Web User Interface Design

Javascript fluid design, new approach to fluid design

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:06:00 +0000

Got this from ajaxian, a cool approach of implementing fluid design using javascript, a small javascript library by Yusuf Akyol. Check out the demo page and resize the browser to see the layout and font size changes. This done by a small CSS and:

HTML

Javascript
view source print ?
01.var fluidLayout = {
02.myFontSize: 100,
03.getBrowserWidth: function() {
04.if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth != 0) {
05.return document.documentElement.clientWidth;
06.} else if (document.body) {
07.return document.body.clientWidth;
08.}
09.return 0;
10.},
11.dynamicLayout: function () {
12.var defaultFontSize = fluidLayout.myFontSize * 100;
13.var browserWidth = fluidLayout.getBrowserWidth();
14.document.body.style.fontSize = (defaultFontSize * browserWidth / 100000) + "%";
15.},
16.addEvent: function (obj, type, fn) {
17.if (obj.addEventListener) {
18.obj.addEventListener( type, fn, false );
19.} else if (obj.attachEvent) {
20.obj["e"+type+fn] = fn;
21.obj[type+fn] = function(){ obj["e"+type+fn]( window.event ); }
22.obj.attachEvent( "on"+type, obj[type+fn] );
23.}
24.},
25.init: function(fontSize) {
26.this.myFontSize = fontSize;
27.this.addEvent(window, 'load', this.dynamicLayout);
28.this.addEvent(window, 'resize', this.dynamicLayout);
29.}
30.}

Embedding(import) your own fonts on the web

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:34:00 +0000

Title:
Embedding your own fonts on the web

Entry:
The CSS @font-face rule allows you to specify & upload a font that will be downloaded to the clients machine, so the web page will be rendered exactly as you expected it to be, no matter where!

A huge step forward for typography on the web. Mozilla finally announced that its new Firefox 3.5 (download beta) will support the @font-face CSS rule. Opera is supposed to do the same with the next 10 version. It’s worth to know that this feature is working already on Safari (3.1 +) using webkit. Internet Explorer (4.0+) Supports this too, but with .eot or .ote font file extensions only.

HISTORY
Since May 1998 in the CSS 2 specification, every one was interested in being able to embed your own fonts on any web page using @font-face rule. It would help you make sure that your visitors will see your design just as you created it. however this was not implemented on every browser, so it was later removed from the recommendation is CSS 2.1.

DISADVANTAGES
The copyright issues! using this method means that any one can go through your code and download the font you are using. This arises a problem since there are many fonts you are not allowed to re-distribute. There should be a way of encoding font files or otherwise we will have to stick with open source fonts, which can’t be the answer!

ALTERNATIVES?
On the other way, the use of sIFR (In-line Flash & Javascript text replacement) was the only other reliable way I know around this, It allows you to embed your font on any browser that supports Flash and Javascript. Beside the fact that it prevent stealing, It is easy, reliable, and it validates.

Using @font-face property

SYNTAX:
@font-face {
font-family: your-font-family-name;
src: url-to-the-font-file;
}

EXAMPLE USAGE:
@font-face{
font-family:'Myriad Pro';
src: url('http://web-site.com/MyriadPro.otf') format('opentype');
}
h2{
font-family:'Myriad Pro', georgia;
}

HTML code:
<body>
<h2>This is Myriad Pro font Example.</h2>
</body>

powered by: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/2b5397b1d0

CSS Image Preloader

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:08:00 +0000

A low-tech but useful technique that uses only CSS. After placing the css in your stylesheet, insert this just below the body tag of your page: "". Whenever the images are referenced throughout your pages they will now be loaded from cache.

#preloadedImages {
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
display: inline;
background-image: url(path/to/image1.png);
background-image: url(path/to/image2.png);
background-image: url(path/to/image3.png);
background-image: url(path/to/image4.png);
background-image: url();
}

powered by:http://snipplr.com/

min-height for IE (and all other browsers)

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:07:00 +0000

/* for browsers that don't suck */
.container {
min-height:8em;
height:auto !important;
}

/* for Internet Explorer */
/*\*/
* html .container {
height: 8em;
}
/**/

min-height for IE (and all other browsers)

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:07:00 +0000

/* for browsers that don't suck */
.container {
min-height:8em;
height:auto !important;
}

/* for Internet Explorer */
/*\*/
* html .container {
height: 8em;
}
/**/

You can force IE to apply transparence to PNGs

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:17:00 +0000

You can force IE to apply transparence to PNGs. “In theory, PNG files do support
varied levels of transparency; however, an Internet Explorer 6 bug prevents this from
working cross-browser.”

Inster below code in your body css

#regular_logo

{

background:url('test.png'); width:205px; height:205px;

}

/* \ */

* html #regular_logo

{

background:none;

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='test.png', sizingMethod='scale');

}

/* */

</style>

Before CSS (Download below image)

After apply above CSS like below image

Top 8 modal dialogs javascript

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:07:00 +0000

Here is the collection of top 9 modal dialogs JavaScript to display modal dialogs. These scripts have gained widespread popularity due to its simple yet elegant style and easy implementation.

All of them works almost same way. They show a modal dialog message in center of the screen and leaves a semi-transparent layer behind. So that the modal dialog part look brighter & can make sure user go through the message.

Each of these script has it’s own benefits & drawbacks. You may need to find the best to suit your both usability & integration requirement.

Lets go through them one by one…

Lightview

Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website.

Clean: Designed to compliment your content.
Fast: Smart image preloading.
Easy: Customizable without having to know CSS.
Rounded: Adjustable rounded corners, no PNG images required.
Smart: Content resizes to always fit on your screen.
Slideshow: One button slideshow.
Works on all modern browsers.

ThickBox

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

Features:

ThickBox was built using the super lightweight jQuery library. Compressed, the jQuery library is 20k, uncompressed it’s 58k.
The ThickBox JavaScript code and CSS file only add an additional 15k (only 10k by using the thickbox-compressed.js) on top of the jQuery code. The CSS file could additionally be compressed if need be.
ThickBox will resize images that are bigger than the browser window.
ThickBox offers versatility (images, iframed content, inline content, and AJAX content).
ThickBox will hide form elements in Windows IE 6.
ThickBox will remain centered in the window even when the user scrolls the page or changes the size of the browser window. Clicking an image, the overlay, or close link will remove ThickBox.
ThickBox can be invoked from a link element, input element (typically a button), and the area element (image maps).

Sexy Lightbox

Sexy-lightbox is cool thick box with more add features like resizes the box based on the content width and height, rounded corners, animation on resize with ease.

LightBox

Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

Features:

Image Sets: group related images and navigate through them with ease.
Visual Effects: fancy pants transitions.
Backwards Compatibility.

HighSlide JS

Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages. The library offers these features and advantages:

No plugins like Flash or Java required.
Popup blockers are no problem. The content expands within the active browser window.
Single click. After opening the image or HTML popup, the user can scroll further down or leave the page without closing it.
Compatibility and safe fallback. If the user has disabled JavaScript or is using an old browser, the browser redirects directly to the image itself or to a fallback HTML page.

