August 26th, 2010
Wow, this is great news. Finally, one of the largest viewed sites on the web says enough is enough! I completely applaud Facebook for announcing that they will no longer support Internet Explorer 6. I first found out this information from an article on PC World. As mentioned in this article Facebook recently announced that [...]
Tags: CSS3, facebook, facebook chat, HTML 5, IE6, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 9
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August 20th, 2010
I have been doing some research into HTML 5 for work recently, so I thought that I would share some of my findings anyone who is interested. Look out front end web designers, this new version will give us the tools we need to create some great design! I am very happy with the possibility [...]
Tags: cascading style sheets, CSS, HTML 5, Organic Search, SEO, wed design
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June 29th, 2010
I do not usually comment about technology other than web development software and such, however I could not resist. In the article below, featured on the csmonitor.com talks about a new vehicle that may change the way we travel. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0629/Flying-car-just-like-the-Jetsons-gets-green-light-from-FAA Now, seriously this scares me. Why because I already have to deal with float planes [...]
Tags: car planes, FAA, float planes, flying car, flying vehicle, street legal airplane, terrafugia, transition
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May 3rd, 2010
CSS classes and IDs can be a very confusing subject indeed. The question seems to arise when do you use an ID and when do you use a class? For starters, for those of you that do not know what makes a style in CSS a class and what makes it an ID, the class [...]
Tags: classes vs IDS, CSS Classes, CSS styles, CSSIDs, front end coding, HTML styling, IDs Vs. Classes, nested styles, nesting, style sheets
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April 6th, 2010
3 days ago, a video came out on YouTube.com of some guys dropping and then smashing a brand new iPad with a baseball bat. They bought it at a local Best Buy and then immediately took it out in the parking lot and smashed it. There is a Best Buy employee in the video taking [...]
Tags: ad revenue, Apple, Best Buy, iPad, kid smashing iPad, new technology, wasting dad's money, You Tube
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March 23rd, 2010
After reading this article: Windows Halts Work on Windows Mobile Browser by Ina Fried I was saddened to hear that Mozilla is halting their production on a Windows mobile browser. I am a huge fan of Firefox, especially all of the great plug ins and add-ons that are available. Firefox is one of the best [...]
Tags: android operating system, Bolt browser, mini browsers, mobile browsers, mobile phones, mozilla firefox mini browser, opera mini, skyfire, smart phones
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March 22nd, 2010
I have been slowly upgrading cellular phones over the years. Each time I purchase a new phone I always try to find one that not only has the features I need, but works well with the plan that I have and the carrier that I use. I have been with Sprint for almost 5 years [...]
Tags: 2.0 megapixel camera, Cell phones, HTC, HTC Snap, micro sd, querty keyboard, Smart Phone, sprint, windows mobile
Posted in Cell Phone Reviews, Uncategorized | No Comments »
January 18th, 2010
This post goes out to all of those people out there who have seen all of those numbers and letters jumbled up at the end of a URL that really do not make any sense. This is the query string, and it makes sense to web browsers! The query string always starts with a ? [...]
Tags: forms, query string, web addresses, web technology
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January 5th, 2010
This article blew my mind away. I can only image what may come next. Changing channels on a TV by just thinking about it, talk about being lazy! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hitachi-develops-brain-powered-remote-control-2010-01-04?reflink=MW_news_stmp //
Tags: computers and brainwaves, hitachis brain power, new technologies in cpomputing, tele[ahty and computers, think to change channel
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December 21st, 2009
I have recently been working with loading XML documents in Flash files. This is great technology. The ability to feed dynamic XML data into flash is very powerful and will give you (the designer) a lot of creative freedom. Recently I was using a test XML document in my development environment and altered my XML [...]
Tags: Action Script, CS3, Flash, javascript, load XML, query string, random numbers in action flash, refresh XML file, URL Request, XML
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