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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Greenshot - a free screenshot tool

Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows.

Greenshot was published under GPL, i.e. this software can be downloaded and used free of charge, even in a commercial environment.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

CSS - height loose when all elements are float in a <div> block

When all the elements in a <div> block are float, Firefox can't keep the height of block, in this example the border appears just on top side:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
   content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

   <title>height loose</title>

</head>

<body>
   <div style="margin:auto;width:350px;border:5px solid #CCC;">
      <img style="float:left;margin-top:0.5em" src="Design.jpg" />
      <span style="float:right;margin-top:1em; margin-right:0.5em">
      <b>Development</b>
      </span>
   </div>
</body>
</html>

To solve the problem, it's necessary to explicitly set the height of block and it's better to use em for height size unit cuz of covering different font size of contents:

IE doesn't show such a behavior, it's yet another place that coder should consider cross browser development techniques.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Free Web Hosting - Web Hosting Company Reviews

Free Web Hosting list by ABOUT.com

Web Hosting Company Reviews
The data is based on reviews by people who have used the web hosting services from the hosting companies.

10 Best and Worst Web Hosting Providers!

Something interesting from ABOUT.com, at least it worth to take a look at the following lists, I don't want to say that I'm agree or disagree with the result which ABOUT.com collected, it's just interesting.

10 Best Web Hosting Providers
As Rated by About.com Readers

10 Worst Web Hosting Providers
As Rated by About.com Readers

Last updated 21 April 2009

Sunday, August 9, 2009

XSD - XML Schema constraints and value checks

Friday, August 7, 2009

Valid XHTML document

An XHTML document is technically an XML document. XML documents can include an XML declaration as the first line in the document, something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

There are only a few major rules to consider, but you have to follow them if you want to create a valid XHTML document. Here they are in brief:

* In an XHTML document every tag must be closed.
* Empty elements without content, must be correctly closed with a closing slash.
For example, a break tag is formatted <br />.
* Tags must be nested correctly,
it works like a LIFO queue, the last tag you open must be closed first.
* All XHTML tags should be in lowercase.
* All attribute values are enclosed in quotation marks.
* A valid XHTML document needs a valid XHTML DOCTYPE declaration.

The DOCTYPE declaration works for several purposes:
* DOCTYPE helps your page to be validated as XHTML.
* DOCTYPE allows the browser knows the version of your page markup language.
* DOCTYPE references the specific DTD for your page markup language.
* DOCTYPE enables your page to be displayed properly in standard web browsers
(IE, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and ...).

For an XHTML 1.0 document, you can choose one of three different DOCTYPES:
- strict
- transitional
- frames

- strict DOCTYPE declaration:
If for presenting and styling your document you are using CSS.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

- transitional DOCTYPE declaration:
If your document includes any presentational or styling markup code.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

- frames DOCTYPE declaration:
If your document is in frames.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

The easiest to use is the transitional DOCTYPE declaration, but using CSS to present document sometimes is the best way.

After XHTML DOCTYPE declaration, it must have an additional line of markup:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

In XHTML, the above line works instead of the opening <html> in HTML document. It adds information about the XHTML namespace. (A namespace is basically a vocabulary of elements and attributes)

Friday, July 31, 2009

CardSwap !

I received an email from a friend about cardswap.ca, perfect place to swap or sell your gift cards or buy one with discount. It's just started but I expect it grows pretty fast.

CardSwap is the premier online Canadian marketplace for gift card exchanges. Whether you want to buy gift cards at substantial savings, or sell them for cash, CardSwap offers the simplest way to get what you want.
http://www.cardswap.ca/

Thursday, July 30, 2009

C# - How can we show Markup Language (HTML, XML, XSD, ... ) codes in blogger ?

Well, we need to encode ampersands and angle brackets:
< to <
> to >
& to &

I use a great tool in the following url:
http://centricle.com/tools/html-entities/
Encode / Decode HTML Entities
Convert text to HTML entities (and vice-versa)

Saturday, July 18, 2009

www.speedtest.net - to test the speed of your Internet connection

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

What is Speedtest.net?

Use Speedtest.net to test the speed of your Internet connection. See if you are getting what you pay for or share your results with others!

Speedtest.net is a broadband speed analysis tool that allows anyone to test their Internet connection. Ookla provides this service for free to anyone curious about the performance of their connection to and from hundreds of locations around the world.

What is Speedtest.net testing?

