With the full flower of RIA-Rich Internet Applications [think DHTML and Flash tecnologies] Web GUI is starting match those available on the desktop – be that Windows 7 with its Aero goodies or Apple Snow Leopard with its refined look and often copied navigational features. Here is an example from Adobe PDFs – the electronic […]
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Issuu.com is more than a website for publishing your PDFs – it takes displaying Adobes PDF’s to anew level. And it shows how to display PDFs with the greatest panache: Now as Honourable Father would say – “How do you like them marbles??”
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Alas poor Yorick I am hung! This routine is taking so much time to load I will have to send you to identically the same code works stored as separate file on the server over here. The thumbnails look pretty bad – even at a 240Px width size. You would think Google could do better.
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There is an absolute flood of image viewers and slideshow scripts that one can add to a website or blog – here is one from TripTracker that seem rather nifty and clean and most important, fast: For Slideshow-Click Me See me in the show The virtues of this slideshow viewer is the simplicity of its
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This is the Canon Powershot SD880 but whats missing here is also missing on my Panasonic Lumix Tz3 – a view finder. Now I can live with a compact camera that has a paltry manual mode settings range of f4.5 to f12 for for f-stop settings and shutter speed range of 1/60th to 1/500th –
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Update: the price per gigabyte for a HDD has sunk to $0.07/GB in approximately a year and a half. Also see this comparison of HDD vs SSD trade-offs. But the most important trend is a slowdown in SSD drive cost/GB reductions forecast out to 2014. The improvements in cost/GB have already started to slow and
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Well we spent most of the weekend trying to figure out our benchmarks results – would Windows 7 be able to beat Windows XP in raw speed and performance? Here is that tale of the table: Speed Comparison: Windows 7 versus Windows XP Test Windows 7 Windows XP Copy 800MB file from USB 29sec 27sec
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