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Windows 8's lock-screen is not just a background image; it holds widgets that display quick notifications related to incoming emails, upcoming appointments and social updates. With the customized lock-screen, information pertaining to weather and more is at your finger-tips.

The CSS3 Playground is a web application for experimenting with some new css3 capabilities. Primarily those than conform to the progressive enhancement philosophy, which means that the styles can be used on all sites without severely changing/limiting the experience on browsers that does not support them (=Internet Explorer 8.0 and older). But there are also styles that may need better replacements on Internet Explorer such as rotation, and I hope I will have the time to add more in the future.

The Consumerist has noticed a seemingly slight but very important (and disturbing) change in Facebook's terms of service, regarding user-generated content. In short, all of the content you've ever uploaded on Facebook can be used, modified or even sublicensed by Facebook in every possible way - even if you quit the service.

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Web forms. Everybody knows web forms. Each day we have to fill in some information in a web form, be it a simple login to your webmail application, an online purchase, or signing up for a website. They are the basic, and pretty much the only way of gathering information on the web. You basically know a web form when you see one as they always look the same and they've kept this look over the years. Try as hard as you might but web forms can only change their appearance so much. Some may argue that this is a good usability feature, and I tend to agree, but there comes a time when you just need to style web forms so that they look different. How do you do that? Niceforms comes to the rescue! Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. You can either use the default theme that is provided or you can even develop your own look with minimal effort.

The final section "What size do I need to support?" has the findings summary, but the entire article is a very worthwhile read.

This is a creative example of quantitative user research. According to the findings from this article the "above the fold" size that will apply to the most people browsing is 776px wide by 424px high. This takes into account the browser chrome and surfing w/o being maximized. I think this study should be performed regularly, every couple of years perhaps to follow display size changes.

ALT key, the key on a computer keyboard used to change the function other keys. I never thought of these wonders can be happen or done use the ALT keys. It's my pleasure to show what i read few min back about Special ALT Characters

In the past years communication and way to communucate changes dramatically. The advent of the social and mobile web has made it easy to connect to large groups of people. Web technologies are used to connect millions of people online. This eases the sharing information simpler. Following the Social media smashers Twitter and FaceBook, It's tome now to micromessagging service from Quub, In this fast moving world stay connected over millions of people is a real tough one. To effectively deal with maintaining so many connections, frequent status updates have emerged as a popular method of staying in contact.

Google recently tested a new interface for search results. The test didn't include any new feature and Google even loaded the standard search results page to display the results. An important notable change is the new format was that Google didn't load a new page to display the results and browsers didn't send proper referrals when clicking on search results.

Some bright folks also feel the same pain and went ahead and built meta-languages and compilers that take their own version of CSS and compile it to standard CSS code. Their own CSS meta-language is thus able to have new features, like variables, mixins, operations and so on. The most notable of these right now is SASS (part of HAML). I've tried SASS and really liked it, but one thing really bothered me. I didn't like how all the syntax was different to CSS. Sure, it's not CSS anymore, it's SASS, but do we really need to change the syntax of the stuff already present in CSS - why not just expand it? I've asked a friend of mine who is much more competent at programming than me about how long it would take to code a CSS compiler that retained the original CSS syntax but added a bunch of new features. He liked the idea and so we've put together our own version of CSS together with a compiler we call LESS, which stands for Leaner CSS.

Tool to easily change the color theme of a stylesheet

The CSS Compressor makes major changes to stylesheets and is still in developement, so it may not work correctly.

I use the following bit of CSS to help visualize the structure of an XHTML (or HTML) document by putting a colored outline around the border of every element. At each level in the hierarchy the color changes so you can see when "depth" changes.   * { outline: 2px dotted red }   * * { outline: 2px dotted green }   * * * { outline: 2px dotted orange }   * * * * { outline: 2px dotted blue }   * * * * * { outline: 1px solid red }   * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid green }   * * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid orange }   * * * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid blue }

A lot of Internet Explorer's rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element 'layout'. This leads to a question of why 'hasLayout' can change the rendering of, and the relationships between elements. In this article, the authors focus on some aspects of this complicated matter.

Social media marketing has significant advantages but without optimized content, the scope of social media is limited. Combining social media advertising and SEO services has greater benefits than either does individually.

The Interesting Stories Behind Brand Names; Not Enough Fans on Your Facebook Fan Page? Learn How to Increase Your Fan Base; How Google +1 Can Change the Dynamics of SEO

Protecting a document containing sensitive information is very important. Thus, protecting it with password is a better option. This tutorial contains steps for protecting your PDF document with password before sending it to receiver.

Forgot the password of your Windows PC administrator level account? This hampers your work a lot. This tutorial can give access to it.