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Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong!

artparadox — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:28:00 +0000

Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as you know it today. You’ll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds a distant memory.

In this book, you’ll learn how to start taking full advantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSS techniques — whilst still catering for those nasty old browsers. You’ll unearth what’s put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin, and gain an understanding from two experts why CSS has a very bright future.

Some of the valuable insights in this book include:

* how you can take full advantage of IE8
* how to take CSS tables to the limit and beyond
* letting you say goodbye to old hacks and workarounds FOREVER!
* help you rediscover what you first loved about CSS
* ensure make the most of what CSS has to offer
* understand the road ahead for CSS

CSS was conceived in an age when web site design was simple; its creators never anticipated the level of intricacy required in the designs that it would be asked to deliver today. Clever designers figured out ways to make CSS do what they needed, but using techniques so convoluted that it became unpredictable and difficult to master. CSS just became too hard …
The good news is, that’s all about to change, and this book will show you how!

EASEUS Todo Backup

artparadox — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:27:00 +0000

EASEUS Todo Backup is an award-winning and Free backup and restore solution for a good reason: with detailed instruction wizards, your computer will be in a safe condition within minutes without the help of an IT specialist to backup your system state, partition and disk. And this program is totally free to use!

EASEUS Todo Backup can backup your system partition to quickly get the system up and running in the event of a system crash or hardware failure. It allows you to backup and restore disk or partition after viruses attack, unstable software download, hard drive failure, etc. Meanwhile, EASEUS Todo Backup is useful if you want to upgrade the older smaller hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.

This free backup software supports nearly all major Windows systems, like Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008.

Marathon

artparadox — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:25:00 +0000

After the release of the fastest-selling video game in history, Halo 3, rumors have been flooding cyberspace like crazy. People are wondering what former Microsoft affiliate Bungie Studios will do now that they’ve finished the so-called “final chapter” of perhaps what has become one of the most revolutionary First-person Shooter games in the history of the industry, (second only to Doom). Well, I’ll tell you what I’ve heard.

Remember back in the ’90s a little after Doom was released? There was a game made for Macintosh computers by Bungie that went by the name of Marathon. The first-person shooter genre was still in its infancy, but for those who played it, Marathon represented “a landmark in Macintosh gaming”.

What many people don’t know is that much of what Halo was based on came from concepts from Marathon. Now for the juicy bit: rumor has it that Bungie plans to completely remake the Marathon series using to their full advantage all the pleasures of modern technology. Could this be the next big FPS blockbuster, or just one more FPS blowout? Only time can tell.

Quack Player 1.3.0.3

artparadox — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:02:00 +0000

Quack Player is a media player that can play a wide range of file types without installing any codecs because of its internal codec library. This means that you don´t have to have many codecs installed onto your system to play files with codecs supported by Quack.

With Quack Player you can easily build a playlist, take video snapshots and effortlessly navigate your way through the simple, user-friendly interface. Because of its ability to minimize to the system tray, you can get Quack Player out of the way when you have a long playlist.
Quack supports a wide range of codecs and multimedia media file formats including AVI, WMA, WMV, MPG, MOV, MP3 and plenty more. Quack is intended to provide a simple and enjoyable media player experience.

Aboogy – free bookmark manager and startpage

artparadox — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:16:00 +0000

Aboogy is a free, new, innovative, and fully customizable Internet startpage and personal bookmark manager. So what? There are so many free startpages and bookmark managers, that the service should offer something new to get public attention.

Why do I think, that Aboogy is offering something different?

* You choose yourself what elements should be presented on your bookmarking page. There is set of default preloaded information that you may immediately remove.

* You create a list of links to the Web sites that you like.

* You can create categories of Web sites and group your bookmarks as you wish.

* You can easy manipulate the page elements with drag-and-drop approach.

* You can bring the most frequently used sites on the top of the page with pictures associated.

* You can import bookmarks from your browser for mild start.

* You can install a small widget to add bookmarks from your browser (IE or FireFox) with one click.

If you like the description, just check the site: www.aboogy.com/

Morning on Mars

artparadox — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:33:00 +0000

5 Steps to Reset Administrator Password

artparadox — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:40:00 +0000

Occasionally, we have to deal with customer computers, when the original administrator account is modified, and nobody can enlighten us on the new administrator user name and password. There are multiple ways to regain control on the computer by resetting the master administrator password, including boot-up disks and Floppies.

There is one of the ways to do the job easy, with no additional software or deep computer knowledge. Password resetting procedure consists of 5 simple steps.

1. First reboot Windows XP in safe mode by re-starting the computer and pressing F8 repeatedly as the computer boots up. If you missed the right moment, you will need to repeat the attempt.

2. Then (in safe mode) click Start and then click Run. In the open box type the words exactly as following (without quotes) – control userpasswords2.

3. You will now get a pop-up window with full access to all the user accounts, including the administrators account. From here, you will be able to reset the lost or forgotten password.

4. Just click the administrators’ user account, and then click Reset Password.

5. At this moment, you will have to add a new password in the New password field, and the Confirm new password as well. Confirm the new chosen password by clicking OK.

All Done!

magic’s biggest secrets finally revealed; penetrating glass window

artparadox — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:28:00 +0000

Having Free Fun with FunPhotoBox

artparadox — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:40:00 +0000

I got one of the best feedbacks from the customers, while presenting online free funny image editors, such as Photofunia and Deefunia. If you like the mentioned services, you should check the FunPhotobox as well, and you will not be disappointed. Big variety of the offered effects, fast processing, and descent quality make this site very competitive on the Fun Online Images market.

The FunPhotoBox site is a place where you can create funny pictures from your photos, adding special effects. It is easy as 1-2-3:
Step 1: Select an effect from a list of templates.
Step 2: Upload your photo and select any area of your image to be cropped. The website accepts image in the formats JPEG, GIF and PNG with maximum photo size is limited for by 4Mb.
Step 3: The photo is ready! You can publish it online or save on your Hard Drive. So, the final picture can be easily shared using sites like Facebook, MySpace, Digg and many others or be sent to email. Actually, you can automatically publish results to almost 50 destinations. A site uses well checked algorithm which allow secure your login credentials during communication between the sites.

There is no need to register or login to the website, and there are no limitations or strings attached to use the services.

Website: http://funphotobox.com/

2Pic

artparadox — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:46:00 +0000

2 Pic is a graphical program that you can use to edit your images (like photographs and drawings). There are already several famous programs that you can use for this, like PaintShop Pro, PhotoShop and Picture Publisher. Why should you use 2 Pic instead? Because 2 Pic is much easier to use.

Programs like PaintShop Pro have a lot of functions, but you will need a lot of time to find out what exactly are all those functions. Sometimes, you get lost in the big number of functions. That won’t be the case with 2 Pic. 2 Pic is designed for ease of use and it has a unique design with the functions clearly arranged on tabs. That’s the big advantage of 2 Pic: with less time and less experience, you can do very nice things.

2 Pic’s name is because you can open two images next to each other. Many functions of 2 Pic use both images, like merging.

What exactly can you do with 2 Pic? This list shows you the most useful functions of 2 Pic:

Merging images with each other
Making images fade into each other
Spout images into each other with an aerosol
Give images frames
Apply cool effects to images, like: rotate, make sharper and make mosaic
Insert texts with several layers
Fit the size to, like, an A4 paper
Insert gradient very easily