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Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber 61

Posted by timothy from the use-the-nice-ones-not-naughty dept.
Bennettt Haselton has a gift idea for this year that needn't necessarily cost you any money (if you have a color printer available), though as he points out there are ways to invest in a higher-quality result. The gift? A unique picture created with a few pieces of free software and a bit of your time. Bennett writes: "You can use these little-known free programs to create a photomosaic of a friend's wedding photo or other favorite photograph, for a uniquely personal gift that doesn't cost much but can still delight. Follow these steps to use the programs most effectively and get the best results." Read on for the rest.

Submission + - FCC Chair: it's Ok to Discriminate Traffic 2

Submitted by sl4shd0rk
sl4shd0rk writes: Remember when the ex-cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler was appointed to the FCC chair back in may of 2013? Turns out he's currently gunning for Internet Service Providers to be able to "favor some traffic over other traffic". A dangerous precedent considering the Open Internet Order in 2010 forbid such action if it fell under unreasonable discrimination. The bendy interpretation of the 2010 order is apparently aimed somewhat at Netflix as Wheeler stated: "Netflix might say, 'I'll pay in order to make sure that my subscriber might receive the best possible transmission of this movie.'"

Submission + - Understanding "energy trilemma" of energy security, sustainability, & equity (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by Lasrick
Lasrick writes: Adnan Hezri explores the dilemma developing countries face in moving toward a sustainable future, given the difficulty of incorporating climate change into energy policy: 'Over the coming decades, fast-developing nations are likely to account for an ever-increasing share of global carbon emissions—particularly China, India, and Brazil. But in the poorest countries, the biggest challenge continues to be energy access itself. Even the world's biggest carbon emitters haven't yet fully incorporated climate change into their energy policies—so it should come as no surprise that, in the poorest countries, transformation of energy systems is usually not even a fringe consideration. '

Comment Re:*yawn* (Score 1) 63

by Traze (#44646857) Attached to: Internet Infrastructure for Everyone

Do you mean having applications run into their own little sandboxes that can be effortlessly moved to any other system running this, as opposed to having to move an entire VM to a new server?

Indeed.

Comment Re:*yawn* (Score 1) 63

by Traze (#44636019) Attached to: Internet Infrastructure for Everyone
Well, IMO, this a step further. The OS has little Virtual Apps, not a hyper visor with little OSes. If they can get state for any VA to another machine with minimal overhead, and OS version offset doesn't matter, I can see some potential here.
Education

Submission + - Recommend an HTML5 Book for Teaching Web App Development

Submitted by SephiraUK
SephiraUK writes: Hi Everyone,

I would like your help in choosing a book to read and use as a teaching aid. I am soon to start a multimedia unit in our FE college for students on our BTEC course (16-19 years mostly) which is to utilise graphic work and previous web understanding. We thought some HTML5 could be a good place for this as we have previously be doing it based around Flash.

So can anyone recommend a good book that could be used to build simple web applications using HTML5 that could be followed by students in the above age range having some basic understanding already of HTML and CSS?

So far I have looked at:
HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook
HTML5 for Masterminds

Any recommendations appreciated.

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