Your computer’s a busy beaver, rapidly accessing and utilizing files all in the name of bringing you what you want, when you want it. Sometimes it needs a little help tidying up, and that’s where these five disk defragmenters come in.

After a couple of weeks of waiting in the iTunes app store approval queue, the 3rd major update of the popular Facebook for iPhone application has been released.

It’s no secret that Firefox has long been our favorite browser, but much has changed recently. The browser landscape is increasingly competitive, so with that in mind, we’d like to suggest a few features and improvements we’re desperate to see from Firefox.

In the late 1980s, RAM cost about 10^⁵ per dollar, and in the early 1990s it was cheaper but still fairly flat. But a big price fall started in about 1996, so that by 2000 RAM was about 10^⁷ per dollar.

There are a number of ways in which text can be introduced, changed or disappeared, though each format will have a different mix of possibilities.

Here is a better overview of the i4i patent.

Microsoft has been in the news in the last month in relation to two patents, one it received and one it has been ordered to pay $200 million in damages for infringing. I’ve been looking through both, and the patents seem to bear little resembles to their reports.

The page models and geometries of two current XML-in-ZIP publishing formats for text documents: ODF and IDML.

There is no inconsistency in ajudging that a particular technology would be usefully written up as an international standard but yet not appropriate for a national standard.

Balisage has become for many XML (and the occasional SGML) coders the must-attend conference of the year. Run for many years as the Extreme XML Conference, the shift to the use of Balisage  - a French term best translated as running lights, such as those used to highlight a ship or an airplane runway. These markings then translate into the syntactic markings found as a key part of XML. (That Balisage continues to be hosted in Montreal, that most French belle dame of Canadian cities, probably accounts for the name as well )