Design: More Rounded Corners with CSS

\"Admit it. You know it, your Mom knows it and even your Grandmother probably knows it by now: Rounded corners, borders and drop shadows (while nothing new) are all the rage these days on the \'Web 2.0, fully Ajaxed, Ajax-enhanced, Ajaxified\' Web 2.0-era Web.\"

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Design: Free Stock Photos, Images and Textures

Lots of great photos.

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Design: Free Image Resource

The site Morguefile.com offers the following explanation of what they do:

A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.

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Culture: The Dead Formats Society

Wired has a great article on dead and dying formats. The rate of extinguishing formats is increasing as technology continues to introduce new, "ever-improving" formats.
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Tutorial: Webdesign Mockup using Photoshop

Through images and a small amount of text, an example is shown of how to make webdesign mockups in Photoshop. Yet another addition to the webdesign workflow articles.

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Programming: Web Development Cheat Sheets

A nice assortment of cheat sheets for web developers/designers, including CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, and more!

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Design: Website showcasing visual effects techniques.

This company has a great website showcasing its effects techniques. Just click on one of the different special effect titles to get a cool example. The Universal Capture effect is interactive!

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Hardware: Build an $800 Gaming PC

It's time for ExtremeTech's yearly $800 gaming PC build it. As always, the new rig comes bigger, badder, and doesn't break the bank.

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Software: Upload photo of yourself, & see yourself at 65

In an attempt to draw interest in a survey on Scotland's aging population, government health officials are offering software that allows people to see what they will look like when they are 65.

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Software: Keylogger Spying At Work On The Rise!

The number of companies reporting a spyware infestation has increased by almost half in the past 12 months, according to a new survey!

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Design: The Ultimate Web Developer's Site Resource.

The Web Developer's Handbook is an extensive resource for web site developers with information on CSS, Ajax, Web 2.0, Design, XHTML, Accessibility, SEO and related topics. Now finally redesigned.

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Design: CSS Library Launched by Dynamic Drive

DHTML has been the main focus of Dynamic Drive. Now, with ever increasing CSS capabilities, CSS needs its own showcase. Enter CSS Library...

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Design: Over One Hundred Page Layouts, One CSS File

The Yahoo! User Interface library has made a second release. This one now includes a CSS Grid Kit which allows you to create hundreds of css-based page layouts and it's only 1.82k.

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Design: Calling All Designers-Learn to Write!

You know all that copy that goes around your forms and in your confirmation e-mails? Who's writing it? Derek Powazek explains why it's important for user-interface designers to sharpen up their writing skills.

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Software: Dark Side of the Moon Celebrates 1500th Anniversary

1500 weeks on the Billboard Charts that is, making it the longest selling album of all time.

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Hardware: MacBooks in B & W this Tuesday - Or Not!

Additional sources have confirmed the MacBook's announcement this Tuesday. Further, sources report that the MacBook will be thinner than current iBooks, will be available in both black and white configurations...

Sorry...Rumors are just that...rumors.

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Software: Printable Maps of U.S.

The National Atlas has prepared reference and outline maps of the United States that you can print or use online.

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Tutorial: How to scan money into Photoshop

Photoshop sometimes recognizes money and tries to stop you from using it. Fortunately for law-abiding citizens who are smart enough to follow rules, Deke, as he shows in his new podcast, knows a workaround.


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Deal: Free Trade Magazines

Trade Pub and & Digg Nation are offering free magazines and Technical Document Downloads. Some magazines listed:

• eWeek
• Oracle Magazine
• Information Week
• (just to name a few)

No catches, no strings, just free magazines!

http://diggnation.tradepub.com/

Software: Google Is Full?

Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt: "Those machines are full," he said. "We have a huge machine crisis."

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Software: Aperture future in question as Apple axes bulk of team

Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave, Think Secret has learned. The move, which resulted in the departure of several engineers while others were transferred to different projects inside Apple, raises questions about the future of Aperture, Apple's most heavily criticized and bug-ridden pro software release in recent years.
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Source: Think Secret

Hardware: Building LAMP Server for Webhosting with CentOS 4.3

This is a detailed description how to set up a CentOS 4.3 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

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