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LAN, Windows bluescreen, Apple Safari, and Web Development

  1. Reusable CSS, make your life easier [Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:17:28 -0400]
    I have come to find that while using CSS for layout, all hierarchical content is represented as UL or OL lists, and others items are enclosed in DIV or SPAN regions or left as orphan elements. CSS layout based on the above mark-up structure will have some repetitive definitions.

Web Standards, Apple Safari, HTML-Kit for Windows

  1. A Safari with a difference [Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:21:27 -0400]
    Many applications claim to be able to import your settings, bookmarks and other customisations from competing applications to facilitate migration. Apple Safari for Windows has humble me. Whether I go to pandora.com or Tumblr, it has imported by settings, bookmarks and even stored passwords from Firefox...

Web Design, Photography, and Technology News

  1. Ask.com! Is google being distracted by the big fight? [Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:27:32 -0400]
    Ask.com has been making significant steps in the past since they dropped Jeeves. They must be commended for the improvements (particularly in the usability). But the query still remains. Do they have the strategic will to improve their index and aggressively crawl and index web content to be able to become a web search leader?

Web Design and Development Events to Ponder

  1. cmsproducer.com is OpenID capable [Thu, 31 May 2007 19:18:42 -0400]
    You can now login to cmsproducer.com using your OpenID. The OpenID distributed authentication process enables you to login to any enabled system without having to repetitively create and maintain different accounts and username/password pairs. You can even choose how much information to release to each service you login to...

Create Custom Drupal Layout themes with total flexibility

Skinning and templating Drupal with themesÂ

Beyond creating a customized Drupal theme or skin that does not look like any of the out-of-the-box themes that are supplied with the application, ideal front-end Web Design and markup aims to create valid, accessible, and semantic markup that is visually pleasing, light on the browser (high content to markup ratio), and is easy for search engines to crawl.

Upgrading Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (dapper) to 6.10 (Edgy)

Despite the GUI nature of the upgrade, it is necessary to begin the update in the terminal. Unlike the upgrade from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 LTS, the upgrade from 6.06 LTS to 6.10 does not appear in the update manager as a possible update that can quickly be applied using the update manager. This is unfortunately not clearly indicated in a number of the available instructions. Although Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is already available, it is necessary to go through all the minor steps of upgrading from 5.10 all the way to 7.04.

Meet the Digital Free-agent: The 40-Hour Workweek Era Is Ending (Gartner)

The traditional work-week is often a hindrance, or at least a nuisance when it comes to the contemporary workplace. During the technology boom of the late 1990, enterprising and in-demand IT professionals often demanded to work at least one day from home.

Blog from a new perspective: Technology, Web Design, and Development

Web Design and Development like many of the technology fields is a constantly changing evolving domain in which innovation and change are the norm and the basic guidelines by which one must live and work in order to succeed and continue to be at the forefront.

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Switching from Windows to Ubuntu for regular Human Beings

The common fear of most seasoned Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP or even Vista users when told about switching or even just having Linux on a second computer is:
1 - Will I be able to install Linux without knowing intricate technical details about my PC?
2 - Linux is identified with Unix, how steep is the learning curve?
3 - I need to be up and running quickly with familiar applications such as Word and Outlook
4 - Will I be able to find as much free software as there is for Windows?
5 - Will my iPod, PDA, toaster work with Linux?

Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' is easier to install than Windows XP

Ubuntu Linux is ready for mainstream deployment and use!

It is now official in many quarters that Ubuntu (and other similarly usability focused flavours of Linux) has brought Linux to a point where it can be installed an used by people who have some to live the simplicity of Microsoft Windows. DELLs decision to start offering Ubuntu as the installed operating system to some of its customers is a well-though out and timely move. I just wish that the other big manufacturers such as HP, and Gateway will soon follow suit.