1. Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow
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2. Text Rotation with CSS
3. Date Display Technique with Sprites
4. CSS Gradient Text Effect
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5. CSS Text Gradients
Yet another very similar tutorial about text gradients, but maybe you’ll like both variants trying to explain really how CSS text gradient effects work.
6. Add grunge effect to text using simple CSS
Article is based on the same technique as CSS text gradients using it to add grunge type effect to your typo!
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7. Two simple ways to create text embossing effect
8. Text Embossing Technique With CSS
Example from AlexBuga homepage.
9. Codename Rainbows
Beautiful CSS&Javascript code offered by DragonInteractive teaching how to get two-color gradient text effects, shadows and highlights.
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10. CSS Drop Shadows
11. Text-Shadow Exposed
Make cool and clever text effects with css text-shadow. Very detailed article teaching you a lot of hidden tips how to achieve text glowing, embossing,shadowing with just few steps.
12. Background gradients and CSS
Pretty cool CSS background effect, which can be applied on hover giving a lot of options use it in creative way!
13. CSS Text-Shadow in Safari, Opera, Firefox and more
14. Text-overflow
15. How To Implement sIFR3 Into Your Website
16. How To Use Any Font You Wish With FLIR
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For Further Reading – More Typography Tips In Sucessful Web Designs
17. How to use headings in HTML
18. Advanced Typography techniques using CSS
19. 10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it…
Beautiful article explaining simple but very effective CSS tricks how to achieve beautiful typography effects with just a few lines of code.
20. Typographic Contrast and Flow
Nick La teaches how to apply right contrasts and flow in your webdesigns explaining why and what works and how to achieve that effect.
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21. The Elements of Typographic Style applied in Webdesign
22. 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web
Take a look at your webmaster account it has been updated,It can be difficult for webmasters to figure out how fast their site loads and whether it's visible to users. So Google changed that. Now you can go to Google Webmaster Tools and get a glimpse of how quickly your site's pages on your site load. There are also recommendations on how to improve your site's performance based on our GFast plugin.
PayPal on Thursday opened its online payments system to third-party developers so they can embed a variety of PayPal payment mechanisms into Internet-based services.
The widely used payment provider, a division of eBay, formally announced the Adaptive Payments System at its Platform Preview Event in San Jose, California, after confirming some details about it earlier this month. PayPal began making APIs (application programming interfaces) available to developers and will add "dozens more" later this year, said Osama Bedier, vice president of platform and emerging technology.
"PayPal will be the first and only global payment service open to third-party developers," PayPal President Scott Thompson said at the launch event, which was webcast. The company intends to help developers implement payment tools that go beyond traditional e-commerce purchases to support a wider variety of services.
Microsoft fielded a beta of Popfly back in 2007, at the height of the Web 2.0 mashup craze. Popfly was designed to allow non-professional programmers and hobbyists to build mash-ups, gadgets, Web sites and applications using pre-built “blocks.” There were tens of these Web-programming blocks from which Popfly users could choose, including Flickr, Windows Live Spaces, Virtual Earth and news service blocks. A note on the Popfly beta site confirms the service will be shut down next month: “Thanks for stopping by. Unfortunately, on August 24th, 2009, the Popfly service will be discontinued, all resources will be taken down, and access to your Popfly account, including games and mashups, will cease.” In a July 16 note from the Popfly team on its blog, Microsoft officials are advising those who still interested in “express(ing) your creativity and pursuing a path to software development” to check out other Microsoft tools and products, like Microsoft XNA, Microsoft Kodu and Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer.
Build an original, consumer-oriented client application prototype that runs natively on Windows 7 (for example Win32, WPF, MFC or WinForms – not an Air application or just a gadget) and addresses one or more of the following topic categories: The application must use at least one of the following Windows 7 technology features; however, judging will give more weight to entries that take advantage of more than one of these features: So if you have being following my blog you have some advantage. The contest has several stages and few rules you need to be aware of: For the complete contest rules and legal notice, please refer to the “RULES” section on the Code7 Contest Web site - https://www.code7contest.com/. So, what are you waiting for? Get going and start working on your Windows 7 application!Code7 is a special coding contest for developers. It is a great opportunity to show the world your creativity and coding powers. It is a way for you to cash in on your knowledge and skills.To enter, you must:
1: ATutor
If you are a teacher, you should definitely look into ATutor. It’s online software that allows you to manage your courses and gives students a means of keeping up with what’s going on with course work. With ATutor, you can post assignments, tests, grades, and more. Students can create accounts and keep track of their particular classes and assignments. Students and teachers can also keep in touch with one another via email and messaging. ATutor lets you create workgroups to group students for projects, classes, etc. Once you deploy ATutor, you will find your teaching life much more organized, and your students will thank you for it.
