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I’ve written repeatedly about my love for The Odd Couple tv series, and I won’t gush any more here except to say that it was one of the perfect matches of actors ever, in Klugman and Randall. What I have…

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DC no longer is the sole owner of Superman. Huge. Details here. And here.

This month marks the 30th anniversary of The Rutles, the pre-fab four who took the world by storm in the 1960s. Wait… let me check my math… Oh, yeah. I forgot. The Rutles was not a real band, but an…

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New Star Trek Trailer To Premiere With Indiana JonesScreen Rant, UT – 1 hour agoScreen Rant has received word from someone who has been a reliable source in the past stating that "it's 100% that there will be a new Star Trek trailer …

Hollywood ReporterDisney preps 'Lone Ranger' remakeHollywood Reporter, United States – 1 hour agoThe project will be made by Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films in association with Entertainment Rights. "Ranger," owned by Cla…

Catalyst Resources has recently announced the public launch of the AJAX UI Toolkits wiki. The new wiki identifies a list of UI components most commonly used in business software applications to develop a Rich Internet Application user experience. Each AJAX toolkit on the wiki is displayed using the same format and same list of standardized UI components, so that at a glance, developers and technology decision makers can benchmark which toolkits meet their specific requirements at the level of user experience. Developers and toolkit vendors can fine-tune the toolkit listings, augment it with additional notes, and provide direct links to demos of that UI component.

Catalyst Resources started this wiki as an adjunct to their own quarterly survey of RIA UI toolkits. While most AJAX toolkits support a much broader range of UI components and features, developers and UI architects can begin to intelligently narrow down their toolkit choices. Once they determine which toolkits meet their basic user experience requirements, they can then look in more detail for additional UI, technology features and extensibility.

“Based on our experience, building a successful AJAX-based business application does not begin with evaluating the technology and toolkits,” said Paul Giurata, managing partner for Catalyst Resources. “It begins with identifying and modeling what your users need to accomplish. Once you have identified the interaction and data handling points where rich behavior would have the greatest impact, then you want to look at the toolkits to see if their UI components provide these specific rich behaviors.”

When a developer examines an application from a user task and interaction perspective, then it is useful to be able to easily identify AJAX Toolkits that include UI support for required behavior. For example, if the design of application requires that users have some way to interact with and manipulate tabular data, then a developer will want their candidate pool of AJAX UI Toolkits to offer a level of support for manipulable data grids.

“Too often people get focused on the ‘coolness’ or the developmental richness of technology and features, and lose track of what they are really trying to accomplish – a user experience that engages a customer and lets them do something more efficiently or effectively,” said Giurata. “Our vision is that the AJAX UI Toolkit will help developers narrow down their selection of AJAX Toolkits based on common types of user interaction. We also hope that by calling out standardized view and component types, that all toolkits will eventually add these as base-level features.”

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Police: Workers steal 332 iPhonesMineral Wells Index, TX – 1 hour agoTwo men employed to sell iPhones at a mall Apple Computer Store went into business for themselves, stealing 332 of them before being caught by their bosses, …

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WOW, this is a great theory as to what is the “secret” of LOST is. Read and enjoy. If this is the “secret”, I won’t be disappointed.

Real-life Miss Moneypenny helped Fleming pen Bond booksNEWS.com.au, Australia – 9 minutes agoJAMES Bond creator Ian Fleming appears to have had his own real-life Miss Moneypenny to help him pen the adventures of 007. A batch of letters writte…

IGNDr. Mindbender in GI Joe?IGN, CA – 42 minutes agoby Brian Linder March 26, 2008 – Production on the new live-action movie version of GI Joe is now well underway, but bits of casting news are still …

A Few GI Joe Details!IESB.NET, CA – 55 minutes agoAccess Hollywood is reporting on next summer's big-screen GI Joe flick and have revealed a few plot details to whet the fans' appetites. …

AFP'Fifth Beatle' Aspinall dies: companyAFP – 32 minutes agoHe was closely involved in a legal battle with Apple Computer over its name which meant that the Beatles' songs were not available on Internet music site …

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