While organizations are judiciously deploying their mobile application strategy, there are 10 major mistakes that cause mobile customer service failure, according to Gartner, Inc.

Scratchpads are an easy to use, social networking application that enable communities of researchers to manage, share and publish taxonomic data online. Sites are hosted at the Natural History Museum London, and offered free to any scientist that completes an online registration form. Key features of the Scratchpads (see also Scratchpad feature list) include tools to manage:
Classifications Phylogenies
Bibliographies Documents
Images Matrices & custom data
Specimen records Maps
Users control who has access to content, which is published on the site under Creative Commons (by-nc-sa) license.
Data added to a Scratchpad are automatically classified and grouped around a taxonomy that is supplied by the users or imported from EOL. This is optionally supplemented with information from high quality web accessible databases, to automatic construct content rich web pages about any documented taxon. Currently these sources include Genbank, Morphbank, GBIF, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Yahoo! Images, flickr, Google Scholar and Wikipedia.

The Scratchpad project is about tweaking Drupal's underlying infrastructure to make it easier to use and better suited to the needs of the taxonomic and systematic community. We do this by developing specific modules that support specific taxonomic data types (e.g. biological specimens and literature), templates for the import and export of data (e.g. taxonomic classifications), and by making web services of other data readily accessible (e.g. Google Scholar, Biodiversity Heritage Library, flickr, NCBI Genbank, Morphbank etc). The Scratchpad project also hosts all this content, making is simpler for users to establish a rich web presence that is supported and built by a community of users.

The Advanced Custom Fields plugin gives you the tools to create your own custom edit screens. Boasting a professional interface and a powerfull API, it’s a must have for any web developer working with WordPress.Field types include: Wysiwyg, text, textarea, image, file, select, checkbox, page link, post object, date picker, color picker, repeaters, flexible content and more!

As part of a series of articles on advanced WordPress SEO, I’m going to show you how to create multiple page templates that feature different social media buttons in your top left hand corner. Take a look at these two different page types to get an idea of what I’m upto.

Fully customise WordPress edit screens with powerful fields. Boasting a professional interface and a powerfull API, it’s a must have for any web dev

A: If my understanding is correct, a page is just another 'post-type' but a heirarchical one.

So, all you need to do is to set up a new 'custom-post-type' and within your code for registering the post type make sure to set;

'hierarchical' => true,
'supports' => array('title','editor','page-attributes')

I think those options will make it behave like a page within the edit screen

Can anyone confirm if thats correct?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks
Stef

Q: I'm trying to find the best way to add more panels for users when editing from the dashboard, I've seen maybe adding custome fields but they could be deleted, besides they are not very user friendly, another way I saw was creating custome write panels, There's a lot of code for one box but this looks the most ideal and user friendly way.

There are plugins like "more fields", "futter" that makes this easily.

I was wondering if there's another way I haven't heard yet, any ideas is well appreciated, Thanks.

A: Not sure what you are asking, if you are looking for a structure then look at custom post types, read some of the links at the bottom of the Codex page.

There are also Custom Post Type plugins, I have not tried any of these, hope that someone that does use them could add a comment.

In short what they can do is give a working framework, the examples are like, Movies etc:, so if your website was for Real Estate you can offer lots of defaults boxes etc:

The Committee believes that 'Seven Principles of Public Life' should apply to all in the public service.

RT @markralphs Guidance on how to swat a fly from BBC News

It's in if ...

found stuck on a GDS window .. working with smart people is teh awesome ..

Life is messy. Keep it together with Clear, an amazing new app for list-keeping that is unbelievably simple, quick and satisfying to use.

Being a loose cannon who does not play by the rules the first thing I did was ignore the warning and smear this all over my knob and bollocks. The bollocks I knew and loved are gone now. In their place is a maroon coloured bag of agony which sends stabs of pain up my body every time it grazes against my thigh or an article of clothing. I am suffering so that you don't have to. Heed my lesson. DO NOT PUT ON KNOB AND BOLLOCKS.

well like at the olympics its long course meters so theres reallly no point in breathing. they just swim down once in less than 23s. [thats the mens 50m free qualifying time] so why breathe when you dont need to?

