Awesome Mobile Image Gallery Web App

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With more and more users browsing the web with a mobile device, it’s time to begin with mobile web development. In this tutorial we are going to develop a simple mobile image gallery using the amazing jQTouch jQuery plugin for mobile web development. jQTouch is a jQuery plugin with native animations, automatic navigation, and themes for mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, iPod Touch, G1, and Pre.
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60 Creative Illustrated Twitter Backgrounds

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60 most creatively designed Twitter backgrounds which use various and innovative illustrations to create a visually attractive and appealing look to their profiles.
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10 Simple Web Buttons (PSD)

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Designed in 10 different colours, these little buttons should fit into almost all web layouts. If they don’t, then just a few tweaks to the PSD and you’re done. Sweet and simple!
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64 free tab bar icons

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This icon set has been carefully crafted to be pixel perfect on both normal and high resolution iOS devices. The icons contain beautiful shaded portions to give added depth and to highlight icon features. They are meant to go on the tab bar at the bottom of your app.

Designing for iOS: Life Beyond Media Queries

Although not a new phenomenon, media queries seem to be getting a lot attention online recently and for the right reasons too – it’s great to be able to adapt a design with just a few lines of CSS – but many people are relying only on them to create an iPhone-specific version of their website.

You can greatly increase the speed of your website by creating a specific site tailored to mobile users with just a few handy pointers – media queries, in some instances, might be perfectly suitable but, in others, here’s what you can do.

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Restore your Google Contacts

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Google added a new feature to Google Contacts that allows you to revert your contact list and undo any mistakes made up to 30 days in the past.
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8 Tools for Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website

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7 Tips For Building a Better Branded App

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uTorrent Launches Remote Control for iPhone

BitTorrent Inc. has made the remote access ‘web’ feature of its Falcon client iPhone compatible. uTorrent users can now remotely control their downloads from wherever they are with their iPhone. Torrents can be added, paused and removed using an interface with a look and feel identical to that of the uTorrent application.

http://bit.ly/gBrPDO - torrentfreak.com

µTorrent Web UI for iPhone

µTorrent comes with a built-in Web UI which allows you to control your client from anywhere using the web browser. The web interface is very powerful and exposes all the necessary features you need to operate the client remotely.

Unfortunately this Web UI is not displayed correctly on iPhone. I needed a web app for iPhone that will have the familiar look & feel and provide the same features as the original one.

http://bit.ly/eHYhUV - pinhasov.com

 

How to clean your iPhone screen

Due to touchscreen interface, iPhone screen tends to attract lot of finger impressions and oil. You can easily keep iPhone neat and clean by removing deposits from screen surface using a soft lint-free cloth.

Steps to clean iPhone

1. Unplug all cables (if any connected to your iPhone).
2. Then turn off iPhone (press and hold the Sleep/ Wake button, then slide the onscreen slider).
3. Now use soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth to clean iPhone. Make sure moisture from cloth does not get into iPhone openings.

Cleaning iPhone 4, 3GS screen
iPhone 3GS has oleophobic coating on the screen. You can use soft, lint-free cloth to wipe and remove oil left by your hands or face from the iPhone screen.

Note – Do not use window cleaners, household cleaners, aerosol sprays, solvents, alcohol, ammonia, or abrasives to clean iPhone. You can follow similar routine to clean Apple ipad surface

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Free book)

If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have what you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for both the iPhone and iPod Touch.

O'Reilly: http://bit.ly/ij3gOs

Remove Old Versions of the Java Console from Firefox - PCWorld

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If you look at your Firefox Add-ons list (by clicking Tools, Add-ons), you may indeed see several instances of Java Console. However, you'll also notice that the uninstall button for each one is greyed out. How can you remove the old Consoles?
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Cut development time with SQL Server 2005's synonyms

SQL Server 2005's synonyms allow you to give an alias to an already existing object. Realize the benefits of synonyms by using them as a layer of abstraction between the underlying objects and the synonym. http://bit.ly/hDCezD 

Auditing SQL Server User and Role Permissions for Databases

Problem
I have been tasked with auditing security on my SQL Server. However, this needs to be a somewhat automated process as I don't want to have to rely on taking screenshots every month to satisfy our auditors. What tables and/or views should I be using and what's the best way to extract the information out of them? I'm trying to audit permissions within the database itself.

