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Google "Let It Snow"

Head over to Google.com and type "Let It Snow" in search box then sit back and watch.

It looks amazing.

Cafe 666 : Website Launched

We are pleased to announce that we have launched official website of Cafe 666.

Cafe 666 is a Pakistani Restaurant situated on Sydney Road, Brunswick. Serving delicious dishes from 6pm to 3am. All week.

head over to Cafe 666 website and don't forget to visit them at their restaurant.

Mothers Day Logos Over the Years from Google

But for their first year, Google has been changing its home page logo every Mother's Day in a tribute to mothers everywhere. And although the images for the years 2000 and 2001 don't look very different, take a closer look (images below) and you'll find a small but interesting distinction.

e took this year's image from Google Australia, but you should see it on all of Google's sites now.

Google 2009 Mothers Day Logo

Turn Firefox 3's Location Bar Yellow at https://

One noticeable change between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 is the yellow address bar background, which turned on in Firefox 2 when you visited encrypted web sites-the ones that start with https://. After much debate among the developers, Firefox 3 dropped that visual cue, but on Windows, with a little


						userChrome.css

tweak, you can have that yellow background back. Here's how.

If you've got the Stylish extension installed, you can simply add a new style that contains:

#urlbar[level] .autocomplete-textbox-container {
background-color: #FFFFB7 !important;
}

Calyx Labs Search

Saturday June 14, 2008 | Calyx Labs

Here is our newly added feature to our website all new Search Page which search the overall site and displays the result Calyx Labs Search

Creating Different CSS Style Selector

Microsoft is slowly moving towards compliance. The fact that they are not doing so quickly presents an unnecessary challenge to content creators and CSS authors because previously created hacks will not work, and new bugs may arise from the changes that are being made in the new version of the widely used browser that is not standards compliant.

In the past, we have all user the * html, or _ or # and other techniques to serve specific Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) information to Microsoft Browsers to cater for their proprietary implementation CSS units and the box model. Some of the popular methods of isolating IE when styling and doing page layout will not work as some sections of the Microsoft implementation of CSS become Standards Compliant. In a particular case at hand, I discovered that IE 7.0 does not interpret form field heights and padding in the same way as IE 6 in CSS and thus using the # hack to send a different dimensions/units to IE and Firefox leaves either IE6 or IE7 badly aligned.

In this case, I found out that much as both IE6 and IE7 still work with the # hack that prefixes settings, IE7 ignores the underscore '_' hack. This makes it possible to create separate settings for Firefox, IE 6 and IE 7 as shown in the below example:

context_bar_form_field
{
height: 15px;
#height: 15px;
_height: 21px;
}

The first setting will apply to all browsers,
The second setting will only apply to Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers
The third setting will only apply to IE browsers 6.0 and older

Virtual Tour With jQuery

This virtual tour plugin has the particularity to be accessible and can run even if javascript has not been activated] : navigation uses the standard html tags and in accordance with w3c

No need for Flash, Quicktime or Java. Your visitors will not have to install any software to experiment your virtual tour.

In the section, insert CSS ans javascript calls :

5 Great Tools to Save Links for Later

Unfortunately, there just aren't enough hours in the day. This seems to be especially true when you take on a lot of projects. Between blogging, researching, emailing, and real life, reading all of your feeds isn't something we can do all the time. Sometimes, we see something that we'd love to save it for later without cluttering up our bookmarks. Here are 5 tools to get the job done

ReadBag

ReadBag is a quick and easy bookmarklet to save links for later. ReadBag requires a Google Account to use the service, though OpenID might have been a better choice. The UI is simple and clean with all the features available from the homepage. You can archive bookmarks after you're done reading them, star them, add a note, or simply delete them. ReadBag includes a host of goodies such importing options, a Firefox extension, Google Reader integration, Google Gears support, RSS for your bookmarks, and a mobile interface for both regular phones and the iPhone. Unfortunately, ReadBag doesn't support tagging.

Mobile Web Browsing with Skyfire

Skyfire, the mobile web browser that allows users to experience the web as they would on a PC, has secured $13 Million in Series B Funding. The application has a waiting list that amounts to the publicity Gmail received with its invite system. Here's a closer look at a next generation web browser that users should look forward to.

Funding Investors
The new funding round takes Skyfire's total raise to date up to $17.8m. Currently in private beta for Windows Mobile, Skyfire will use the funding to expand their browser to even more people on more platforms. The funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and included previous investors Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. The funds will be used towards further rollout and distribution of the mobile browser and will add Jake Seid, Managing Director of Lightspeed, to its Board of Directors.

Web 2.0 Not Making Money

A new article by the Financial Times claims the Web 2.0 movement is changing behavior but not making money.

The FT says online entrepreneurs have "produced little in the way of revenue" despite the progress made in content and interactivity. It quotes an executive at tech investor Battery Ventures as saying there is going to be "a big shake-up out here in the next year or two," with many of the Web 2.0 start-ups vanishing off the map altogether.

The article does make a mention of Twitter, saying while it has yet to make significant money, its devoted userbase and strong positive response both show signs of potential down the road.

Its ending assessment is also one of optimism, saying the changes brought about by 2.0 are long-lasting and the dollar signs may just be slow-coming.

"The capabilities that are coming with Web 2.0 are very profound," Thomson Reuters exec Devin Wenig told FT. "The Valley is usually right, and it's usually early."