SlimBox

Slimbox is a 4kb visual clone of the popular Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the ultra compact mootools framework. It was designed to be small, efficient, more convenient and 100% compatible with the original Lightbox v2.

ClearBox

ClearBox is a professional image gallery and HTML viewer program written is JavaScript. Using of ClearBox for private purpose is free. If you would like to use it on commercial pages, please contact the developer.

ModalBox

ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs. And yes, it may also be useful for showing larger versions of images.

ModalBox is built with pure JavaScript and is based on Sam Stephenson’s excellent Prototype JavaScript Framework, script.aculo.us and valid XHTML/CSS. ModalBox uses AJAX to load content.

Hope you found this article useful, if I am missing anything good modal dialog resources, kindly drop the same in comments - which will be really useful for the developers who are really looking out for these kind of stuff.

source : http://www.wittysparks.com/2008/10/28/top-8-modal-dialogs-javascript/

60 best CSS directories you would die to watch!

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:50:00 +0000

With new technologies flooding the web,different tools are available with which a web designer can showcase his creativity and craft. But despite putting in the effort and sweat, numerous websites with fantastic creativity fail to get noticed. Also, the surge in designing is driving designers to dig for creativity, color schemes and layouts.

Keeping these aspects in mind, we came up with a compendium of best CSS directories, CSS showcase, CSS galleries that rank / grade websites (using CSS) on the basis of ‘alexa ranking’, colors, categories, tags, ratings and RSS.

If you feel that a particular site is worth to get showcased, then drop the URL’s in your comments so that they become a part of our next list.

If you found this article useful, digg it to ensure that a designer’s effort doesn’t go unnoticed.

Site	Alexa Rank	Colors	Categories	Tags	Ratings	RSS
www.cssbeauty.com	10,432	No	Yes	Yes	No	Url
www.cssdrive.com	14,303	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Thumbnail
www.stylegala.com	15,819	No	No	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.cssmania.com	22,686	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.cssremix.com	23,294	No	No	No	Yes	Full Image
www.alvit.de/css-showcase/	26,557	No	Yes	No	No	Url
www.cssvault.com	27,285	No	No	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.w3csites.com	28,078	No	No	No	No	Url
www.bestwebgallery.com	30,382	No	Yes	No	No	Thumbnail
www.csselite.com	33,948	No	Yes	No	No	Thumbnail
www.screenalicious.com	36,114	Yes	No	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.unmatchedstyle.com	42,269	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Full Image
www.designlinkdatabase.net	48,086	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Thumbnail
www.screenfluent.com	51,014	No	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.designsnack.com	51,904	No	Yes	No	Yes	Url
www.cssheaven.com	53,491	No	Yes	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.cssimport.com	57,960	No	No	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.cssglobe.com	65,660	No	No	No	No	Url
www.cssreboot.com	67,768	No	No	Yes	Yes	Url
www.mostinspired.com	68,025	No	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.thebestdesigns.com	68,614	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
http://thesis.veracon.net	76,844	No	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.cssbloom.com	79,672	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Thumbnail
www.csscollection.com	92,579
www.csstux.com	98,129	No	No	No	No	No
www.cssbased.com	101,834	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Url
www.css-website.com	102,923	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Thumbnail
www.designshack.co.uk	109,656	No	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.ceeses.com	124,001	No	No	No	Yes	Url
http://anjo.dekiteharu.jp	135,146	No	Yes	No	No	No
www.cssclip.com	135,730	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Url
www.my3w.org	151,235	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Thumbnail
www.csshazard.com	167,525	No	Yes	Yes	No	Full Image
www.artnetz.de	173,234	No	Yes	Yes	No	Thumbnail
www.css-design-yorkshire.com	177,077	No	No	No	No	No
www.css11.com	182,520	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
www.cssimpress.com	188,219	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Thumbnail
www.e-motionaldesign.com	202,826	No	Yes	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.cssprincess.com	210,811	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
www.cssgaleri.com	220,224	No	Yes	No	No	Thumbnail
www.cssblast.ru	224,048	No	No	No	No	Url
www.creative-pakistan.com	233,247	No	Yes	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.netzfruehling.de	237,645	No	No	No	No	No
www.najdizajn.com	256,885	No	Yes	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.edustyle.net	274,750	No	No	No	Yes	No
www.csssmoothoperator.com	290,827	No	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.coolsitecollection.com	313,655	No	Yes	No	No	Thumbnail
www.cssgalaxy.com	348,352	No	Yes	No	No	Thumbnail
www.per.fectio.net	357,030	No	No	No	Yes	No
www.cssflavor.com	364,755	No	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.onepixelarmy.com	369,312	No	Yes	No	No	Url
www.piepmatzel.de	418,803	No	No	No	No	Url
www.cssbrain.hu	438,074	No	Yes	No	No	Thumbnail
www.w3c-compliance.com	461,674	No	No	No	No	No
www.stylegrind.com	484,645	No	No	No	No	Url
www.submitcss.com	523,147
http://inspirace.dobrestranky.com	549,529	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Full Image
www.cssgallery.ro	553,463	No	Yes	No	Yes	Url
www.cssgreen.com	600,815	No	Yes	No	No	No

Updated: 22nd December 2007

Updated with new links based on the comments received.

Site	Alexa Rank	Colors	Categories	Tags	Ratings	RSS
www.csszengarden.com	13,878	No	No	No	No	Url
www.webcreme.com	21,564	Yes	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.prowebart.net	324,625	No	Yes	Yes	No	Full Image
www.designexpanse.com	340,762	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Thumbnail
www.csssnap.com	360,300	No	Yes	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.menthe-fresh.fr	427,757	Yes	No	No	Yes	Thumbnail
www.csscoosite.com	548,693	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Url
www.csscool.cn	681,511	No	Yes	Yes	No	Thumbnail
www.morpheed.com/css	2,313,992	No	No	No	No	Thumbnail
www.csstown.com	3,463,368	No	No	No	Yes	No

source :http://www.wittysparks.com/2007/04/22/60-best-css-directories-you-would-die-to-watch/

Table CSS for your Beautiful Table Design

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:20:00 +0000

You want to need css for your table, just take out below HTML and CSS then you can customize with your color scheme.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

table.grid { font:11px arial, helvetica, sans-serif; border-collapse:collapse; border:1px solid #ccc; }

table.grid td, table.grid th { padding:3px 8px; border:1px solid #ccc; }

table.grid tr { background:#f2f2f2;}

table.grid th { background:#ddd;}

</style>

<tr>

<th>default</th>

<th>my_theme_1</th>

<th>my_theme_2</th>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>All required files</td>

<td>templates/3-col-layout.phtml</td>

<td>templates/3-col-ayout.phtml</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>All required files</td>

<td>templates/header.phtml</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>All required files</td>

<td>images/logo.gif </td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>All required files</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>All required files</td>

<td>css/boxes.css</td>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator and other software

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Adobe Photoshop and Elements plugins
In general, each plugin can be used with all versions of Photoshop (3.0-7.0, CS, CS2), under Mac OS X, 9 and earlier, and Windows.
Should also work with other compatible programs such as Elements, AfterEffects, Premiere, PhotoDeluxe, Corel PhotoPaint, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, Painter, Photo Impact etc.