I'm very wary of quoting Steve Jobs, but here goes: "Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact: everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you." I've retold this, in a way, to my son. Look: everything in this room was invented by someone. Everything here is here because someone didn't do what they did yesterday. Of course you can be an inventor!

" Unfortunatly yahoo, hotmail, gmail, btinternet, mac, ntworld,
freeserve and orange are some

of the email accounts they have blocked our server because of the
ammount of spam we sent out

because of our service which we offered for free (catch-all) "

They have also told me...

" BT email has blacklisted us - that happens from time
to time for any ISP, and there really is not much we can do about it.

I hope you understand that this is not our service failing, its BT that is blacklisting legitimate email. "

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From Sunday websites must obtain "informed consent" before saving cookies. Most will not be ready in time.

This is a wine that’s so incredibly Sauvignon-Blancish that it’s almost a caricature. Almost like a bunch of satirical wine-makers got together and decided to make something that was so goddamn Sauvignon Blanc that it’d prompt shouts of incredulous laughter.

Clear and bright. Golden. Soft nose with acacia honey and a touch of almonds. Dry, soft, subtle. Good minerallity. Honeyed. Lasting with that touch of almond.

Still good, but not as good as it was last year. Drink up this summer. (2025 is ludicrous!)

And it said: "Dropbox™ for Teams - - Simplify your life with our new business product"

Movellas.com is a community site where everyone can share their passion for great stories. You can publish your own stories - or movellas as we like to call them - so that everyone can read them and give you feedback, you can find lots of fantastic stories to read in every genre and on every topic, and you can talk directly to the authors and the rest of the community about writing and stories.
With Movellas it is possible to read anywhere, anytime. You can download movellas as ebooks to your computer, tablet, iPad, iPod Touch, e-book-reader or smart phone. Quick, easy and totally free!

At Movellas everyone can be a writer and publish their stories. Neither age nor experience are essential. All that we require is that you love to write and share your stories.

Togeva was set up in Tech City in London's East End in 2010, when Canadian Jennifer Sheridan noticed that there was a lack of collaborative design Apps on the market. With a PhD in Computer Science under her belt, she used whatever spare time she had in the evenings after work to develop new art and design Apps. She piloted her first App Graffito which allows users to paint graffiti-like art on their mobiles, in the summer of 2010. Several months later, she decided to leave her job as a software developer and a mobile UX consultant in order to develop a full scale Live Sharing platform and is now working on her new venture full time.

All now seems to be working fine. But how come the banks are getting us to download security programs that stop our Macs working?

"Princess Anne reveals her hair secrets" (from Hello in 2003) #fb

The Apache Mahout™ machine learning library's goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries.

HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional frontend developers's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-safe site.

After more than four years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain XHR and Flash. A starter Apache .htaccess config file hooks you up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and drop your site's filesize by half with robust gzipping.

Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed.

Simple WordPress themes are very popular, good for usability and typically good as a starting point for creating an individual online look and feel. Lucky for you there are many high quality cool WordPress themes available to pick from. This is why we keep updating this resources with new themes quite often. Website and blog designs certainly can be complex, colorful and overwhelming and many themes for WordPress belongs to that category.

Motor Industry Code of Practice for Service and Repair

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a straightforward, swift complaints procedure

The Motor Codes Advisory and Conciliation Service will offer free impartial advice, for further information you can visit their website at www.motorcodes.co.uk or call their Consumer Advice Line: 0800 6920825.

At the end of 2009, it was estimated that all the gold ever mined totaled 165,000 tonnes. This can be represented by a cube with an edge length of about 20.28 meters. At $1,600 per ounce, 165,000 tons of gold would have a value of $8.8 trillion.

While the debate is healthy, sensationalist headlines about publishers (plural) disliking apps, based on ONE company, and ONE person’s experience, is not fair or right to all of the others who are making it work, but are perhaps less rambunctious about their successes. Jason’s frustration comes across loud and clear though, and I truly do feel for him and other publishers who feel scorned by their iPad app experience.

...

In the end, we need to be aiming to perfect the tablet consumption and production experience. It’s not print, and it’s not the web. It’s somewhere in the middle. I personally call it “digital print”. No one has it quite right yet, but how could they? The device itself has only existed for 2 years.

