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Archive for February, 2006

12 Feb, 2006

Free Media Center Edition Skin for XP

Posted by: x10 In: Life

Ready for a new look to your normal XP system? I found this tip on Life Hacker’s blog.
Microsoft New Zealand is offering the Royale Media Center theme that you can download and run on your XP system. It gives more of the 3D, shiny look to your OS. See the difference here.
Microsoft New Zealand Desktop [...]

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09 Feb, 2006

DOM Scripting Intro

Posted by: x10 In: Life

OK, so I finally bought the DOM Scripting book by Jeremy Keith that I’ve been drooling over for a few months now (nothing like Amazon 1 click!).
I’ve been learning so much cool stuff that I figured I may as well write it down here for reference - here are two takeout points gleaned from the [...]

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03 Feb, 2006

The Business/People side of a web design company

Posted by: x10 In: Life

If you have 40 minutes and some headphones, listen to this great interview with Adaptive Path CEO Janice Fraser. The podcast is from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series at Stanford University. She discusses, hiccups in startups, how to motivate employees to get behind the company and some of the new technologies like AJAX (this term [...]

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01 Feb, 2006

IE 7, well at lease one thing is fixed.

Posted by: x10 In: Life

I just downloaded the Beta release of Internet Explorer 7. Just tried out the italics bug that I mentioned previously and it seems to be fixed.
If you are interested, listen to this interview with Microsoft Product Manager Margaret Cobb on the eve of the IE7 release. She explains the features and the reason behind [...]

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These cool thoughts and chunks of code are from from Jeremy Keith’s DOM Scripting - Web Design with Javascript and the Document Object Model.
Lose the javascript: pseudo-protocol
What is a pseudo-protocol? Sounds scarey, but it’s not. http:// and ftp:// are ligitimate protocols that can be utilized for making calls on the web. javascript: becomes a pseudo [...]

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