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- Cool Websites and Tools [March 23rd]
- How Did Facebook Originate? [In Case You Were Wondering]
- Mapping Multiple Locations On Your Website With MapTheWay
- 4 Really Funny YouTube Video Channels Worth Keeping Up With
- 6 Ways To Search For Emails In Outlook 2007
- The Top 3 Browser-Based IDE’s To Code In The Cloud
- How To Easily Activate Two Finger Scroll In Windows Laptops
- 3 Ways To Sync Thunderbird Emails Across Multiple Computers
- Photo Magician Makes Resizing Images MAGIC!
| Cool Websites and Tools [March 23rd] Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| How Did Facebook Originate? [In Case You Were Wondering] Posted: 23 Mar 2010 06:31 PM PDT
In the article, I covered the technologies behind the social giant. Today, I'm going to answer another fundamental question we all have about Facebook – how did Facebook originate? The story behind Facebook is fascinating. It involves college students, booze, hacking, investigation, and farm animals. Considering how it began, it's pretty amazing how far the site has come in just 6 short years.
Mark ZuckerbergFacebook all starts with Mark Zuckerberg. As Facebook's CEO and co-founder, Mark was named one of The World's Most Influential People by Time magazine in 2008 when he was just 24. He founded Facebook along with a few of his former classmates – Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes – while attending Harvard.
The idea for Facebook came from Mark's days at Phillips Exeter Academy, which annually published a student directory with headshot photos of all students and faculty known as the "facebook". How Did Facebook Originate? From Facemash.Before there was a Facebook, there was Facemash. Zuckerberg invented Facemash on October 28, 2003 while attending Harvard his sophomore year. Apparently, Mark got dumped by a girl he was seeing, got drunk, and started blogging to get his mind off of things. He stated that he had his dormitory 'facebook' up and some of the pictures were so ugly that they could be compared to farm animals. Enter Facemash. Mark posted: "Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing (you can't really ever be sure with farm animals…), but I like the idea of comparing two people together." Facemash became Harvard's version of Hot or Not. Using photos gathered from the 'facebooks' of nine houses, Zuckerberg made a site that would randomly display two photos side-by-side, allowing others to vote on who the "hotter" person was. How exactly did he get the photos? He hacked into Harvard's computer network and copied them, of course. This whole incident got the attention of Harvard's school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. Success Of Facemash & Its FalloutAt the time Facemash went live, Harvard did not have its own student directory or anything similar. Mark's site became instantly popular because of this, garnering 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views within only a few hours. Mark blogged: “Perhaps Harvard will squelch it for legal reasons without realizing its value as a venture that could possibly be expanded to other schools (maybe even ones with good-looking people…), but one thing is certain, and it's that I'm a jerk for making this site. Oh well. Someone had to do it eventually…”
A few days later, Harvard administration shut down the site and charged Zuckerberg with breach of security and invasion of privacy and copyrights. He faced expulsion but in the end the charges were dropped. ThefacebookIn January 2004 (the following semester), Mark began coding a new website called Thefacebook. He was inspired by the newspaper article covering the whole Facemash incident, in which the paper stated that there could be many benefits to a centralized website.
Thefacebook launched on February 4th. “Everyone's been talking a lot about a universal facebook within Harvard,” Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson. “I think it's kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around to it. I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week.” In just 24 hours time, Thefacebook had nearly 1,500 registrants. After a month, more than half the undergrad population at Harvard had accounts.
In March, Zuckerberg (and team) expanded to the other Ivy League schools and soon after the rest of the country and eventually the whole world. They dropped 'The' from their name and purchased the facebook.com domain name for $200,000 in 2005. The rest, as they say, is history. ConclusionSuccess stories are often fun to read about. Although still young, Facebook continues to grow rapidly and has been a huge success. It will be interesting to see where it goes in the future. Did you know Facebook had such an interesting background story? What's the next step in online communication? Leave your comments below. Image Credit: 123dan321 Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mapping Multiple Locations On Your Website With MapTheWay Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:31 PM PDT
Other MakeUseOf authors have also shared awesome features offered by Google Maps, such as Tina’s list of the 5 best things about Google Maps, Mark’s list of awesome Google Map features, and Eyal’s article on creating collaborative Google Maps. If you haven’t guessed it yet, we’re big fans.
