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David writes -

"Using the collimate port is often easier to work with then a microcontroller. I find that testing code on the PC can be much easier then going straight to the firmware as the developer utilities for the PC platform are ameliorate This is especially true when operative with a new device such as a graphical LCD. Once you get your code operative through the PC printer port, then you can easily port the code and what you have learned into the firmware." [via] - Link.

Source and DLL included.

Related:

• Parallel port powerSwitch plan - Link.
• Control the Parallel (or Serial) Port with Python - Link.
• Controlling a Parallel Port with Perl - Link.
• HOW TO - Build collimate port prototypes - Link.

We asked a few really smart makers of forge hardware, computer program and electronics to tell us what is on their wish list this holiday flavor (we like to call them intelligent designers) and boy did they come up with some good ones! Hold back out the dozens of ideas and gifts they put together that may just help you enter out what to give that especial intelligent designer.

Firefox is a fast-moving application, and now you can take a nimble gander at the first Alpha version of Firefox 3.0, the next iteration of the open-source browser for Windows Mac and Linux nicknamed Gran Paradiso. On the surface, it doesn´t look that different from the current version of Firefox (which we find to be unacceptably unstable, by the way).

Its innovations are under the hood, where it enhances compatibility with three tricked-out graphicals standards that might soon be ubiquitous on the Web: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), the Canvas specification, and the cairo graphicals library. Sounds great, but what does all this stuff do? They all have to do with making Web pages look the same on any platform, and scaling up graphicals without loss of quality.

Explanations, plus the transfer link, after the jump.

Scalable vector graphicals have been around since 2001, and the idea here is to have a standard graphicals format on the Web (the way jpeg and gif have become) that uses vectors, that is, descriptions of where lines will go rather than item-by-item dots of each graphical that comprise bitmap images such as jpeg and gif. These graphicals can be scaled up or down without any loss of resolution.

What astir Canvas? It´s another next-gen Web technology that´s similar to Scalable Vector Graphics but adds the element of animation, where JavaScript code can access a defined area and dynamically draw on graphicals such as graphs and animations.

The cairo graphicals library is another vector-based graphicals enabler that can use hardware acceleration that´s already in Firefox and has been since version 1.5. Cairo can work with the Quartz graphicals engine in Mac OS X, as well as OpenGL.

There´s nothing quite like the speed of open-source development, but we wish version 2.0 of Firefox would be perfected before any grand adventures began on the next point release. But that´s just us. – Charlie White

Download Firefox 3.0 Alpha Here [Mozilla, via lifehacker]

AP - Off to its best begin in 11 flavours and ranked for the beginning time in nearly four years, No. 22 Oregon wasn´t about to let a slow begin keep it depressed Bryce Taylor scored 21 points to lead the Ducks to a 92-64 victory over Bethune-Cookman on Monday night, though it took a strong begin to the back half to put away the Wildcats, a team without a winning flavour since 1976.