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Supercharge your navigation menus with this cool CSS. The examples they show kind of suck but the technique is actually worth looking at.

Check it out:
http://www.designmeme.com/articles/hoverboxmenu

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If you are a consumer, or a marketer, or a CEO of a company looking for branding, you should be interested in logos. Logos are the centerpiece of a company’s brand image and can tell you a lot about the company. The quality of a logo can tell the consumer how much their image (and customer opinion) means to that company. The effectiveness of a logo can help sell whatever product or service that the company offers. Also, the beauty of a logo is something that the company can be proud of and identify with.

Read full article:
http://www.code-interactive.com/thinker/a112.html

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After reading "5 Steps To CSS Heaven" and disagreeing with some of what was said I thought that writing this would be appropriate...so here are 5 quick tips that help me out in my day to day work. I wouldn't call them best practices because everybody has a style that works for them, but these are what work best for me.

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http://businesslogs.com/design_and_usability/my_5_css_tips.php

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Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the "View source" tab somewhere in your browser's menu.

HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.

I've used some color to indicate the most used tags in the following way:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Check it out:
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph

Posted by ( scully ) at 6:23 AM 1 comments    

A copy of the Mona Lisa made from hundreds of computer parts is displayed at a high tech exhibition in Beijing, Thursday May 25, 2006. The work is titled Technology Smiling. Images of the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci (1479-1528), have been seen around the world in recent days in promotions for the movie 'The Da Vinci Code'. (AP Photo/EyePress)

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Are programs running on your computer that you don’t know about? Could a mischievous installer have plunked an unknown application in your Login Items list and set it to hide each time it launches at startup? If you’re curious, there are a number of ways to find out.

Real full article:
http://www.macworld.com/2006/05/secrets/securitytips

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If you site relies on MySQL and stores its sensitive data in a MySQL database, you will most definitely want to backup that information so that it can be restored in case of any disaster (manual mistake to delete some data, software errors, hardware errors, server compromise, etc.).

Read full article:
http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/27

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Google Checkout is in the making. Garret thinks it is a free shopping cart that lets website owners accept payment and track sales through Google Analytics.

Read full article:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=208

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At PC World, you read about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it's the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shriveled, and that make tech editors cry out, "What have I done to deserve this?"

Read full article:
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125772,pg,7,00.asp

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Last week before heading off to TODCON I did my due diligence and installed the Dreamweaver 8.0.2 updater. Later that evening one of the partners for whom I had done a video tutorial asked me where I had put it. Turns out I thought she was finished with it and I had pulled it down. Being the great guy that I am, I opened Dreamweaver and used the Put feature of the Dreamweaver 8 Files panel to upload it. This is where things get interesting.

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http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=C294D

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For those of you who have enjoyed the online music of Pandora, a Pandora hack for you... Using firefox and a small java program, your pandora tunes will be converted to unprotected mp3 files as you listen. Even better, they are tagged and titled correctly and placed into folders with the band name.

Read full article:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_tips1391.html

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Got a great idea? There's never been a better time to turn it into a great company. Here's a 16-step guide to help you do it right.

Read full article:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/startups/index.html

Posted by ( scully ) at 8:10 AM 0 comments    

The multiple award winning Tabu Ultra Lounge at the Las Vegas MGM Grand has been recently renovated with the addition of 5 interactive tables. Since its opening, Tabu has been the trend setter for the many lounges that have recently sprung up in Las Vegas.

Check them out:
http://www.freeset.ca/hldemo_nightclub

Posted by ( scully ) at 8:04 AM 0 comments    

Well, recently Microsoft lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way IE is going to display Objects and Embeds in web pages. Those who have Flash, QuickTime and etc on their website suddenly find that their visitors need to activate the plugin before IE start playing them. Especially those who uses Flash for their navigational, their user need to activate the Flash before the navigational work. This is starting to be such a pain but I've found a way to solve this problem.

To fix the problem, please follow these steps:
http://www.thepixelage.com/blog.html

Posted by ( scully ) at 10:44 PM 0 comments    

Through images and a small amount of text, an example is shown of how to make webdesign mockups in Photoshop. Yet another addition to the webdesign workflow articles. Read more…

Read full article:
http://theundersigned.net/2006/05/webdesign-mockup-using-photoshop

Posted by ( scully ) at 6:18 AM 0 comments    

Jook Leung famous VR photographer from New York was at the opening of the new Apple store. A new landmark in New York.

Check it out:
http://www.panoramas.dk/newspanos/f20-apple-store.html

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This is crazy. It goes on forever. Wow!

Check it out:
http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm

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MySpace's notoriety could be a turnoff for young people who are looking for an online community of their own, said Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher for the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Lenhart has studied teens' online behavior since the late 1990s. "Teens will go where their friends go," she said.

Read full article:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/AJELU6k7aaZtvI.xhtml

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Nice page on php.net that has a ton of PHP powerpoint presentations from some of the top PHP developers out there. Topics range from Database, Internal Workings, Internationalization, Debugging, Performance and more.

