iTunes Tagging lets consumers “tag” songs broadcast by a digital FM station by pressing a button on a radio. The HD Radio stores song metadata that transfers automatically to an iPod when it docks to the radio. Later, when the iPod is synced with a PC, all the user’s tagged songs will appear in a playlist for previewing and buying.

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Indentation
Your indentation should always reflect logical structure. Use real tabs and not spaces, as this allows the most flexibility across clients.

Exception: if you have a block of code that would be more readable if things aligned, you can do initial indentation with tabs and then make up the difference with spaces:

[tab]$foo   = 'somevalue';
[tab]$foo2  = 'somevalue2';
[tab]$foo34 = 'somevalue3';
[tab]$foo5  = 'somevalue4';

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However, Apple's inclusion of 'Save as Web Application' feature in Safari 4 could alter this reality. By bundling Webkit into a standalone executable, developers could theoretically release downloadable Webkit-based applications for use on Windows XP, Tiger and Leopard. To the end user, these would appear as standard applications, but the underlying technologies would be Webkit and Javascript.

There are mutliple steps to properly providing integration on Windows, and I briefly mentioned them above, installers and executables. These items together are actually a rather large subject, so I plan to split them up. Today I'm going to talk about producing portable executables for Java applications through a program called JSmooth.

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The FCC voted unanimously that cable companies will be required to continue to offer local channels in analog until at least 2012, 3 years longer than originally planned. The FCC's justification for this is that a large amount of homes (40 million or more) still have only analog TV sets. While many of those could have some form of DAC (like a cable box) inside, there are still many who may be relying solely on analog signals.

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Coal-based electricity leads to CO2 emissions nearly as high as for a gasoline-powered car! Yet hydropower results in dramatically lower CO2 emissions. If you want to make an impact on CO2 emissions with your next car purchase, you need to know how the electricity in your region is generated before making your choice.

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 // DEBUGGING CODE
 if ("on"==$bDebugging) {
  echo "<pre>",print_r($_POST),"</pre><br>"; 
 }

Array
(
    [firstname] => Abe
    [lastname] => Lincoln
    [phone] => 123-555-1212
    [membersSubmit] => submitted
)

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For many years, Java lacked a worthy component to render HTML content. HTML support in Swing was limited to the 3.2 version. Although the SwingLabs JDIC library provides a browsing component, it is hard to integrate into Swing applications because of its heavyweight implementation. The new component - JWebPane is not intended to substitute all known alternatives, however, it brings HTML support and easiness of use up to the high-level standard.

JWebPane is based on the widely recognized open sourced engine - WebKit. It is not a secret any more. :) The WebKit architecture consists of two considerable parts. The first one is cross-platform, it is responsible for parsing documents, generating DOM, supporting JavaScript. Another part, platform-dependent, so called "port", is intended for communicating with network, rendering graphic content on the screen and other devices, event handling, and other features. JWebPane is a Java port, in which all cross-platform calls are implemented in Java.

The following new features are scheduled to be implemented by August'08:

Viewing the History, including Back and Forward functions.
Notifications of external resources loading
Progress status
Viewing page source

Web Content to Enrich Applications
Why embed a “street” HTML viewer in you application?
• Show web advertisements (and make some money!)...

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Some file types are blocked
As a security measure to prevent potential viruses, Gmail doesn't allow you to send or receive executable files (such as files ending in .exe) that could contain damaging executable code.

Gmail won't accept these types of files even if they are sent in a zipped (.zip, .tar, .tgz, .taz, .z, .gz) format. If this type of message is sent to your Gmail address, it is bounced back to the sender automatically.

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That script is for folders that take on the wrong template (documents,
music, pics, etc) and don't have a 'Customize' tab in their Properties
dialog (Programs, Computer, System Drive), which allows the user to restore
the 'All Items' template.

You sound more like a victim of content-sniffing on folders that you can
customize. Try explicitly setting the folders to be 'All Items' and see if
that doesn't help stabilize your views.

Afact says it believes that such "absence" labels can be misleading and imply that milk from cows treated with hormones is inferior. In fact, the F.D.A. maintains that there is no significant difference between milk from cows that are treated and from those that are not.

Last fall in Pennsylvania, Dennis Wolff, the agriculture secretary, tried to ban milk that was labeled as free of the synthetic hormone because, he said, consumers were confused. Mr. Wolff's office acknowledged that it had no consumer research to back up his claim, and he eventually had to scale back his plans when consumer groups and Gov. Edward G. Rendell balked.

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