Archive for the 'Technical' Category
What is RSS?
Really simple syndication, or RSS, also known as a type of “feed” or “aggregator” is used to list frequently updated content on a Web site, in a specific format.
Originally and mostly used for blogs, RSS is now used by major news sites like Reuters, AP, NYT, WSJ, and Wired to push out their latest news.
The content of the [...]
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Recently, American Express credit cards wrote to me, explaining I had been pre-selected to obtain one of their cards. All I had to do is go to their website and fill in the form.
Brilliant!
Quick detour:
My family is still new to the United States so our credit rating here is almost non existent. To fix this, [...]
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Stylesheets are used to control the appearance of HTML pages, can also be used to allow you to change the appearance of a page when it is printed.
Why is this useful? If, for example, you have a navigation panel on the left hand side of your page, you can hide this panel when you print, [...]
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The Case Against Unix
One thing which will keep Unix desktops from the masses is the fact the Unix file systems are case sensitive.
Why would anyone need readme.htm, Readme.htm, README.htm, ReadMe.htm, ReAdMe.htm, readme.HTM etc to be unique files within the same folder?
And if a Web site is hosted on a UNIX box, you get a whole lot of contradictions.
For [...]
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Found this Web 2.0 site which creates animated gifs.
(Excuse the borders around the images which is an issue with the WordPress theme)
You specify:
Style
Background color (any) or transparent
Foreground colour (any)
It calls itself the “Ajax loading gif generator“; however, it is ironic that it doesn’t behave like an Ajax based Web 2.0 (is this redundant) Web site, [...]
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I wanted to be able to easily email a file from a utility I wrote, and thought “wouldn’t it be so much easier if I could incorporate the ‘Sent To Mail Receipient’ functionality available within Windows” so I didn’t have to worry about which email application is actually installed. I know this will typically limit [...]
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Microsoft Office 2007 introduces a whole lot of new features – revamped UI, new file formats etc. However, one thing is missing, which is support for the Outlook protocol (outlook://).
Developers wanting to open emails from other applications could use the Outlook protocol to get Microsoft Outlook to display them. For example, outlook:00000000AEB50BC0928BD511A2700000E8D73A91C4A56101.
This is all well for [...]
Filed under: Microsoft, Technical, Useful Tools | 2 Comments
Frustrated with taking pictures of the screen using the standard PrntScrn and Alt-PrntScrn keys?
Ever tried to take a picture of the Alt-Tab open applications box? Check this out:
What about those applications which don’t have straight line borders?
What about a picture of an application, and just the application, with the menus displayed? You can’t use Alt-PrntScrn [...]
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Google Gadgets
If you have written a Google Gadget recently, Phillip Lenssen and Alex Ksikes have compiled a site, just for you. ;-)
Google Modules gives people a place to submit, or to look for, cool widgets designed for the Google Personalized Homepage.
Currently listing 1456 widgets, Google Modules was created because submitting to Google directly was tricky, and [...]
Filed under: Google, Technical, Useful Tools | Closed