The forms of tablets and smart phones were a little like a magazine or newspaper. Couldn't publishers delight readers by delivering something similar to existing digital replicas, suitably enhanced with interactive features, which would run in applications on tablets and smart phones? They argued that the new digital replicas would be better because applications run "natively" on the operating system of mobile devices, such as Apple's iOS, and can therefore have the functions of true software. (By contrast, a website is merely a series of HTML pages and scripts of computer code that run inside a browser, itself the real application. The Web's architects had meant sites to be more limited than apps.)

For traditional publishers, the scheme was alluring. They lost their heads. One symptom of the industry's euphoria was a brief-lived literary genre, the announcement of the iPad edition. A touching example of the form is this 2010 letter by the editors of the New Yorker, published by Condé Nast, dashed off in a style that was uncharacteristically breathless: "This latest technology ... provides the most material at the most advanced stage of digital speed and capacity. It has everything that is in the print edition and more: extra cartoons, extra photographs, videos, audio of writers and poets reading their work. This week's inaugural tablet issue features an animated version of David Hockney's cover, which he drew on an iPad."

...

Here, the recent history of the Financial Times is instructive. Last June, the company pulled its iPad and iPhone app from iTunes and launched a new version of its website written in HTML5, which can optimize the site for the device a reader is using and provide many features and functions that are applike. For a few months, the FT continued to support the app, but on May 1 the paper chose to kill it altogether.

Last fall, we moved all the editorial in our apps, including the magazine, into a simple RSS feed in a river of news. We dumped the digital replica. Now we're redesigning Technologyreview.com, which we made entirely free for use, and we'll follow the Financial Times in using HTML5, so that a reader will see Web pages optimized for any device, whether a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet, or a smart phone. Then we'll kill our apps, too.

"Hot Black Desiato meet all the worst stereotype's of an estate agents." and "They falsely advertised the place as furnished/unfurnished to give the property 'wider appeal'. So they acknowledged they lied yet are refusing to fix their mistakes."

Minimalism in web design seems to be the new trend lately, and WordPress is the perfect candidate to put simplicity to good use. Good minimal design is more than white backgrounds and text-centered design — it requires the same balance, elegance, and purpose that good web design does.

You’ll find 20 minimal WordPress themes below that embody both simplicity and enlightened design. Most of the themes are free, though some of them require a small fee. When using a WordPress theme, be sure to read the license information and give the proper credit to the original designer when offered.

George owner of Technosport has been servicing and doing all the bits on my car since I bought it, can't recommend them enough! Just thought I would share this with you guys who are looking for someone to trust with their M.

RT @RichardOsley: How the suburbs turned against Brian Coleman - the London Assembly’s sharpest tongue

"Practice jumping out of the bed as soon as your alarm goes off. Do this repeatedly twice a day for about 10 times"

Just use PleaseSleep to solve these problems.  That's how I solved my wake-from-sleep problem.  I think mine was from USB too, in my case a non-apple keyboard with usb ports.   But I was never sure and I wasn't going to give up my keyboard.  PleaseSleep attempts to force the system to obey the energy saver settings.

hey guys, I've done a bit of research and figured out a solution to this.

Remove this file:

library/preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist

Then go to your main system preferences page, and then into the Energy Saver page.

Click on schedule and create a new schedule (doesnt matter when), restart your computer and then remove the schedule you just made. This create an empty file in your preferences that for some reason stops your computer from waking up from sleep when the lid is closed.

Worked for me, hope it helps.

So now an audience who are only half concentrating on the first screen can have their attention further eroded by more information in a second companion screen. The material on this second screen must surely impact on the budget of the main output. As budgets are always tight does this mean that the first screen output will suffer?

A better investment could well be to improve the first screen content to such an extent that it is so gripping that the audience need no more.

This all sounds as exciting as reading a factual book whilst constantly cross referencing to other books. Great....

And once again everything is an "experience". Oh dear.

Typing up notes from today I came across this one. I don't remember anyone adding it. But I might as well keep it in!

LUNCHTIME LECTURES – RECORDINGS AND PRESENTATION FILES FOR LECTURES IN 2012

It's an NT member perk to anchor for free, just flash your card at the man in the tender.

