About Author – Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 7 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.

Button design is something that may be considered a small detail and doesn’t often get a lot of attention, but well-designed buttons can make a big difference in the overall look of a site. In this post we’ll look at 40 buttons that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and colors.

Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your buck—especially if your operating system's main hard drive fails. Even if you've been backing up your important files, you'll still need to reinstall your ...

With a rising number of UK companies closing for business, and bleak economic times ahead, read our guide to ensure that you are prepared for the worst

Windows: Notepad++, a light but reliable text editor we included in our 2009 Lifehacker Pack of essential Windows downloads, gets even more reliable with a free, configurable auto-saving plug-in.

Over and over, the Internet is allowing new levels of abstraction. Information about information might be worth more than the information itself. Which posts should I read? Which elements of the project are at risk? Who is making the biggest difference to the organization?

Augmented reality is the hottest emerging trend in technology these days. You may remember an early scene from the movie FIGHT CLUB where Ed Norton’s character is walking through his apartment and price tags pop up denoting how much everything costs. Well imagine if that could happened every-time you held up your iPhone to your own wardrobe?

After publishing the Ruby on Rails dictionary for Mac OS X, i got huge number of request to do the very same with Ruby API documentation. Fortunately, most of the work has already been done and now it's time to publish the Ruby dictionary generated from Ruby API documentation.

I often work with dual monitors and recently needed to compare two Excel spreadsheets side by side. I found that although they showed as separate instances on the Windows Taskbar I couldn’t have them displayed on separate screens. After some investigation I found that to do what I wanted I had to force Excel to open each document as a ...

If you've ever forgotten your user account password in OS X, the Hackszine weblog details the simple process of resetting or changing your password. All you need is to remember your username (you do remember that, right?) and then reboot your computer. From there it's command line work:

Mark the Lazy Susan with pen: keep pen in spot about 1,25 from the border and then turn the table to mark the line. Mark 8 spots equally appart to this line. Mark one more spot inside the lazy susan about inch from the line.

One of the best things about being an academic is being able to mold young minds and guide them to success. When one of my students, Andrew Leblanc told me he was entering the Duke Startup Challenge Elevator Pitch Competition, I told him to come and see me and do a practice run. After all, I had judged several of these contests at Duke and other ...

In this tutorial we are going to create an awesome image gallery which leverages the latest CSS3 and jQuery techniques. The script will be able to scan a folder of images on your web server and build a complete drag and drop lighbox gallery around it.

1stwebdesigner is a design blog dedicated to bloggers, freelancers, web-developers and designers. Topics focus on web design and inspirational articles.

They’ll probably give more than a glance at “Googled.” I read the book in three huge gulps and learned a lot — about Google’s “cold war” with Facebook, about Google’s tussles with Viacom, about Google’s role in the “Yahoo-Microsoft melee” and about Google’s gradual ...

2009年11月26日放送の「ナインティナインのANN」にて、蓮舫議員の参加する事業仕分けに関して岡村隆史が語っていた。「事業仕分けは、良いことだとは思うんですよ。でもね、これはホーム＆アウェイでやった方が良いんじゃないかなって思うんですよ」と話し

Steve Downes' notions of connected learning is of course not new. He himself has been introducing the basic premise for many years now. Further, Illich (I argue) described it without reference to Neuroscience, or the Internet and its billions of artifacts and technical channels that gave it light. Bill Kerr and others argued that Connectivism is ...

I want to start out by thanking everyone in the community for providing these awesome educational sensor size references. Director Jason Wingrove sent this collection along to me and I feel it must be shared with everyone in one centralized location.

PAUL KAHAN is one of Chicago’s best chefs, and his restaurants are reliable bellwethers for what’s going on in the city’s dining scene. When Blackbird, his first restaurant, opened 12 years ago, it presaged Chicago’s rebirth as one of the planet’s most dynamic restaurant cities — a promise fulfilled by ...

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a mental illness that involves the sufferer experiencing at least two clear identities or personality states, each of which has a fairly consistent way of viewing and relating to the world. Some individuals with DID have been found to have personality states that have distinctly different ways of reacting, ...