1. ICOBundle utilityCombines multiple ICO images (e.g. created by the above plugin) into a single ICO file. More info
Also of interest, to Linux/UNIX/OS X users, may be the icoutils package (extract, convert icons etc).

2. Photoshop file (PSD) Extract/Recover toolThis plugin lets you grab image layers from any PSD/PSB file. It's faster than opening the whole PSD in Photoshop, if you just want a layer. Most importantly, it can usually recover image layers from corrupted PSD files that Photoshop won't open (if Photoshop opens with damage, this plugin recovers a more intact image). Beta version.

Content :http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#icoformat

Pattern Turorials for using Photoshop...

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:57:00 +0000

Small View Start your own free Photoshop pattern
collection.

Online Photo Image Web Tool Software - pixlr

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:37:00 +0000

New filter
I couldn't sleep last night .. laying in my bed thinking about a poster a saw in a cool restaurant here in Stockholm I decided to go up for a few hours and create a filter that emulates what the artist did in his painting. I call it Art poster Filter.

Fixes and stuff ..
Yep I'm on it again .. some more features ..

Tracing when you you use the lasso tool (Yes I know i should have been there in the first release).
Added some more Keyboard shortcuts and added information in the menus about them.
Added Pixelate filter .. for fun, seems like it is a must be there ..

More updates :)
Some updates just hit the app:

Open from URL, open images from any part of the Internets.
Halftone filter, yes a new filter .. just for fun ..
Rotate and flip layer now works.
A warning on the clone stamp tool (Not everybody knows about shift)
Full screen mode (But it sux cos Flash disables key input)

15 Best Firefox Extension....

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:28:00 +0000

There are lots of browser in the market but in my opinion FireFox is the Best. It has so many features like pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, and increased security. Firefox’s design allows the user to extensively customize the browser to their individual tastes and needs through the use of extensions and themes. Additionally, Firefox stores many hidden preferences which can be manipulated to turn on or off many other features.
Firefox extensions are small add-on programs that add a new piece of functionality to the browser. These extensions can range from adding a new toolbar button to adding a completely new feature. The great thing about these extensions is that you can choose which extensions you want to add.

The following is a list of the 15 of the best extensions for Firefox.

1. Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus provides the user with complete customization over how tabs operate in Firefox. Options include changing the display appearance of tabs, protecting tabs, reopening closed tabs, and selecting how and where links open.

2. Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus removes unwanted content, such as ads or flash, from a web page based on a set of user defined filters. A companion to Adblock Plus, Adblock Filterset.G Updater, automatically downloads the latest version of a set of filters which will block most ads on the web. Adblock Plus is an offshoot of the original Adblock extension.

3. Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which allows the user to modify web sites to improve functionality or appearance. This extension associates a bit of code with specific web pages. This code runs every time you visit the page, dynamically changing the appearance and functionality of a page. In many ways, these scripts are just Firefox extensions in a different format.

4. All-in-One Sidebar
The All-in-One Sidebar extension adds a sidebar panel to the browser allowing the user to quickly switch between windows, such as the downloads, extensions, or themes window. Inspired by the Opera sidebar, this extension includes a toolbar which can be customized.

5. SpellBound
SpellBound provides a spell checker similar to one seen in a word processor. As a word is entered in any text box on the page, Spellbound highlights the misspelled words with a red dotted underline. The spelling can then be easily corrected by clicking on the red underlined word and Spellbound will pop up a menu with potential corrections, providing a choice of which word to replace.

6. Reveal
Reveal shows thumbnails of open tabs or as browsing through the history list. It can be managed using the keyboard or the mouse. There are two quality and similar extensions available that operate in much the same way: Viamatic foXpose and Showcase.

7. PDF Download
The PDF Download extension allows the user to choose how to handle PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files. Every time a PDF link is clicked on, this extension offers the choice of whether to open the pdf file inside a new tab, download it to the computer, or view it as HTML.

8. IE View Lite
IE View Lite provides one-click access to Internet Explorer for a selected page from the Firefox context menu. A neat thing about this extension is that it will allow you to jump to any browser, such as Opera, by changing the IE path in the extension settings. In addition, you can set any site to open in IE whenever it is loaded in Firefox.

9. All-in-One Gestures
The All-in-One Gestures extension provides for management of mouse gestures, scrolling, and power navigation.

10. NoScript
NoScript provides full user control over what domains allow javascripts to run. NoScript can also block Flash, Java, disallow bookmarklets to work, and block or allow the ‘ping’ attribute of a tag.

11. FoxyTunes
Foxy Tunes places controls for the media player of your choice within the Firefox toolbar. You can pause, forward/reverse, play, adjust the volume, and view what is playing. Almost all major media players are supported. You can find a number of FoxyTunes skins here.

12. Download Them All
Download Them All will download, in just one click, all the links or images contained in a web page through a set of customizable filters.

14. Wizz NewsReader
The Wizz NewsReader is a fully functional news reader extension. It works with works with Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0, all versions of RSS, and supports Podcast feeds.

14. Image Zoom
Image Zoom provides control of the size of images that are displayed in Firefox. Images can be zoomed in or out, to allow for easy viewing of images.

15. Livelines
Livelines allows for the customization of the â€œadd live bookmarkâ€ icon found in the Firefox location bar. Instead of adding an RSS feed as a â€œlive bookmarkâ€ within Firefox, Livelines can add the RSS feed to an online aggregator, such as Bloglines or Feedlounge, or to an desktop based RSS software, with a click of the mouse. Webmail Compose will accomplish a similar idea with email. Webmail Compose opens a selected webmail program’s (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) compose window if any email addresses are clicked on.

Watch Free TV Online with 25 ways

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:31:00 +0000

Most Useful Convertors,plugins and web tools

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:25:00 +0000

1. Redesign Google Service with Google Redesigned Extension

Google Redesigned is a Mozilla Firefox extension designed by Globex Designs that aims to fully redesign the look and feel of popular Google services. This is achieved with Cascading StyleSheet (CSS) files which are loaded on the client’s browser. The extension simplifies the use of these styles by providing auto-updates, easy management and notifications of changes. You can also download and use the styles individually by going to their respective pages.

Here are the Screenshots:

2.Watch Olympic Games online

Everybody of us wants to watch the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 Online for free because some of us at office or busy with some other work. So now its possible to watch Live Streams and On-Demand Highlights on internet. Here’s are a websites where you can watch the summer Olympic Games 2008 online for free whether you are at work or home.

YouTube has a seperate channel for Olympic Games 2008.

Beijing2008.cn - This is the official portal for Olympic Games that hosts a large collection of videos, photographs, interviews with players from different countries, Olympic Game logos, history of the game, and other interesting material. You may want to visit for regular news about the games.

CyclingFans.com — This website provides free live video and audio streaming of all Olympic events worldwide.

UUSee allows you to download its software to watch Olympic games on live or watch it in their website without any installation.

