By adfm  | 05 April 2010 - 04:38 PM

Are you looking for a way to get the O'Reilly ebooks you currently own in ePub format on to your iPad? Follow these three easy steps and you'll be reading your favorite titles with iBooks in n...

By ronaldhale-evans  | 24 October 2009 - 08:22 PM

Use what you can recall to help bootstrap your memory into remembering what you can't. You are sitting with your friends, discussing the latest movie releases, when someone asks the name of a per...

By macslocum  | 09 February 2010 - 11:00 AM

Google Buzz brings status updates, links, videos and other shared features into the Gmail interface. If you've updated through Facebook or Twitter you'll be comfortable with the process: enter a quick...

By filmbilly  | 21 April 2010 - 02:00 PM

Bill Scott and Theresa Neil are ace UI designers that hosted an O'Reilly Master Class that deep dives the principles and patterns for rich web interfaces. Here's a chapter from their new class that d...

By blackbear  | 21 June 2010 - 05:56 AM

One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool. This lets you run an automated set of tests against an application, and ...

By nanbarber  | 03 February 2010 - 06:02 AM

Here's a great tip from UK reader David Knox: "So there's a number of words that iPhones can automatically apostrophise for example if you type "isnt" it will drop the apostrop...

By joshclark  | 18 June 2010 - 09:24 AM

My new O’Reilly book about iPhone user experience—Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps—hits bookshelves in the next few days (the ebook is already available). I thought it’d be fun to share ...

Wrote up a post on Gear Diary comparing printed technical books to PDFs and ePub books on the iPad. Thought that everyone would like photos comparing a printed page vs. what the iPad experience is. Lo...

By dannyg1  | 18 November 2009 - 03:39 PM

The following chart contains the 216 non-dithering colors of the Web Palette, each with its respective RGB values (in decimal and hexadecimal). 255, 255, 255 ...

By mike-loukides  | 26 October 2009 - 12:36 PM

Given a longitude and a latitude, what's the great circle distance between them? The formula for this computation, and many others, is available at the Aviation Formulary, by Ed Williams: QuoteT...

By zigurd  | 09 December 2009 - 02:53 PM

Beginner tips Learn SQL and put your data models in a database Android has an excellent persistence system; use it to make your applications more robust in case of failure or shutdown, and to make s...

By jwikert3  | 20 November 2009 - 06:30 AM

Like most people, I've got more than one email address. When I access Google docs though I prefer to do so via my Gmail account. So when someone sends a Google doc link to my other email address...

By jwikert3  | 04 January 2010 - 04:01 PM

My daughter dropped her iPhone recently and wound up shattering the digitizer (the clear display that sits atop the LCD and interprets your taps/gestures). I didn't take a picture of it but it lo...

By blackbear  | 20 November 2009 - 04:28 AM

David Hoover, author of Apprenticeship Patterns, offered these tips for new programmers to help them reach their full potential in a recent interview. Understanding where you're at. "I wasn't really e...

By lwm  | 03 November 2009 - 10:45 AM

Here's a listing of useful Windows 7 Key shortcuts: Key Combinations Descriptions Windows Key + ↓ Minimizes/restores window Windows Key + ← ...

By carlaschroder  | 20 October 2009 - 02:43 PM

You often see documentation with instructions like "you must use different subnets for this to work," or "be sure your hosts are all on the same network." But, you're a bit haz...