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Improvements to the Blogger template HTML editor

An online interior design company carrying the tagline "Design for everyone," Tastemaker aims to make personal interior designer services easy and affordable. The service is a little bit like Match for decorating: you take a visual design personality quiz, answer some questions about your maddening design 'ish (Boring bedroom?

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

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This session shares many of the production proven methods of running Java on vSphere. Covering how to size JVMs, and VMs for large scale deployments. The session will have a special section on GC tuning and show how a wide range of JVMs can be tuned using a GC recipe developed over the past 15 years of actual field experience in tuning JVMs. Three key trends and associated tuning techniques are discussed in this session.

Creative Market just launched its Photoshop Extension, now bringing the ability to buy creative items all the way into the main design tool designers love to use. All items purchased are instantly installed and usable, including brushes, textures, templates, and most anything else you can buy on Creative Market.

Coderwall (YC W12) launches Pitchbox, a recruiting service for the very best hackers to find their dream jobs

Y Combinator-backed Coderwall started out as a social site for developers to list their achievements and projects, but it has been moving into recruiting - first by allowing companies to build their own profiles and now with the launch of a new service called Pitchbox.

The commander of the International Space Station shows how crying in space only leads to a big water bubble on your eye. (Credit: Video screenshot by CBSNews.com) There's no crying in baseball, and there's no crying in space. While zero gravity doesn't have an impact on tears forming, it has an effect on if they fall -- and they don't.

App Engine 1.7.7 Released

3 weeks following our last release, the App Engine team is happy to announce 1.7.7. We plan to deliver our Google I/O release next month. Outbound sockets moved to Preview Outbound sockets is now in preview in this release for and .

NASA TV Provides Coverage of Space Station Cargo Ship Activities WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast an unpiloted Russian cargo ship's departure from the International Space Station on April 15 and the launch and docking of another April 24 and 26.

NASA's commercial partner, Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., is scheduled to launch its first Antares rocket from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the agency's Wallops Flight Facil

NASA's official Twitter feed, @NASA, has won its second consecutive Shorty award for the best government use of social media.

AWS GovCloud (US) Region Announces Amazon EMR

We are thrilled to announce that Amazon EMR is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region!

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1 is now available via the SpringSource Milestone repository.
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Three weeks and nearly 600,000 votes later, the Windows Phone Next App Star contest has a winner: Rudy Huyn of Renne, France and his highly-rated Wikipedia app. Photography app ProShot from Roseville, Calif.-based Eddie Kezel came in a close second - a very close second.

Microsoft & NBC Sports Team Up on Digital Programming

Big news out of the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas today.

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The New York Times has sat down with Xerox, which is currently working on a technology that would allow companies to "print" circuitry for electronics, rather than use today's wafers. (Credit: Intel) Xerox has a different view on the future than most.

Home | Tech | News See more in our gallery: " Can you put a name to a face?" Is it possible that someone just looks like a Lucy? Or has a face that means they could only really be a John?

Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module - Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others. To a consumer, that might not sound very exciting. After all, we've already got Google Docs.

HireArt (YC W12) wants to help you find a job at an education startup

Today, HireArt is bringing its model to one of the hottest arenas in Startup Land: Education technology. The startup announced today that it is launching an Education Technology Challenge, which is designed to help people who want to work in EdTech with startups that are hiring, and, in turn, help education companies identify the best candidates.

The new YouTube network follows the lead of those which have come before it, aggregating various channels of video creators and finding new ways to manage those channels at scale. In that way, it's not all that different from what the folks at Machinima or Maker Studios are doing.

Advanced Power Searching with Google: Lessons Learned

Posted by Dan Russell, Uber Tech Lead, Search Quality & User Happiness and Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations

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Posted by Purnima Kochikar, Director of Business Development, Games & Applications

Today we announced that a <a href="http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-fresh-new-look-for-

From the blog YDN Blog: Data Tables Tables have a bad rep in HTML programming. For years they were misused for page layouts. Tables are meant for displaying tabular data. Let's look at how you can build some complex data tables that are also accessible. ... Continue reading ?

The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google Summer of Code 2013

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Your smartphone may feel like a friend -- but a true friend would give you a smile once in a while. At TED2013, Keller Rinaudo demos Romo, the smartphone-powered mini robot who can motor along with you on a walk, slide you a cup of coffee across the table, and react to you with programmable expressions.

Whether you?re in the mood to listen to Justin Timberlake?s new album, rea

Orders of keyboard BlackBerry start in Canada (Update)

RIM said in a statement on Tuesday that details on when the BlackBerry Q10 will be available in other markets will follow soon. Presales are already under way in the U.K. Chief executive Thorsten Heins told The Associated Press last month that the keyboard version won't be released in the United States until late May or June because of carrier testing.

The Web and 3D have been to the dance many times together before, but they just never really hit it off. Sure, there were some successes which resulted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

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This video of the closing panel discussion from last month?s Raspberry Jamboree has just appeared, and if you?re interested in applications of the Pi in schools, it?s well worth your time. If you w

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

As Pyongyang's warlike rhetoric continues, South Korean government sources have suggested that North Korea's next moves may include a ballistic missile test, which could take place as soon as 10 April. New Scientist assesses the threat from North Korea's arsenal of rockets. If North Korea does conduct a missile test this week, what is likely to be involved?

Cloud | How to Build Your Own Google Docs (Without Google)

Atlassian sells tools that let peopl

04:32, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets Ready for the battle of the phones? This year's crop of high-end smartphones is starting to emerge, like bear cubs crawling out of their burrows, sniffing the spring air. First out is the HTC One, a handsome, powerful animal that should do well this year.

Sustainable architect William McDonough is recording every aspect of his working life for a comprehensive digital archive launched by Stanford University You are the subject of Stanford University's first living archive. What does that involve? Most of my meetings and speeches are being filmed and phone conversations recorded.

Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles in Member Center

Now it's even easier to manage your development assets. The new Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section in Member Center provides a unified view and intuitive interface to help you man

Zend Announces Zend Server 6 for IBM i

End-to-End Platform Enables Easy Creation of Modern Mobile and Web Apps by IBM i Clients

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If you happen to come to Milano this week the city is hosting a lot of events organized in different locations for the 6-day Salone del Mobile dedicated mainly to furniture design but offering a lot of other initiatives taking place around 4 main areas like: the fair, Zona Tortona, VenturaLambrate and Brera.

The National Ignition Facility is one of the world's more polarizing fusion experiments. But even the most vociferous critics will likely marvel at the sheer scale and ambition of the $3.5 billion facility. When IEEE Spectrum visited NIF in August last year for an in-depth look at the program, associate editor Rachel Courtland was given a tour by Bruno Van Wonterghem, the lab's operations manager.

Today we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Active Directory: General Availability release of Windows Azure AD - it is now ready for production use! Backup Service: New Service that enables secure offsite backups of Windows Servers in the cloud Web Sites: Monitoring and Diagnostic Enhancements All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview).

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