I spend all my driving time listening to free audio lectures or free audiobooks. Here are some free audiobooks (79 so far) about religion, most of them from Librivox. Below you will find scriptures, treatises, sermons, epic poems, and scientific surveys about religion from nearly every century since 700 BCE.

by Ellen Wernecke, Vadim Rizov, Donna Bowman, Zack Handlen, Genevieve Koski, Michaelangelo Matos, Samantha Nelson, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, and Todd VanDerWerff November 25, 2009

Martin Keene, PA Wire / AP Photo Twitter’s innocuous-looking mobster game has turned the micro-messaging service into an unstoppable spam service. And just like the real Mafia, once you join, you can never get out.

日本人だけでなく多くの社会人は、働き過ぎ、予定入れ過ぎ、とにかく色んなことを詰め込み過ぎの生活を送っています。自分の時間が使える以上に、自分がやりたい事や欲しい物が多過ぎるのです。

A l’heure d’Itunes University ou de Google Scolar il est primordial d’être présent sur Internet si l’on veut exister. Or nous faisons le cruel constat que l’E-Learning français est très peu présent sur le web mondial. Selon le classement du site WebOmetrics la première Université française se situe à la 129ème place (Université

I work in a team that manages local government web development projects. We work closely with applications developers in IT and we do most of our development in-house. A couple of years ago we realised noticed a pattern in the way we were working. Some projects had complex requirements and often involved working with new technologies. Bigger ...

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

If you learned object oriented programming from one of the more static languages such as C++ or Java, the dynamic nature of Ruby may seem magical and elusive. After running into the syntax dedicated to meta-programming, you may have been left scratching your head, or at least wondering what's happening behind the scenes. Singleton classes, not to ...

In a word, yes, but perhaps not for the reason you might expect to hear from this relatively devout Google fanboy. Readers who don’t share my infatuation with all things GOOG will probably expect me to predict that netbooks running Chrome OS will dominate the educational space in a year and save schools and students countless dollars. ...

Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.

With New Moon likely to make yet another metric fuckload of money this weekend we need to find the bright side to the entire Twilight mania. There must be something good that comes from this awful Mormon fantasy that seems to have invaded our culture on every front. That something is the eventual movie version of Breaking Dawn.

SEOUL—Apple Inc.'s iPhone on Saturday will finally go on sale in South Korea, a country that prides itself on creating and consuming cutting-edge technology but where the government raised trade barriers on smart phones to protect domestic manufacturers and carriers for several years.

The Full Yield, a start-up, aims to help employers cut health care costs via better food choices, from salads to yogurt parfaits. Its board includes Gary Hirshberg, right, C.E.O. of Stonyfield Farm.

Where to watch free movies online? Here’s a list that will get you started. We’ve listed 20 sites that feature a wide range of films. Classics, international, film noir, documentaries, indies — they’re all here. Most of these films should be available in every geographic region. However, there will be some exceptions. This ...

Sometimes you write an elegy without meaning to. In the early 1990s, when Thomas Mallon began his book on people and their letters, you were marveling at your spiffy new dial-up modem, if you so much as knew what one was. His fine meditation on the art of ­letter-writing — he intended it as a companion to “A Book of One’s ...

ほんのすこーしだけ胡麻油をフライパンの外側に。強火にして、黄身を崩さないようにまぜまぜ。いい感じにおこげになったら終了。

"I should say it is the most complicated photograph I have ever made. It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year...

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1. If News Corp starts charging for news stories, do you think readers would pay or they would just go to different newspapers? Both, but mostly the latter. Previous experiments with paywalls saw audiences drop between 60 and 97%. And you also have to figure in that a paywall will likely make content invisible to search engines (either directly ...

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how a Christmas card can be designed with Photoshop. You will learn, how to create Christmas ball, draw snowflakes, customize brushes etc. Let’s get started!

to keep up with tweets about UMCG: staff, students, patients, and news flashes published by third parties to explore how to get parts of our content and services in there, without having to invest a lot of extra staff time for maintenance and updating

Nevertheless, the new additions to the PC staff prompted us to revisit our top 25 list to give us all a chance to make our own favorites known. We've added some games to the list, both recent hits and some beloved classics, and even reshuffled the order to better reflect our overall opinion.

