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Why Google Continues to Fund Firefox

December 27, 2011
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Why Google Continues to Fund Firefox

Google has its own web browser, so why is the company renewing its revenue deal with Mozilla? The answer is simple: Google makes money by putting eyeballs in front of ads and almost a quarter of the web's eyeballs use Firefox.

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Write Better CSS With ‘Knyle Style Sheets’

December 22, 2011
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Write Better CSS With ‘Knyle Style Sheets’

CSS is complicated. Understanding how CSS works is the first hurdle, but even after you understand the box model and other complexities you still won’t necessarily understand how to organize your CSS code. It seems like with most projects nothing turns to spaghetti code quite as fast as the CSS files. Kyle Neath, Director of Design at

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An Introduction to Basic Gimp Tools

December 17, 2011
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An Introduction to Basic Gimp Tools

Are you someone who is desperate for Photoshop but can’t afford to pay the hefty price tag? Don’t worry, if you have been looking longingly at your computer and hoping that a photo and graphics editing program will somehow magically appear, you may just have found the solution. Gimp is an open source program that

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The Tech Evolution Of The Free Conference Call

December 7, 2011
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The Tech Evolution Of The Free Conference Call

While businessmen were once required to sit on trains or in cars for hours of their working day, travelling to meetings, the same isn’t true today. Plenty still do travel for hours to meetings each month, of course, but with teleconferencing having come on so far in the last decade, there’s seldom any real need.

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Microsoft Uses the Web to Showcase New Windows ‘Metro’

December 2, 2011
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Microsoft Uses the Web to Showcase New Windows ‘Metro’

Microsoft has launched a clever web-based demo of its new Windows Phone operating system. The new website lets Android and iOS fans experience Windows Phone's new Metro interface through their current phone's web browser.

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Using Sass to Help IE Handle Mobile Designs

December 1, 2011
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Using Sass to Help IE Handle Mobile Designs

If you’ve embraced a mobile-first approach to responsive design, you’re probably building your CSS in layers. One common method is to start with a base layer of CSS that applies to all screen sizes — like font definitions, colors, etc — and then using CSS 3 @media queries to add in floats and the like

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WAI-ARIA Gets Ready for a Starring Role in HTML5

November 29, 2011
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WAI-ARIA Gets Ready for a Starring Role in HTML5

The W3C's ARIA specification gives web developers a way to annotate pages, assigning "roles" to HTML elements. Now that screen readers actually support ARIA, roles offer an easy way to create a more accessible web.

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OSCar eO build finally finished, electric offroader prepares for the mountains of South America

November 17, 2011
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OSCar eO build finally finished, electric offroader prepares for the mountains of South America

It's been a few months since we first heard about OSCar eO and its plans to tackle the (arguably) most difficult task in motorsport: make it from the start of the Dakar Rally to the finish. Well, the race starts in about a month and a half, and the ...

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Android introduces Ice Cream Sandwich on phones and tablets

November 17, 2011
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Android introduces Ice Cream Sandwich on phones and tablets

With the Galaxy Nexus reaching customer's hands today and bringing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich along with it, the official site has been updated with the usual lists of features and brief walkthroughs. Whether you need yet another breakdown of what the new version of the OS brings

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Why Google Continues to Fund Firefox

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Google has its own web browser, so why is the company renewing its revenue deal with Mozilla? The answer is simple: Google makes money...

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