Archive for July, 2007

ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites

Posted in Software on July 29, 2007 by v1ruz

Huge list of sharing services

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New Photos of Leopard

Posted in Apple on July 28, 2007 by v1ruz

Apple seeded developers this week with the first new builds of Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X Server 10.5 since its Worldwide Developers Conference in early June. Build 9A499 is a 6.9GB download for Mac OS X, and 6.3GB for Mac OS X Server.

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Top 10 GMail Tweaks

Posted in Software on July 25, 2007 by v1ruz

Here are the 10 most impressive GMail plugins and tweaks. There’s plenty more to choose from but these in particular will make your life easier and enhance your GMail experience.

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Dress up your iGoogle with custom skins

Posted in Software on July 19, 2007 by v1ruz

Google introduced a set of themes for your personalized homepage (or iGoogle) a few months back. But if you’re looking for a few more customization options, check out this new Google gadget. Once you install the gadget on your homepage, you can choose from a variety of custom skins, create your own, or submit themes for other users to install.

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100 Open Source Web Design Tools, Resources, and Template Repositories

Posted in Design on July 19, 2007 by v1ruz

The unique combination of the open source model with the universalism of web design remains one of the ideal applications of the open access philosophy. Here are 100 resources–including open source design software packages, CSS tools and generators, templates, and code sources–that can save you time and money while designing web sites.

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Get started with the Eclipse Platform

Posted in Developing on July 19, 2007 by v1ruz

Find out about the Eclipse Platform, including its origin and architecture. Starting with a brief discussion about the open source nature of Eclipse and its support for multiple programming languages, we demonstrate the Java
™ development environment with a simple programming example.

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Top 10 Unofficial Gmail Apps and Add-ons

Posted in Software on July 18, 2007 by v1ruz

Gmail’s huge success owes itself in big part to the widening range of applications, browser add-ons, styles, scripts and bookmarklets that work with it. From the get-go Google’s stayed out of developers’ way and turned a blind eye to unofficial Gmail add-ons, even ones that may very well violate its terms of service.

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100 Open Source Downloads

Posted in Software on July 18, 2007 by v1ruz

File sharing, emulators, content managers, security, video-audio tools – and the list goes on. There’s even a mind mapper. (What’s a mind mapper?)

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Conflicting Absolute Positions

Posted in Developing on July 18, 2007 by v1ruz

Rob Swan discusses on A List Apart how to implement flexible dynamic website layouts in CSS with only a small amount of JS applied for IE5/6.

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Exploring Design: Outstanding Start Pages

Posted in Design on July 18, 2007 by v1ruz

Since no page is equally important as the start page, it
’s interesting to know, which approaches designers come up with, developing an innovative design for start pages. Let’s take a look. Unusual, remarkable and outstanding start pages – in a brief overview.

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