This is a useful method of mapping out multiple locations for your visitors because you can either manually plot out a trip or you can create interactive software that sets the way points automatically by editing the XML file via a script. Imagine being able to write a blog post with actually embedded maps – not just screenshots. Your visitors can see the maps that you’ve laid out and you can title each way point however you like. Installing MapTheWay for Mapping Multiple Locations On Your WebsiteAs we go through this tutorial, you’ll see why having this feature embedded on your website is so convenient. No need to store or share maps from Google Maps – all you have to do is create a new XML file of your waypoints and voila – you can immediately share a new map in minutes. Let’s get started and you’ll see why this is a very cool tool to install for your blog or your website. First, download the free basic version files to your PC, and then FTP the “mapthewayDir” folder (and all contents) to the http root folder of your website.
In the case of a Wordpress blog, you’ll want to upload the folder and contents (along with the base files) to the same level directory in your themes folder where your index.php file is stored. You’re already halfway to mapping multiple locations on your blog! Now, if you don’t already have an API map key for your website, then go on over to Google and sign up for a Google Maps API using the domain where you uploaded the MapTheWay directory. Once you receive your key, go into your mapthewayDir directory on your web server and edit the file mapthewaycontext.xml with your own Google API key.
By the way, if you wish, you can change the map language to either French (fr) or Portuguese (po) rather than English. It appears those are the only languages currently available. Now MapTheWay is installed on your site, and you’re ready to start embedding your maps! How To Set Way Points & Display Your MapThere are a few files that are part of the download package that you’ll want to check out. Two of those files are HtmlHead.txt and HtmlBody.txt. Whenever you want to embed a map on one of your pages, you just have to make sure the header script and the body script is included on the page. The header script doesn’t change. And guess what, if you’re using a Wordpress theme, the odds are pretty good that you have a header.php – you can simply insert the script once and you’re all set.
Now, you need to set up your XML file filled with your Way Points. The template to use is MyWebPage.xml included in the mapthewayDir folder. The format of that file is as shown below.
Many of the variables used in the example file aren’t available in the free version. For your free setup, you need to focus on setting the lat, lng, title, description, country, postcode, city and address (all optional except lng and lat). The “type” is the name of the marker image file, so type “city” refers to file “marker[city].png. So, you could customize your own marker icons if you use that naming convention. Your first question here is probably – isn’t this a bit complicated? How are you supposed to know the lat and long of your locations? Don’t worry my friends, I’ve got you covered – because when you downloaded this cool free app, you also downloaded a convenient utility to identify those location points. Just go to your browser, go to your domain and open up the file. If it doesn’t work at your domain, just use the utility offered for free at MapTheWay.
Simple drag the target along your route and it’ll give you the longitude and latitude of each point. Keep a note of each waypoint as you trace your trip. Once you’re finished, just modify the template MyWebPage.xml with your new way points and descriptions, and save it as a new XML file in the mapthewayDir folder. When you’re done, all you have to do is embed the map into your webpage using the code found in the HtmlBody.txt file. You should find the name of the xml file in the code 3 times, so you’ll need to edit those three entries with your new XML file name.
Save the page, and your new map is now embedded on your website!
The map embedded perfectly on my webpage. All of the titles show up when the user clicks “Show Labels,” and if the user clicks on an icon for a way point, your description text is displayed. The map looks professional and initially attempts to center on all of your way points when it first starts up. The one thing I noticed about this setup is it didn’t really like the Wordpress file structure (the app likes to exist on the root of your domain), so I was able to get it working by installing it on a new domain that I recently purchased and creating an index.html file with the code shown in this tutorial. So, if you’ve created your own website – embedding this app will be a breeze. If you want to use it on your blog, it’s going to take a bit of tweaking before it’ll work right – but that’s beyond the scope of this article. So give MapTheWay a shot on your website and let us know what you think. Do you know of any other cool ways to embed maps directly onto your website? Share your resources in the comments section below. We NEED Your Comments! Please do share your thoughts in article comments! Similar MakeUseOf Articles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 Really Funny YouTube Video Channels Worth Keeping Up With Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:31 PM PDT
YouTube also has what they call channels. Any user can start their own channel, recording and uploading videos for others to follow. As you can guess, some channels are more interesting than others. Some are less offensive than others. Some are even educational. Then there are those channels that people use just to vent. You can also find a lot of funny Youtube videos. I would like to share 4 YouTube channels that are really funny and actually worth checking out. So sit back and have a laugh.
