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½ Connection Wi-Fi

Future Wi-fi standards should have the concept of a ½ connection; a way to distinguish "open" gatekeeper connections. This would prevent a) constantly connecting to fake "open" networks as you walk about any city (effectively destroying your connectivity) b) your crappy BT Home Hub "open" version connecting in favour of your real one. ALSO Android / iOS  please only connect to known secure networks, ASSUMING for now that any open connection is a gatekeeper. OK? Thanks.

jQuery showHide() Extension

Clicking to either show or hide something gets coded all the time, and it's a nause, so here is a one line jQuery extension to toggle show/hide. 1. Smash this piece of javascript in your header or somewhere useful: $.fn.extend({ showHide: function() { if ($(this).is(':visible')) $(this).hide('slow'); else $(this).show('slow'); }}); 2. ...it extends jQuery so that you can do: onClick='$("#someDivOrSimilar").showHide();'

Adobe's biggest mistake...

...was skimping on dev resource for the Mac Flash player. If that decision - which probably saved a developer (or at most two) had not been made, the memory leaks that caused most crashes on Macs could have been avoided, deflecting Steve Job's ire and the subsequent exclusion of Flash from the mobile web (and further down the line the whole web as it unifies)