Here is the compiled list of all the Theme Thursday links:
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Recently InfoWorld gave the best of the year awards this year to some best products that they reviewed during the year 2008. Undoubtedly Apple and Microsoft take the show by taking maximum awards in different categories. Here is some listing and review of some of the best tools selected in the following categories.
2008 produced a profusion of latest smartphones, establishing the combination of 3G cellular radio, GPS, Wi-Fi, widescreen, and camera as the baseline arrangement. The iPhone 3G outrun cheaper competitors with free native code development tools, regular and major firmware updates, and best of all, the Application Store. The App Store and the exceptionally capable third-party developers who stash it put the iPhone 3G at the head of the pack and supply it to remain there.
Details Here: Apple iPhone 3G
Yes its true, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3 is the world first Wifi Camera through which you can share your photos directly to the popular picture sharing sites like flickr, picasa etc. It have got its own built in browser and where ever wifi connection is available, you can have the pleasure to share your photos with your friends.
Of note, the camera comes with complimentary access to Sony’s Easy Upload Home Page via AT&T WiFi, which provides easy entrance into Shutterfly, Picasa, YouTube, Photobucket and Dailymotion. Other specs include a 10 mega pixel sensor, 4x optical zoom and Face Detection. It’s yours to grab right now for around $500.
Wondered what’s coming next? In CSS3 terms, here are the new features available for the latest browsers like Firefox and Opera. We’ll be looking at the border-radius, opacity and outline command.
CSS Code: -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
Works in Firefox 3 and Safari 3
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Debate over the most popular programming language can become an emotional, almost religious battle. And sometimes there’s no debate at all, such as when a developer is assigned to repair legacy software. “It was written in COBOL?” is a popular refrain.
A programming language is just one tool in a developer’s expansive collection of specialty software and hardware. So does it really matter which programming language a developer uses, as long as he or she is meeting customer requirements on time and within budget?
Yes, yes it does. Ford or Chevy. Stihl or Husky. Coke or Pepsi. Let’s face it, we all get passionate about our tools.
There are a number of ways to measure the popularity of a programming language, for example, based on the number of:
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Questions with answers from AdSenseAdvisor.
What is a channel?
It’s an extra code you can have added in the ads that does some great stuff.
To track each of your ad units, link units, and AdSense for search boxes. Then you can figure out on your own which color schemes, placements and ad formats are most effective for your particular site.
I clicked a bunch of ads on the first day, and I didn’t know. What do I do?
If you accidentally click on your own ads, it’s best to let the AdSense team know. Email adsense-support@google.com and explain the situation.
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Nearly every article I’ve ever read about Professional Blogging has mentioned these fairly obvious tips for writing better blog posts:
“Proof-read for typos and grammatical errors.” — “Create original content. ” — “Write short and lively posts.”
In this article, I’ll be discussing three writing tips you may have never thought about before.
I kept a blog while attending college. In it I almost daily recorded my trials and triumphs as a college student. The blog gained an impressive audience during the two years I authored it, and I believe it was due in part to the “rules” I made for myself when creating blog posts.
The “rules” that I kept secret throughout my first blog’s existence worked well for me, so I’m revealing them now as the following “tips” below:
Real-time microblogging and messaging services like Twitter could potentially become a threat to Google — whose search index doesn’t keep up with conversations as quickly as Twitter’s. So what does Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt think about Twitter?
“Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems,” he said this afternoon at Morgan Stanley’s technology conference. (Live notes here.) What’s he talking about?
“In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don’t have a full offering. To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have storage, revocation, identity, and all the other aspects that traditional email systems have? Or do email systems themselves broaden what they do to take on some of that characteristic?
I think the innovation is great. In Google’s case, we have a very successful instant messaging product, and that’s what most people end up using.
Twitter’s success is wonderful, and I think it shows you that there are many, many new ways to reach and communicate, especially if you are willing to do so publicly.”
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could ask your search engine a question in the same way you’d ask a person — and get the precise answer you wanted? You know the sort of thing: “How many rivets are there in the Golden Gate Bridge?” Try doing that with a search engine like Google and you’ll get pages and pages of possible answers to wade through. But British scientist Stephen Wolfram is planning to launch a search engine that he claims will revolutionize searching for information on the Web.
The new search engine — called Wolfram Alpha — differs from conventional search engines in that users can ask questions using natural language and the search engine uses “knowledge models” to bring you the right answer. But does it really work, and will it be a Google killer? Wolfram says “yes” to the first question and “no” to second, insisting that Google and Wolfram Alpha will co-exist and offer different forms of searching. We’ll have a better idea of how well it all works when Wolfram Alpha goes live this May.
Type is one of the most-used elements of the web. Think about it. Unless you are YouTube or Flickr, chances are your site visitors are coming for your text content – not the fancy packaging that surrounds it. So why are web designers still treating text like a secondary element?
Good typography brings order to the page and increases legibility. It allows people to process information faster.
A more scannable, readable site means happy visitors. Happy visitors return often, buy products, leave comments, and share the site with friends. See why it might be worth thinking about?
I could blather on forever about how far typography has come on the web, and how far yet it has to go. I have frequently bounced between web and print design. When you’re going from InDesign to TextMate, the limitations of web type are crystal clear.
But plenty has been said about what web type can’t do. This isn’t going to be another rant. Instead, let’s focus on a 5 easy fixes for the typographic eyesores that abound across the Web.
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