Solution
The answer on how to do this depends on what version of SQL Server you are using. SQL Server 2005 introduced a new security model built around the concept of securables and while the old security tables were retained from 2000, they only report information that you would see in a SQL Server 2000 server. That means any of the newer securables, like schemas, certificates, asymmetric keys, even the database itself, will not be reported if you use the old SQL Server 2000 tables in SQL Server 2005 or above. So let's start with SQL Server 2000.

10+ Useful Code Snippets To Develop IPhone Friendly Websites

When developing websites, you have to care about different browsers, as well as mobile devices such as iPhones or iPods. In this article, let's have a look at the 10+ most useful code snippets (Javascript, PHP, CSS, etc) for developing iPhone friendly websites, quickly and efficiently.

Making a SQL Server Database Read-Only

There are many situations where it is important that users are unable to modify the contents of a database. For example, if data is to be migrated to another server or for reporting purposes. This tip explains how to set a database to a read-only mode.

ALTER DATABASE Command

The ALTER DATABASE command allows a database administrator to modify SQL Server databases and their files and filegroups. This includes permitting the changing of database configuration options.

Setting a Database to Read-Only

When you need to ensure that the data is a database is not modified by any users or automated processes, it is useful to set the database into a read-only mode. Once read-only, the data can be read normally but any attempts to create, updated or delete table rows is disallowed. This makes the read-only mode ideal when preparing for data migration, performing data integrity checking or when the data is only required for historical reporting purposes.
To make a database read-only, the following command is used:

ALTER DATABASE database-name SET READ_ONLY

Setting a Database to Read-Write

If the read-only requirements for the database are temporary, you will need to reset the configuration option following any procedures undertaken. This is achieved with a small modification to the ALTER DATABASE statement to indicate that the database should return to a writeable mode.

ALTER DATABASE database-name SET READ_WRITE

Web Based Job Scheduler - CodeProject

There are many ways to schedule a task on a web server. For example, you can use Windows Task Scheduler and SQL Server Agent. This application is unique in that you can:

• Schedule jobs using a web browser.
• Extend the scheduling application to include your own features.
• Using the code

This application has three components:

• A Windows Service that will run a job (DOS command text).
• A Web Application that will let you schedule a job.
• MS SQL Server database Stored Procedure to get the list of jobs that need to run.

Application Scheduler Service Using VB.Net And XML

This is an application scheduler that is implemented as a Windows Service, similar to the Windows Task Scheduler - but simple, as it has fewer configuration options and it uses XML to store and retrieve data.

The program uses System.Timers, System.Threading and System.Diagnostics to repeatedly loop through the XML data to see whether an application is scheduled to run at the present time or not, and if yes, to launch it as a new process in a new thread.

Copy Outlook Autocomplete name list to another computer

Do you miss the convenience of Outlook automatically completing people's names as you begin to type them on your new computer? Are you upgrading to a new computer and don't want to lose all the names stored in your Outlook AutoComplete feature? Wouldn't it be nice if Outlook installed on your new computer just "remembered" the names and filled them in for you? You can copy the names in AutoComplete from your old computer to your new one.

http://bit.ly/djRdLO

Move an Outlook data file from one computer to another

If you recently bought a new computer, or perhaps you decided to do some major cleaning and reinstall all of your software on a new or reformatted hard disk, you will need to reinstall Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. A new installation of Outlook doesn't mean that you lose all of your e-mail messages. This article explains how to see your old e-mail messages in your new installation.
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How to Use Different CSS Style Sheets For Different Browsers

In an ideal world, you only need one set of CSS style sheets for your website, and those styles will work with every browser currently being used. This, as every webmaster soon finds out when he/she uses CSS, is a pipe dream. The modern browsers all have uneven levels of implementation of the CSS standards. As though this isn't bad enough, their implementations are often buggy - and they don't share the same bugs! And when you have solved that tricky bit, you find that your site has certain visitors (often your best customers) who, for various reasons, are using older browsers that have only rudimentary support for CSS.

What most (if not all) CSS-using webmasters want is a way to specify that a certain style sheet is to be used by such and such a browser and not others, as well as to hide other style sheets from older browsers.

Removing .svn files with Windows PowerShell

Get-ChildItem -Include .svn -Recurse -Force | ForEach-Object { del $_.FullName -Recurse -Force }

Create a console for persistent filters in Windows 2000 Server's Event Viewer

When you close the Event Viewer console in Windows 2000 Server, any filter you may have set is lost. In this tip, Jim Boyce tells how to create a default setting for the Event Viewer, customizing your most frequently used filters.