CCTVOlympics.com plans to provide 5,000 hours of “on-demand protected streamed video content including full event replays, highlights, features, interviews and encore packages.”

WatchLiveOlympics.com you can watch all the olympic action live from Beijing 2008 directly from live members area for free.

TV Tonic is offering US users a high quality service for watching Olympic games on their PC. But it only works with 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, having Windows Media Center.

NBC will stream 3000 hours of recorded events and 4 live streams.

Other Links:
NBCOlympics.com Will Stream Olympic Games but With Restrictions
UK Users: Watch the Olympics Online at the BBC website
U.S Users: Watch the Olympics Online at the NBC website
Olympic Games Official Website
NBC Olympics Live Online Coverage To Be Used As Research Lab For Future Multimedia Events
Will NBC Free Olympic Coverage Be Successful? Media Mogul John Malone Thinks It Is Absurd

3. Easy Widget Creation Web Tool - Widgenie

Widgenie is a free site that allows users to upload excel and csv files, although more data sources are expected soon. Once you’ve uploaded your file you can customize a widget, or “Widgenie” , by color, size, etc.

It allows bloggers, businessmen, housewives, priests, anyone basically, to create widgets or visual information charts for publishing on the web’s most popular sites like Facebook, Wordpress and iGoogle. Users can import data from Excel spreadsheets, CSV files and data feeds from Widgenie’s partner sites. After the data is input, it can be customized via a drag and drop editor—no coding whatsoever is required. Colors, size, headings, fonts and more can all be customized according to user preferences. All changes can be previewed within Widgenies viewing window.
Overall the site is really great for sharing data with family, colleagues, co-workers, or any readers on your site or blog. It’s easy to use and easy to update.

Thanks: Christy

4. Free Desktop Sharing & Web Conferencing

VyewMyPC provides easy desktop sharing, whiteboarding and web conferencing free. VyewMyPC.com is a quickstart solution offered by Vyew.com. Vyew.com is more than just desktop sharing. It is a powerful platform for real-time and always-on interaction between people and content.

Basically, go to the Vyew My PC web page and click start sharing my desktop. You will be given a unique, unguessable URL. You can then share that URL with anyone you’d like to share your desktop with. There are some features you need an account to use, but the basics are usable by anyone.

Features:
* Completely browser-based: Supports any browser with no software to install* Webcam support* Voice over IP (VoIP) and free conference calling* Text chat* Whiteboarding* Advanced features tab for easy access to more features of VyewVia- Downloadsquad

5. Search Torrent Files Easily

Usniff is a new search tool for torrents, Usniff is a news real-time search engine that lets you search on 5 different torrent websites (The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent, etc.) simultaneously. Search results are sorted according to upload date, torrent name, file size, search engine, peers and seeds.

Features:
a. Search 5 popular torrent sites simultaneously.
b. Supported sites: The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent, Mininova, IsoHunt and Monova.
c. Filter search results by keyword, size, seeds, peers, and source.
d. See top searches.
e. No sign-up or registration needed.

6. Top Wordpress Plugins for the Bloggers

If youâ€™re a blogger, then you probably know about the power of the Wordpress platform. Straight out of the box, Wordpress is one of the best solutions for blogging.

Here is a great list that I whipped together of some of the most useful and most popular Wordpress plugins, if you donâ€™t yet have wordpress, or donâ€™t know what it is head over to wordpress.org, its a blogging software, which is awesome!Enjoy the list.

Akismet: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under â€œManageâ€ and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. I highly recommend this plugin.

Google Sitemap Generator came in second. Looks like a lot of bloggers are starting to care about SEO and this plugin is the best tool to tell Google how it should crawl your blog and where to find everything you want found.Show Top Commentators - If you are looking for a way to increase your comments and the interaction among your readership, this plugin is an excellent choice. Show Top Commentators encourages discussion by rewarding readers for making a comment. The top commentators are displayed in the sidebar with the number of comments they have made and a link back to their website.

Feedburner Feed Replacement - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.

Adsense Deluxe - If you run adsense on your blog, then this is the number one plugin to implement. Adsense Deluxe allows you to automatically insert Google Adsense with ease.

Related Posts - This plugin will find other blog posts that are related to the current post based on keyword matching. You can then display the related posts at the bottom of each article. This is an excellent way to keep visitors at your site for longer periods of time. Customize this plugin to display as many or as few related posts as you desire.

Wp-Contact form. This plugin developed by Ryan Duff is used by many bloggers. It creates a contact form on your blog, through which your readers can contact you. However at the moment of this writing, Ryans website seemed to be down. Another good plugin to generate contact forms is here. Update: You can download Spam protected Wp-contact form from Doug Carr blog here.

WP-Cache - An extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.

Ultimate Tag Warrior - This is the best tag system for WordPress. Ultimate Tag Warrior will help you pick up more traffic from Technorati and adds a number of SEO benefits to your blog.

SEO Title Tag - Title tags are one of the most important on-page factors for search engine optimization. This plugin allows you to optimize your title tag for optimum traffic.

Wordpress Database Backup - Talk about a lifesaver. This plugin comes installed with Wordpress, providing an easy way to backup your Wordpress database. You can download the backup file or have it emailed to the address of your choice.

Popularity Contest A very useful plugin that lets you automatically highlight your best posts to your readers. It keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. It can significantly increase the â€œstickinessâ€ of your blog and help you convert first time visitors into a regular readers.

These are the list of most popular plugins in the blogosphere! If you liked it, help spread the news - do not forget to Digg it

7. Increase Your Feed Subscribers with 5 Simple Tips

Here are some interesting tips on how to get more Blog Subscribers. I know some of you may think that you donâ€™t want a large part of your readers reading from their feed readers because it is much harder to monetize a feed than it is monetize your already running blog.

Hereâ€™s five step how to increase your feed readers:

Content is King:-
This advice is almost mandatory in all blog advice posts. Regardless of how simple it is to subscribe to your blog, visitors will not subscribe to your blog if your content isnâ€™t interesting. So go ahead, implement these changes and get back to writing your blog.

Offer full feeds:-
Do not try to trick your feed subscribers by offering partial content. No matter how catch your title or excerpt is, they are not going to click through every time. RSS feed subscribers are busy people and often have dozens of feeds they have to get through before they can sleep peacefully. Theyâ€™ll tolerate your stinginess for a while and then hit the â€˜unsubscribeâ€™ button. So always offer them full Feeds.

Donâ€™t display your RSS count button:-
If your subscriber base is less than 100. So don,t display youur RRS Count Button. People often like to read what other people are reading and a small subscriber count may turn them off or might seem as if your content isnâ€™t worth subscribing. When you have a large enough (subjective) subscriber base, feel free to flaunt it around.

â€˜Askingâ€™ your readers to subscribe:-
Ask for Subscription at the end of each post, like this -I hope you enjoyed reading this post. You may now subscribe to my RSS Feed or receive daily updates on your Email .

Visibility:-
How visible is your feed button. Try this one to attract some attention to it. You can drop this RSS Button Bomb once a week.

