
February 26th, 2011

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theme
If you’re a photographer or artist, or you want to show some of your great work with a fully functional online photo gallery, and you also want to use wordpress to run your site, here is over 40 beautiful wordpress portfolio & photography themes for photographers, these themes are all very professional, which can save your time to your photography.
You get what you pay for–most of them are premium, but if you just a photo blogger, you can find some premium style free portfolio themes too. Enjoy!

February 20th, 2011

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Hosting & Domain
Choosing the best web hosting service is one of the most crucial decisions for most of bloggers. With a poor web hosting service provider it can be a nightmare, I was using Hostgator Shared Hosting Package since 2008, however, my nightmare began on Jan 12, 2011, so I purchased Hostgator VPS Level 2 & Level 3, Media Temple VPS(Dedicated-Virtual Server), Unfortunately, the nightmare couldn’t be stopped until I’m using Knownhost VPS(VS2). So it’s not a tutorial on how to choose the best VPS provider, I only want to record and share my experience which will help you get started…

February 11th, 2011

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ActionScript
We introduced three ways to load an image file in Flex in previous article. Normally there are no any problem with loading progress of external files. You can add an event listen(Event.COMPLETE) to monitor if it is complete then do something, but if you also want to do something when any errors were caused on the loading, what should we do? Below is the sample source code on how to track Loader process in AS3:

February 10th, 2011

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Adobe
You may love or hate Flash Player, but updated versions are never a bad thing. Adobe announced the release of Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Flash Player 10.2 delivers beautiful HD video, faster graphics rendering, and high performance on mobile screens and is designed to take advantage of native device capabilities. This new version features Stage Video, a complete hardware accelerated video-pipeline to bring first-class video on all browsers as well as platforms.
The Adobe Flash Player 10.2 no longer supports Microsoft Windows 2000 and Macintosh PowerPC-based computers.

February 10th, 2011

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AJAX,
HTML & CSS,
JavaScript
If you use an image for the background image of an element on a mouseOver or :hover event(for example, navigation menu which images are used), the image will not load until the first :hover event if you only apply that background-image in the CSS for the :hover state. The preloader will help you with this! It’ll load those images when the page loads and stores them in your browsers cache. So avoid delays with rollover effects. In this article, you’ll learn 4 ways to preload images with CSS or javascript technique.

February 9th, 2011

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Others
I remembered reading an article similar “Evolution of a C++ Programmer” or “Evolution of a C Programmer” or “The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer” before, I laughed out loud! I think that’s only a joke by some boring guys, at most they can serve a good pedagogical purpose as well as a humorous one. Last year, I lead a team to develop a Java-based tool – all team members are COBOL background and without any java skill.

February 9th, 2011

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PSDs,
iPhone
We collected the 11 Great Free iPhone 4 GUI PSD Templates for designers before, however PSD can’t be used directly by end iPhone users. More than thousands of themes can be found from Internet, normally you also need to spend some time to pick up them. In this article, we collect over 30 really beautiful and cute free iPhone themes, hope it can save your time!

February 6th, 2011

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Adobe,
iPad,
iPhone
For most users, snapping photos on your iPhone should be one of the most useful function, then export the photos into PC, probably some of them need a little bit of touching up.
In fact, Adobe has released some useful apps such as Adobe Photoshop Express which lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. Here is the collection of free iPhone and iPad apps developed by Adobe.