2: iTalc
iTalc is a powerful didactical tool that allows you to watch and control computers for educational purposes. You can show demos and even lock computers to get the attention of your students. iTalc will also allow you to reboot or shut off machines remotely. And unlike other more costly solutions, iTalc is free and released under the GPL. iTalc also supports Linux and Windows XP and will soon support Windows Vista.
3: Online Grades
Online Grades allows teachers to post students’ grades and attendance online. It takes exports from many popular gradebook apps (such as Easy Grade Pro and Gradekeeper) and displays them online. Online Grades gives each student/parent, teacher, and/or administrator his or her own unique login, to keep security high. A parent with more than one child in a school using Online Grades will need only one login for all of their children. Online Grades was originally based on Basmati and is released under the GPL. The cost for this system? $0.00. You will find different areas for administrators, faculty, students, and parents.
4: Open Admin for Schools
Open Admin for Schools is an outstanding open source application that allows schools to do full student administration, including enrollment/withdrawal, student reports, attendance, schedules, report cards, fees, medical reports, and discipline. Open Admin is broken into four sites: Administration, Teachers, Parents, and Special Education. Each site is tailored to meet the needs of that specific group. One powerful aspect of Open Admin is that it allows administrative types easy access to the demographics of their school. With competition being a big issue in schools, knowing your demographics can keep you ahead of the curve.
5: FET
FET simplifies the complicated scheduling of K-12 and university schedules. It uses a heuristic algorithm to take these things into consideration: days per week, hours, subjects, activities, teachers, years, groups, subgroups, buildings, rooms, and time/space constraints. After you enter all of the necessary data, FET will run the algorithm against it. If a scheduling problem occurs, FET will show you the problem so you can make corrections. FET is available for Linux, Windows, and OS X.
6: GCompris
GCompris is geared toward educating children ages 2 to 10 through various activities and games. Some of the activities are focused on helping children better understand how to use a computer; others focus on standard subjects, such as: math, algebra, science, geography, and reading. Currently, GCompris has more than 100 activities. And since it’s open source, you can add to it and share your additions (if you have the ability to do so). If you are interested in developing for GCompris, the download includes full documentation that describes the internals of the system.
7: Edubuntu
Edubuntu is a Linux distribution geared specifically for educational environments. It includes educational software, tools, content, and themes. Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu 8.10, so it will enjoy longterm support. The applications that ship with Edubuntu include Dia, GCompris, Gobby, Gnu Paint, Inkscape, iTalc, kalgebra, Kalzium, Kbruch, Kig, and kmplot, among others. For anyone looking for an education-focused operating system, Edubuntu certainly makes the grade.
8: KStars
KStars is a desktop planetarium that is part of the KDE Education project. It offers an accurate night sky simulation from any location on the planet. KStars includes over 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, eight planets, the sun and moon, comets, and asteroids. KStars offers features for teachers and students, as well as amateur astronomers. Its outstanding features include observing lists, FOV editor, “What’s up tonight” tool, Attitude vs. Time tool, and Sky Calendar tool.
9: KWordQuiz
KWordQuiz is a flashcard-based application aimed at helping vocabulary training, but it can be applied to many other subjects. If you’re familiar with the Windows application WordQuiz, you will instantly know your way around KWordQuiz. One of the most outstanding features of KWordQuiz is that you can download data files of various subjects (anatomy, music, geography, languages, history, etc.). KWordQuiz can also read/write WordQuiz files, so any data file you have for the Windows equivalent will work on this application.
10: ChildsPlay
ChildsPlay is a suite of tools aimed at helping young children learn various maths and languages. The tools include: Memory, Letters, Numbers, SoundNPic, and many more game-oriented applications. ChildsPlay uses a plug-in system, so you can add and remove different games as they are needed.
