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BBC - One-Minute Movies - WE WANT YOUR MOVIE! Make a film, send it in, watch it here!
What Is A One-Minute Movie? Find out what it's all about... | Make a One-Minute Movie Basic tips and advice... | Submit a One-Minute Movie You've made your film - now get it to us... | Watch a One-Minute Movie Got a spare a minute? A-Z list of films...
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BBC - My Web My Way - Do you need help in making the web easier to use? This site [a BBC partnership with AbilityNet] explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you
also Accessibility News Disabled people favour accessible sites More news... Accessibility on bbc.co.uk Accessibility Why the bbc.co.uk site supports accessibility Case studies How our users make the web accessible Standards Standards & policie
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African-Caribbean Network for Science & Technology Home page : There are not enough young Black people studying Science & Technology, and too few Black engineers and scientists in the United Kingdom
an educational charity set up in 1995 to advance the educational achievements and career aspirations of Black youth in Science, Mathematics & Technology by engendering the ethos that the pursuit of such qualifications and careers can be fun, empowering an
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TalkCrunch - weekly podcast about new web 2.0 companies and products.
The show is hosted by Michael Arrington, editor of TechCrunch and features interesting and sometimes controversial new guests on each show. TalkCrunch is part of the TechCrunch Network.
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Exclusive Screenshots: Google Calendar | TechCrunch. March 8, 2006 [closed beta is ongoing with about 200 participants - people involved are not allowed to invite outsiders to see the calendar and are under strict rules not to share any details with outsi
CL2 is closely, very closely, integrated with Gmail. It includes now-standard web 2.0 features - Ajax, subscription feeds for integration with iCal and other desktop calendars, event creation, search, sharing, notifications (including SMS) and more.
/ajax/examples for:alharris for:grahamattwell google news portal-admin resources/tech-tracking social-calendaring webtech/MUST-WATCH webtech/calendars -
Chalksite: gradebooks, assignments, messaging and a personal website just for teachers - Teachers, students and parents have a central point to access grading, assignments and messaging. Chalksite is a total web package designed just for teachers, giving
[ NOT a VLE nor is it open in web2 way + it costs]..Chalksite was designed for teachers and tested by teachers at every stage of its development. It's specifically created to be the easiest path to online learning for real teachers and students — people
/commercial-product elearning/VLE elearning/tools for:rgedwards schools/admin social-startup webtech/MUST-WATCH -
Welcome to the sparkline generator. You can start right away by dynamically creating a sparkline using the Sparkline Generator Web Application, or you can read more about sparklines and decide if you want to use the sparkline web service or if you would b
The service that generates these sparklines is available for you to use on your own site. The service is just a simple Python CGI program. If you have the skills you should consider installing the script on your own server. If you don't, then feel free to
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What is Sparkle and is it a "Flash Killer?" | ars technica 9/15/2005, by Josh Meier: Sparkle is a vector-based UI designer that supports both 2D and 3D objects. There are many applications for Sparkle ranging from Flash-like presentations to designing UI
utilizes a combination of XAML and C# to control the look and feel of the controls. In this scenario, Sparkle is a very powerful and simple to use winforms designer. How did Sparkle become known as a "Flash Killer" if it is simply a form designer? The
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Science, data and the record | Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: [notes documents and connections ] Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, hosted a very interesting event on the future of science: Science 2020.
[note missing '/' in his link to ]The resulting document sets out the challenges and opportunities arising from the increasing synthesis of computing and the sciences. The website has a range of materials and a parallel issue of Nature has also appeared.
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Towards 2020 Science - Downloads : report and roadmap from Towards 2020 Science workshop: an international expert group, 30 June-1 July 2005, Venice, Microsoft Research in Cambridge
- Report (pdf format 2.1MB) most suitable if printing onto A4/letter paper or for screen viewing - Report (pdf format 1.4MB) most suitable if printing onto A3/tabloid paper - Roadmap (pdf format 90kb)
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Scientific American Podcasts [ weekly ] | Scientific American Magazine: The latest science news and science articles
[about 20 minutes, weekly] Join host Steve Mirsky each week as he explores the latest developments in science and technology through interviews with leading scientists and journalists.
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eNormicom: Welcome to eNormicom! - Is your company having an e-dentity crisis? Then you need the eNormicom Image Bucket Program™...
the classic 37signals spoof identity-generator... swooshy logos, nifty corporate names...
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