October 2011
3 posts
The future of technology is all about mobile
bitshare:
At the Web 2.0 Summit, analyst Mary Meeker presented a fantastic slide show presentation of Internet and technology trends we have been seeing as of late including projections of the future of technology and where it is going. Read More
September 2011
11 posts
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Box-shadow, one of CSS3′s best new features →
The box-shadow property allows designers to easily implement multiple drop shadows (outer or inner) on box elements, specifying values for color, size, blur and offset.
You can also layer multiple shadows!
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Google Plus opens up to everyone globally and adds...
bitshare:
Google Plus just announced that they are opening up the Google Plus social networking service to everyone! It’s been 90 days since the beta launch. Although it felt like a long time, 90 days isn’t that bad and just long enough where Google is making the right choice to make it available to everyone now.
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Mouse Without Borders →
If you use multiple computers at the same desk, it’s annoying to use multiple sets of mice and keyboards. Do away with your hardware KVM with this handy Windows tool that even lets you drag between multiple computers
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Paper Prototyping
Depending on the language you write in, prototyping be flat out cumbersome. It is common for most of us to develop the shell of a system to help a decision maker see their ideas take shape. This can be frustrating when they are still determining if they wanted to move forward on a particular design. One solution to that is Paper Prototyping.
Paper Protyping is the process of writing the...
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“No. You do not “COVER” for me; you MANAGE people’s...”
– Don Draper
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Slicebox – A fresh 3D image slider with graceful... →
With the CSS3 3D transformations we can create some neat effects by transforming elements in three-dimensional space. Slicebox makes use of the 3D transforms properties and allows different kind of effects. The main idea is to create three-dimensional image slices that will rotate and reveal the next image as another side of the 3d object. In case the browser does not support 3D...
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Happy Programmer's Day! →
Hug a programmer! Or maybe not… They don’t all like that.
Programmers’ Day is an international unofficial professional holiday, celebrated on the 256th (0x100th) day of each year (September 13 during common years and on September 12 in leap years)
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“You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have...”
– Merlin Mann
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WatchWorking in teams helps mitigate risk. Why mitigate risk? Because life happens during projects projects. Kids get sick, cats die, cars break down. If more than one person is working on the task, it lets the project continue. It also ensures that at least two people are intimately involved and can answer questions.
This is a great little video on how they work in teams to reduce risk from...
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Build your own cube action figures! →
Maurice Moss. Flippin’ sweet!
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3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image... →
This article is a summary of a 3 fast and easy CSS techniques you can use to display only a portion of an image in your content. All techniques explained here actually need only couple of lines of…
August 2009
3 posts
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Simple Way to Random Display or Rotate Content... →
In a project I did recently there was a need for randomly displayed content in form of one of those “Did you know” tips. There were 8 to 10 paragraphs of text and client wanted to display just one…
PDF Mod Edits Multi-Page PDFs in Linux →
Linux: Linux is fully capable of scanning, processing, and otherwise working with PDF documents, but some of the default tools aren’t exactly new-user-friendly. PDF Mod is a straight-forward…
Easy Slider 1.7 - Numeric Navigation jQuery Slider →
I got a lot of emails and feedback about my easySlider plugin, thank you all for that. However, I have to apologize to all of you who sent emails asking for a little help with implementation or…
June 2009
1 post
How to properly "speak" HTM language →
One of the cornerstones of web standards is semantics. For those confused with this term, semantics is meaning of the word, sentence or in our case - a piece of code. Producing meaningful code…
March 2009
1 post
Easy Tooltip - jQuery plugin →
I love the simplicity of using (and more important re-using) jQuery plugins. So I decided to release yet another plugin that came from my personal need - jQuery tooltip. I already claimed this to be…
February 2009
3 posts
FontyPython Previews, Organizes, and Installs... →
Linux only: Font manager application FontyPython organizes system fonts into “pogs”—easily installable groups of fonts that can be organized on a per-project basis. Getting started with the…
Blueman 1.0 Brings Better Bluetooth to Linux →
Linux only: Blueman, the Bluetooth manager for many Linux desktops, has update to provide a friendlier, easier means of connecting your phones, earpieces, and even 3G/EDGE-connected devices to…
Pure Css Line Graph →
I often think about ways to visualize data using pure css. A while ago I wrote an article about pure css bar graphs, but what puzzled me lately was a solution for doing line graphs using nothing…
January 2009
10 posts
Easy Slider 1.5 - The Easiest jQuery Plugin For... →
New version of my Easy Slider plugin for jQuery is here. This is one of the my rare scripts that make it to their second version. In this case version 1.5 All of the features here are result of…