8. Watch Free TV Online with 25 ways

Did you know that you can watch free TV online? Yes you can, some months back we posted 13 Best Places To Watch TV Online for Free now again we are posting some more new sites from where you can watch TV online Free. Here are over 25 different sites where you can watch free TV online. And Yes Don,t Forget to Subscribe daily updates by Email and Feeds.

1. TvChannelsFree.com- TvChannelsFree.com - The largest resource available on the Web for viewing Free Internet Television. Live streaming TV, recorded news, broadband internet TV stations, and video from all over the world. About 2,961 Online TV Channels from 60+ countries in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, The Caribbean, Latin America, Middle East all in one website. You can stream live TV channels from over 60 different countries - starting from popular new channels like BBC, CNN and EuroSports to local channels in United States.
2. LinkTV: Global news, documentaries, TV shows, and movies.
3. ABC TV: download and watch free Web TV at Abc.com.
4. ChannelChooser: ChannelChooser is a good place to find many different free web TV channels, all streaming.
5. wwITv.com: You can find free web TV channels from all over the world here; a great selection.
6. Miro: Download Miro to watch free internet video channels and play any video file.
7. Veoh.comp: Watch all kinds of free web TV and more videos at Veoh.com.
8. Blip.tv: Watch the most popular TV shows over at Blip.tv; lots of free web TV here.
9. Yahoo TV: Yahoo TV is still really getting going, but you can find a lot of good stuff here, especially trailers and pilots from upcoming TV shows.
10. AOL in2tv: AOL’s in2tv is one of the best places on the Web to find classic TV shows.
11. BBC: The BBC has generously placed its news programs online in a free, streaming format.
12. Newsfilm Library: From the University of South Carolina; this collection hosts a part of the Fox MovieTone collection.
13. Choose and Watch: Choose and Watch is a free web TV site with literally hundreds of channels to choose from.
14. Live Online TV: Live Online TV is a good site with many free channel offerings to choose from.
15. Zap2it.com: You can watch all sorts of free web TV at Zap2it, also includes news and reviews.
16. Streamick: Streamick has many, many free web TV channels to choose from, but I especially appreciate that it’s so nicely organized into categories.
17. TVLand: Watch old and new TV shows here at TVLand; I got sucked into an old episode of Little House on the Prairie.
18. SingingFish: SingingFish is a good place to find all kinds of multimedia. Make sure you take advantage of the advanced search filters.
19. CurrentTV: not a traditional TV network; this is mostly user-created and submitted free online TV.
20 FoodNetwork: Don’t have cable, but you need that recipe? No problem - you can watch free web TV demonstrations.
21. Google Video: Google Video is a good place to find free web TV, however, many of the shows are pay-per-view (you can just go over to YouTube and find them there!).
22. BeelineTV: Free web TV channels from all around the world.
23. Yahoo Video Search: Yahoo Video Search is a good place to find music videos, TV show snippets, and more.
24. RadioFreeWorld: Find free web TV here, as well as free online radio stations.
25. Worldtvpc

10 Useful Windows Tools

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:06:00 +0000

Here are the List of 10 Most Useful windows app which are free to Download and very useful for you.
Here is the List.

1) Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP (KB917013)Brief Description: Windows Desktop Search 3.01 is an updated component of Windows that enables instant search on your computer.
Download

2. Microsoft Windows Theme NunavutBrief Description: Customize your desktop with Microsoft Windows Theme Nunavut.
Download

3. Microsoft Egypt Nile ThemeBrief Description: An Egypt Nile desktop theme with new wallpaper, animated cursors, new icons, new 4
Download

4. Autoplay Repair WizardBrief DescriptionThe Microsoft AutoPlay Repair Wizard scans your computer devices to find defective AutoPlay settings, and attempts to fix those it finds.
Download

5. 3-D American Flag Screen SaverBrief Description: Reflect your patriotic spirit with this American Flag screen saver.
Download

6. SyncToy v1.4Brief Description: SyncToy helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers quickly and easily.
Download

7. Windows XP Winter Fun ScreensaversBrief Description: Download these cool screen savers with vivid 3-D and interactive sound effects.
Download

8. Plus! Dancer LEBrief Description: Experience music in a whole new way with lifelike 3-D and animated dancers that groove on your desktop with dozens of entertaining and hilarious dance moves.
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9. NZ Bliss Desktop Backgrounds for WindowsBrief Description: Free uniquely New Zealand desktop backgrounds & wallpaper.
Download

10. Internet Explorer Developer ToolbarBrief Description: The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.
Download

Courtesy :www.technobuzz.net

Online FLV(videos) Converter

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free!

About this service:
This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.

When you submit a URL, it will download and convert to the video format, and then you can download the converted file.

FLV to MPEG4 Conveter engine is now OpenSource. You can download the source code via subversion: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=183657
For Windows users: Please install DivX to play DivX AVI.

Vixy.net Converter Desktop Version (BETA):
For your desktop version is available now. It looks like this site and the usage is almost same as this site. It's free but with Ads. It's still in BETA release so it will expire at Sep/30/2008.

1. Download Installer for Windows (Xp, Vista)Version 0.6 Jul/01/2008(If you use Xp, please install .NET Framework 2.0.)

2. Download App for MacOSX (10.4, 10.5) Intel / PPCVersion 0.3 Jul/01/2008To install the app, please open dmg file and copy the app to your "Application" folder. The converted file will be in your "Movie" folder. (You can change the output folder from "Preference" Menu.)

Adobe CS3 Extended Seminar in Hyderabad

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:44:00 +0000

New to the Photoshop family, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with measurement, analysis, and visualization tools.

Ideal for:
- Film, video, and multimedia professionals
- Graphic and web designers using 3D and motion
- Manufacturing professionals
- Medical professionals
- Architects and engineers (AEC professionals)
- Scientific researchers

Like a well-fed amoeba, the 2007 Adobe Photoshop has split in two, producing its own child, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Think of Extended as Photoshop heavy (as opposed to Photoshop Light); it’s basically the same application with some extra capabilities and bundled scripts targeted at video postproduction tasks, 3D texture-map editing, and scientific image analysis. At about $300 more than Adobe Photoshop CS3, it is a significant upgrade decision–one which I’m not sure will entirely satisfy the relevant users.

Adobe seems to use Extended as a dumping ground for everything it considers “other.” What else could explain a product that supports both DICOM image stacks and texture-map editing? Though it boasts some useful capabilities, Extended seems like a tentative, uncertain step toward addressing each segment of Photoshop’s heretofore tangential users. It’s Photoshop with multiple personality disorder: one scientist, one architect/engineer, and one game designer/video producer.

Furthermore, whenever a company draws a market segment line between two versions of a product, the placement of that line becomes somewhat arbitrary. In the case of Photoshop standard versus Extended, that fuzzy line cuts across its 32-bit high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging support. The standard version has Merge to HDR, which allows you to take bracketed photos and combine them to attain a broader tonal range. But for HDR-capable brushes and support for adjustments like Levels, Hue, and Saturation, you’ll have to bump up to Extended. Even there, the Magic Wand doesn’t work in 32-bit mode (although, oddly, Quick Select works), nor do Curves and the new Black and White adjustments (you can still use the Channel Mixer, however).

