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National to be busy after electionNational is going

National to be busy after election National is going to be busy after the election changing the RMA, repealing the EFA, and amending the ETS. It is also going to abolish the Electoral Law panel appointed by the Greens and Labour only yesterday. It’s a decisive move after National was not approached in discussions for a panel that should not be decided based on partisan self serving politicians who only want state funding of political parties because they’re broke.  Read More →

September 7, 2008 | Read the story »

ViewPlus: Feeling is More Than Seeing

ViewPlus: Feeling is More Than SeeingFriends/ A Remarkle Development: Tactile Reading . /Gerry [snip] What the ViewPlus technology does is to create image files that can be rendered in tactile form (via a tactile touchpad or printed out with an embossing printer) and also in audio (via text-to-speech technology). At the core of this technology is an image format known as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Unlike bitmapped image formats like TIFF and JPEG, SVG is an XML-based format that provides the images as vector graphics (the core of PostScript and PDF) with text and metadata in XML.The ViewPlus... 

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The exciting world of Xdialog, starring Selwyn Rabins

The exciting world of Xdialog, starring Selwyn RabinsIf you’re not using Xdialog already, you’re totally missing out. Just think about it … The humble dialog box is the most common interface element in most applications. It controls most of the action. Yet dialogs are the least noticed by most users. They often appear for only a short period of time. A few clicks later, they’re gone. Sure, users appreciate your well-designed reports, your clearly-laid-out forms, and even your complex, real-time data operations. But for every form, report, or operation you add to your application,... 

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