See for yourself:
http://talks.php.net

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The Firefox and Safari Web browsers are gradually becoming more popular, while Internet Explorer (IE) may be starting to lose some of its lead, according to experts.

Read full article:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39269306,00.htm

Posted by ( scully ) at 6:15 AM 0 comments    

Yesterday, May 15th 2006, Yahoo! Inc. released a link in their blog to a preview page of their new layout which perhaps may set the standard in pushing away from developing for 800×600 resolution. It will not fit without horizontal scrollbars at 800×600 resolution, but fits the screen nice and neatly with just a small padding around the edges in 1024×768. Frankly, I’m suprised to see them make the move to a fixed-width, non-fluid template.


Read full article:
http://www.skeymedia.com/programming/xhtml-and-css

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:52 AM 0 comments    

A fantastic quick reference sheet for when you are working with MySQL from the command line.

Read full article:
http://nparikh.freeshell.org/unix/mysql.php

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When you start using After Effects, there will come a time when you look at the presets and think, "Gosh, I am bored with these." That will be the point where you discover Adobe has a wonderful sense of humor and you start using the Wiggler. In the text options, on the timeline, the Wiggly selector can be added to a chunk of text to randomize the values of any of the properties associated with that group. That description may sound rather formal, but when it comes to adding effects, randomness can lead to some happy surprises.

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http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=AF63C

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:27 AM 0 comments    

Of course you can't loop a video in Flash because there is nothing in ActionScript that specifically deals with the issue. Turns out you can indeed do this. All you have to do is to eavesdrop.

Read full article:
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=984BA

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:11 AM 0 comments    

Filters and blends can be applied without the use of code. They are all available through the Property Inspector and can be applied singly or in combination with each other. The filters and blends can also be applied through the use of ActionScript.

In the first of two exercises, you will blur a video by dragging your mouse across it. In the second exercise you add a screen blend mode that simulates the effect of a video being projected onto an underlying image? but the image shows through.

Here's the online tutorial:
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=F9AAB

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:06 AM 0 comments    

As you know movie clips can be created using ActionScript and they have properties like position and size that can be manipulated. In this exercise we are going have a quite a few masks ? up to 30 at any given time ? moving across the screen and the color of the video will change based upon the position of the mouse on the screen.

Check out the online tutorial:
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=01DDF

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:03 AM 0 comments    

In this exercise you will create a video that blurs the edges of a mask to create the effect of a video that is in focus in a "knock out" area while the remainder of the video, under a black bitmap, is blurred using a Threshold effect. The key to this exercise, is to understand that the shapes you draw are composed of colored pixels. These pixels form a shape and that shape, when the movie is displayed on your screen, is seen by the computer as a bitmap.

Check out the online tutorial:
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=B0E7D

Posted by ( scully ) at 4:41 AM 0 comments    

You may already know about the keyboard shortcut to capture a picture of your screen. But did you know that there’s a keyboard shortcut to snap a screenshot and automatically copy it to your Clipboard?

Read full article:
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/secretcapture.html

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Only the most disciplined emailers can keep their inboxes free of old email. If you’re not one of them (who is?), here’s a tip that’s just for you.

Read full article:
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/oldmail.html

Posted by ( scully ) at 4:32 AM 0 comments    

Tutorials on how to do different effects such as light sabers, cloning, energy balls, and so on using After Effects. Brought to you by the guy behind Ryan vs. Dorkman.

http://ryanw.michaelfrisk.com/ryan-w/tutorials.html

Posted by ( scully ) at 6:17 AM 0 comments    

This is the first CSS font on the web! as he says, unless someone knows different. Just peep in the source code!

See for yourself:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/cssfont.html

Posted by ( scully ) at 6:06 AM 0 comments    

Photoshop sometimes recognizes money and tries to stop you from using it. Fortunately for law-abiding citizens who are smart enough to follow rules, Deke, as he shows in his new podcast, knows a workaround.

Read full article:
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/05/03/dekepod.html

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:53 AM 0 comments    

When you get there, click on the orange 1 to launch it...prepare to be amazed at the detail.

See for yourself:
http://milano.arounder.com/da_vinci_last_supper/fullscreen.html

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:36 AM 0 comments    

This is a set of 20 downloadable pixel fonts - suitable for use in Ilustration or Flash work etc. They all seem very nice, and besides, you can never have too many pixel fonts!

Download them at:
http://pixelfonts.style-force.net

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:26 AM 0 comments    

This site's full of tours, examples and downloads. Very nice resource for any one curious on how to use that fancy Tiger app.

See for yourself:
http://www.automator.us

Posted by ( scully ) at 5:11 AM 0 comments    

100’s of AJAX Tutorials, Articles & More are linked to here.

Read full article:
http://www.ajaximpact.com/tutorials.php

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