“MacDICT lets you access a growing number of databases (currently 23), including Websters Dictionary, for free. Other databases include the US Gazetter, Free Online Dictionary of Computing, Roget’s Thesaurus, Infoplease Encyclopedia, and the list goes on…”

“VFA-13 Shadow Riders present a handy glossary of the international radio alphabet used in aviation.” You know, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo…

“I’ve been looking around at a couple of NSI’s new competitors (register.com, for example), and the information on their pages about services and pricing for them is underwhelming at best. I also haven’t been able to find any good comparisons on the Web. So, in the experience of the /. community, what is the best registrar to go through for my new Web site?”

“If you were to draw one ’stick’ person every second, 24 hours a day, it would take you 200 years to make six billion drawings. Six billion is such a big number no one can really imagine what it represents. The YouDraw exhibition will show 6 billion drawings of the world’s people together for the first time ever.”

“With the increase of online publications over the past few years, Web sites are hungry for content and for people who can produce it. Higher salaries and more freedom for creativity often prove irresistible to journalistic job-seekers. The result is that traditional print newspapers may be facing an uncertain future in the competition for editorial talent.”

“Elvis had a ghost brother, Aron — a twin who died in childbirth. Elvis grew up to be the king of rock and roll. Nobody knows what Aron Presley might have become. The Web is similarly populated with the ghosts of the unborn. For every site we visit, there are undoubtedly better-designed versions that the client rejected and we will never see. If there’s a rock and roll heaven, perhaps there’s one for unborn Web sites as well.”

“Using [its] tools and years of application design experience, AppCity has launched a site offering the widest collection of free commercial-quality Web-hosted applications or Web Apps available on the Internet. The applications on the AppCity site are designed for consumers, businesses, and organizations that appreciate quality and speed and can benefit from an expansive library of hundreds of top quality Web Apps. AppCity users can actively request new applications and suggest enhancements to existing applications.”

“The concept of the meme has been working its way around the Web for a while now, instantiating itself in Wired’s regular feature, Hype List, in articles, and in general currency. As David Bennahum writes at the top of each issue of Meme, a meme is a ‘contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed on from mind to mind. Memes function the same way genes and viruses do, propagating through communication networks and face-to-face contact between people.’”

“This project addresses the special case of selecting inks for duotone printing, a relatively inexpensive process in which just two inks are used. Traditional duotone printing almost always uses black as one of the two inks. The resulting reproduction is an ‘enhanced grayscale’ image: a grayscale image with a hint of the chosen accent color. We would like to use duotone printing to achieve full color reproduction. Our system takes an image as input and allows the user to select 0, 1, or 2 inks. The output consists of the remaining inks or inks that will best reproduce the image as a duotone and the appropriate color separations.”

“Is the stand-alone PDA dead? With the unveiling of the Symbian consortium’s Quartz devices at the CeBIT computer show in Germany this week, analysts say current handheld devices, such as the Palm, face competition from a new breed of integrated handheld device that packs telephony, streaming multimedia, Web browsing and Palm-like computing.”

“Here’s a list covering every keystroke and modifier available to Photoshop 5, a whopping 400 in all! And for the second edition running, I’ve done something you won’t find in any other book. I’ve created a table that tells you both the old Photoshop 4 keyboard shortcut and the new Photoshop 5 equivalent. If the shortcut is new to Version 5 — as nearly 25 percent them are — I’ve indicated it in bold type so you can more quickly scan the list.”

“Jeff Dachis’ digital media company in New York’s Silicon Alley is full of fish. Although the moniker is just a nickname for Razorfish’s 1,300 employees, chief executive Dachis is somewhat of a shark, running a company that was an early mover in a market now swimming with me-too IPOs. Since quitting a job as a waiter at a hip Tribeca diner, Dachis has built a firm worth more than $4 billion, boasting big-name clients such as Schwab, CBS, NBC and high-speed Net access firm Road Runner. And what’s more, the firm is profitable, grabbing some $2.1 million during the first nine months of 1999.”

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