It's No Longer Hip to be Square
One of the great things about CSS3 is the ability to create rounded edges on borders on anything. Images, navigation items, tabs, you name it. No longer are we stuck with square boxes or complex developing to display rounded edges. Contrary to Huey Lewis and the News, its no longer hip to be square.
Update Your Email on Outlook 2007
The only thing constant is change itself. This applies to server configurations and email settings. Sometimes things change, are you able to keep up? Updating your email account in Microsoft Office 2007 is not the easiest thing in the world to do, however with these instructions, you should have your mail up and running again in no time. Open Outlook 2007 and go to Tools \ Account Settings...
Styling Links with CSS3
One of the great things about CSS3 is the ability to remove more styling from the html and put the stying in the css file which results in cleaner html. CSS3 introduces three new selectors that can match strings against an attribute value at the beginning, the end, or anywhere within the value. This allows us to style different href links with icons relating to the type of link.
Google - Beyond the Search
There seems to be a denial of people in the world of windows to recognize the paradigm shift in the way day-to-day business is being done and information is being accessed. There is no better way to access information than the internet – convenience and accessibility is trumping the trumpeting IT directors and managers whom continue to cite ‘security’ as the reason to hold back. But Google not only recognized the paradigm shift, they monitored it and flew into the clouds early. Google has taken their initial core expertise, search, and then leveraged these capabilities to create a mail platform where one finds information not by sorting and filtering, but by dynamically searching and relating. Add in document management and online simultaneous collaboration on docs, IM, and Google Voice and you have all your communication needs in one place.
Pass on Passwords
Did you know you can copy files from server to server without using passwords? Well you can, and here's how. If you're a Linux sysadmin, you frequently need to copy files from one Linux box to another. Or, you may need to distribute a file to multiple boxes. You could use FTP, but using scp has many advantages. For instance, scp is much more secure than FTP. scp travels across the LAN/WAN encrypted, while FTP uses clear text, even for passwords.