CleanCut is a HTML Theme, best suited for Portfolio and Business Websites. It comes with 5 fantastic Image and News slideshows that also support video, has multiple Page templates, a very unique portfolio sorting optio.
Key features of the template:
Valid XHTM Strict1.0, tableless Design
Multiple Page templates:
5 different Index Pages:Box Slider, Curtain Slider, Accordion Slider, Crossfading Slider, News Slider
Single Post Entry
Static Page
Static Page Fullwidth
Blog Overview Page
Portfolio Page
Portfolio Single Page
Ajax Contact Page
And many more…
jQuery Support:
5 different Portfolio/Item slider, also supporting video!
Unique Portfolio Sorting/Filtering with a custom jQuery script
Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery
Cufon font replacement
jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
Every year, Fortune magazine (where I started out as a reporter) comes out with its list of the Most Admired Companies in the world. In truth, it doesn’t really change much from year to year. Apple, once again for the fourth year in a row, is No. 1, as it should be. The company single-handedly created an entirely new class of touch computing with the iPad last year, and is on it’s way to becoming the most valuable company in the world.
Google is No. 2 (although, confusingly, it’s overall score of 8.22 is higher than Apple’s 8.16—it turns out that those are their industry scores not their separate Top 50 scores, a spokesperson explains, even though they are labeled “overall scores”). And Amazon comes in at No. 7. Microsoft hangs on at No. 9. So four of the top 10 companies are from the technology industry. And IBM is No. 12. After that, the list becomes a mixed bag, and even a little questionable. Cisco, Intel, Netflix, eBay, Sony, and Oracle also made the list. Netflix totally deserves to be there and maybe Cisco, but the others just seem to grandfathered in. Where’s Yahoo?
Actually, before you put too much credence into this list, however, Goldman Sachs also made the list at No. 25. Yes, that Goldman Sachs, the one that turned out to be too big to jail for its culpability in the financial crisis and is spending $3.4 billion in legal fees just to defend itself this year alone.
Here are the Top 10 Most Admired companies according to Fortune:
1 Apple
2 Google
3 Berkshire Hathaway
4 Southwest Airlines
5 Procter & Gamble
6 Coca-Cola
7 Amazon.com
8 FedEx
9 Microsoft
10 McDonald’s
Today, the Android media player doubleTwist reached a big milestone: 1 million active users between its mobile and desktop apps.
We’ve been following the media player closely for over a year now, watching to see if it would find enough adoption to make it the premiere Android alternative to iTunes.
Back in November, the company launched its wireless syncing software called “AirSync” that automatically syncs your music, movies, and photos whenever you’re in wireless range — and offers us a glimpse into the future of mobile tech. Add AirSync to doubleTwist’s already slick interface, the ability to import iTunes playlists, and support for audio/video podcasts, and you can see why the player has quickly become one of the most popular on the Android market. And now that the company has reached the 1 million user milestone, it’s clear that they’re more than just “on their way.”
In light of their impressive recent growth (300% active user growth in the 4Q 2010), doubleTwist announced it will also be both reshuffling current management as well as adding new members to their team. Co-founder and CTO Jon Lech Johansen will be taking over the role of CEO from Monique Farantzos, and Farantzos will become President and Chairman.
In addition, Farantzos told us that the company will be adding Blake Krikorian (the former CEO of Sling), who will be joining the board of directors; Stuart Collingwood, former Head of European Operations for Sling, will be the Head of European & International Operations, and Lucas Dickey (formerly Product Manager at Amazon for Amazon MP3) will become Product Manager for the doubleTwist mobile, desktop and cloud applications.
To round out doubleTwist’s bevy of announcements, the company is launching “AirTwist”, a free update to AirSync, which will allow users to stream their movies, photos, and music directly to their TV using an Xbox or a PS3. Plus, it will wirelessly sync data with your desktop. Look out, iTunes.
We all are aware of Google Android OS Based mobile phones like G1-phone, HTC Hero etc. Basically Google Android is Linux kernel based Operating system for mobile phones but you might have heard Android powered Netbooks will be soon coming to market meaning Google Android can be installed on Netbooks then why not on normal PCs ?
Well now you can also install Google Android on your PC with LiveAndroid a LiveCD/LiveUSB for Google Android for x86 platforms. Google Android LiveCD is useful for those users who want to test Android OS but don’t want to purchase G1 Phone. LiveAndroid is open source project lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC.
There appear to be a lot of misguided people on the intarwebs claiming all sorts of varying things you have to do to get CURL to work on a Windows-based XAMPP install. I’d like to clear them all up here and now.
