Local 10 Launches – Restaurant Inspections

Ever wonder how clean the restaurants your eating at actually are? Local 10 just recently launched restaurant inspections which will show you exactly which places are clean and which places have racked up the health inspection violations. The top violators each week are also interviewed by channel 10 to get the answers as to why their restaurants are the top violators. Easily search and find if your local restaurants have current health violations. Restaurant Inspections

It’s a man’s world on Google+: report

A new report shows that Google+ is a man’s world, with two-thirds of the social network’s population falling into the XY chromosome camp. G-plusers also tend to be students, single and residents of the U.S. or India.

Website-Monitoring compiled the data, which included a sample of almost 44 million G+ users and revealed the gender gap that gives men 67 percent of about 90 million members (though one G+ tracker predicts it’ll hit 100 million by Feb. 25). In contrast, about 58 percent of Facebook’s 845 million monthly active users are women (according to a Pew report that came out last summer).
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Could all Browsers End up Supporting Webkit Prefixes?

Developers have a love-hate relationship with CSS vendor prefixes. They allow us to use bleeding-edge technologies at the expense of long-winded declarations:
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background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#fff, #000);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(#fff, #000);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(#fff, #000);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#fff, #000);
background-image: linear-gradient(#fff, #000);

It works well in theory but consider what happens in the wild:

Experimental properties are often implemented in the webkit engine first and there’s no guarantee they’ll be replicated in other browsers.
It’s often difficult to determine whether a vendor-prefixed property is part of the CSS specification. Some vendors don’t submit properties for standardization.
Even if the standard property changes, the incorrect vendor-prefixed version continues to be supported. Your old code still works; you won’t revisit it to correct the implementation.

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Google Asks for Your Help

Google yesterday announced the launch of a new Web site and Google+ page for its “Solve for X” initiative. Solve for X is designed to bring together some of the most successful entrepreneurs, researchers, and scientists, and try to come up with “solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems.” Google says that it wants to see the program deliver “10-times improvement, not 10 percent.”

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Can You Be Tracked by your Cell?

Is it possible to pinpoint your location with nothing more than a cellphone number? Absolutely.

Your smartphone always knows where you are. And thanks to the Life360.com service, powered by technology from a company called Loc-Aid, a parent can locate a child by her phone number or even an elderly parent who has wandered away from home.

Indeed, network location services can save lives, protect children, and enable business services — and they’re available to anyone.

Thanks to a free online demo at Loc-Aid.com, you can type in the cellphone number of anyone in the U.S. and find their precise location in just a few seconds.

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