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Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive. Link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html?from=getfirefoxLabels: firefox
 Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception. This is something I have struggled with, how to organize something that offers very little help in doing so. I create folders, but then I can't see whats in them easily. I move things to different areas of my desktop, but then switching video sources and all that is undone. Fences is perfect for someone like me who likes things neat and organized. Since its in beta I have been testing in in a Virtual PC and so far see no reason not to adapt oit on my laptop. Link: http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/Labels: software
Now you can send bigger attachments in Gmail, as Google increased the maximum attachment size from 20 MB to 25 MB. Link: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/...Labels: email, google
 Vista and XP users will need to pony up $119.99, $199.99, or $219.99 on October 22 to score their Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate upgrade, and those of you who want a full retail disc will need to roll up with $199.99, $299.99, or $319.99 respectively. It's not quite that simple, though: starting tomorrow, June 26, you'll be able to pre-order upgrades at much cheaper prices -- $49.99 for Home Premium and $99.99 for Professional.. Link: http://www.engadget.com/...In case you don't know the difference between the versions check this out: http://www.veign.com/blog/2009/02/windows-7-versions.htmlLabels: 7, microsoft, windows
 FlightAware was the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States. FlightAware offers live flight data, airport information, weather maps and charts, as well as aviation news to nearly two million users a month. FlightAware also powers operational management and dispatch software, airport FIDS (flight information displays), and provides reporting data to aircraft and airport operators. Link: http://flightaware.comAlso, check out Flight View: http://www.flightview.com/Labels: fun
10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To:In short, design patterns are solutions to recurring problems. By extension, UI design patterns are solutions to common user interface problems. This article goes over 10 interesting UI design patterns that you can use in your own projects. In fact, you may already be using them now without knowing it. Pattern Tap:Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the one stop pattern shop for your next inspiration need. 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns:In this article, we share with you the best of the best, cream of the crop sites, galleries, online publications, and libraries devoted to sharing information and exploring concepts pertaining to User Interface design patterns.
Flickr Design Patterns:A great collection of design patterns on Flickr that are organized by category. UI Pattern Factory:UI Pattern Factory is a mix of user interface design pattern library and UI gallery. It is a place to find user interface best practices, get design inspiration, and share design solutions with others Open Source Design Pattern Library:The Open Source Design Pattern Library is a place where individuals and organizations can share, collaborate, and discuss design patterns. Yahoo! Design Pattern Library:Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We're thrilled to be sharing patterns and code with the web design and development community, we hope it's useful, and we look forward to your feedback. User Interface Design Patterns:Recurring solutions to solve common problems. 15 jQuery Plugins To Create An User Friendly Tooltip:Tooltip is a good way to show extra information when user hovers the cursor over an element. The “hover box” will appear when the mouse hover in, and disappear when the mouse hover out. If the tooltip is being used appropriately, it can improve our site’s user friendly level, and also save us a lot of spaces. Today, we are going to see 15 jQuery plugins to create an user friendly tooltip. 25+ jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements:...collected over 25 jQuery plugins that enhance and beautify html form elements. Some of them add more capabilities that able to increase usability and user friendliness to a website. 20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples:In this article you’ll discover some terrific and unique JavaScript-powered navigation techniques and examples. Labels: design, development, javascript, jquery
 It's the length and width of a credit card. It's the thickness of a couple nickels. It'll let you and a few friends get an Internet connection just about anywhere with no wires whatsoever.
It's a MiFi, Sprint's new wireless broadband device, and it's geek gadget magic that'll realistically fit in your wallet. Link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/...Labels: hardware
I recently expanded the functionality of Quick Thumbnail to include a Quick Image Cropping tool. This tool lets you crop an image by uploading a file or by entering a URL to the image file. Once uploaded, Quick Cropping allows you to select the cropped area and each time you press the Crop button a new output is generated. No need to reload the image, simply adjust the selection area and press crop again. Active Cropping Window:
 Cropped Results:
 Link: http://quickthumbnail.com/crop/Labels: design, free, fun, graphics, veign, website
Over 1 billion charts, maps, plots and diagrams are found in print publications each year - but only 40 million online. This huge discrepancy is a reflection of the complexity to create & publish charts online. Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations - offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity instead. Just wish it didn't require Java to run. Link: http://www.chartle.net/Labels: graphics
 Seems that Adobe released Acrobat.com quietly. I saw a little buzz around it but not a whole lot. Acrobat.com is Acrobat.com is a set of online services — file sharing and storage, a PDF converter, an online word processor, and web conferencing — you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Probably in an effort to compete with the many Software as a Service (SaaS) marketplace. The one that had interested me was the Online PDF Converter that: provides an online PDF converter so you can easily create Adobe® PDF documents from your existing files in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many other applications. It's as easy as selecting your file and clicking Create PDF. Until I remember that I run a PDF Printer on my system that lets me 'print' to PDF from any application. What would interest me, as a developer, is the ability to send documents to Acrobat.com to create, and return PDFs on the fly from a website. Gonna look around to see if they allow this. If not, I have no real interest. Is anything else worth a second look at Acrobat.com? Buzzword? ConnectNow? Share? MyFiles? Link: https://www.acrobat.com/Labels: adobe
 Entirely customizable. Supports Zoom, print and download options. Can be configured either using HTML code, or via an external XML file. I tend to not like effects like this on a website but can see where some website may benefit from it. Link: http://page-flip.com/Labels: design, development, flash
 You can now add watermarks to any image while your resizing it at Quick Thumbnail. The text is rendered as part of the image. Like everything else I develop for free this was done to play around with a code technique, in this case rendering text onto an image. For now I only give basic control over the text: The phrase, color (either light or dark) and a choice of three sizes. Comments? Link: http://www.quickthumbnail.com/Labels: graphics, veign, website
Want to display your own logo on the browser address bar and browser tabs? Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size / resolution) for the "Image to Use" and click "Generate FavIcon.ico" A favicon is that small icon that appears in the address bar of a browser for the website your visiting. Link: http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/Labels: design, development
I am now: http://www.facebook.com/veignThought that was the best URL I could get. Labels: veign
there are plenty of ways you can turn your old laptop into something far more useful again. The easiest way to get the most from your old system is to recycle the internal hardware, such as the memory, hard drive and, in some cases, even the processor.