ImprovEverywhereThis channel is hilarious! The whole premise that they go by is “we cause scenes”. Kind of a play on words but what they actually do is choose a public place and actually make a scene using improvisation. The public has no idea what is taking place (except a few) so they’re really taken aback by what’s going on. For example, one of my favorites is the “I Love Lunch” musical: Check out some more of my favorite funny Youtube videos: Grocery Store Musical, Best Buy and Slo-Mo Home Depot PennyPranksHave you ever had to count pennies in order to get something in a pinch? This is a YouTube channel where a man and a boy attempt to purchase large ticket items with nothing but pennies. As it turns out, some salesmen accept the payment but others do not. As it also turns out, the video series was created as an advertisement for an office store sale – school supplies for a penny. Here’s the guitar video: Jack Vale FilmsThis guy is crazy! What he does is he sets up hidden cameras and randomly pranks people. It’s neat seeing someone who can take people’s attention off whatever is going on in their lives and have a laugh. Watch over and over as people are taken off guard by his shenanigans. Warning, some of the videos will need you to appreciate fart humor (farting turkey, farting in NY, farting in an elevator). Don’t worry, that’s not all he does. He also has the unique ability to play peek-a-boo with total strangers in these funny Youtube videos: PetTubedotcomWho doesn’t love those funny pet videos? Well, YouTube is not totally devoid of funny pet video channels. PetTubedotcom happens to be one of them! I’m sure you’d get a kick out of baby raccoons chasing little kids around their back yard or cats getting into personal battles with sneakers, If so, PetTubedotcom could be the YouTube channel for you. For example, check out this video of three dogs teaming up on a tether ball: See, I told you there are some funny channels on YouTube. I understand that everyone’s sense of humor is different. Perhaps some people do not find the same channels funny as I do. Tell me, which YouTube channels do you find funny? Also, if you have some favorite funny YouTube videos that make you laugh, let me know in the comments. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf fan page on Facebook. Over 15,000 fans already!
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| 6 Ways To Search For Emails In Outlook 2007 Posted: 23 Mar 2010 12:31 PM PDT
Although most of us have our folders and rules to arrange all incoming emails and some of us are pretty disciplined about email organization, none of us can escape the use of the search feature for emails once in a while. We had given the search capabilities of Microsoft Outlook a brief going over in 10 Powerful Productivity Tips & Tricks For Outlook 2007. Mastering any search how-to has almost become the thing for surviving in the digital jungle. So I guess it wouldn't do anyone any harm if we took a more searching look at how to get to a lost email in the clutter of our inbox.
In that case, it's just a 5.8MB free download from the Microsoft website. It is a part of Windows Search. Search for Emails With Instant SearchThe Instant Search box is the console from where you can launch all your searches. Type in your search terms and the results get instantly displayed and highlighted in the results pane. To clear away the results click on the little cross adjacent to the box.
To expand your search for emails, you can click on All Mail Items. This includes all folders (personal and archived) in the search.
Search Using KeywordsThe search box accepts the use of keywords with specific syntaxes. The syntax, keyword: your search criteria value is usually followed where the keyword can be anything like to, from, subject, cc, bcc etc. For example, a search using to: Saikat, will bring up all emails sent to Saikat.
Searches can be further narrowed using operators like AND, OR, <, > etc. in a way similar to web search. But here, all the operators must be in the uppercase. The official Outlook 2007 Help and How-to post describes the different keywords you can use for quick searching. Search With The Query BuilderIf all this sounds against Windows’ known user-friendliness, rest assured, this is where the handy Query Builder comes in. Click on Expand the Query Builder arrow just next to the Instant Search box. By default, the four more common ways to search through emails are displayed. For instance, you can search through the content of all emails using an expression called the Body field.
More keyword options are opened up with a click on Add Criteria. For instance, it's very easy to filter all emails with attachments by selecting Attachments and then choosing Yes from the dropdown.
