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Oct

Gmail newest target in latest phising scandal

"Google has confirmed that Gmail has become a target of the most recent run of phishing that included the release of 10,000+ hotmail account usernames and passwords yesterday. Currently, 3,000+ gmail accounts have been compromised. WATCH YOUR ADDRESS BAR!"

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Verizon, Google team up to bring Android to customers

"This morning Verizon announced that they will be teaming with Google to bring Android-based mobile phones to their network in the coming weeks. What remains to be seen is whether the preloaded "innovative applications" from Google, Verizon, and undisclosed third-parties will ruin or enhance the experience..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Google Chrome Mangling border-radius ?

"Has anyone else looked at anything that uses the CSS border-radius family of rules for rounded corners in Google Chrome ? Does it look horribly mangled to you ?"

Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Design Forum

Oct

Anyone ever experienced sleep paralysis?

"So I was reading along a thread in another forum regarding everyone's creepiest stories, and the theme of sleep paralysis appeared a few times. I looked up a couple of sites discussing it and it appears that it's as close to an out-of-body experience you can (naturally) get. Apparently it's pretty widespread, too, so that made me curious. Anyone here ever experienced it?"

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Rio de Janiero annouced as 2016 Olympics host

"Brazil will become the first South American country to host the Olympics after the city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen to stage the 2016 Games..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

So McDonald's forgot your fries again...

"Maybe, just maybe, they intended as much. Ridiculous what people will do to save a buck..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

MySQL Limits

"I'd like to select a limit of 4 photos, along with the user, from a list of users I have users bob, jason and sue who have uploaded about 20 photos each. But I only want 4 photos from each of them. How do I get 12 photos, 4 from bob, 4 from jason, and 4 from sue? Must I use multiple MySQL statements?"

Read More... — Started by camperjohn in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Sep

Microsoft Security Essentials Released.

"Microsoft Tuesday released its first free anti-virus software called Microsoft Security Essentials for computers running its Windows operating system."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Microsoft Windows Forum

Sep

The strongest Dad in the world

"An inspirational story about a relationship between a father and son that is bonded by unconditional love."

Read More... — Started by George L. in General Discussion

Sep

Remember When We Used to Stay Up All Night Coding ?

"If you don't remember, here's a possible reason. It turns out sleep deprivation may contribute to Alzheimers. David Holtzman looked at how sleep affected the levels of beta-amyloid protein in mice and humans. This protein causes plaques to build up in the brain, which some think cause Alzheimer's disease by killing cells."

Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion

Sep

G20 Summit In Pittsburgh Today

"Well today I wish I worked in Downtown Pittsburgh. Why? I'd have the day off today. Downtown is pretty much shut down today because of the G20 in town today and tomorrow. I'm not much on political or economic discussions, but since it's "close to home" and newsworthy, I thought I'd bring it up. "Why Pittsburgh?""

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion

Sep

AT&T continues to build a bad reputation over MicroCell

"What's that? Your AT&T 3G coverage sucks in your area? Can't play with your iPhone then much, huh? Have you tried a Microcell? It's a device that you can use to route your calls over the internet (which not only improves your usage, but reduces the company's traffic as well)..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

Introducing Courier - the Microsoft tablet

"Looks like Microsoft intends to fight Apple's much-anticipated tablet with one of their own, and from what I've seen, this time they stand a good chance..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

Should I Always Use a Canonical Meta Element ?

"I've been using Googles' "canonical" meta element for a few months now and it really comes in handy. I'm actually thinking about using it for everything and anything I can generate one for on the fly whether I think I need it immediately or not."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum

Sep

Net neutrality rules to be announced by the FCC Monday

"The FCC will be announcing a broad set of rules regarding net neutrality this coming Monday. Very little is known at present about what's to be released, but all signs point to..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

eBay could have just pulled the biggest FAIL of the year

"It looks like the original Skype owners are suing eBay for copyright infringement surrounding Skype. eBay bought Skype back in '05 for a cool $2.6 billion & they've recently arranged to dump the app for 1.9 billion (talk about a loss!). Is it possible that they went through that entire purchase process the first time somehow allowing the founders to keep the copyright on the source code?"

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

Ring, ring! Pick up - Twitter's calling.

"A new service is coming to Twitter that will allow users to place short phone calls. @call is the name of the service that JaJah is bringing to Twitter today in beta. If you're interested in how it'll work, here's the jist..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

TUTORIAL: Photo-realism Techniques in Ray Tracing

"[tuthead:3p6a80og]Introduction[/tuthead:3p6a80og] It will be obvious (from the title if nothing else) that this tutorial was completely inspired by digitalMedia's superb tutorial on Photo-realism in Vectors. Similar to Chris's tutorial, this isn't necessarily a step-by-step how to, but rather an example of what can be done."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Digital Art Tutorials

Sep

Google acquires reCAPTCHA

"I've always thought the reCAPTCHA device was an interesting way to help a common cause while also providing functionality for my sites. It allowed users to not only prove they're human (in theory), but also translate texts that couldn't easily be deciphered via OCR. Today, Google announced that they have acquired reCAPTCHA..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

TUTORIAL: Photo-realism Techniques in Vector

"In this tutorial we'll be discussing some ideas for making photo-realistic vector graphics. I'm assuming you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator, or an analogous vector editor. I'll be using Adobe Illustrator CS4 for my end of this tutorial, however, older versions should work fine on your end. I'm also assuming that you have a decent understanding of vector creation methods including stroke and fill management, layer manipulation and Bezier curves."

Read More... — Started by digitalMedia in Digital Art Tutorials

Sep

Handling Missing Images

"Why don't <img> elements have an "altimage" attribute? Why don't <img> elements have a "missing" attribute? It seems like there should be some more flexibility when it comes to the way missing images are handled by browsers."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Design Forum

Sep

Adobe buys analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion

"Adobe has decided to beef up its presence in the online commerce world by purchasing Omniture, a Web analytics company, for $1.8 billion..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

MySQL Table With Millions of Entrees

"Hi, I'm working on a website and we have a MySQL table that currently has over a few million entrees that are records of individual clicks & purchases. It's becoming an issue because it it growing larger and larger and we are trying to add reporting functionality on the back-end which searches & counts these clicks, but the queries can take quite a while. Does anybody have any suggestions for optimizing this?"

Read More... — Started by PolishHurricane in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Sep

Partnership / Link Exchange Marketplace Sub-forum at Ozzu

"Not really interested in discussion about it at the moment, more interested in what the numbers have to say. Read the list of bullet points and then vote in the poll !"

Read More... — Started by joebert in Suggestions / Comments

Sep

SR71 Blackbird

"This work was done several years ago. It's done completely in vector graphics, no raster in this one. I used a reference pic for the perspective. The nice part is being all vector it's scaleable to any size. The first two images show the lines and shapes used."

Read More... — Started by Gray539 in Digital Art and Drawing Forum

Featured Tutorial: Multi-Column Layout Using CSS Float

For this tutorial, we're targeting a layout that has three columns of content with spaces at the top and bottom for a header and footer. The page will be a fixed width and will also be centered in the browser's display area (the figure to your left).

We'll begin with an XHTML page structure in its most simple form. In the <head> of our document, we'll point to an external CSS file.

Once upon a time, web developers used the HTML element <table> to layout content columns. This practice is now recognized as cumbersome and not very semantic.

These days, instead of using <table>, we use the <div> element as a container for content. Once you get the hang of it, using <div> becomes very liberating and greatly reduces the amount of markup needed to layout a page.

This is an intermediate level tutorial that discusses one method of multi-column page layout. It assumes the reader has a good knowledge and understanding of HTML and CSS.