Tag: GRID

The European Union has unveiled the European Grid Infrastructure project, which will allow researchers to tap into the collective power of more than 200,000 desktop computers across 30 EU nations. That's a whole lotta computing power. As is the case with similar distributed computing projects like SETI@home, the thought behind EGI is that those 200,000 computer systems are sitting idle more ...

CSS Grid Builder is a neat tool for Web designers (from ZURB, the company behind Notable). So what's a CSS grid? CSS Grids are often used by Web designers to control page layout and position elements in a somewhat sensible fashion. Grid Builder lets you specify what sort of grid you would like to have and spits out just the CSS you need. The top section of the window has a simple form to fill out ...

Google Squared, the new search tool from Google Labs, puts search results into a convenient spreadsheet format designed to help you get the basic facts about whatever you're searching for without clicking through to too many different websites. Search for "horror films," for example, and you'll get a list of movies with info like Author, Director, Cast, and Running Time. It's a great layout ...

If you're a web design who works with grid systems all the time, it's handy to have a way to put a customizable grid over any website. I wrote about Slammer, an OS X tool for gridding up any window, and readers asked if there was a non-Mac alternative. Here's one: the web-based 960 Gridder. It's a bookmarklet, so it's cross-platform and works in all major browsers. Once you turn on 960 Gridder, ...

Grid systems are incredibly important to a lot of designers, but it can be time-consuming and frustrating to get a layout into an app that lets you draw a grid. Designs you're already working on are one thing, but what if you see a well-designed while you're just browsing and want to see a grid to find out more about how it's laid out? Slammer is an app for OS X (Leopard-only) that just throws an ...

Flexigrid is a jQuery based way of making flexible data grids, either by inputting fresh data or grabbing it from an existing table, XML, or JSON source. The "flexi-" in Flexigrid refers to its resizable height, width and columns. Flexigrid also now has a toolbar, a search function, and its own API. Although the API isn't documented yet, there's enough there to figure out how to do the most ...

This comes to you out of the "alright, that's a little odd (but also cool)" category of computer news. Those infamous MAKERs at Maker Faire have done it once again. Using nothing but old computers, they managed to jerry-rig together a 31-node "super *cough* computer." Not special you say? Not Download Squad material you say? Well, I think we would all agree that saving our environment is important ...