Yesterday, the team behind Linux Mint pushed out the latest version of their Linux-based operating system. Linux Mint 8, codenamed “Helena,” is available for download as a live CD (the “Main” edition) or as a live DVD (the “Universal” edition, which includes support for quite a few different languages, but does not include pre-installed codecs [...]
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I recently read about the CSS transform property, and I was inspired to give it a try in a fun and mostly useless way.
After a bit of fidding, I present to you the “Rotate!” bookmarklet (click it several times if it doesn’t work the first time):
Rotate!
Simply drag the above link to your bookmarks toolbar, and [...]
I currently have a total of almost 50 Google Wave invitations available, and I’d like to give them away to our readers. All I’m asking in return is for you to post a comment telling me what kinds of tutorials and articles you’d like to see on HTMLCenter. It’s as simple as that. I’m always [...]
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MS Office 2010
Microsoft released the first public beta version of Microsoft Office 2010. You can download the beta by visiting the MS Office 2010 Web site (Silverlight 2.0 is required to view the page) and registering [...]
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This JavaScript tutorial article details ways to build URL query strings and use query string URL parameters, as well as extract parameters from the query string / URL.If your office is anything like mine, you get a lot of Web site content sent to you inside of Word documents. Most of the time, that’s the best way of doing things, since formatting within e-mail is so inconsistent and unreliable. The main problem with using Word documents to send new Web site content [...]
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One of the important things about web programming, especially when using AJAX, from a usability standpoint is to provide a responsive user interface to the audience. This level of responsiveness to the user’s actions can be achieved in many different ways; showing messages, changing colors, adding animation, changing contexts, basically anything that provides a natural [...]