The download counter here at Mozilla headquarters shows that Firefox 3 has passed a million downloads. Ars reports live from the official release party.
The Firefox team is in full celebration mode here at Mozilla headquarters. People are watching the numbers and excitedly discussing plans for Firefox 3.1, the next update. I met up with Mozilla user experience designer Alex Faaborg, who shared…
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Without a doubt, a logical and structured layout is the best way to go. Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout.
19-Autopopulating text input fields with JavaScript- Sometimes we need to explain to users what they are supposed to enter into text input fields. One common workaround when no label can be displayed is to put some placeholder text in the…
Another 2160p TV, if 1080p isn’t enough. Start saving your pennies now.
Taipei (Taiwan) ? Not that you could really take advantage of the resolution of a quad HDTV today, but just in case you want to run a video game in 8.3 megapixel resolution ? four times what current 1080p TVs offer - on a 56'…
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A device that relays a person’s body movements to an array of electrodes on their tongue could help people with balance problems recover their poise, or wheelchair users avoid pressure sores.
In one experiment volunteers became worse at balancing when their backs were tired, but could compensate when they felt foot pressure on their tongue too. Another study projected data from the ankles onto the tongue. Volunteers found they were…
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This tutorial illustrates how to design a nice pastel color menu with a dynamic submenu which appears when you select a link in the main menu, using CSS and some lines of javascript code.
Very Simple with minimal javascripting just what i was looking for. Thanks!
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And you thought your 1080p TV is great!
Xcor suborbital spacecraft One step closer to space tourism: XCOR to launch in 2010 Intel Atom Processor Intel unveiled at IDF Spring its smallest x86 processor taking aim at the handheld market. >> See all TG Daily slideshows
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A brief tutorial about writing OO-enabled programs in JavaScript, with sample code explaining several key OO concepts.
According to Wikipedia, JavaScript is:JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It was the originating dialect of the ECMAScript standard. It is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language…
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In 1991 a Finnish university student named Linus Torvalds began working on a new operating system in his spare time.He didnt work in isolation, nor did hemake a big deal about what he was doing; rather, he modestly invitedprogrammers from all over the world to join his project, which he dubbed Linux.?
In 1991 a Finnish university student named
The Input Subsystem The input subsystem receives the users commands through an input device (like the keyboard or a joystick) and records these commands for further processing. While input device programming is not di cult, it should be…
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Engineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and sharing the instructions online.
Wagenknecht says that her system works in a similar way. Cubit is a boxy table with a clear surface. The single camera inside the table can be a simple webcam with an added infrared filter, and a small image projector can be purchased for about…
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25,000 lightballs, each containing 12 LEDs. It can display 16 million colors and 25 images per second.
yes, i really like the LED! I live in Zurich an see it every day. Sometimes there are very beauteful color-combinations, and sometimes it just looks terrible. =) i didn’t know that the take it off in sept. 09! thx for info!
Apple continues to apply for novel patents that may or may not have much practical application. A series of recent patent fillings shows Apple paving the way for all the cool kids to wear lightweight and comfortable head-mounted displays, or HMDs, with frickin’ lasers.
The problem, as identified by Apple researchers (and discussed in-depth by Apple Insider), are that the components in HMDs can be bulky and heavy, making them rather unwieldy. (Remember Lawnmower Man?) The displays can draw a…
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sony-vaio-sz6-laptop Features Operating System: Windows Vista Business OEM Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (4 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz front side bus) Chipset: GM965 Memory: 2 GB RAM (667 MHz, PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM, 2x…
It takes a while for a great idea to go from imagination to actual use in the real world, but it happens a lot! Three fictional gadgets made real were in the news just this past week.
Iron Man hits theaters on May 2nd. The character is super strong because of his suit of iron. You should also remember the exoskeleton used in Alien. The real-life version is the work of software engineer Rex Jameson and his robotics company…
Apple finally commented about the iPhone shortage, all but confirming that it is a problem, not a new product introduction. Saul Hansell of the New York Times:
Meanwhile, an extremely articulate commenter calling him- or herself “Tantrum” argued at the end of Saul’s piece that the reason for the shortage is that Apple simply can’t keep pace with the…
