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Mashape, the API framework and marketplace service provider has recently released some new features and resources for developers.
Additions include new language libraries and plugins:
Engineers in the UK are using 3D printing with a nylon powder to create a really cool, futuristic bicycle.
Guided by a comput...
I just had a new idea for a startup. I'm in love with everything about technology startups except actually starting another one myself.
So I kind of work the opposite of the rest of Silicon Valley, when I have an idea I just put it out there on the open Internet.
I'm reading 
Google launched a slick new Google Cloud Print Queue Manager. It allows you to manager your cloud printers and the print jobs in the queue.
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ePrint is a service from HP that allows printing to select HP printers over the Internet.
When an HP web connected printer registers it gets an email address. Since printers receive print jobs by email, this enables printing to any HP web enabled printer that is connected to the Internet.
ePrint enables print...
Google Cloud Print provides a printing platform that allow printers to be accessed over the Internet by mobile phone, tables and computers.
Google Cloud Print enables printing over the Internet to web enabled printers or older printers using a proxy software that users can installed on Windows, and soon Mac and Linux platforms.
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Cloud Printing is a...
I've been spending time learning about the three major platform we think about when we hear the term cloud printing.
Apple Airprint
HP ePrint
Google Cl...
Apple AirPrint enables printing on Apple products to HP printers over a wireless network.
Airprint enables printing without installing drivers or configuring a printer queue.
Apple products that support AirPrint are:
iPad (running iOS 4.2 or later)
iPod Touch (running iOS 4.2 or later)
iPhone (running iOS 4.2 or later)
Mac Computers Running ...
Google has enabled many of the same mobile editing capabilities in Google Docs, for Google Spreadsheets.
You can now edit Google Spreadsheets in 45 languages on Android, IPhone and IPad devices...
I like my new Google Profile. Its a cleaner, more organized version of its former self.
I see the Google Social Network coming together in slow motion around my existing Google ap...
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API code samples and software development kits (SDK) are among the most important tools for getting developers up and running with any API.
Providing complete sets of code samples for every area of an API and in as many programming languages as you can is important to a developer's (and an API's) success. With complete sets of code samples in a w...
I have been getting a lot of questions from users regarding how to manage their Google Cloud Printers.
To help guide users stumbling across my site, there are two types of...
One of the goals of any API is to catch the attention of developers and become a tool they depend on and integrate regularly into their applications.
If you build an API and release it into the wild -- even if it's high quality -- there are no guarantees the developers will immediately come.
Even the big players like
I made it over the last hurdle building my Google Cloud Print Proxy in PHP.
I have a prototype for the Google Cloud Print, XMPP Print Job Notification Service.
Even though you can pull print jobs via the GCP /fetch inter...
I'm reading all the posts, tweets and streams about Google losing the emails of a whole bunch of Gmail accounts.
I see the the cloud computing naysayers stepping up with, "SEE, don't get too dependent on the cloud!"
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One of my biggest complaints about the concept of a resume is that you only update it when you need a job.
If you only update your job or project history when your looking for a job, its going to go through quite a "fabrication" process.
It won't represent what happened, how you felt, and all the details of the moment won't...
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Taking an API from area to community takes a lot of work. It just doesn't happen overnight. It takes a perfect balance of technology, developers, partners, resources and hard work. APIs are a big part of the future of a distributed workforce, and developer communities like Elance are building the workfo...
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As I'm spending a lot of time with Google Docs lately, I'm getting to see it in a different perspective.
Google Docs has always been a singular document editor for me. When you step back and look at it from 100K foot, you start to see a bigger picture.
I'm seeing the potential of Google Docs as a publishing platform. Google...
I am defining various aspects of the Google Docs platform in conjunction with my Google Cloud Print Proxy work.
I need to know what is possible via the
Understanding how the federal government spends our money is on all of our minds, especially this time of year. I recently pulled out an old tool I build last year to visual the State of Oregon spending, and reworked it to help visualize Obamas 2012 Federal Budget. I wanted to set what my priorities were regarding the federal budget. I'm not 100% finished, s...
Using the Google Docs List API you can convert high-resolution PDFs or images into editable text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
The University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has announced a prototype millimeter-scale computer along with their paper on the subject at at the
I spent some time this evening researching file size limitations for Google Docs. Here is what I found:
Documents - 512,000 characters, regardless of the number of pages or font size. Uploaded document files that are converted to Google documents format can't be larger than 1MB.
Spreadshe...
Google is partnering with the Czech National Library to digitize up to 200,000 works from the historical collection dating back to the 11th cent...
Google Docs Listing API provides document translation at file upload.
When upload a document you can enable document translation with the following parameters:
targetLanguage=x
sourceLanguage=y
Google can also autodetect the so...