The Query Builder criteria fields can be combined in a search to narrow down your results. The values and the criteria used in the Query Builder also get displayed as a search query syntax, exactly the arrangement you were trying to achieve with a keyword search for emails. Search Inside A MessageSearching inside a message works in the most obvious way. Open an email and click on F4 or select Find from the Ribbon.
As in other Office documents, the Find/Replace dialog box comes up for an intra-document search. Search For Related MessagesOpen the email for which you want to find all the related messages. From the Ribbon, click on the dropdown that says Related and then choose Related Messages. If you choose the option that reads – Messages from Sender, all emails from that particular sender gets sorted.
You can also right click on a selected message and choose the option from the context menu. Search Using Advanced FindThe omnipresent Find box may not be very impressive, but the Advanced Find box certainly is with its array of search options. If you want to find a needle in the haystack, head for Tools – Instant Search – Advanced Find (or CTRL+SHIFT+F). The Advanced Find dialog box opens up contextually, and displays the tab that's most relevant to you. If you are in Contacts, the Advanced Box displays the Contacts tab.
The Advanced Find box has three tabs. The name of the first tab depends on where you are in Outlook and it contains the most common search options. The second tab is about More Choices and you can use this for more targeted searches.
The third tab is for the power users and it contains a huge number of criteria that you can define to find even a pebble in the ocean.
The Advanced Find dialog box is bit of overkill for a search process and in most common cases you won't be heading there. Using the more basic search functions should suffice if your personal folders are organized and unneeded emails stand deleted. But if both the former and latter get ignored, Outlook has enough tools to help you overcome those bad email habits. Do you need to search for old emails frequently? How would you rate Outlook's search features? Similar MakeUseOf Articles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The Top 3 Browser-Based IDE’s To Code In The Cloud Posted: 23 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PDT
Finding a decent freeware code writing application (view previous code-editor compilations for Windows or Mac), never mind an IDE, can prove difficult. Some operating systems have it harder than others, and if you use more than one, or are on the move a lot, coding can be a bastard. Hence it pays to code in the cloud. By elevating your coding platform to an online environment, you not only rid yourself of OS issues but even of hardware independence. No matter where you find yourself, you can always access all your files with the same IDE.
Here’s Why You Want An Online IDEIf the aforementioned motivation of increased portability and accessibility wasn’t enough, here’s something else to think about. With your coding environment in the cloud, an IDE can be used as a programming environment for multiple people. You’ll be able to access code directories as a code, and collaborate through the web. Some of the IDE’s even offer a Google Wave-ish experience, where people can navigate and edit a single file together, at the same time. Most of these can even be installed on your own servers, eliminating the intermediary. Web hosts can even integrate them in the administrator dashboard, opening a whole new range of possibilities for their customers, by default. Bespin from Mozilla LabsRemember Mozilla? They’re the guys that brought you Firefox, Thunderbird, Ubiquity, and a bunch of other stuff. Included in the ‘other stuff’ is a browser-based IDE, called Bespin. The editor is built using the rather fresh HTML5 standard, so you won’t be able to use it with the older Internet Explorer versions (as if). As mentioned, this one can also be downloaded and hosted on your own server, or even integrated in one of your own web applications. An example of this, Kodingen, is discussed below.
Due to it’s minimalistic features, you can expect a lightning fast code editor, albeit slightly complex. The command line-like interaction might take some getting used to. All expected features are present: syntax highlighting and standard text manipulation. You can also access frequently used actions via the command bar and view the history of files, and how they were adapted. Groups of users can work on a single file at the same time. The code will automatically be updated in other browsers. This same feature can also be used to work on the code on multiple computers, without even needing to save and refresh. Coderun StudioCoderun Studio is a similarly powerful browser-based IDE, also boasting extensive collaborative features. Code can be automatically shared on a number of social networks, or otherwise distributed via unique hyperlinks. These will allow the recipient to view, and optionally edit a parallel version of the code. Because of the HTML5 absence, Coderun Studio can run in pretty much every browser, even the much faulted Internet Explorer.