Having authored a plugin to display sub categories on wordpress, I’m often faced with users that realize they can’t use categories on pages, and they turn to me to explain how can be done. This post is meant to help all these people that want to learn why they can’t use categories on pages and, show you that this doesn’t ...

I’m a senior in college, and for the first time since I was about 6, I don’t have cable TV. Who knows why: some combination of cheapness, laziness, and some subconscious desire to actually do productive things sometimes. If you know me, you know that’s a bit of a problem: I have approximately 59 shows I must watch every week always, or ...

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Si je devais consacrer la vidéo d'une minute et 34 secondes la plus hypnotique de tout le Web, ce ne serait rien de plus que la contemplation de ces lignes à haute tension au coucher du soleil, et ces oiseaux qui s'y posent et s'en envolent.

The Full Yield, a start-up, aims to help employers cut health care costs via better food choices, from salads to yogurt parfaits. Its board includes Gary Hirshberg, right, C.E.O. of Stonyfield Farm.

Replacement icons for Photoshop and Illustrator, as you can see the style of the icon is based on the super major iPhone. And of course, I’m a rounded corner fan as much as you! Those icons were made for fun, not official icon of the Adobe.

Despite stumbling a bit on text quality, the Epson WorkForce 310 All-In-One (AIO) succeeds as a surprisingly capable package at an attractively low price.

Chris Hills brought Data URIs to my attention in a comment on my post on web fonts. I had not thought about using Data URIs in CSS at all, but others have.

Sieht so an deutschen Schulen vielleicht der Informatikunterricht der Zukunft aus? Zumindest würden die Teilnehmer der Kurse auf jede Zeile Code sofort ein konkretes Ergebnis erhalten. Im Gespräch konnten wir klären, was Spielzeug von Schwarmtechnologie und KI trennt.

Technical stuff in every perspective. A take on current trends and news in the world of technology. Also a great resource for stuff related to technical interviews.

I have recently been reviewing social media in a general sense so a new study by Weber Shandwick on Twitter that I came across was an opportunity to provide a more specific social media channel review about Twitter, that looks at the current use by the Fortune 100 and how they are currently implementing Twitter across their companies.

Mind Tools Career Coaches give you the focused personal help you need to find direction, think through your goals, and make the very most of your life and career.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention.

A mail server is an essential part of any organization's IT infrastructure, but installing and maintaining a mail server is not always easy, and it's often difficult for small organizations to pay an expert to set up a mail server. Fortunately, Qmail Toaster can simplify the task enormously.

Kurz nach ihrem 14. Geburtstag also erscheint das Mädchen Kristina bei einem Treffen der Jungen Union Wiesbaden. Sie ist am Tag ihres Geburtstags, dem 3. August, in die JU eingetreten, eine frühere Aufnahme ließen die Statuten nicht zu. Jetzt aber steht das Mädchen da, ein anderes Mitglied erinnert sich, dass sie ihr „Konfirmations-Jackett�

This  music visualization by Peter Menich might be the best ever seen. It’s a glowing point in space that follows the timeline, emitting millions of particles to the different piano key strokes. It’s a very complex and detailed video to the sound of Origine Nascota from Ludovico Einaudi. Mr. Menich created an outstanding timeless ...

Not only the way you speak—but the way you write and act. More than geography, accents now represent a choice of attitude. Let's define an accent as the way someone speaks (writes, acts) that's different from the way I do it. So, if I'm from Liverpool and you're from Texas, you have an accent, I don't.

My team manages a set of technologies that span Web, Server and Cloud. I’ll use this space to talk about technologies like Silverlight, IIS, .NET, Oslo, Dublin and Azure as well as the evolving landscape of Software + Services. Follow me on Twitter - stevemar_msft

Aaand... we're back to our regularly scheduled programming! Sorry for the delay. I am still working out how to keep my grubby mitts on all the balls I'm trying to juggle at once. It doesn't help that some of those balls are actually swords, doused in gasoline, and lit on fire.

