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Blogs ยป Archive for February, 2009
7 Time Tracking Tools To Help You Manage Your Time
Time tracking is important for many reasons: billing, creating accurate estimates and increasing productivity are a few. Here are a list of seven tools that help you track your time…and do much more.
Flowing Markdown Upstream
Markdown is one of the most popular alternatives to writing markup — partly because it’s easy to understand for non-technical users. Here, Troels introduces an implementation that includes a live preview.
Does Gmail’s Crash Forecast “Dark Cloud Computing”?
Gmail crashed again spawning further debate over the validity of cloud computing. The rationale might be expressed like this; “If Google can go down for even an hour, then what might happen to much smaller enterprise cloud solutions?” Does today’s mishap darken the outlook for cloud computing? It represents nothing more than a soft Winter rain, but it does remind us that it can rain.
Microsoft to Offer Competing Browsers in Windows?
The European Commission may force Microsoft offer alternative browsers to Internet Explorer within Windows.
More Crimes Against Hypertext
Several weeks ago, Andrew spelled out several common examples of poor hyperlinking. It generated an interesting discussion, so he thought he’d write a follow-up, adding a few more examples and some solutions.
The Slow Lingering Death of IE6
Will the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 be the final nail in IE6’s coffin or is it too early to celebrate the 8 year-old browser’s demise?
21 Stimulating Color Palette Tools For Designers
Can’t decide which colors to use? Alyssa presents a collection of online color palette tools to inspire your creativity and help you select the best color scheme for any given design.
One Way Microsoft Might Elevate America and the IT Community
Microsoft announces Elevate America, a program to help displaced workers get technical training in these difficult times. Whether an altruistic exercise or a truly innovative outreach, the program will benefit millions of future IT professionals.
MicroPlaza Solves Twitter Link Sharing
Twitter is an amazing platform for virally spreading links. How to reign in those links and filter them so they’re personally relevant to you is a million dollar question. New service MicroPlaza just might have the answer.
The 5 Most Under-Used HTML Tags
It is easy to forget some of the lesser-known HTML tags. Luckily, Craig is here to remind you about 5 tags that you should be using in your web pages.