On the other hand, some of the features that would elevate this to a full-fledged IDE, like compiling and deploying web scripts, are only available with one of the premium Coderun Cloud extension plans, ranging from $10 to $169 per month. KodingenBrowser-based IDE Kodingen was based off of Bespin, mentioned above. Is it fair to mention it in this top 3 as well? You bet it is. Kodingen does away with the minimalistic interface, and becomes more of a GUI tool like Coderun Studio, albeit with a Bespin core. In a way, it features the best of both worlds.
For Kodingen, although officially still in sign-up beta, the full launch is very near. As such, the advertised sign-up limitation will not be kept in effect. With the launch, a number of non-beta features will be rolled out as well. The discussion is still an ongoing one: do we need IDE’s in the cloud? Tell us your personal opinion in the comments section below! Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| How To Easily Activate Two Finger Scroll In Windows Laptops Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:31 AM PDT
But my friend’s question made me think. Is it really Mac specific? So I did some searching and found an unexpected answer. It turns out that some of the latest non-Mac laptops have similar features built in, and as for the older ones – as long as they use a Synaptic touchpad, you can easily add two finger scrolling using a little help from a little application called, well, Two-Finger-Scroll.
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| 3 Ways To Sync Thunderbird Emails Across Multiple Computers Posted: 23 Mar 2010 09:31 AM PDT
The disadvantage is that you don’t have access to your emails when you’re on a different computer. So if your favorite email client is Thunderbird and this is precisely the issue you need to solve, hang on! This article shows how you can sync Thunderbird emails across multiple computers and always have access to all of your emails no matter which computer you’re using.
1. Enable IMAPIf you’re currently downloading your email using POP3, you could possibly switch to IMAP, which meanwhile is supported by most email providers. What is the difference between IMAP and POP3? With POP3 the emails that reach your mailserver are eventually downloaded to your computer and deleted from the server. With IMAP a copy of the emails are kept on the server. Moreover, all folders, including ones you create, are re-created on the server and all computers that access this IMAP account. Hence, your emails, including trash and sent mails, are always in sync. To enable IMAP, log into your email service provider account and look for the respective settings. Then go to Thunderbird and adjust the settings there. If you’re switching from POP3 to IMAP, you’ll have to start over and re-create the account. Backup your email folders first! Then open > Tools > Account Settings… in Thunderbird, switch to the account and click > Account Actions > Remove Account to delete the account. Now you can re-create it. Thunderbird 3 automatically detects the right IMAP settings for your provider when you create a new email account. Go to > File > New > Mail Account… or within > Account Settings… click on > Account Actions > Add Mail Account… and enter your details. If the settings are not detected, click > Edit or > Manual Setup… and enter the details provided by your provider.
Within your Thunderbird > Account Settings also have a look at the > Synchronization & Storage options.
2. Move Profile To A Mobile DriveThis option is easier to set up, but more difficult to maintain. Technically, you’re not syncing Thunderbird emails across computers when you use this method. Instead you take your entire Thunderbird profile with you and access it on any computer you use. Since an external source will have a different drive letter on different computers, we’re not going to move the profile. We will just tell Thunderbird the path of the profile using the -profile “path” command line argument. The command line argument looks like this: “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe” -profile “F:\My TB profile” In Windows XP, you go to > Start > Run and type this command, replacing “F:\My TB profile” with the exact path to your profile.
To make this a little easier, you can create a shortcut on your removable drive using a small program called TBLaunch. You can download TBLaunch here. The INSTALL.txt file explains how to use the tool, which was designed many years ago to make a “portable hack” for Thunderbird 0.7 a little more comfortable. You can replace “tbpath” in the .ini file with the path to your program files folder like this: “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\” And of course you always have to carry the mobile drive with you. 3. Move Profile To A Network DriveThis last method to sync Thunderbird email requires that you have access to a shared / network drive. This is the most convenient method in the long run. However, it involves moving your existing profile to that drive, which can be tricky. First, close Thunderbird. Now move the profile folder to the desired location. In Windows XP you will find your Thunderbird profile under > “C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxx.default” If you do not see the “Application Data” folder, that’s because it’s hidden. Go to > Tools > Folder Options… > View tab and under > Hidden files and folders select > Show hidden files and folders. Once the profile has arrived in its new location, go to > “C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\” and open the > profiles.ini file in a text editor.