Really enjoying "The Bridge" and this is my new favourite tune #fb

Really enjoying "The Bridge" and this is my new favourite tune #fb

This resource points out that SIMs can be bought at 'The Phone House' stores (http://www.thephonehouse.es). For locations see their store locator. I tried myself and the staff was very helpful.Also, you can check the official Yoigo stores (franchises) all over Spain by searching Yoigo + city name in Google Maps.Carrefour and Alcampo supermarkets sell Yoigo as well. The SIM was ready to use after about 15 minutes.
An ID is needed to buy the SIM, which they will take a photocopy of. The price is 20€ including 20€ of credit.

There is no way to buy a SIM outside of Spain with any operator by law.
You'll be very lucky to encounter an English speaking salesperson to buy the (Yoigo) Internet SIM card. It's better to assume you're not so lucky, unless you speak Spanish yourself. Best bet might be to go to one of many The Phone House shops.

There are a number of prepaid SIMs available in Spain for mobile Internet Access:

Carrefour: 1 euro/day for 100 MB full speed, thereafter 128 kbps
Yoigo: 3 euro/day for 100 MB full speed, thereafter 128 kpbs
Simyo: 0.03 euro/MB
Orange: 3.5 Euro/day for 250 MB full speed, thereafter 64 kbps
Telefonica
Vodafone 4 Euro/day for 250 MB full speed, thereafter 128 kbps
Masmovil


Resources

Google Maps with mobile base stations finder in Spain: Cobertura Móvil

Vodafone DATA & VOICE enabled SIM card BASE PRICE = 59.95 Euros. The 59.95 Euros is what will be added to your cart by default plus the add-ons you order below.

All HolidayPhone prepaid SIM cards for Spain are pre-activated for 3G Internet access. 1 GB of flat rate Internet data (30 days validity) is included in the start package, which is more than enough for most people. The first 300MB is in 3G speed, and the rest in GPRS speed.

Buying a local sim is always the cheapest thing to do. And if you don't feel looking for it when you arrive, there are multiple websites where you can buy a local French sim and have them send it to you. I used SimUp for my last trip and was very pleased with their service.

To resolve the problem on a machine that's being synced, do the following:
Quit OmniFocus.
Select "Home" from the "Go" menu in the Finder. A new window will appear.
Starting in the Home folder selected in the new window, open "Library", then "Application Support", and finally the "OmniFocus" folder.
You should see a file named "OmniFocus" or "OmniFocus.ofocus". Please rename it to "OLD-OmniFocus.ofocus".
Launch OmniFocus; it should open the blank "welcome" database.
Go ahead and sync OmniFocus. When it asks you to pick the "local" or "server" copy of the database, choose Server.
Once that sync goes through, go ahead and relaunch OmniFocus.

"Other world records broken included the fastest marathon dressed as a vegetable in two hours and 59 minutes" #fb

So here's the thing, we all know we hate forms, the only thing we hate more than forms themselves is actually filling out forms. But the forms are the interface to our web apps, so we cannot do without them. What we would love to do without, but can't, is skip the application testing part where you fill out forms like there's no tomorrow, just to make sure your app is rock solid.

And filling out forms is a pain. So for some time I wanted to get my hands on a little something that can fill out a form, any form, with a click of a button. JavaScript is ideal for such a task and the best sort of a "little something" is probably a bookmarklet. That is how this bookmark was born.

Feedparser - Robust RSS, Atom, and RDF feed parsing in Node.js

On 15 March 2012 he completed the first of two test jumps from 71,581 feet (21,818 m). During the jump he spent approximately three minutes and 43 seconds in free fall, reaching speeds of more than 360 miles per hour (580 km/h), before opening his parachute. In total, the jump lasted approximately eight minutes and eight seconds and Baumgartner became only the third person to safely parachute from a height of over 13.5 miles (21.7 km).[16]

An Austrian adventurer planning the highest skydive in history has announced that he will make the record attempt later this year.

Felix Baumgartner will jump from a balloon 36.5km (120,000ft) up, where a leak in his pressurised suit could lead to a rapid loss of consciousness.

The Sales Manager (Chris Williams) was extremely rude aggressive and arrogant. DO NOT DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE they are only after making their numbers and couldn’t care less about what you may think about anything after the sale of the car is complete.

