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Knight News Challenge: Feowl: Networked data-collection & power cuts monitoring

newschallenge:

Feowl: How it works

1. What do you propose to do?

Helping local media leverage a network of SMS-enabled contributors, Feowl provides the community with reliable data about the electricity supply.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different?

The Newschallenge is…

(Source: newschallenge1)

dropshado.ws: Git submodules

dropshadows:

I think I’m ready to discuss Git submodules. My chronic problem with submodules is that I don’t use them often enough to understand how they work. From what I gather, you can do a lot more than what I’ll cover, but I’m only interested in just placing a repo in a repo.

The benefit of submodules…

Google Input Tools

Nice Plugin to manage multiple virtual Keyboards

Frau Vintage

Nostalgic DDR/GDR vintage fabrics and little things from Berlin. Delivery free

Github Chat

Chat and conference with your peers and users on GitHub while inside of the GitHub Issues page of any repo.

IE10 Spellcheck + Chrome

In IE10 was implemented autocorrection for words…
Try it out in IE10

In chrome is it a experimental feature you can activate it with —experimental-spellchecker-features
You can find more on Peter Beverloo’s blog

CSS3 Secrets by Lea Verou

I found some new interessting stuff about CSS. My favourite is pointer-events

Link

Modernizr’s test suite: Behind the Scenes (von paulirish)

What’s new in CSS3 Values and Units?

dstorey:

In CSS3 the values and units we can use in CSS properties are defined in the appropriately named CSS Values and Units specification, with the exception those relating to colour and images, and the pre-defined keywords specific to individual properties.

This spec gives us one new CSS wide…

(Source: dstorey)