However, this isn't the only thing you can do, as your trusty portable can even find a new lease of life when used alongside other devices in your home. It can bring improved usability to games consoles in your living room, or even be used to enhance other PCs that you or your family use. Whatever the case, there's no need to get rid of your old laptop just yet.
Don't forget to check out the How to turn Ubuntu into a media center. Link: http://www.techradar.com/...Labels: hardware
In the 220 milliseconds that flew by, a lot of interesting stuff happened to make Firefox change the address bar color and put a lock in the lower right corner. With the help of Wireshark, my favorite network tool, and a slightly modified debug build of Firefox, we can see exactly what's going on. Interesting enough... Link: http://www.moserware.com/...Labels: security
Add the Custom Search element, and let visitors search your site and other sites you choose using the power of Google Custom Search. If you like, earn revenue from your site with AdSense for Search. Try it out:http://veign.com/help/custom-google-search.phpLink: http://www.google.com/webelements/customsearch/Labels: design, development, google
 In addition to the standard set of IM services, Trillian is now compatible with your favorite social networks, including Twitter and Facebook! Easily integrate social news directly in your contact list, including fully customizable alerts and notification preferences. Highlights:- Chat with video and audio
- Tabbed chats with text, emoticons, and pictures
- Get in style with themes and skins
- Use animated widgets to broadcast your status
- Connect to WLM, Google, Facebook, and more
- Show contacts and social news feeds
- See the status of your contacts at a glance
- Receive real-time notifications of changes
- Minimize your IM world with Trillian Cobalt
- Search and archive chats with activity history
- Extend your Trillian possibilities with plugins
Been using Trillian for many years and can't wait for Astra. This is one application that I thought would never get here as its been in development for years. Link: http://www.trillian.im/Labels: software
Just when it appeared Windows and its associated services were looking more stable month after month, Microsoft chose June to tackle a plethora of vulnerabilities including no fewer than 14 that its security engineers believe could be exploitable within the next 30 days. With that many fixes I think it will be better to wait a couple days to make sure the patches don't introduce any problems. Link: http://www.betanews.com/article/...Labels: microsoft, security, windows
 Using Balsamiq Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.
With 75 pre-built controls to choose from....
Link: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockupsLabels: design, development
Keeping in with the spirit of Veign, I have released two new free tools. This adds to Veign's collection of 18+ free online tools and applications. Site Check: Site Check saves you time by compiling a list of websites, with your URL pre-filled in, to check your website in. No need to fill in your website multiple times. This makes manually checking your website a much easier process. Domain Age Check: Return the age of domain. As always, if you have any idea for a tool feel free to contact Veign. Labels: development, veign
 On Google today... Labels: google
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
Page Speed performs several tests on a site's web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance.
Sounds like the ySlow addin released by Yahoo. Link: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/Labels: development, firefox
 YSlow analyzes web pages and why they're slow based on Yahoo!'s rules for high performance web sites. Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369Labels: development, firefox
 Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small and simple to use utility that let you easily activate a few useful extras for Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a Windows 7 only portable application and will not run on any other Windows versions. Windows 7 Little Tweaker must run as Administrator, and with UAC disabled. Link: http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/...Labels: 7, software, windows
The news comes in advance of comments being planned for the Computex conference in Taiwan early tomorrow morning, by Microsoft Corporate Vice President for OEMs Steve Guggenheimer. There he is scheduled to officially deliver the news that Windows 7 general availability worldwide will begin on Thursday, October 22. Link: http://www.betanews.com/article/...Labels: 7, microsoft, windows
Veign is now providing a service where we do a complete website check / analysis. From identifying website problems before your visitors do to search engine optimization guideline checks to ensure your site is ready for the major search engines, our report will give you the knowledge to fix those pesky problems that are often difficult to track down. Link: http://www.veign.com/website-check.phpLabels: design, development, veign
If you're out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses. Now we've made it even easier to orient yourself without a map in front of you: call GOOG-411, ask for 'details', and in addition to the address and phone number of the business, we'll also point you to the nearest street intersection or adjacent streets.
You can try it now: call 1-800-466-4411, look up 'Google in New York', ask us for more 'details', and we'll tell you that our Chelsea office is 'near the intersection with West 16th Street'. Unless you're a seasoned New Yorker, this might very well save you from walking up or down a few blocks. Link: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/...Don't know about Goog-411? Read about it here: http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/04/goog-411-google-voice-local-search.htmlLabels: google
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