Speedtest.net performs three key measurements used to determine the overall quality and performance of your Internet connection.

* Download Speed
* Upload Speed
* Ping (Latency)
(The time it takes in milliseconds for a small piece of data to be sent from your computer to the Internet and back)

CamStudio open source - Free Streaming Video Software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

It's a perfect, user friendly, free, and practical screen and audio recording app.
http://camstudio.org/

Saturday, February 28, 2009

FORVO.com - All the words in the world, pronounced

Sunday, February 22, 2009

100 meters long Photo - We are all gonna die!

This image is 100 meters long (100m x 78 cm)
http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html

178 people, 20 days, Berlin, Summer 2007

By Simon Hogsberg
http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/

Thanks Farzad (My brother) to send it to me.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Real time Satellite and space shuttle tracking

If you are interested to tracking a satellite or a space shuttle, or if you want to get latest news about them, take a look at the following URL:
http://www.n2yo.com

In above web site, you can find about:

Position of your home by its latitude and longitude
Live movement of your favorite satellite
Track up to 5 satellites on one map
Latest launches
Information about satellites
Finding satellites based on its category
Searching satellite in database by name, space command ID, Int'l designator, or lunch date

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Windows Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 now available!

The IE8 Release Candidate is now available for public download (since Jan 26, 2009).http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/ie/default.aspx

There is a document which may be you can find answer to many of your questions, specially for developer, to download IE8 RC1 technology overview for developers go here and also take a look at IEBlog.
As Microsoft announced, there are many new features in this release around Reliability, Performance, Compatibility and Security. Let's see how does it work?

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Free: Zoho (Work. Online)

Do you want to work online? It looks green too!
ZOHO http://www.zoho.com/

Zoho is a suite of online applications which are free for individuals and some have a subscription fee for organizations.

ZOHO Productivity applications:
Zoho Mail (Web-based Email Service)
Zoho Writer (Online Word Processor)
Zoho Sheet (Spreadsheets. Online)
Zoho Show (Online Presentation Tool)
Zoho Docs (Online Document Management)
Zoho Notebook (Online Note Taker)
Zoho Wiki (Easy to use, full-featured Wiki)
Zoho Share (Centralized Public Repository)
Zoho Planner (Online Organizer)
Zoho Chat (Make Group Decisions Faster)

ZOHO Business Apps:
Zoho CRM 3 Users Free (On-Demand CRM Solution)
Zoho Projects (Project Management Software)
Zoho Creator (5 Users Free) (Online Database Application)
Zoho Invoice 5 Invoices Free (Online Invoicing. Quick and Easy)
Zoho Meeting One on One Free (Web Conferencing, Remote Support)
Zoho DB & Reports (Online Reporting & BI Service)
Zoho People 10 Users Free (HRIS & Applicant Tracking System)
Zoho Business 10 Users Free (Online Business Solutions)
Zoho Marketplace (Apps for your Business needs)

Utilities by ZOHO:
Site 24x7 (Website Monitoring Service)
Zoho Polls (Online Polls in a snap)
Zoho Viewer (View and Share Documents Online)
Zoho Challenge (Easiest Way to Evaluate Candidates)

Sunday, January 11, 2009

150 million users for Facebook !

Facebook has almost 75 million daily users in 170 countries and on every continent.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125421&source=rss_news

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Pixie a fast and tiny color picker utility

Pixie is an easy-to-use color picker. Just simply point to a color and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color. Pixie works on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista, any body who is dealing with web programming or design needs to have such a simple and perfect tool to make it easy on Internet life. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. If you need to work with colors, then it's the tool which you need.
To download Pixie for free: http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

Friday, September 26, 2008

Cropper - Point and Shoot Screen Captures

Cropper is a great screen capture tool which is written by Brian Scott in C#.NET

Point, Crop, and Save any area which you like just for free.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

JR Screen Ruler - A tool to measure a picture size

JR Screen Ruler is a handy and free tool which help you to find out the size of an image that is located on screen. Everybody who is dealing with web pages knows how much it worth. To get it for free, go to the following URL:

http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/index.htm

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

CHM reader for FireFox

Even though that Microsoft Compiled HTML Help files (CHM) with attention to some security risks are not so popular but there are a lot of documents which have been compiled, or converted to CHM. To read a CHM file in FireFox, it's possible to add CHM Reader as a FireFox Add-on and enjoy using the content of those compiled help format files.

To find other FireFox Add-ons use the following URL:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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