Archive for March, 2009

10 Great Quotes From 10 Great Business People

Posted by admin on March 31, 2009
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1. Jim Rohn
“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”
2. Henry Ford
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”
3. Walt Disney
“All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.”
4. Peter Drucker
“Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.”
5. Edwin H. Stuart
“Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.”
6. Vincent Lombardi
“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing”
7. J. Paul Getty
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”
8. Sam Walton
“High expectations are the key to everything.”
9. Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
10. Warren Buffett
“I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.”

Sources: Derek on January 26, 2009 ; http://prevential.com/

Blackberry vs IPhone

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RIM’s BlackBerry is considered the best phone for business users. Can the iPhone, a most loved personal phone, beat BlackBerry anytime soon?

BlackBerry Vs iPhone is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Gopal Pillai. This topic contains 2,954 news and 4,205 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about BlackBerry Vs iPhone. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on BlackBerry Vs iPhone from like-minded professionals

Source: http://bx.businessweek.com/blackberry-vs-iphone/

USB Solar Tree that charges your gadgets

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The power of the sun is phenomenal, so much so that our very existence depends upon it. Plants and trees trap the solar energy to recharge their cells…meaning create food for sustenance. Similarly this unique PhotonSynthesis Tree by Vivien Muller traps the sun’s energy to recharge your gadgets via USB. This is beautiful example of replicating nature’s theory in practical life that not only is eco-friendly but also sensible. Keeping up with the decorative theme of this hub, all the wires are plugged and concealed under the electronic bonsai tray. Fifty-four tiny photovoltaic panels juice up the device and modules are all fitted together via 3.5 jack connectors.

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How 2 Make Planet-like Panoramas With Photoshop

Posted by admin on March 31, 2009
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Always wondered how they made those panorama pictures that look like small planets? Well, here’s a simple tutorial on how to make such pictures!

ToobPlayer

Posted by admin on March 31, 2009
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toobplayer

A lightweight (14-18 kb) FLV player component that comes in five flavors, provides a mechanism to play back YouTube videos, and can also display preview images.

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8 Best Open Source Shopping Carts

Posted by admin on March 31, 2009
Web Development / 2 Comments
  • is robust, professional grade e-Commerce shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free. In the back end, you will use a full featured back end to manage your inventory, orders, shipping, and customers in real time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly to your commercial bank account using the latest security technology. You can even add your own modules to the shopping cart.
  • is an open source PHP based online shopping cart system. OpenCart is easy to use and is SEO optimized with a very nice interface. A great feature of OpenCart is that customers can write their own reviews of the products.
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5 Simple Ways to Improve Web Typography

Posted by admin on March 31, 2009
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1. Use A Reset Stylesheet

Stupid, but true: No two browsers use the same presentation defaults. Differences in padding, margins, headings, and indentations are rampant. If you want your page layout to be more consistent across browsers, it pays to start with a CSS Reset stylesheet.

Use a reset stylesheet for better web type.

Two I recommend:

Yahoo’s CSS Reset Stylesheet
Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset Stylesheet



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Classic Project Life Cycle

Posted by admin on March 17, 2009
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Classic Project Life Cycle

Classic Project Life Cycle

Resources For Web Design

Posted by admin on March 17, 2009
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Specifications

Webmasters Reference

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43 Ways to Optimize your PHP Code

Posted by admin on March 17, 2009
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Thanks to the author at http://reinholdweber.

  1. If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4.
  2. echo is faster than print.
  3. Use echo’s multiple parameters instead of string concatenation.
  4. Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop.
  5. Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays.
  6. Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload
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