Loadtimer
"Loadtimer is intended to be used to measure page load times on mobile devices"
mobile  testing 
15 days ago
it starts on day one « Bethany Nowviskie
"As its primary focus, the course must cover current humanities research skills, corpora, and trends — both digital and archival or material. But it should also address issues like: intellectual property and open access; the intersection of scholarship with the public humanities; publishing, preservation, and scholarly communication; funding and material support for research and teaching; interdisciplinary collaboration; matters of credentialing and assessment (peer review, tenure and promotion), faculty self-governance; and the under-interrogated policies that cover and shape the humanities in the modern college and university."
research  methods  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Fast-Food Scholarship - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"My worry is that we have lost our compass. We have forgotten that our raison d'être is to produce not simply a quantity of published works, but, rather, thoughtful, carefully considered, well-researched, cogently argued scholarship that moves disciplinary knowledge forward."
publishing  scholarship  Chronicle 
9 weeks ago
Teach not coding, but architecture | double take
"Where I disagree is that I don’t think coding is enough of a prerequisite. Like advanced biology or chemistry it should be included in the standard curriculum. But the core class we aren’t teaching our kids that we need to be is Internet Architecture—that should be like government or civics classes are today: a prerequisite for graduation."
CS  coding  academic  history 
11 weeks ago
Clear Menu
Why are restaurant website menus so terrible? Too often they exist as dysfunctional blights on otherwise very nice websites (though surely many are nicer than others). Some of us at Unit Interactive thought it would be nice to show a few examples of how these vital pages can quite easily be done better. What follows are our fun exercises in usable menus.
design  UI  usability  UX  writingfortheweb  engl4814 
october 2011
Netflix Streaming Safari: Korean Madness! | Grady Hendrix
If you want to watch great movies you’ve never heard of and if you’re capable of reading, then this list is a place for you to start.
october 2011
DropDAV: Home
DropDAV lets you access Dropbox without the Dropbox app.
It stands between the Dropbox API and WebDAV clients, giving your Dropbox a seamless WebDAV interface.
It was developed specifically for use with Apple's iWork suite for iPad, and has been expanded to work smoothly with most other WebDAV clients.
october 2011
WikipediaVision (beta)
Real time map of anonymous wikipedia edits.
october 2011
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