Its new measurement tools, which let you drop counters on an image as well as measure and record the distance and angle between two points, are faster to use than previous manual methods, but they feel a bit undercooked–as if Adobe is waiting to hear from users before putting them back in the oven. For example, the count tool doesn’t even let you change the size or shape of the markers it drops, or provide an option to let them scale when you zoom. Despite the many potential applications for recording color values in an image, the color sampler tool still only supports four data points, and you can’t record the measurements.

For more detail on Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended’s new features, click the image.

In addition to the enhanced Vanishing Point capabilities in its cheaper sibling–the ability to create linked planes at odd angles–Extended allows you to measure the planes and angles as well as export the meshes to DXF or VPE (After Effects). You can import a few popular formats of 3D models and edit any embedded texture maps; there are some basic rotation controls, coarse rendering options, and some odd lighting presets (it will load lights from the file, however).

However, if Adobe intends this to be a useful tool for creating presentation materials using 3D objects–can you say Acrobat 3D?–it needs more high-quality renderers and light presets, plus better visual feedback as to whether you’re manipulating the camera or the object. The cross-section view is nice, but a reference axis floating in the object space would be really helpful. You can apply filters to 3D objects via Smart Filters, which I have to admit is very cool for producing “artist’s rendering” views of a model.

Extended also contains some refugees from the now-defunct ImageReady, including its frame-based animation tools. Adobe has expanded the animation to include a timeline for basic keyframing of video effects and individual frame edits; it’s certainly no replacement for After Effects CS3 Professional, but will serve in a pinch. Though I can understand the development reasons behind splitting the motion capabilities into a separate package, it’s a shame to deny Web or mobile designers the ability to, say, animate the movement of a drop shadow via the Global Light setting, unless they fork over the extra $300 bucks.

(compare Two editions of Photoshop CS3)Though based on the veteran 10th-generation Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Extended feels like a version 1.0 product tacked on. If you have the budget and want to experiment with the new tools, it’s certainly worth a try. But if you’re looking for the same streamlined, high-productivity tools for technical analysis, 3D imaging, and video/animation that Photoshop brings to traditional imaging, you’ll need to wait a version or two.

Photoshop CS3

Adobe Photoshop CS3 includes all the features you love in Photoshop CS2, plus many innovative new ones. Photoshop CS3 accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers and designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new, timesaving tools make your work flow faster.

Ideal for:
- Photographers
- Graphic designers
- Web designers
- Print service providers

Photoshop CS3 Extended

New to the Photoshop family, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with measurement, analysis, and visualization tools.

Ideal for:
- Film, video, and multimedia professionals
- Graphic and web designers using 3D and motion
- Manufacturing professionals
- Medical professionals
- Architects and engineers (AEC professionals)
- Scientific researchers

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The good: Adds the ability to animate effects; some cool 3D capabilities; same excellent Photoshop underpinnings.

The bad: Most of the implementations of the new features lack flexibility and polish.

The bottom line: The professional’s choice for image editing spawns Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended to appeal to select vertical markets, but it delivers mixed results.

Specs: License qty: 1 user; License type: Complete package; Min processor type: Intel Xeon, PowerPC G5, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Duo, PowerPC G4

WDG HTML Validator

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +0000

WDG HTML Validator

Other languages: français

Enter the URL of an HTML document to validate. To quickly validate multiple URLs, try the batch mode. Alternatively, you can validate files on your computer or you can enter your HTML directly.

Real HTML Validation

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:53:00 +0000

Genuine HTML validators employ SGML parsers to check a document's syntax against a document type definition (DTD). HTML standards issued by the W3C specify DTDs for checking the validity of HTML documents.

There are other programs, commonly called "lints" or "linters," that also check HTML documents. However, lints generally do not use an SGML parser with a DTD, but instead use a simpler, less formal parser. Lints do not find all errors caught by a real validator, and they often report false errors.

Lints are useful tools for tracking down problems other than invalid HTML. For example, a lint might point out that the OBJECT element is poorly supported among current browsers or that the FONT element is considered harmful. Reports from lints are subjective--they reflect the opinions of the lint's developer. Reports from validators are objective--they simply tell you what your errors are according to HTML standards.

Using a lint is not a substitute for real HTML validation. New developments on the Web--such as the growing use of XML and the strong standards focus of Mozilla--continue to demonstrate the need for valid HTML. Using just a lint is not enough.

Unfortunately, some programs claim to be "HTML validators" when they are really lints. In an attempt to avoid confusion, here are separate lists of true validators and lints. As you can see, many of the lints generate bogus errors for this document, which is valid HTML 4.0 Strict and compatible with any browser.

Real Validators

Lints

CSE HTML Validator - reports 26 bogus errors and 1 bogus warning for this page (using version 3.05)
HTML TIDY
Bobby
Weblint
NetMechanic HTML Check - reports 6 bogus errors and 1 bogus warning in its HTML Check of this page
Dr. Watson - reports 47 bogus errors in this page

A Real Validator

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:24:00 +0000

A Real Validator is an HTML syntax checker for Windows. Unlike other HTML "validators" for Windows, A Real Validator uses a sophisticated SGML parser to give true HTML validation.

With A Real Validator, authors get the same high level of accuracy seen with online validators such as the WDG HTML Validator and the W3C HTML Validation Service. Since A Real Validator works offline, it provides convenience, speed, and flexibility not available with online validators.

A Real Validator is trail version, after install choose given details you can cracked to be full version.
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Portfolio....

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:05:00 +0000

1.Pressmart

Tools : Photoshop CS3 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash CS3, CSS 2.1, PHP, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : www.pressmart.net
Description: Pressmart, a product of Bodhtree, is industry's most advanced solution for publishing electronic edition of Journals, newspapers, and magazine or any other publication on multiple distribution channels like Web, Mobile, RSS, Podcast, Blogs, Search Engines, Article Directories and Social Networking Sites, with integrated revenue and cost-saving capabilities.

Pressmart is cited as the fastest growing online publishing service widely accepted and proven in 37 countries, in over 22 languages. Some of the leading publishing titles such as Birmingham Post, CNBC Europe, IKEA, Bangkok Post, the Sun, Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle, Indian Express, Lokmat and premier newspaper associations such as World Association of Newspapers (WAN) representing 63,000 publications spread over 200 countries have partnered with Pressmart for repurposing content on new media delivery channels.

Now Pressmart available languages : Chinese, Czech, German, Russia, Spanish, Turkish.

2. Zumba

Tools : Photoshop CS3 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash CS3, CSS 2.1,PHP,XHTML, JS
URL :www.zumba.com
Description: Zumba is a fitness program inspired by Latin dance. The name Zumba is derived from a Colombian word meaning to move fast and have fun . Zumba combines high energy and motivating music with unique moves and combinations that allow the Zumba participants to dance away their worries. Apparently almost 1 million Americans have taken Zumba classes. Zumba is a style of intense dance-aerobics workout with pulsating latin music. More than 2 million DVDs have been sold in over 30 countries. Zumba currently has over 2000 instructors worldwide .

