but with less calories!) away from the galaxy there lived a super intelligent species with big eyes & green naked (or wearing some sort of green bio-mechanical suit!) skin called extrachlorophylletron in [...]

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Minify JS and CSS files in batch with drag-and-drop

Minification of JavaScript and CSS files is one of the best practices to keep your site’s load time to the minimum, especially important for the first time visitors. In organized projects, minification is part of the deployment process and it is integrated into that very smoothly using appropriate tools. If you wish to minify the [...]

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iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million

Apple today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. “Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December, making it the fastest iPhone rollout ever.

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Grow thick anodyne flowers

Grow thick anodyne flowers

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Moving Clouds – Animation using jQuery Spritely 0.6

. I am pretty sure that there are bunches of animation lovers like me who would be happy to add a little bit of animated stuffs into their pages. Say, we want to give a thrill to our visitors, so they may feel clouds are passing by our pages. Exactly, we will create layers of [...]

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How to Use Timepicker for jQuery

Install JavaScript, if it is not already present on your system. Open your JavaScript client and enter the command “npm install jquery” if you don’t already have jQuery, followed by “npm install grunt”. Grunt is a command-line build tool which Timepicker requires. Once these dependencies are fulfilled, run “npm install https://github.com/jonthornton/jquery-timepicker/zipball/master” to install Timepicker itself. [...]

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JQuery and Templates

In this article, I want to show you how to use a template in JQuery. It is a best practice to not embed the html codes in the JavaScript code. Using this best practice makes the code clearer and also more maintainable.Using template is one neat approach for applying this best practice. To use template [...]

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jQuery Slide up, Slide down & Toggle Effects

There are some common effects in almost every websites that catches our eyes immediately. Here I will show how a small piece of code can add these effects. At first I used a jQuery sliding method named slideToggle().After loading the page when HTML element with id flip_bar is clicked, it will slide down a panel [...]

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Register or Signup Form Validation using JavaScript

Almost all internet users like you & me are signed up or registered in various sites. Can you remember the last one? This process is little bit intelligent & guide us to provide right type of information. Now let’s explore how it happens. I think it will help the beginners a lot & others can [...]

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Calling ASMX web service via JQuery ajax

In this article, I want to show how one can call ASMX web service from his or her JQuery client code and also show the subtle issues that he or she might encounter. To be more specific, I want to show how to pass a JavaScript object to an ASMX web service method and get [...]

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iPhone 5 is Time Magazine’s ‘Gadget of the Year’

Time Magazine has named iPhone 5 its Gadget of the Year for 2012. The device is “one of the most artfully polished gadgets anyone’s ever built,” says Time’s Harry McCracken. He highlights the new thinner design and the camera’s “particularly well-done panorama mode.” McCracken concludes, “[W]hen it comes to melding hardware, software and services so tightly that the seams fade away, Apple still has no peer.” The MacBook Pro with Retina display also made it onto the list at number six.

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How to get current URL of each Web Page using JavaScript

When it is needed to display the current unique URL of each page within a site you can try the following script: <script type=”text/javascript” > document.write(location.href); </script> For example, if we are browsing this page http://www.scriptiny.com/category/javascript/ This script will generate/print: http://www.scriptiny.com/category/javascript/ Now if a site with 50 pages requires to show current URL in each [...]

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Introduction to AJAX in JQuery

At first, I should define, what is AJAX? The term refers to the use of different technologies like XML, XHTML, and JavaScript to update a part of a web page without reloading the whole page. This feature is becoming an essential part of modern web development. In this regard, modern browsers provide XMLHttpRequest API interface [...]

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PC Mag: iMac is Editor’s Choice

PC Mag has added Apple’s new iMac to its Editor’s Choice list for high-end all-in-one desktops. Reviewer Brian Westover says the iMac is “faster and more responsive, offering larger, smarter storage.” He put the iMac through its paces with a number of media and processing tests and found that it led competitors by a healthy margin. He concludes, “With its beautiful design and quality fabrication, the iMac 27-inch is the best all-in-one desktop we’ve ever seen.”

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Apple iMac Review: A Reason to Get a Desktop Computer

Reviewing the new iMac on ABC News, Joanna Stern says the desktop has “as much sex appeal” as the iPad and iPhone. “Even if you aren’t a tech enthusiast,” Stern writes, “this is a machine — or perhaps sculpture — you can admire.” Stern says the improved display’s sharpness makes looking at photos and video “an immersive experience,” and she praises the iMac’s enhanced computing power, including Fusion Drive. “Apple has built the system with the most powerful desktop parts around,” she says.

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Apple Puts Eye into iDevices

Reporting in the Sydney Morning Herald, Garry Barker describes how Apple accessibility technology has enabled disabled users to thrive both personally and professionally. Barker tells the story of David Woodbridge, a technology manager for a large non-profit who has been blind since childhood. Woodbridge uses VoiceOver and other assistive technologies in Apple’s iOS devices daily. “With VoiceOver I can support not only myself but also my boys and my wife,” said Woodbridge. “For example, if my...

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NFL Playbooks: There’s an App for That

Katie Linendoll of ESPN.com reports that across the NFL teams “are trading in their 500-page printed playbooks for iPad.” Linendoll notes that iPad and an app called PlayerLync have revolutionized how the Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, and San Diego Chargers share plays and distribute practice and game film among coaches and players. “It changes the way you prepare,” says Broncos tight end Jacob Tamme. “You can come off the practice field, get in the cold tub and watch film in the cold tub on your iPad.”

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Innovative Education in China with Mac

In a country where education has emphasized test taking and memorization, RDFZ XISHAN, an experimental middle school in Beijing, is the first school in China to participate in a Mac one-to-one program, which provides each student with a MacBook Pro. The program has transformed learning at the school into a collaborative and engaging experience — without sacrificing test scores. Says school principal Shu Dajun: “It’s no longer simply the teacher teaching and students studying. Everyone is equal in the creating and sharing of knowledge.”

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Here comes Traversty traversing the DOM

The Traversty DOM utility has its purpose to allow you to traverse the DOM and manage collections of DOM elements. Proponents admit core Traversty traversal methods are inspired by Prototype’s DOM Traversal toolkit, but in a multi-element environment that is more like jQuery and less like Prototype’s single element implementation.

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Cutting-Edge Curriculum with Final Cut Pro X

At Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, 17,000 on-campus and online students learn modern techniques in filmmaking, sound mixing, game development, and more using the most current digital tools. For film and video students, that includes editing in Final Cut Pro X. Says school information officer Isis Jones: “We want technology to disappear for the students so they can focus strictly on craft. The simplicity, speed, and flexibility of Final Cut Pro X has made that possible for all of our students.”

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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.3 billion and net profit of $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. “We’re very proud to end a fantastic fiscal year with record September quarter results,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We’re entering this...

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