When writing to the board of directors we got a letter back from one of the directors (Stephen Potters) saying that we were lying and that his staff were correct in all matters relating to the issues we had.

also had problems with Stratstone Doncaster. They gave me the "sorry, nothing we can do. Our hands are tied" story.
I immediately wrote to the MD of BMW UK. Solution within 2 weeks. Here's his details:

Mr Jim O'Donnell
Managing Director
BMW (UK) Ltd
Ellesfield Avenue
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 8TA

The reply I received was from a gentleman called Richard Eggleshaw, and he is the BMW (UK) Customer Service Manager.

The tack I took was of disappointment that such a high quality and reputable car company like BMW was giving me relatively inexpensive but still important problems with my car. I said I bought the car just so that I didn't get such problems.
I detailed times, places and individuals, and what they said.

I had to complain to BMW Uk a few years ago about appalling service by a main dealer (verging on crooked) they were not in the slightest bit interested in either what had happened, or how it reflected on the Marque in general.

Give it a go but in my experience you wont get far.

ETA Their address

Customer services
BMW GB Ltd
Ellesfield road
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 8TA

Harry the Dirty Dog

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There is a strong bottled version (Belgium and others) that is somewhat sweeter and stronger (7.5% abv) Foreign Extra Stout (primarily tropical countries) is also about 7.5% abv. However, this is blend of Guinnesses, included one aged for three months. In Nigeria, which bans barley, Guinness is made from sorghum.

I donno even if this question is right?

<div class="crop">longlong longlong longlong longlong longlong longlong </div>​
This is one possible approach i can think of

.crop {width:100px;overflow:hidden;height:50px;line-height:50px;}​
This way the long text will still wrap but will not be visible due to overflow set, and by setting line-height same as height we are making sure only one line will ever be displayed.

See demo here and nice overflow property description with interactive examples.

If you are someone who prefers to have a blank page as a new tab then you will love this extension. Once you have it installed you can click to your heart’s content on the “New Tab Button” and see nothing but blank goodness. Sometimes less is more…

We have recently seen a significant increase in occurrences where users are getting Spam email messages that appear to come from their own address (i.e. “joe@domain.com” gets a Spam email addressed from “joe@domain.com”).  We discussed this issue tangentially in a previous posting: Bounce Back & BackScatter Spam – “Who Stole My Email Address”? However, many users wonder how this is possible, while others are concerned that their Spam filters are not catching these messages.

How can Spammers use your email address to send Spam?

The way that email works on the Internet, there is very little validation performed on the apparent “Sender” of an email address.  Just as you could mail a letter at the post office with any return address on it, a Spammer can compose and send an email address with any “From” email address.  This is very easy to do, and Spammers use this facility with almost every message that they send.

So, while you do own your domain name and can lock down the accounts you are using to send and receive email, there is no way to prevent someone else from sending an email message that purports to be from you or some address at your domain.  The best you can do is to use SPF and/or DKIM or PGP or S/MIME digital signatures to allow your recipients to verify the messages if they want to (though most recipients may not know how to use these technologies).

It's the German shorthand for a 6 minute interval of labour.

1.0 "Not happy with the service as I was able to got to an independent BMW approved garge that could carried out the work for £500.00."
1.0 "I'm still waiting for the work to be completed. It's really annoying, and the communication has been very poor. I've had the car for two years, it's been in for service twice, and it's been a complete disaster on both occasions."
2.0 "Car dropped off at 7am for service and MOT. Not contacted until 4pm to advise car failed MOT and was not ready until the following day. Believe car left til last as I wasn't waiting returnign to collect car at 6pm."
1.0 "They never call me back when they say they will i always have to ring them."
1.5 "2 oil leaks soon after service, first day lost as noone would return my calls"
1.0 "Super frustrating to deal with the guy and he agreed that the prices are too high. I wasn't happy with explanation that to go elsewhere would invalidate the warranty, all of this on a vehicle that I've owned for only 12 months."
1.7 "This was a very disappointing interaction and it's unlikely that I will use Hexagon again. There were continuous communications failures, a number of changes in account manager, and every call seemed to add a few hundred pounds to the cost."
2.0 "I returned to the shop to collect the vehicle at the agreed time but when I got there they said the MOT was not ready as it needed new tyres. So I waited for an hour and a half. They could have told me over the phone about the tyres."

Saw Dingus Khan at the Bull & Gate last night, 3 drummers, 3 bassists, and more, very very good. 6 Music session here