Using CURL in XAMPP
It’s really quite simple - uncomment extension=php_curl.dll in your php.ini file, then restart Apache1.
A lot of confusion seems to stem from the fact that there are multiple php.ini files in a standard XAMPP install. This really isn’t as confusing as you’d think it would be, assuming you - and I know I’m going out on a limb here - read the documentation.
There’s a straight-forward XAMPPFAQ Entry about their php.ini stucture. For those looking for the easy fix, ignore everything but the /apache/bin/php.ini file. That’s the only one that counts, regardless of which PHP version you’re currently using.
What about all the .dll files you need? Well, you don’t need them. Everything you need to run CURL on a XAMPP install is included in the download. Stop downloading extra crap and sticking it all over your system. XAMPP knows what it needs, where it’s at, and how to use it. End of story. This is all based on the XAMPP Basic Package for Windows, version 1.6.1, released on 4/18/2007. YMMV. Update for XAMPP 1.7.x: As of the 1.7.0 release, the php.ini file is found in /xampp/php. When in doubt, consult the FAQ entry linked above for help. Thanks to several commenters for pointing out this change!
Restarting Apache is required on both Windows and Linux whenever you make configuration changes.
Thanks everyone who came to my Ajax talk tonight at the .NET Developers Association! The slides and demos from the talk can be downloaded by clicking the following link:
You need Visual Studio 2010 to view the code samples. The first project, named Demos, contains the following samples:
ASPAjax4
1_CompositeScripts.aspx – Demonstrates how to use the ScriptManger to combine, compress, and cache JavaScript files automatically.
2_EnableCdn.aspx – Demonstrates how to retrieve ASP.NET Ajax framework scripts from the Microsoft Ajax CDN automatically.
jQuery
1_Selectors.aspx – Demonstrates how to use jQuery selectors
2_WebForms.aspx – Demonstrates how to use the client tablesorter plugin with ASP.NET Web Forms.
3_MVC.aspx – Demonstrates how to use jQuery animation and the templating plugin with ASP.NET MVC.
4_OData.aspx – Demonstrates how to use jQuery with the Netflix API by using JSONP and odata.
5_Templating.aspx – Demonstrates how to use jQuery client templating.
6_TemplateConditionals.aspx – Demonstrates how to use logic within a jQuery template.
7_DataLinking.aspx – Demonstrates how to perform data-binding in jQuery.
8_Converters.aspx – Demonstrates how to defines converters that work with data-binding.
The second project, named ACT_Tools, illustrates how to use the Microsoft Ajax Minifier and the JSBuild JavaScript preprocessor. When you perform a build in Visual Studio, all JavaScript and CSS files are minified automatically. Furthermore, any *.pre.js file is processed using the JSBuild preprocessor and the output is saved to the ScriptOutput folder. Select Show All Files in Visual Studio to see the generated results of the minifier and the preprocessor.
The jQuery UI team just added jQuery UI to the Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN). Thanks to them, you can start using jQuery UI in your ASP.NET websites by linking to jQuery UI at the following address:
You can start using the CDN now for free. No registration is required.
Using jQuery UI from the CDN can substantially improve the performance of your production ASP.NET websites. The Microsoft CDN is composed of servers distributed around the world. When users request a page from your website, the users can retrieve jQuery UI from a server located geographically close to them.
In addition, because browsers cache JavaScript files relative to a domain, serving jQuery UI from a CDN enables your website users to avoid downloading jQuery UI when visiting multiple websites. If you visit two websites that both use jQuery UI from the Microsoft CDN then the jQuery UI library only needs to be downloaded once.
Learn more about the Microsoft Ajax CDN by visiting the following website:
This website is being updated with the location of all of the jQuery UI library files.
Using the jQuery UI Datapicker from the Microsoft Ajax CDN
The jQuery UI Datepicker (http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/) enables you to easily display a pop-up calendar. Here’s a complete code sample of using this plugin: Listing 1 – Using the jQuery UI Datepicker
When you open this page, and click (or tab) inside the input field, you get a popup calendar:
Notice that the page above includes the following link to a jQuery UI theme:
All of the standard jQuery UI themes are hosted on the Microsoft Ajax CDN. I am using the standard jQuery UI Redmond theme – naturally :).
Additional jQuery Plugins on the CDN
We are inviting the authors of the top jQuery plugins to add their plugins to the CDN. Pay attention to this blog over the next few months to learn about the new jQuery plugins added to the CDN.
I’m super excited about having jQuery UI on the Microsoft CDN. Having jQuery UI on the CDN will make it easier for ASP.NET developers to build ASP.NET applications that support rich and interactive user interfaces.