In this Master trainers will conduct Workshops , Instructors and Non ZinMembers will participate in this Workshops by Registering thru this Site , After completion of workshops Non Zin members can become instructors . Master trainer can Add locations and Schedule classes for locations Apart from this Instructors , Master Trainers can download the Step Videos , Music recommendations, Download MP3’s for classes , Message Board , and avail the Discounts for the Products.
Zumba is the big dance/aerobic craze at the moment, Zumba is a fitness program inspired by Latin dance.

3. World Telecom

Tools : Photoshop CS3 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash CS3, CSS 2.1, PHP, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : www.worldtelecom.pt
Description:World Telecom is part of the Portugal Communications Group, which includes The Portugal News, Portugal's national newspaper in English; DQ - The Directory Enquiries in English service and Lingua Franca, the English language Customer Service Centre. Members of the group have been established in Portugal since 1977. World Telecom is the largest telecoms operator in Portugal serving the expatriate community. We offer everything you need, from simple line rental, fixed and mobile phone services, ADSL, fixed or mobile, low cost packs of minutes or personalised competitive rates.

We work on one simple principle, personal service to the highest level possible. We know you really dislike automated call centres, so the only button we are going to ask you to push is to select the language you would like to speak, English, Portuguese or German. After that you will be put straight through to one of our team of customer service staff who will deal with your enquiry or support needs directly.

4. Indianic

Tools : Photoshop CS, Dream weaver, Flash , CSS, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design
URL : www.indianic.com
Description: IndiaNic works as a network / team and as an offshore company in Web Site Development India / Offshore Development Center Outsourcing world. We are truly dedicated in web-development and Offshore Software Outsourcing professionals. Our mission or aim is to fulfill our client's need. Our expertise includes Linux, Perl, PHP, ASP, and Cold Fusion. But are not limited up to these. We can develop and maintain database enabled web sites using PHP, PERL, ASP & Cold Fusion while utilizing the latest web techniques.

Our e-commerce solution is scalable and easily integrated with HTML, Flash, Java, WAP and other applications.

IndiaNic works with web site-development & data warehousing firms from around the global in need of sub-contract, experience developers to complete projects for their clients. Indianic has a goal to help Internet development firms to build and complete their quality projects at a reasonable cost.

5. Every Where Prepaid

Tools : Photoshop CS3 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash CS3, CSS 2.1, Dot net, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : everywhereprepaid
Description: Shopping cart, Ringtones,sms

6. viajescarteya

Tools :Photoshop CS3 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash CS3, CSS 2.1, PHP, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role: : Design and Development
URL :www.viajescarteya.es
Description: online booking hotel, flighs and cruise.

7. GVKBio

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash,HTML, Web 2.0
Role :Design and Development
URL : www.gvkbio.com
Description: The exponential increase in the number of targets has created vast opportunities and even greater challenges. More drug candidates must be achieved with shorter times-to-market, making reliable and cost-effective research support a critical factor for success. At GVK BIO, we provide contract research services to a rapidly growing base of global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. We combine Science, Innovation and People to help our clients address their drug development challenges. New frontiers require new ways of working and we believe that to deliver the true promise of science, innovation is necessary. Our customers benefit not just from lower costs and boosted efficiencies, but also from the infusion of fresh ideas and thinking.

8. Dreddy's Perspective (CEO Blog)dreddy's

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash,HTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : Ver1 Ver2 Ver3
Description: Dr. Reddy's is a values-led company. We define our purpose in terms of the needs of the society we serve.

Our purpose is to help people lead healthier lives. Our vision is to become a discovery-led, global pharmaceutical company We strive for excellence in everything that we do.

9. Five Dollar Network

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : fivedollarnetwork
Description: At Five Dollar Network, you can make dollars just by refering as many people as you can! As it is getting harder these days to earn an income online, we decided to create this program to enable everyone to earn over the internet from the comfort of their time and to have the possibility of gaining a source of steady earnings. We do not offer millions within a week or a complete financial independence.

We do believe though, that with people referring people a very nice source of income will be generated.
If you put a little of effort into this, you can reach the goals that you set for yourself.
There is a single life-time membership fee of US $5 ! There are no other hidden fees. This fee enables us to give you very valuable Services and Unlimited Network. You need to acquire as many as you can because you are being paid for direct and indirect referrals.

Members earn $1 for every direct Referral and percentage share for every indirect referral. This means that you do not only gain money for every person you refer, but you also get paid for the referrals referred by your referrals and then for their referrals and so on, any levels deep.
We do not limit the number of your direct referrals, you may refer as many as you can and therefore earn quite a bit more.

10. Lations Nation

Tools : Photoshop7, Dream weaver, HTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : lationsnation
Description: Community website

11. ITW Chemin

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash,HTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL http://www.itwchemin.com/

Description:ITW Chemin, a business unit of ITW Inc. (NYSE: ITW), USA, offers a wide array of the products / brands manufactured at the state-of-the-art facility which includes, Met-L-Gard (Rust Preventive Chemicals), Met-L- Cool (Metal Working Fluids), Magnaflux (NDT/Crack Detection Chemicals and Equipment), Met-L-Hold (Precision Workholding), Devcon (Metal-filled Epoxies and Urethanes), LPS (Lubricants, Cleaners, Degreasers), EZ (High-performance Industrial Greases), Plexus (Structural Adhesives), Accu-Lube (Micro lubrication Systems), Tiede (Magnetic Particle Inspection Equipment), Dykem (Marking Systems, Staining Colours and Steel Blue Layout Liquids), Rustlick 631 (Instant Rust Fighter in Aerosol Can) , EC clean (Contact Cleaner) and Wynn’s (Automotive After Market).

Our wide range of high-performance branded products deliver matchless value to a number of industries viz automotive, auto component, aviation, aerospace, cement, chemical, defence, fertilizer, heavy engineering, pharmaceuticals, power & metals etc. Our Vision is to "Grow and excel continuously to serve customers with value adding world class 'green' solutions". ITW Chemin operates out of its manufacturing facility at Pashammylaram, Andhra Pradesh (35 Kms from the Hyderabad ). The facility is certified by DNV for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 systems. With over 100 distributors, ITW Chemin not only offers cutting-edge technology and innovation but well-networked services too.

12. Pressmart Newsportal

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : PressmartNewsportal
Description:Global Newsportal

13. Pressmart Publishers Support

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : publishersSupport
Description:Global Newsportal

14. Pressmart ePublishing Blog

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : epublishingBlog
Description:Media Publishing, Wordpress Theme

15. Pressmart NewsPaper

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : http://news.pressmart.net/
Description:Global Newsportal

16. Cashback24

Tools : Photoshop 7 , Dream weaver, HTML, Dotnet
Role : Design and Development
URL : http://www.cashback24.se/
Description:Online shopping, categories

17. Athand24

Tools : Photoshop 7 , Dream weaver, HTML, Dot net
Role : Design and Development
URL : http://www.athand24.com/
Description : This project is a comprehensive real estate portal for Rent, Sale, Share and Vacation rentals for buyers, sellers and real estate agents with powerful search and sort options. This application includes interactive features like: Classifieds, Newsletters, Forums, Articles, Website directory Advertisements and Realestate finance and many more features. Admin module is designed to manage the site effectively keeping in view of the scalability and ease of manageability.