Make sure to change > IsRelative=1 to > IsRelative=0 in case you switch from a relative to a non-relative path. Also, the direction of slashes in the path will change from “/” (relative) to “\” (non-relative). You can also use this method to move your Thunderbird profile to another hard drive partition or an external hard drive. Finally, if you realized that this is quite complicated, you should consider switching to Gmail, as it has most of the advantages listed for desktop email clients above. The present article was written before this question came up on MakeUseOf Answers. Check out the comments to that question for more suggestions. We NEED Your Comments! Please do share your thoughts in article comments! Similar MakeUseOf Articles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Photo Magician Makes Resizing Images MAGIC! Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:31 AM PDT
So if I could specify an entire folder or even be able to drag and drop the images onto Photo Magician's interface and have them auto-magically resized, that would be awesome. And awesome it is! When you download and run this portable application you will see this screen which is the main user interface. It is very straightforward.
You have an input folder and an output folder. You select or create them by hitting the select button after each field. The Input folder will be where your original images are coming from and the output folder will be where Photo Magician will save the resized images. Now my biggest pet peeve about most other applications for resizing images is that they do not retain their aspect ratio. This is like checking maintain aspect ratio in Photoshop. When this is not the case your images get all distorted and then the application is more of a hindrance than actually helpful. Let's take a look at the application’s options. After all, an application is only as good as its options right? You can see all the options on the main screen in the bottom right hand corner like so:
Let's run down the options. The Include Sub Folders button allow you to have Photo Magician convert all the files in the root folder and all sub-folders. Do not make a sub-folder in your output directory because that would cause some serious issues! Overwrite originals is an option that can be used instead of the output folder. This will simply overwrite your original image files with the newly resized images. This is not undoable so it is a risky option! I would not use this one unless I was seriously strapped for hard drive space. Turn off image preview – This will speed things up a bit and it helps immensely on slower machines. Include other formats – this will try to resize every image in the directory, not just JPG and GIF. Exclude images under size – This will let you specify the largest size you want resized and it will leave alone any images falling under that size. Convert Images to same format – This will allow you to mass convert the images to another format after the resizing. You have these options: BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF and WMF as you can see below:
When you are ready to go all you need to do is click the Process Images button in the bottom left hand corner. Photo Magician will begin sifting through and resizing all the images meeting the options you selected. After setting up your options you can also hit Quick Convert Mode to process a chunk of images using a profile. The profiles are already set up for you so they can make your life a lot easier.
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During the time I’ve started using Google Maps, I’ve found as many ways to incorporate it into my life as possible. It’s integrated into my Motorola Android car GPS software, Google Latitude lets me share my Maps location to my kids while I’m traveling, and I always use it to search for parks and historic landmarks around us when we’re on a family trip.
For me personally, my Outlook 2007 is a massive sink. It is where a tonnage of emails pours in and Outlook embraces them without complaint. But with so many emails sinking into a fathomless pit, sometimes Outlook turns out to be very like The Bermuda Triangle . Sometimes what goes in doesn't come out quite so easily and I have to fish for it with some effort.
For those that aren’t in the know, the browser based “IDE” is an abbreviation of Integrated Development Environment. Very simply said, it’s an application that can be used to write code, but usually with added compiler/interpreter, debugging and automation features.
“Wow! How did you do that?”, my friend asked me with amazement, when he looked at how I scroll up and down the webpage using my two fingers. “Can my laptop do that?” he asked. He was a bit disappointed when I explained that as far as I know, the feature is Mac-specific because Apple owns the patent to that multi-touch technology.
A desktop email client has several advantages over webmail. First of all, you don’t rely on the availability of an online service. You can work on your emails without being connected to the Internet. You can set up several email accounts and there is no limit on how many gigabytes you can store for free. Thunderbird of course also comes with support for extensions, which makes it especially interesting.
This file lists all profiles registered with your installed Thunderbird. Locate the one you just moved and change the > Path= line to the new location, for example > Path=”E:\Thunderbird Profile/xxxxxxx.default”
Working in the online industry, I find myself taking lots and lots of screenshots. These screenshots may or may not be the right image size for the specific website they are destined for. Then resizing images adds another step to my web checklist.
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