Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration.
aft news / With the upcoming U.S. elections only 12 days away, Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration. According to a blog post about the new U.S. Voter Info site, Google found it hard to believe that in 2008, this type of important information isn’t better organized on the web. Because organizing info is what Google is all about, they took it on themselves to step in where government has not and have created an incredibly useful site for all U.S. citizens.
The U.S. Voter Info site was developed in partnership with with several state and local election officials, the League of Women Voters, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and others involved in the Voting Information Project. In true Google form, the site appears to as just a simple interface that hides the complicated data processing going on in the back-end. All you have to do to use the new site is enter in your home address in the box provided and click “Search.”
Henry Blodget, the former stock analyst who kicks himself every day for still being a Yahoo shareholder, notes that Yahoo spent $37 million on advisory fees in the third quarter.
aft news / Henry Blodget, the former stock analyst who kicks himself every day for still being a Yahoo shareholder, notes that Yahoo spent $37 million on advisory fees in the third quarter. What did it get? A botched Microsoft buyout; a search deal with Google that’s getting a rough reception by antitrust cops in Washington, D.C.; and Carl Icahn on its board — a man Jerry Yang and company called a technological nincompoop on Yahoo’s own homepage. In other words, nothing — save for cutting its operating income by more than a third. That $37 million did, however, result in one concrete cost-saving initiative. Rest and Source
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Googlers have slowly been realizing that their job isn’t an entitlement. GOOG could lay off 10 percent of its work force and see no difference in revenue.
aftnews / Yes, Google has laid off employees before. But those were DoubleClick employees. America’s CTO, Eric Schmidt, managed to cull any deadwood from Google’s Mountain View campus without it becoming a hot story. This time it’s different, writes one of my leakers, and all the smart people can smell it. Here’s the algorithm. Read The Rest
Scroll Follow - A simple jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls.
aftnews / Scroll Follow is a simple jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls. Scroll Follow has been successfully, though not extensively, tested on IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Safari 3, and Opera 9 all on Windows. Click Here For Details and Download
VFront - Create forms for manage your data in AJAX style, different rules and privileges for groups, report in XML,HTML,PDF,statistics and much more
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aftnews / VFront is a dynamic front-end for MySQL or PostgreSQL databases written in PHP and Javascript. With VFront you can create forms for manage your data in AJAX style, different rules and privileges for groups, report in XML,HTML,PDF,statistics and much more. VFront is released under GPL license (version 2.0).
To whom and what VFront is useful
- VFront is useful for companies,brands or organizations, which use MySQL or PostgreSQL, in need of an easy consulting or modyfing access to database by their own employed whithout developing a specific client for that but simply using a web browser.
- Think about VFront as an interface tool for database, similar for some functions to MS access, but taking the lead with an easy access via web.VFront is not a database administration tool like phpMyAdmin and it’s not replacing it : interface is for basic user working on data.
- VFront is created for non-expert users capable to work safely on data using an intuitive graphic interface.
- VFront is particularly useful when various and/or several users have to access to database using different privileges: a higly customizable system of groups and privileges makes access possible for various employed to specific tables or views, shows/hides specific fields, sets rules for input validation and keeps under control all the database activities.
- VFront has export data modules, statistics and report management based on xml, xsl and xsl-fo protocols.
- VFront can be useful too for those who, generically, are in need of an easy to install and configure database front-end.
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aftnews / This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and Wordpress. Click Here for icons
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