Recessionary economic pressures have hit every industry and wages are down, including IT. In its annual salary guide, Robert Half Technology outlines in great detail the changes to 70 job titles and compares 2009 to the coming year. As an example, a developer with SharePoint skills can add 10 percent to these salary ranges. For more detail on ...

Earlier in the year posted here on ProBlogger 11 lessons that I’d learned on the way to making over $100,000 with the Amazon Associates program (I wrote a followup post with 10 more tips too).

Lorsqu’il s’est fait arrêté par la police locale de Drasco au Texas, Franck Duvernie n’a pas réalisé à quel point ce moment allait chambouler son existence.

Most people admit that when they're under stress, healthy eating habits can be difficult to maintain. Whether eating to fill an emotional need or grabbing fast food simply because there's no time to prepare something healthy, a stressed-out lifestyle is rarely a healthy one. But weight gain when under stress may also be at least partly due to the ...

This article is the second in a series and part of ongoing research on web app performance. Get updates on the latest YDN articles via Twitter, follow @ydn.

I am proud of my life-long career in public education - especially the 25 years I spent as a teacher. For the last 20 years, I have worked with school districts, state DOEs, leading educational organizations and companies to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Formerly, a senior consultant with Willard Daggett's ICLE, I now provide ...

It’s about helping your users become awesome though she does use the word “awesome” awesomely often. On email. “…when correspondents have a difference of opinion, it usually makes matters worse. It creates a lot of busywork. It is responsible for the emoticon.”

Chrome OS is Google’s latest entry into the consumer space. It is designed to be an operating system that runs on customized hardware and provides the user with only a state-of-the art browser running HTML-5 and some plugins. The tech (and mainstream) media has seen no shortage of opinions about its meaning and future impact on the industry.

The word plyometric is derived from the Greek word pleythyein meaning, "to increase". Plyometrics refers to exercises that enable a muscle to reach maximal strength in as short a time as possible (power) by eliciting the stretch-shorten cycle of a muscle fiber. This sequence of events begins by having the muscle stretch and therefore store ...

RSpec is great for behaviour driven development in Rails. However, as the amount of code you test increases, so too does the time taken to run the tests.

情報処理10月号では、『特集 未来のコンピュータ好きを育てる』としてコンピュータに魅力を感じる人材を育成する試みを紹介している。とても面白い特集となっているので、送付されてきたまま袋から出さずに放置してある人は是非一読する事を薦めたい。

We love all of your creative ideas, and love sharing ours. If you would like to do a blog swap with us or if you have a product or idea you would like us to feature. E-mail us @ 2sisterzstuff.gmail.com

ericatcw writes "Through tools such as Visual Basic and Visual Studio, Microsoft may have done more than any other vendor to make drag and drop-style programming mainstream. But its superstar developers seem to prefer old-school modes of crafting code. During the panel at the Professional Developers Conference earlier this month, the devs also ...

You've got a lot of turkey and you don't quite know what to do with it. We've all been there. Lunch today was a turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce smeared on bread with gooey stuffing in between. As good as that tasted, you're ready for something new.

Drop your bags, grab a drink, and grab the XP CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.

For many Americans, the financial crisis, and the recession it spawned, have been devastating -- jobs, homes, savings lost. Understandably, many people are calling for change. Yet change needs to be about creating a system that works better, not just differently. As a nation, our challenge is to design a system of financial oversight that will ...

Ever since Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt publicly uttered the term "cloud computing" in 2006, a storm has been gathering over Silicon Valley.

Psst! Here’s a quick-and-easy dessert for the Thanksgiving groaning board. And, since it’s served right from the pan it’s baked in, it’s incredibly easy to wrap and take to wherever your moveable feast is being held this year.

The following is not meant to be a definitive method for installing OS X on PC hardware. There are many methods, but this one allows you to install OS X on your P55 computer build using the Snow Leopard retail DVD. Also, it works every time, unlike other methods I have tried. I tailored the install method specifically for my computer, a Gigabyte ...

F.Ko-Jiの「一秒後は未来」ではウェブやSEO、API、RSSといった技術的ネタから、ちょっとした豆知識や梅酒、エンタメ系まで様々な情報を不定期にお届けしています。

Looking to start a design blog all of your own? Maybe you should think again. I certainly wouldn’t be presumptuous enough to tell you flat out that you shouldn’t start your own blog, but make no mistake, this blogging thing is a tough business. Just look at the number of design blogs (and others) that are just sitting out there on the ...

