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Piles of receipts....stacks of business cards...reams of paper. Of course, what we really need is the information trapped inside them! That's why Neat's scanners and software solutions use patented OCR and parsing technology to read and extract key information from your paper, so you can organize it, export it, or securely store it in our easy-to-use database system. - Francisco Costa

Web 2.0 sites provide rich functionality and interactivity, but these have come with a significant tax: users need to create credentials and profiles in order to log in to each site, and this is frustrating and reduces interactivity. Users think, “Why can’t we just have one login!?” (i.e.,”single sign-on” or “federated identity”). In 2009, Facebook launched Facebook Connect (FC) while Google offered Google Friendconnect (GFC) which are significant steps toward Web 2.0 single sign-on—with some interesting wrinkles. - Francisco Costa

In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed—and that's too big a question to answer on the fly. - Francisco Costa

A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data At the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh this week, there was a conversation on social networking data. Someone made the point that there are several different types of data, and it would be useful to separate them. This is my taxonomy of social networking data. - Francisco Costa

With the news industry struggling to find new revenue streams that can reshape their broken business model, 2010 will be defined by experiments in news media monetization. This will also include content that is guided more than ever by the audience and ad revenue. - Francisco Costa

1. Companies will expect ROI from their Social Media efforts. 2. The Social Media Specialist (Community Manager) position will become mainstream. 3. Cultural shift inside of companies. 4. Social Media Monitoring will be a necessary component 5. Agencies and companies will hire data analysts 6. Integration of platforms and processes will be critical. 7. I will be meeting more of YOU in the new year! - Francisco Costa

Most Windows users know about the utility of the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys when dealing with an unresponsive application. A program is said to be unresponsive when it doesn’t respond to any user interaction and neither does it perform its intended actions. There are plenty of jokes surrounding the whole Ctrl + Alt + Del combination that brings up the task manager in Windows and allows you to end unresponsive applications. Things seldom go this far in the Linux world, however claiming that such Linux unresponsiveness doesn’t occur would be a plain lie. - Francisco Costa

steganography is the technique used for hiding various data in different type of image and audio files with out changing the basic characteristics of file. Steghide is a utility for steganography. The color- respectivly sample-frequencies are not changed thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests. - Francisco Costa

Nices. Tenho que ver isso. Já tem suporte razoável para album art? - Pedro Machado Santa

ovigia: i agree with you - Francisco Costa

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. - Francisco Costa

1. Configure the web server to return 304 for every image request. The HTTP status code 304 means that the file is not modified and this means that the browser will fetch the file from its cache if it is present there. (credit: this SuperUser answer) 2. In every page in the website, add a small script to capture the image data and send it to the server. 3. Save the image data in the server. 4. Convert the pixel data to get the original images.Voila! - Francisco Costa

When they draw up the Complete History of Lifehacking, Angus MacGyver will certainly merit a chapter. We pay tribute to the creative can-do secret agent this week with 10 tricks that make extraordinary use of truly common objects. - Francisco Costa

As with rock music, video games, and other awesome pursuits, great web applications often don't get enough credit for what they do well. We're revisiting and updating our favorite underhyped webapps to give a new crop of contenders their due. - Francisco Costa

Privacy policies are long legalese documents that obfuscate meaning. Nobody reads them because they are indecipherable and obtuse. Yet, these are the documents that tell you what’s going on with your data — how, when, and by whom your information will used. To put it another way, the privacy policy lets you know if some company can make money from information (like selling you email to a spammer). - Francisco Costa

Otimizar imagens para web faz com que seu site carregue mais rápido e que seus visitantes não tenham que esperar tanto pelo carregamento. Os visitantes de seu site querem imagens otimizadas e de tamanho reduzido, portanto, é importante aprender a otimizar imagens para a web a fim de servir páginas rápidas e de qualidade. Entender o básico sobre compressão e otimização de imagens e seus formatos permite escolher não somente qual a melhor maneira de reduzir o tamanho de imagens, mas também melhorar a qualidade de imagens. - Francisco Costa

Bazaar is a version control system that helps you track project history over time and to collaborate easily with others. Whether you're a single developer, a co-located team or a community of developers scattered across the world, Bazaar scales and adapts to meet your needs. There's no need to choose between central and distributed version control tools: Bazaar directly supports many workflows with ease. - Francisco Costa

Run tune2fs to change parameters of your file-system and gain some extra space - Francisco Costa

Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. This is opposite of image preloading. - Francisco Costa

Lego has turned its most loyal users into designers and co-creators of their own products. The toy manufacturer providing a building system based on interlocking bricks patented in 1958 begun to run into difficulties in the late 1990s. Lego's product development had become increasingly complex with many product ranges and at one stage Lego had 11000 contractors -more suppliers than Boeing used to build its airplanes. - Francisco Costa

Tata Motors is India's largest automobile company, the world's fourth largest truck manufacturer, the second largest bus manufacturer and the developer and manufacturer of Tata Nano, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's cheapest car. - Francisco Costa

winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries sometimes needed to run programs in Wine. - Francisco Costa

The interactive chart below represents the GDP per capita for each country. Click on any of the buttons to view the data for that particular group of nations. You can highlight a particular country by selecting it in the dropdown box. For more details, check the notes section, or leave a comment below. The data was compiled from the 2008 CIA World Factbook. - Francisco Costa

Talking about the 'Y' Generation: Tapping the Social Media Expertise of Young Professionals to Reach Your Audience - Francisco Costa

Here's how the tech industry cycle goes. A new generation of young techies comes along, takes a look at the current stack, finds it too daunting (rightly so) and decides to start over from scratch. They find that they can make things happen that the previous generation couldn't cause they were so mired in the complexity of the systems they had built. The new systems become popular with "power users" -- people who yearn to overcome the limits of the previous generation. It's exhilirating! - Francisco Costa

Any idiot can stack a cold deck to trick an opponent in Texas Hold'em Poker into losing all his chips. However usually the player on the right of the dealer cuts the deck, which means the cheater must swap the deck after this point, which makes it much harder to do discretely. - Francisco Costa

Building on that, I wanted a framework for delineating innovations based on their technology and business impacts. Because they're not necessarily the same. The four quadrants below describe the dynamics for innovations according to their technology and market impacts: - Francisco Costa

Building on that, I wanted a framework for delineating innovations based on their technology and business impacts. Because they're not necessarily the same. The four quadrants below describe the dynamics for innovations according to their technology and market impacts: - Francisco Costa

O WEBGRAU é um E-zine sobre tecnologia com vários artigos relacionados com o mundo da web. - Francisco Costa

Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We've filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints. - Francisco Costa

There’s plenty of untapped opportunity for retargeting in online advertising. That is one of the key findings of a recent joint survey of online marketing professionals by Advertise.com, a premier platform for search and display advertising, and SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization. - Francisco Costa

The Four Primary Business Models in the social networking space that I’ve experienced–they primarily are concerned with Facebook Applications. There may be others, or extensions of these, or even ideas out there that have yet to be tested yet are profoundly viable. All additions are welcomed. - Francisco Costa