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Posted by Catalin Negraru on Fri, 20 Aug 2010
As technology changes, design changes to adapt. Consider screen resolutions over time. In the past decade, designs have moved from accommodating 640 x 480 (still over 10% of users in 2000) to 800 x 600, and now to at least 1024 x 768 pixels (with around 75% of users having higher resolutions).In the same time period, the physical size of displays has also generally increased but now includes a lot more variety. A decade ago, 15” desktop screens were common, and 20” screens were a... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Sun, 8 Aug 2010
Once you sign up your domain for Google Apps, you will have to change the MX records for your domain in order to use it in Gmail. If you are using cPanel, this can be easily done by using the MX Entry option. There find the domain you will be pointing to Google Apps Mail and delete all of its MX records. Then add the following MX records with the corresponding priority for your domain: Priority Mail server -------------------------------------- 1 ASPMX.L.G... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Fri, 23 Jul 2010
Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation
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Posted by Catalin Negraru on Fri, 23 Jul 2010
The ie6-upgrade-warning is a little script (7.9kb) that displays a warning message politely informing the user to upgrade the browser to a newer version (links to newest IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome are provided).
The webpage is still visible behind a transparent background, but access to it is prevented. The idea is to force users to upgrade from IE6 and avoid the website from a bad reputation that website is not rendering correctly in IE6.
The script is completely translatable... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Fri, 23 Jul 2010
Are you shopping for a payment processing company so that you can accept credit card payments? Before you sign on the dotted line consider this. Most Canadian small business owners don't know what questions to ask payment processing companies before choose a provider and are shocked by the true costs when bills begin to arrive.The best way to avoid being surprised is to ask the right questions. This article identifies 17 questions that will make a difference, by arming you with the information y... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Mon, 19 Jul 2010
Google, with 65% market share. Google is so powerful the second player, Yahoo, just bailed out of the market. And third place Microsoft is throwing billions of dollars around just to get in the game.We’ve seen Wikia, Cuil and other well backed startups try and fail at search. Now Blekko is preparing to launch. Will they find success where everyone else has failed?
Blekko was founded in 2007 by the same team that built the open directory (DMOZ) and Topix.
Investors:
USVP, CMEA Capit... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Tue, 13 Jul 2010
CSS Conditional comments for IE are a perfect way of hiding this hacky code from the good browsers. Here is a way to bring in the CSS for only IE 6 and below:
< ! -- [if lte IE 6] >
< link rel="stylesheet" type="text / css" href="pngfix.css" / >
< ! [endif] -->
pngfix.css
* html img,
* html .png{
position:relative;
behavior: expression((this.runtimeStyle.behavior="none")&&(this.pngSet?this.pngSet=true:(this.nodeName == "IMG" && this.src.toLowerCase().indexOf('.png')>-1?(thi... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Wed, 23 Jun 2010
Apple just released iOS4 for the iPhone and iPod touch, and now that you've downloaded and upgraded to the much-hyped iDevice update, here's a look at the new shortcuts, settings, and features you'll need to know—and want to use.
The New Shortcuts
On a little device with just one button and no major forms of interaction beyond tapping a screen, shortcuts can be serious timesavers. Here are the new shortcuts in iOS4 you'll want to know:
Hold then drag-and-drop to create app folde... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Mon, 31 May 2010
Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Version Market Share... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Tue, 11 May 2010
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death exp... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Mon, 26 Apr 2010
Speaker: Scott Berkun
Taken from the “From Business to Buttons” Conference, Scott Berkun talks about design failure and its causes. Sometimes it’s problems in our design process or how we carry it out that cause failure. But in many cases, it’s the other stuff, the non-design stuff, the business stuff that causes failure. Scott argues the need to consider these other aspects — pitching ideas, learning to talk the language of business, and so on — as design problems too.
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Posted by Catalin Negraru on Fri, 16 Apr 2010
Logorama by Marc Altshuler - Human Music
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Posted by Catalin Negraru on Tue, 6 Apr 2010
Sometime today the layout changed for Google. Here are the differences:
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Posted by Catalin Negraru on Sat, 3 Apr 2010
Designers Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik from the Industrial Design program at Syracuse University came up with this concept called Google Envelopes. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to map the course of mail and how it can tell a story? They came up with Google Envelopes, which can be sent through G-Mail itself. It’s only a concept, but totally viable and something people can immediately understand.
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Posted by Catalin Negraru on Fri, 2 Apr 2010
Google Inc. says Bell Canada Inc. is breaking Canadian telecommunications law by slowing certain internet traffic, and is urging the CRTC to take action against the company."Bell claims its throttling of peer-to-peer applications is a reasonable form of network management. Google respectfully disagrees. Network management does not include Canadian carriers’ blocking or degrading lawful applications that consumers wish to use," the company wrote in a 15-page submission to the Canadian Radio... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Thu, 1 Apr 2010
Ana Zidarescu - Evenimentul Zilei
AZ: Cand ai ajuns in Canada? Care au fost motivele pentru care ai ales aceasta tara?CN: Am plecat din tara in 2004. Frecusurile de zi cu zi care imi umpleau nepermis de mult viata, nepasarea si atitudinea unora au fost principalele motivele pentru care am decis doar sa vizitez Romania.AZ: Ai o diploma in arte vizuale. Cum ai facut pasul spre web design?CN: Dupa ce am terminat studiile la Universitatea de Arte Bucuresti - Sectia Grafica, am lucrat la mai m... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Tue, 30 Mar 2010
Many developers and designers want to release their work into the world as open-source projects. They want others to be able to build on and share their code. The open-source community is vibrant because of this. Open-source software is available for virtually any application you could think of. Most designers use open-source software or code on a regular basis (WordPress, Drupal and many other CMS’ are open source).But many developers and designers don’t have a clear picture of what... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Tue, 9 Mar 2010
Twitter is very popular since some time now, and you probably already have an account there. What about using cURL to tweet from your server without connectiong to Twitter?
<?php// Set username and password$username = 'username';$password = 'password';// The message you want to send$message = 'is twittering from php using curl';// The twitter API address$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';// Alternative JSON version// $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json';// Set up... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Tue, 9 Mar 2010
This is a very basic thing to do with cURL, but with endless possibilities. Once you have a webpage in a PHP variable, you can for example, retrieve a particular information on the page to use on your own website.
<?php ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "example.com"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $output = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);?>
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Posted by Catalin Negraru on Wed, 3 Feb 2010
Do you ever wanted to know the exact download speed of your webserver (or any other?) If yes, you’ll love that code. You just have to initialize the $url variable with any resources from the webserver (images, pdf, etc), place the file on your server and point your browser to it. The output will be a full report of download speed.
<?php error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);// Initialize cURL with given url$url = 'http://download.bethere.co.uk/images/61859740_3c0c5dbc30_o.jpg';$ch = cu... » Read more...
Posted by Catalin Negraru on Wed, 3 Feb 2010
In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn't.Maybe I’m stating the obvious, but the PHP script has to be on a different server than the one used for the website you’d like to monitor. If the script is hosted on the same server as your site, then ... » Read more...
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