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30 Free System Tools for a Better Mac

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:44:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good collection of useful tools.

It's not an easy task to maintain our Mac system clean, healthy, and appealing with just relying on built-in applications. We will end up scratching our head just to delete some unnecessary binary files to clean our disk.

Therefore, we all here decided to make a good compilation of free system tools for Mac. With many varieties of applications, from system cleaner to system tweaker, from data organizer to system display manager, we have those all collected in this article.

Tags: macintosh, utilities, mac, free

Castles Around the World

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:20:43 GMT

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Clip Source: amolife.com

"It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth."

Tags: castles, photography

25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:18:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.webdesignerdepot.com

Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.

Tags: graphics, information, web, design

section 504

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:59:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great site with lots of information

Clip Source: www.wrightslaw.com

Section 504 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Section 504 ensures that the child with a disability has equal access to an education. The child may receive accommodations and modifications.

OCR explained that when "a school division's decision that a student is ineligible for Section 504 services could result in death or serious illness, there is a basis for . . . 'extraordinary circumstances' . . ." Based upon OCR's findings, the school district voluntarily agreed to re-evaluate the child's eligibility for a Section 504 plan."

Tags: civil rights, 504

Twelve Misunderstanding of Evolution

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:09:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The conclusion the Wilsons should have reached is; Cooperation beats selfishness within groups and between groups. Now that is a solid foundation.

Clip Source: www.scientificblogging.com

No. 1 “Evolution is the external and visible manifestation of the differential survival of alternative replicators.”

No. 2 Cooperation came about through evolution.

No. 3 Selfishness is the principal factor in evolution.

No. 4 Group selection is only a theoretical possibility.

No. 5 Hamilton’s rule shows how altruism is spread genetically.

No. 6 The study of animal behaviours gives a good picture of evolutionary theory.

No. 7Alarm calls are motivated by selfishness.

No. 8 Members of the same species are competing for the same resources.

No. 9 Gene selection is a valid concept.

No.10 Genes build organisms for the preservation of genes.

No. 11 Selfish gene theory is a legitimate way of looking at evolution.

No. 12 “Selfishness beats altruism within groups, altruistic groups beat selfish groups.”

The conclusion the Wilsons should have reached is; Cooperation beats selfishness within groups and between groups. Now that is a solid foundation.

Tags: evolution

Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking, Stupid

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:00:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very interesting viewpoint on why the human species is different from all others.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Human beings are not obviously equipped to be nature’s gladiators. We have no claws, no armor. That we eat meat seems surprising, because we are not made for chewing it uncooked in the wild. Our jaws are weak; our teeth are blunt; our mouths are small. That thing below our noses? It truly is a pie hole.

“Cooked food does many familiar things,” he observes. “It makes our food safer, creates rich and delicious tastes and reduces spoilage. Heating can allow us to open, cut or mash tough foods. But none of these advantages is as important as a little-appreciated aspect: cooking increases the amount of energy our bodies obtain from food.”

Tags: food, evolution

Photography

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:05:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.flickr.com

Tags: photography, landscapes, portraits, jewelry

Drawing Celtic Knotwork

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:02:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.clanbadge.com

I've been drawing Celtic Knotwork for years and I have developed several techniques and my own methods. These tutorials demonstrate those methods. The first (left side of the page) is similar in some ways to the methods of George Bain, his son Iain Bain and many of the artists that preceded them. The biggest difference between my method and the traditional methods is that I use computer graphics programs, but the instructions below are applicable to pencil and paper as well. The second method illustrated here uses the Celtic Knot Font. This font is based on the same forms that can be created using the first method, but the knotwork has been cut apart into separate reusable pieces. I then converted those pieces into characters in a font. The pieces are linked to keys on your computer keyboard, giving you the ability to TYPE KNOTS!

Tags: art, drawing, celtic knots

Marta Chapa

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:59:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My favorite Mexican Artist

Clip Source: www.marthachapa.net

Una entrevista llena de sabor y poesía con Elva Macías, Talentosa poeta y gastrónoma que nos hablará de sus logros, retos y vivencias, así como de su gran pasión por la cocina.
Además, en nuestro espacio cultural, abordaremos su propia obra poética. ¡Todo un rico y poético banquete!

Tags: mexian, artist, art

Achieving Liquid Backgrounds with Fixed Content

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:03:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Discussion of web page design where you want a liquid background but with fixed contents

Clip Source: www.sohtanaka.com

I’ve been asked a few times by readers on how to create fluid backgrounds while maintaining a fixed width. When I was just getting my feet wet with CSS layouts, I too was a bit stumped by this situation as well. It’s really not that complicated as it seems, let’s look into it now.

Tags: css, web design, liguid layout, fixed content

CSS Reference Page

Tue, 12 May 2009 01:27:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reference pages from W3Schools.com

Clip Source: www.w3schools.com

CSS Basic

CSS HOME
CSS Introduction
CSS Syntax
CSS How To
CSS Background
CSS Text
CSS Font
CSS Border
CSS Outline
CSS Margin
CSS Padding
CSS List

CSS Table

CSS Advanced

CSS Dimension
CSS Classification
CSS Positioning
CSS Pseudo-class
CSS Pseudo-element
CSS Image Gallery
CSS Image Opacity
CSS Media Types
CSS Don't

CSS Summary

CSS Examples

CSS References

CSS Reference
CSS Print
CSS Aural
CSS Units
CSS Colors
CSS Colorvalues

CSS Colornames

CSS Quiz

CSS Exam

Tags: reference, css

Overide Inline Styles with CSS

Tue, 12 May 2009 01:24:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good article of how to override Inline styles with CSS

Clip Source: css-tricks.com

Often we think of inline styles as a way to override styles we set up in the CSS. 99% of the time, this is the case, and it’s very handy. But there are some circumstances where you need to do it the other way around. As in, there are inline styles on some markup that you absolutely can’t remove, but you need to override what those styles are. This could be markup that is being inserted onto the page from foreign JavaScript or perhaps generated from the bowels of a CMS that you cannot control easily.

<div style="background: red;">
    The inline styles for this div should make it red.
</div>

div[style] {
   background: yellow !important;
}

Tags: css, inline styles, override, tips, tricks