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Skype is the world’s main provider of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone services. It provides free PC to PC phone calls. Its paid services offer PC-to-phone calls and supply additional software like KishKish
The KishKish add-on analyses audio streams for signs of stress that are supposed to identify lying.. See BBC report.
However, according to [...]

What are the disadvantages of using AJAX techniques? In practice, AJAX applications are subject to the effects of latency, often leading to baffling delays for the end-user.
AJAX is not well integrated with any browsers; so again, users may experience unexplained effects, such as failure of the back button, incapacity to bookmark pages. Search engines may [...]

What are the advantages of using AJAX techniques? The combination of Javascript, XML, css, HTTPRequest / i-frame can add a degree of interactivity that greatly enriches the user’s experience. At the same time, less bandwidth is used when server requests are limited to be sent only on-demand.
Technorati Tags: AJAX Java Script XML Scripting Client [...]

What’s wrong with Javascript? Javascript is often irritating to users. Scripts can be slow to run. They are prone to crashing. They are associated with actions that users hate – opening pop-up windows; disabling the back button; taking over the user’s browser; setting aware cookies; adding novelty effects such as cursor trails [...]

1&1 have been having email problems and this may have affected any mail sent to Compuskills or the Project Management service. The Web Design emails have been getting through fine.

What is XHTML? This is the W3 org’s preferred successor to HTML, although often considered to be the most current version of HTML. Where HTML is relatively loose, the standards for XHTML are stricter. It adopts elements from XML, such [...]

Quick rant. It seems there is a lot of propaganda which is pushing Microformats as the “new great thing” on the web. As a result of this, I tried to institute the hCard / vCard microformat (find out more at microformats.org) on a web site currently being developed.
Now the format itself is (eventually) easy enough [...]

Should I use HTML or XHTML? The weight of the W3.org is behind the drive to make web designers write valid XHTML. You want your pages to validate, don’t you? However, browser support is not necessarily available (it’s disabled by [...]

How do I get curved corners? Curved corners on boxes seem to have become a primary identifier of a Web 2.0 page. They do generally look more attractive than straight corners, but not all designs lend themselves to this style. [...]

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