The best way to learn web development is to understand the code other webmasters have used on their sites. Pick a site that you think is cool and then try to understand the code, and if you manage to fugue it out, replicate it in your own web site. To view the source code of a site, you can use the View source command available in most browsers, and everything becomes crystal clear, well not quite.
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Aardvark Extension for Firefox
<p>Since I have started using Mozilla Firefox, I’ve even removed the Internet explorer shortcut from my system’s start menu. The best part about using Firefox is that the user gets to decide how capable the browser is. that it depends upon you hoth9ing. As you get more familiar with it, you also get introduced to extensions, small add-ons that simplify or add features to the browser. I’ve been using Mozilla Firefox for over three years and feel that I am ready to do a series of posts on my favorite extensions.
My Firefox browser is powered by 25 extensions but I am not going to write about all of them. I will write only about the ones that I found to be most useful.
NOTE: This is the first of a series of posts on my favorite Firefox extensions, so just hang around.
Select Files Using the Mouse in Windows Vista
There’s a feature in Windows Vista which I just can’t get enough of. I had aways hoped that some day Microsoft will include it in it’s operating systems. Well guess what, they just did!
Unlike, previous Windows operating systems, you can select files and folders using just your mouse. For reasons unknown to me or to anyone else for that matter, this feature will not be available in a fresh install of Windows Vista. To enable this option, in Windows Explorer, choose Tools-> Folder Options –> View (tab) and check Use check boxes to select items.
Now open any folder and move the cursor to in front of the file or folder and enable the check box. Similarly, repeat this procedure for all the other files or folders you wish to select.
Vista Sniping Tool: Screen Capture and Editor
Finally Microsoft has decided to include a screen capture utility in it’s Windows Vista operating system. To start the Snapping Tool, choose All Programs ? Accessories ?Snapping Tool.
Using the Snapping Tool, you can capture a screen shot (snip) of any object on your screen The best thing about snapping tool is that it doesn’t require any keyboard input. Using a mouse or a tablet pen you can capture snips as Free-form Snip. Rectangular Snip,Window Snip. and Full-screen Snip
To capture a screen, select the required snip from the drop-down menu adjacent to the New button, and click New. For the purpose of this tutorial I have chosen Rectangular Snip, you can follow these steps for any other kind of snip.To start the capture, hold the left-mouse button and drag the mouse to draw the required shape. Release the mouse after you have selected the snip The snip displays in the editor for editing.
Minal’s Life Ravaged on Net, and in The Times Of India Too
Today’s Times Of India, Hyderabad has done a story on the creation of fake profiles on www.orkut.com in Minal Panchal’s name. These pranksters are messaging Minal’s friend to make them believe that as Minal is very much alive, contrary to what the authorities have corroborated.
Well, apart from the pranksters on the Internet, a couple exist in the real word as well. Mr. Sajeev Kumarapuram, who ironically has written the above story. The journalist has shown his insensitivity, and that too in the very first sentence of the article. Here’s screenshot of the page:
An excerpt:
Minal’s life ravaged on Net too
Sajeev Kumarapuram | TNN Hyderabad: I’m back, says
Minal’s ghost from the loony world of cyberspace.
Is this how the mainstream media should refer to a departed souls? Isn’t this disrespectful? Even a class 4 child will be able to sense the disrespect the reporter has shown in this story. I doubt if a copy editor even had a read of this story before it went to the press? If yes, then the copy editor too, along with Sajeev be reprimanded in the true sense of the word.
There wasn’t any need to bring such distasteful humor in such a story, because this incident itself is so serious. I never knew Minal and even then am feeling so sorry at her demise, imagine how Minal’s family and friends would would feel if they were to read this.
As a human being, I can only suggest that either Sajeev should not write on such sensitive, or he should first learn what responsible journalism is.