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"Did you know you can make a round circle with border-radius and create inner shadow effect with box-shadow inset? Check out this beautiful search form demo that I’ve created with CSS gradient, border-radius, and box-shadow. It displays perfect in CSS3 browsers and degrades gracefully in non-CSS3 browsers."

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"pixel-locked rounded rectangles can actually be fairly difficult to draw in Photoshop. (Pixel-locked, meaning all edges fall on an exact pixel boundary, creating the sharpest object possible.)

Experienced Photoshop users will probably already know one or two ways to draw a roundrect. Hopefully after reading this article, they’ll also know a couple more, and which methods produce pixel perfect results."

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"In the Old World, computers are general purpose, do-it-all machines. They can do hundreds of thousands of different things, sometimes all at the same time."

"In the New World, computers are task-centric. We are reading email, browsing the web, playing a game, but not all at once."

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A CSS sticky footer that just works

We've all tried to use a sticky footer one time or another, but they never seem to come out right, do they? Well, the days of a hard to understand CSS-based sticky footer are thankfully over. In just a few simple CSS classes with minimal extra HTML markup, I've fashioned a sticky footer that even beginners can get a handle on. It's been tested in IE 5 and up, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

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"Few will dispute Amazon’s role as current king of the e-commerce space, but this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference raised an interesting question: Did Amazon miss the boat on social commerce?"

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What Makes Them Click is a blog (weblog) website for people who want to learn how to apply psychology to understand how people think, work, and relate. The blog focuses especially on applying the latest research in psychology to make you more effective, be more successful at your work and in your career, and get to know better why you and the people around you do what you do.

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"Creating search optimized web pages, blog posts, and press releases used to be time consuming at best and mystifying at worst."

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"Straight to the point: A list of 100 resources for users of the excellent Thesis Theme for Wordpress."

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"In 2009, more data will be generated by individuals than in the entire history of mankind through 2008. Information overload is more serious than ever. What are the implications for marketing?"

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"But something bigger is going on here...Facebook is eating the web.
Yes, Facebook is becoming the web for millions and millions of people. As I have written before, there's already a wealth of amazing things you can do within the site without ever leaving. What's more, as I also speculated, the site giving rise to headless media companies like Zynga that don't need a web site to succeed.
In short, I believe Facebook is unstoppable. They aren't just the next Google. They're the next web."

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"Every company, every marketer often dwells on the ROI for social media, and there’s a popular misconception that relevant metrics are lacking. While it’s true that standard metrics are evolving, there are many ways to measure the impact of social media on a company’s marketing performance."

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A great timeline for gaming history

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"Custom fields enable designers to organize post content into different sections, making it possible to create non-linear page layouts, with different types of content easily removed from the normal post loop and relocated to different parts of the document. "

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"This is the first of a series of letters to Apple on your behalf, telling the gang in Cupertino what would make their wonder-phone even more wondrous. This letter strictly focuses on the iPhone OS in general – the home screen, navigation, and settings. Future letters will deal with hardware and applications. "

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"And so to the end of the Top 100 countdown of things that have made the last ten years better – from foods to eat, to songs that sound brilliant, to amazing people, to nice shoes to pop on your feet. Remember, this in not a chart, it’s just a gargantuan list of excellent things. Big thanks to all of the Interestment Family for their wonderful contributions to what must be one of the most magnificent lists of all time. "

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This is quite interesting! Mini Firefox for mobile. You can try it on the PC/Mac though.

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Play Pong! with Browser windows

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"In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography"

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"If you go to apple.com with a webkit powered browser (Safari/Chrome in Mac or Windows) and play some of the new videos promoting the new iMac and Magic Mouse, the videos are played using html 5 video tag. When you try to play the same video using IE or Firefox the QuickTime video player kicks. Even though the latest Firefox browser support html5 video tags, its implementation is limited to Ogg Theora, the video files on apple.com are MP4."

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"Usability evaluations are good for a lot of things, but determining what a team’s priorities should be is not one of them. Fortunately, there is an explanation for these counterintuitive outcomes that can help us choose a more appropriate evaluation course."

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