Monday, 16 May 2011

jQuery Tag Cloud

This magnificent tutorial tells us how to build a basic tag cloud which retrieves the tags to display as part of an AJAX request directly after page load. As you can see you’ll get a very attractive and tiny widget that can be easily integrated to any design.


Friday, 22 April 2011

ID

The "id" tag can only be used when calling your style sheet externally. The "id" is as in the "title" user specific.
When using the "id" and also using multiple style sheets it is to note that the "id" for the individual style sheets can not be the same.
A common use for the "id" is "style switching" either via a programming language such as "PHP" or using JavaScript.

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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Samsung quantum dot displays: half the cost of AMOLED and last longer ‎

The future of Samsung displays will be centered around quantum dots. These semiconducting nanocrystals are illuminated by current or light and promise to be brighter, cheaper and more energy-efficient than either LCD or AMOLED displays.

Here’s the scoop. Quantum dot displays consume less than a fifth of the power of LCDs and promise to be brighter and longer-lasting than OLEDs. This is a deadly combination before you even consider that they can be manufactured for less than half of what it costs to make either display today.

So how does it work? The full-color quantum dot display is controlled by an active matrix with each of its color quantum-dot pixels is turned on and off with a thin-film transistor. For now, there have been two prototypes created: glass and flexible plastic. The goal is to incorporate the technology in TVs, mobile phones, MP3 players and any other gadget with a display.

Samsung is not the only one planning to make use of quantum dot displays. LG has reportedly partnered with QD vision to develop their own sets. For now, Samsung has the edge since they are the first to demonstrate a full color display with quantum dots.

Before you start expecting to see quantum dot displays in next year’s mobiles, Samsung has been very clear that the technology is still three years away from commercial roll out. The current dilemmas researchers face are related to extending the life of the displays and improving their power efficiency. Nevertheless, it never hurts to get a peak at the future and salivate over the possibilities, right?

source. http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2011/02/24/samsung-quantum-dot-displays-half-the-cost-of-amoled-and-last-longer/

Monday, 21 February 2011

Apple Killing Rivals As iTunes Gets Greedy?

US authorities begin examining Apple iTunes new business arrangement as content providers cry foul.
Steve Jobs' company, which is taking a 30 percent cut from all non-Apple content sold through its music store has set alarm bells off in official circles who suspect anti-competitive practices are being pedalled by the tech giant.

The US Justice Department as well as the Federal Trade Commission, who is responsible for investigations into unfair trading practices, have not yet acted on the case but are carefully examining the situation as are the European Commission, according to The Australian.

Media companies wishing to sell their music, movies, games and e-books applications through the  eponymous iPhone, iPad iPod or Mac PC are forced to go through the Apple payment system, where they take one third of the sale price.

These new rules makes doing business through iTunes and now its other publication subscription services on its iPad and iPhone an unprofitable game for outsiders.

In addition, Apple makes it almost impossible for customers to make purchases externally, forbidding all outside links to other retailers.

And if that isn't enough it also prevents other companies from building relationships and gaining personal information on their customers and makes it easier for music lovers to purchase from its iTunes Store if they have previously made a purchase as billing details are already stored in their system. 

source. http://smarthouse.com.au/Content_And_Downloads/Music_And_Video/P4Q9N4D3

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

When Netscape Navigator 4 dominated the browser market

 When Netscape Navigator 4 dominated the browser market, the popular solution available for designers to lay out a web page was by using tables. Often even simple designs for a page would require dozens of tables nested in each other. Many web templates in Dreamweaver and other WYSIWYG editors still use this technique today. Navigator 4 didn't support CSS to a useful degree, so it simply wasn't used.

After the browser wars subsided, and the dominant browsers such as Internet Explorer became more W3C compliant, designers started turning toward CSS as an alternate means of laying out their pages. CSS proponents say that tables should be used only for tabular data, not for layout. Using CSS instead of tables also returns HTML to a semantic markup, which helps bots and search engines understand what's going on in a web page. All modern web browsers support CSS with different degrees of limitations.

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Tuesday, 15 February 2011

free website designers

Website Meta Language is a free and extensible web designer's off-line HTML generation toolkit for Unix, distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL v2). It is written in ANSI C and Perl 5, built via a GNU Autoconf based source tree and runs out-of-the-box on all major Unix derivates.

WML consists of a control frontend driving up to nine backends in a sequential pass-oriented filtering scheme. Each backend provides one particular core language. WML additionally ships with a set of include files which provide higher-level features.

WML's nine backends are:

    * Pass 1: Source Reading and Include File Expansion (ipp)
    * Pass 2: HTML Macro Construct Expansion (mp4h)
    * Pass 3: Perl 5 Programming Construct Expansion (eperl)
    * Pass 4: M4 Macro Construct Expansion (gm4)
    * Pass 5: Diversion Filter (divert)
    * Pass 6: Character and String Substitution (asubst)
    * Pass 7: HTML Fixup (htmlfix)
    * Pass 8: Line Stripping and Output Fixup (htmlstrip)
    * Pass 9: Output Splitting and Final Writing (slice)