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If you are part of an organization like hongkiat.com, chances are you are working with colleagues all around the world who start and stop working at different hours. Trying to set up a meeting or have a discussion can be a headache to figure out, particularly when you have a hard time differentiating between GMT, PST, PDT and other time-zone acronyms. Even if there are no meetings to schedule, with an Internet connection you can watch world events like a football match, the Olympics, a keynote or an awards show live on your computer - so long as you can figure out what time it starts locally. Today, we've compiled the 10 best time zone converters for use on desktop or mobile to help you keep track of your global appointments. And if you are an regular traveler, this may even help you pick the perfect time to call home.

Blogging, or more specifically writing, is a daily routine for us, here in hongkiat.com. In the process, we've accumulated a lot of resources that would be real helpful in jumpstarting one's blogging career. If you want to start writing your own blog, you can always check out the tons of materials we have on blogging, plus this amazing list of cheatsheets, infographics & resources you don't want to miss. The cheatsheets here help you write and promote your content, understand how to work better with free blogging services such as WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, and we also have cheatsheets on basic HTML, CSS and Markdown to help you create beautiful blog themes. Now, let's get started!

Want to remove the background from an image and just focus on the subject? That's easy, just Photoshop it. Don't know Photoshop? Well, that's a problem now, isn't it? Not with Clipping Magic, it's not. In fact, by the end of this post, some of us who know Photoshop may even opt to use Clipping Magic instead.

Here is a tool that is all about making it easier for developers and website owners to have email integrated into their websites. PostMark is a web app which removes the headaches of delivering and parsing transactional email for web apps, all with minimal setup time and zero maintenance. It is designed for web developers to integrate quality email functionality into their web apps easily without having to setup an SMTP server from nearly scratch. Let's take a look at the features of PostMark, how to use it, the advantages and disadvantages of PostMark.

Here is a tool that is all about making it easier for developers and website owners to have email integrated into their websites. PostMark is a web app which removes the headaches of delivering and parsing transactional email for web apps, all with minimal setup time and zero maintenance. It is designed for web developers to integrate quality email functionality into their web apps easily without having to setup an SMTP server from nearly scratch. Let's take a look at the features of PostMark, how to use it, the advantages and disadvantages of PostMark.

Make Colloidal Silver for pennies per gallon. Premium Quality! With wearable gadgets like Google Glass and Memoto, taking firsthand videos or snapshots of what you are doing is real easy these days. But today we are going to show you a mind-boggling new way of taking videos, 360 degrees wide. Check out this video (if you want to skip to the gist, go to 0:35).

With so many new trends advancing every year it can be difficult keeping up with the industry. Website designers and frontend developers have been deeply ingrained into the newer CSS3 properties, determining the ultimate browser support and quirky hacks. But there are also brilliant CSS2 code snippets which have been ...

The pseudo-classes are used to target elements without having to add extra classes, attributes or ID; that is why it is called in that way, pseudo-class. Throughout our previous posts, we have covered a few new CSS3 pseudo-classes, including :not, :before and :after, :first-of-type and we also use pseudo-classes in ...

You should know by now that we love every shiny product that Apple brings into the market especially the iPhone. Although iOS6 had some let downs, the aluminum body of the iPhone 5 is undoubtedly still one of the best looking smartphones you can buy, with plenty of stylish accessories to keep it looking good...........

You often find interesting pieces of information, from videos, images and articles online that you want to save. There are a number of ways to do this: you can use a bookmarking feature that comes with most today's browsers, or else using social bookmarking sites, like Digg...........

CSS is a really simple and straightforward language, but when it is getting too long - let's say for a thousand of lines, it turns into a maintenance 'nightmare'. Everything will be too complicated to maintain, and we will get lost with which style rules to keep up with or overwrite. For that reason, a CSS Pre-processor is created to make writing CSS programmable and more maintainable............

Unless you are really HTML-savvy, writing articles directly using HTML is not ideal. First, you have to wrap the content properly with the tags in order to format it, and secondly you will have to go back and forth from your code editor to the browser to see how it looks. If you are a frequent web writer, I think it's better for you to write using Markdown. Markdown allows you to write content in plain text that later can be translated into a valid HTML format, and with the help of a tool, you can instantly see the output.