18. Creation IT

Tools : Photoshop CS2 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role : Design and Development
URL : creationit
Description : CreationsIT®, an IT services Company, launched in 2006 .Our Company provides custom Software Development solutions for the SMB (Small and Medium Business) sector.Our business is driven by the core principle of thinking globally and exploring new creations,finally providing quality solutions at cost effective prices. Our business is driven by the core principle of thinking globally and exploring new creations,finally providing quality solutions at cost effective prices. Our business is driven by the core principle of thinking globally and exploring new creations,finally providing quality solutions at cost effective prices.

At Creations IT, we like to develop long-term relationships with our clients, based on consistent delivery of high quality, cost-effective, and responsive services. We achieve this by adhering to repeatable / proven processes and management disciplines/performance metrics incorporated in our core services.rcing choice by being their technology implementation partners and their preferred outsourcing arm in India.

19. Handshake Yoga

Tools : Photoshop 7 , Dream weaver, HTML, Dot net
Role : Design and Development
URL : http://yoga.handshake.com/index.php
Description : Yoga.handshake.com is an online community website and a single source for users to access information, trends, capable instructors, and the latest products around yoga and general wellness/fitness.

WHandshake was created to help people all around the world to tap into yoga, massage, fitness and wellness. The founders came together with a mission of creating an online community and a single source for users to access information, trends, capable instructors, and the latest products around yoga and general wellness/fitness. To accomplish this task, the founders have developed a strong support staff, and a world class advisory board.

20. Londan Rate

Tools :Photoshop CS3 Extended, Dream weaver CS3, Flash CS3, CSS 2.1, PHP, XHTML, Web 2.0
Role: Design and Development URL :http://www.viajescarteya.es/
Description : LondonRate.com is endeavouring to build an online emporium of staff service providers with online comparisons, bookings and ratings. Everything is designed to provide you with the best service, tailored exactly to your needs. In order to keep improving our service to you, we need your feedback. Please join us and use the community to express your opinions on every issue, including London Rate.

Personal Links

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:14:00 +0000

General Websites

Everything2
It's... well... Everything. Noded for easy use. Random and addictive!
SlashDot
Tech news. You either read it or hate it...
Kuro5hin
A community-moderated news and discussion site. Technology and culture orientated.
MetaFilter
A meta-blog of all the interesting happenings online.
Boing Boing
A directory of Interesting Things.
Memepool
Collecting random links for your entertainment.
HydrogenAudio
For digital audio enthusiasts. Codec comparisons and more.
No-Ads PAC File
An easy and brilliant way of accelerating your web browser: don't download adverts.
Digital Blasphemy
Atmospheric 3D rendered wallpaper. Your desktop will never look the same again.

Developer Friends

Matt Wilson
Matt's life and travels.
Andrew Brehaut
He has art projects too, apparently.

Humour

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:12:00 +0000

And yes, that is spelt correctly!

The Latest News

The Onion
Online newspapers have never been as accurate as this.
BBSpot
More satirical stories, mostly IT-related.
SatireWire
Sadly ceased updating, but the archives are great.
God's LiveJournal
The Big Guy has a blog these days.

Online Comics

Calvin & Hobbes
It's online. For free. Read it.
Penny-Arcade!
For gamers every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Red Meat
Sick, sick, sick. An online comic that is occasionally very funny.
Dilbert
Come on, you must know this one.
Weebl And Bob
Mmmmm... pie.

Just Plain Funny

Homestar Runner
It's Dot Com! This should only be viewed for good, or awesome.
B3TA
Photoshop shenanigans, because We Love The Web.
Keepers of Lists
The Top 100 Ways To Find Monks Funny.
Real Ultimate Power!
Ninjas are cool. And by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Dave Barry
Hilarious newspaper columns.
DribbleGlass
A little of everything.
Rec.Humour.Funny
Archive of newsgroup humour... a LOT of it.
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize
The worst possible opening lines to fictitious books.
The Writings On The Stall
Wit and wisdom of the world's public toilets.
The Dialectizer
Translates into languages you never knew existed.
Evil On A Budget
World domination to suit any financial means.
Citizen's Self-Arrest Form
Celebrate innovative new measures in crime prevention!
Temple Ov Thee Lemur
Erm, I'm not quite sure I can explain this one.
Happy Tree Friends
Aww! Cute little animals! Warning: don't click if you like cute cartoon animals.
Weebl's Stuff
Badger badger badger...

XHTML & CSS Links

ralimadhu@yahoo.com (Madhu) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:09:00 +0000

Here are some other XHTML/CSS related sites I find useful. If you're looking for a good reference, tutorial, or example, try these...

Development News & Blogs

The Daily Report
Much-needed standards-based advocacy from Zeldman, with many interesting links.
A List Apart
Magazine for people who make websites.
Evolt
A community of website designers, who have written many interesting articles.
Simon Willison
An interesting blog on all things Web-related.
Dave Shea's Mezzoblue
Dave Shea's weblog; the creator of the CSS Zen Garden.

Resource / Tutorial Sites

CSS Zen Garden
Not really a reference, but it will show you of the power of CSS by blowing your mind.
NYPL Style Guide
Harness the power of XHTML with these simple guidelines.
Eric Meyer
Load Mozilla, Opera or Safari and check out his CSS/Edge experiments...
NC Design
An HTML and CSS reference with clear examples, compatibility and syntax. This is where I head first when I'm on the hunt for tag and class info...
ZVON
REALLY comprehensive set of references on CSS/XHTML/DOM/etc. Bookmark this one.
Index DOT Html/Css
Another great HTML/CSS reference site.
The Nemesis Project
A Wiki-like collection of CSS resources and tutorials/tricks.
Dithered CSS Hacks
Want to fix an browser-specific CSS bug? This is it. The rest of the site's good too.
Glish
A good list of CSS layout resources.
QuirksMode (PPK's Site)
Lots of DOM/CSS compatibility resources and JavaScript information!
Explorer Bugs
Find out exactly how poor the IE6 rendering engine really is, and how to fix it.
IE6 Flicker @ FiveSevenSix
Explanation of a problem common to many CSS based sites.

The Horses' Mouths

MSDN Library
Microsoft's spin on DHTML, CSS and JS, well worth a browse. Look under 'Web Development' > 'Web Page Development', as well as 'Scripting'... this site is packed with information.
Netscape DevEdge
Netscape's developer site, has good Javascript and DHTML documentation.
The Mozilla Project: Web Developers
One of the most standards-compliant rendering engines available.
Opera Specifications
Features supported by the Opera browser.

Send Me More!

I'm always looking for useful web development resources to link. So please empty your bookmark folder in my general direction!