Posts Tagged ‘ learning ’

Super-Powered Launch App Quicksilver Adds Support For OS X Lion

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Super-Powered Launch App Quicksilver Adds Support For OS X Lion

If you’re on a Mac and haven’t expanded your horizons beyond Spotlight, you owe it to yourself to check out Quicksilver , a free, open sourced launchbar app that can prove very handy once you’ve gotten over the learning curve. The app has just been updated with a slew of new features including...

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Research Finds Text-Messaging Improves Children’s Spelling Skills

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Research Finds Text-Messaging Improves Children’s Spelling Skills

Teens' text-messaging habits are legion. They send thousands upon thousands of texts per month, and every once in a while, some unfortunate parents make the headlines when they get a bill in the mail for thousands upon thousands of dollars in texting charges. The increasing use of text-messaging by teens - and increasingly...

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HOW TO: Get More Out of Your Web Fonts

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HOW TO: Get More Out of Your Web Fonts

Anders J. Svensson is a freelance writer, part-time adventurer, and the senior copywriter at Veer -– a provider of affordable images and fonts to creative professionals. On Twitter, find Anders at @mightyrival and Veer at @veerupdate . It’s a text-based world.

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How to Hire Coders

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How to Hire Coders

One of the most common questions I get asked is "How can I find technical employees?" The market for good programmers is extremely tight, and traditional techniques like job-board or craigslist postings won't produce results. Even the best network of contacts probably won't uncover candidates willing to reach out to you. So, what...

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Are You a Computer Science Student? Want To Be a Data Scientist? Then Check This Out

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Are You a Computer Science Student? Want To Be a Data Scientist? Then Check This Out

The Data Sciences Summer Institute is a six week summer program for students interested in data science. It will be held at the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and include: a class on the mathematical foundations of data science, advanced tutorials, expert speakers and collaborative research projects. Why go? Well, data...

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