Over the past few years, we’ve gotten to know our president as a lot of different things: campaigner, lawyer, father, basketballer. But what if Obama’s first and truest calling—his desire to write—explains more about him than anything else? Robert Draper recounts the untold story of the first man since Teddy Roosevelt to ...

Undoubtedly by now you’ve heard about Tiger Woods’ car crash. Early reports had him in serious condition (which remember, is better than critical condition) after he apparently hit a fire hydrant and a tree while leaving his home in his SUV. The latest reports say he has been released from the hospital and is “fine.” But I&#

Google recently introduced Google Sync for iPhone, which allows you to sync Google Calendar with your iPhone wirelessly. Combined with BusySync, you can keep iCal, Google Calendar and your iPhone in sync wirelessly, without having to invest in MobileMe. And unlike the limitations in MobileMe, you can sync WebDAV calendars to your iPhone (like ...

5億回以上ダウンロードされたiPhoneアプリケーションの数は20,000以上に上るものと思われる。しかしそれぞれのアプリケーションの「賞味期間」はどの程度のものなのだろうか。分析業務を行うスタートアップのPinch MediaのCEOであるGreg Yardleyは、同社にてダウン�

This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist. (See also our Johnson columns.)

J’ai vu ce matin, présentées pour la première fois en France, des feuilles de papier électronique en couleur, et des feuilles en noir et blanc quasi flexibles.

Until now we didn't use a repository manager for Maven. Our repos were a plain directory structure on the file system served by Apache. Uploading was done using Apache's WebDAV capabilities with a simple authentication against our LDAP directory:

主に利用しているメールアカウントでGmailを開いた際に、別途使っているGmailアカウントのメールを纏めてみたい場合どうすればいいでしょうか？

I’ve been using git for about 18 months now and thought I knew it pretty well. Then we had Scott Chacon from GitHub over to do some training at the company I’m contracting with and I learnt a ton in the first day.

Double delight: A chocolate cream filling takes these chestnutty biscuits to an altogether different level of scumptiousness. Photograph: Colin Campbell

Behavioral Interviewing, a style of interviewing that is increasing in popularity due to its effectiveness, can be an intimidating activity. We have assembled an exhaustive list of sample behavioral interview questions. This guide is intended to help job seekers and interviewers alike in their preparation for their upcoming interview.

Teachers' Pet: Toby Gerhart, philosopher/king, Stanford. We don't like to do a lot of repeat business in this space, but with three rushing touchdowns, a touchdown pass, and the game-winning last-minute score to his name, he's got our imaginary vote for that one trophy locked up and cannot in good conscience be ignored.

A government minister has blamed Indonesia's recent string of natural disasters on people's immorality. Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring said that there were many television programmes that destroyed morals.

On this happy anniversay–the 150th anniversary of the Origin of Species–let us contemplate one of evolution’s great works: the origin of giants.

Forget blogging: the hot topic right now is podcasting. If you've ever fantasized about hosting your own talk show, this is your chance. Podcasts are recordings distributed across the Internet as downloadable MP3 files. Looking for a way to download recorded interviews to his iPod, former MTV VJ Adam Curry created a little application he called ...

I recently finished a new wordpress theme that uses the jquery s3slider plugin . Like all of the Jquery plugins this was super easy to implement on a static site, but my goal was to use this in wordpress to display the post from a featured category at the top of the page with out any plugins.

Some of wordpress plugins automatically add their display below your post content which is such as: YARPP (Related Posts) or Sociable …. They added their displays into your post content, but sometime, you want to add your own code before them, even between the introduction and the main content. This article will tell you how to add anything ...

PAUL KAHAN is one of Chicago’s best chefs, and his restaurants are reliable bellwethers for what’s going on in the city’s dining scene. When Blackbird, his first restaurant, opened 12 years ago, it presaged Chicago’s rebirth as one of the planet’s most dynamic restaurant cities — a promise fulfilled by ...