This document is a set of privacy guidelines for developing software products and services that are based on microsofts internal guidelines and microsoft experience incorporating privacy into the development process.
Google is undertaking a limited roll-out of its new Google Voice service, a set of tools that can consolidate a user's various phone numbers, personalize one's voicemail greeting depending on who's calling, and provide free domestic calling, among other features. However, privacy advocates are concerned about what Google might do with information about one's personal phone calls.
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Google has created a Web site for developers that is focused exclusively on making Web applications, sites and browsers faster. The site grew out of Google's decision to publicly share a set of best practices the search company has developed over the years. By offering tutorials, tips and performance tools via the new site, Google wants to help make the Web faster by assembling a community of developers interested in online speed and performance. The site will allow developers to submit ideas, suggestions and questions via a discussion forum and by using Google's Moderator tool, said Google.
The iPhone 3.0 update has lots of goodies for end-users. But the update's real treasure trove may be the thousand or so programming tools Apple has added for app makers. With these programming enhancements, developers can add new features and built-in capabilities to their apps, further swelling the ranks of useful App Store offerings. Just a few days after iPhone 3.0's official release, we're already starting to see the arrival of apps that take advantage of these newfound tools. Here's a sampling of some of the iPhone 3.0-enhanced apps that have caught our eye.
ScriptMaster is a free, general-purpose, modular plugin. It comes out of the box with modules for file manipulation, URL and network utilities, Web Services, shell scripting, event/script triggering, and many others.
What's new in ScriptMaster 3?
ScriptMaster 3 no longer requires you to install a plugin! Using 360Works' Auto Update server, the plugin will be automatically installed upon launch, making it even easier to integrate ScriptMaster and its modules into your own solution.
Version 3 includes the following new modules:
- QuickTime Frame Capture - Capture a snapshot from an iSight camera or any other QuickTime-compatible video input
- Create AES Secret Key - Generates a secure key that can be used with the next 2 functions
- EncryptAES / DecryptAES - Uses the Rijndael AES encryption algorithm to encrypt data adhering to US Government standards to protect classified information
- Crop Image - Crops an image to specified coordinates
- Popup Menu - Takes a return-separated list of menu choices; returns the user's choice as the function result
- Zip File - Creates a .zip archive of a file or directory
- URLDecode - Compliments FileMaker's built-in GetAsURLEncoded function
- List All Files Recursively - Lists all files in a directory, including subdirectories
- Get File Size - Gets the size, in bytes, of a file on disk
- Get File Modification Date - Gets the date that a file was modified
- Better Random - Handles issues with FileMaker's built-in random number generator
- Validate XML - Performs a syntax check on an XML text to see whether it is well-formed
 | Download the SDL Process Template for VSTS (.msi) |
Visual Studio Team System 2008 is required: download an evaluation VPC or Hyper-V
The SDL Process Template for VSTS makes writing secure code a lot easier
Eases the adoption of the SDL
The SDL Process Template automates the creation of SDL requirements and enables development teams to begin adopting the SDL process without having to be fully trained on the SDL. It integrates the SDL into every-day tasks by leveraging the existing development environment (Visual Studio) and the project-wide framework (Visual Studio Team System) in a way that is familiar to program managers and testers, as well as developers.
Provides auditable security requirements and status
The SDL Process Template generates a detailed Final Security Review report that provides an up-to-the- minute overview of security issues, testing results, and status for all security requirements associated with a project. This report allows management to document and verify that SDL requirements were met prior to a product’s release.
Demonstrates security return on investment
The SDL Process Template allows for the integration of third-party tools that work with Team Foundation Server (TFS). Through reporting, the template provides data that allows you to assess the effectiveness of your security tools. In addition, the template enables you to experience the benefits of the SDL by discovering security issues early in your development lifecycle, reducing the total cost of development.
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Microsoft’s Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) team is on to something. Luckily, for developers around the world, they have released it to the public. I’m talking about Code Contracts in Microsoft .NET. Code Contracts are very useful under any circumstance; however, they are particularly useful in helping distributed software development teams increase team efficiency, improve product quality, and mitigate against risks associated with team dispersion.