Interview With Logo Designer Luka Pensa →
Among other new things on this site, CSSG is starting to publish interviews with talented people. First in the series is an interview with my fellow Croatian (you might say a neighbor), a brilliant…
Enigma Desktop Ported to Linux →
If you like the Windows-based Enigma Desktop Customization created by reader Kaelri but you’re running Linux, we’ve got good news: Enigma has been ported to Linux. This time the desktop…
Ssherminator Splits SSH Terminal Windows Into... →
Linux only: Secure Shell client Ssherminator is a sophisticated split-pane, tabbed GUI interface sent through time to change the future for lucky geeks. Ssherminator is a fork of the…
WordPress Hack: Bulletproof Page Menu Labels →
I am not a WordPress expert by any standards. However, I did quite a few WP projects and got to know it well enough to try to hack things up here and there. I’d like to share my latest “hack” with…
WordPress Hack: Bulletproof Page Menu Labels →
I am not a WordPress expert by any standards. However, I did quite a few WP projects and got to know it well enough to try to hack things up here and there. I’d like to share my latest “hack” with…
CSSG Collections: Web Forms →
I am happy to present a new thing on CSS Globe: CSSG Collections! Approx. once a months I will design, code and give a way a collection of certain web elements for free. First in the series of…
jQuery plugin - Easy Image or Content Slider →
This is my first jQuery plugin. I wrote several jQuery scripts but never made a real plugin just because I was I afraid of it’s complexity. It turned out to be a lot easier than I thought so I…
My Top 10 Most Used CSS Class Names →
Many developers are puzzled when it comes to assigning class names to elements and often end up using wrong ones. Class names should not describe how the element looks like or where is it placed. A…
2008 on Css Globe →
Although this site is several years old, 2008 was the first year that CSSG started to fulfill it’s potential. At the beginning of the 2008 I started to write articles and that proved to be a good…
December 2008
5 posts
Google Gadgets for Linux Updates to Support... →
Linux only: The latest release of Google Gadgets for Linux offers speed and memory performance enhancements and a number of bug fixes, but, most importantly, support for newer gadgets like…
CSS Sprites + Rounded corners →
Introduction Yes, I know that there are thousands of tutorials regarding rounded corners with CSS, but anyway, I wanted to show you this way too. Hopefully, you will find it useful. It’s…
Amarok 2 Released, Windows and Mac Versions in... →
Linux only: Amarok 2, the open source media center we’d previously toured while it was in beta, is now available in a release version for Linux systems, and in pre-released beta for Windows…
Fading color effect for inline text links using... →
Here’s a simple UX trick that can be easily implemented into your web sites. With a few lines of jQuery it will make your text links fade to another color on rollover. How? Read on. Take a look…
Optimized Css Files →
An article recently submitted to community news section reminded me of a topic that I wanted to talk about - CSS optimization. As you know there are many online CSS optimizers that help you reduce…
November 2008
4 posts
Introducing Templatica →
I am happy to announce my new project called Templatica It is a place where you can get awesome CSS templates for a symbolic price.
There are two ways to purchase templates: you can buy…
Preventing line breaks using Regular Expression →
When developing sites I am often asked to perform tasks that from the first look seem very simple. But when I dig into it I soon find out that it’s turning out to be one of those things that make…
100% CSS compatibility or degrade correctly? →
I was talking with a front-end developer friend recently and was arguing that I would only use CSS3 rounded corners and shadows in the near future. No more pixel perfect for IE if it degrades…
Golden Ratio in modern CSS →
Some general layout thoughts
The styling of a website is not just the looks, it is much more than that. It is the thing that makes the visitor feel comfortable, the thing that will make him…
October 2008
4 posts
Creating easy and useful CSS Sprites →
Let’s start with the basics. What are CSS sprites? CSS sprites are a way to combine images to improve our page loading time, reducing the number of requests our server does. In this article I will…
Conky Puts Lightweight Ambient System Stats on... →
Linux only: Conky is a free, open-source system monitor that’s been featured in more than one of the Linux desktops we’ve featured, but pegging it as just a CPU/memory/process watcher…
Why do you like (or dislike) Css Globe? →
I plan to make some changes to this site in the near future, I will update some things, some new features coming up and perhaps some features will be gone.
Since this site is all about you dear…
QuickStart Configures Your Ubuntu System Without... →
Linux only: QuickStart, a free automation utility for Ubuntu Linux systems, makes it easy to perform partial or full system backups of any partition, synchronize folders and update them on…
September 2008
4 posts
Tasque Manages To-Dos with Remember the Milk... →
Linux only: Free to-do manager Tasque is a clean, unobtrusive interface for managing your to-do items on your Linux desktop. The program can run with its own local database of tasks, or can…
Easystroke Makes Mouse Gestures Easy in Linux →
Linux only: Easystroke, a free mouse gesture manager for Linux systems, makes the often quirky business of summoning applications, web sites, and desktop actions with your pointer a simple…
Dropbox for Linux Adds Online Backup to Desktop →
Dropbox, the free, web-based backup service previously available only for Windows and Mac computers, has added a free, open-source client for Linux to its offerings. Installing Dropbox…