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Magic 8-Ball :: Flash AS2

Posted in IT on January 28th, 2011 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Today I was  a bit bored and had some free time so I decided to make a simple flash version of magic 8 ball toy and share the source file with you all :) .

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Snow Leopard VS Windows 7 Ultimate: The War Raging Within The OS Domain

Posted in IT on January 27th, 2011 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Apple Snow LeopardIf you are an avid computing geek, then you will by now be aware of the ongoing rivalry between Apple MAC OS and Microsoft’s Windows OS platform.  For considerable amount of time, Microsoft used to rule the domain of operating systems. In fact, even today most of the PC’s and laptops in the world are powered by Windows Operating systems. However, this trend is slowly staring to change as Apple has finally got a hold of the OS market share by introducing the next gen Mac OS X Snow Leopard that’s phenomenally fast and promises to deliver much more than Microsoft’s latest baby the Windows 7 Ultimate.
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Happy New Year – 2011

Posted in IT on January 1st, 2011 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Happy New Year 2011

The Very Basics of the Scrum Process

Posted in IT on October 12th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

ScrumWhat is Scrum?

Scrum is a set of conditions used by a business to create a framework to manage a project. Scrum can be applied to any type of business but is mainly used in agile software development. Scrum is an outline of the way a project will run with definitive jobs for each member of the team. The members of the Scrum are the Product Owner, the ScrumMaster, and the Team. Each member of the Scrum has a different role to play that will be vital to the success of the Scrum.

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CSS Mastery: Your bible to mastering CSS

Posted in IT, Programming languages, Tutorials on October 1st, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

CSS MasteryCSS has become one of the most important and most demanded skill set if you’re a web-developer trying to carve out a niche in the world of web-designing and web-development. So then, it becomes imperative for you to not only learn the basic CSS, but perfect yourself in the game.
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standard Solutions by Andy Budd, Cameron Moll and Simon Collison must, then, be on your shelf! Ranked as one of the top books by Amazon when it comes to CSS, ‘CSS Mastery’ helps you understand the nuances and subtleties involved when working with CSS at an advanced level.

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“Firewall”? What’s that? : How firewalls work.

Posted in IT on September 24th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

FirewallYou’ve heard umpteen times about how your organization (or your local network) is “pretty secure”, and wondered what this “pretty secure” actually meant. You’ve only heard those guys of the IT department talking about ‘firewalls’, and even though they sounded confident, they always seemed to be worried about any “breaches” in the network security. So, what really is a ‘firewall’? Why is there in the first place, and what makes it so secure?
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“Transcending CSS”: A brilliant book for developers!

Posted in IT, Tutorials on September 20th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Transcending CSSIf you’ve been looking out to learn some real web-designing, this might just be the right book for you. “Transcending CSS”, by Andy Clarke, has surely created a wave, and as of now, all the hype seems to be justified. A first look at the book speaks a lot: you get a feel that this is one book which breaks the convention and offer some real and useful insight; which is exactly what this book does—upgrades your web-developing skills and empowers you to look at things in a different way, and think differently.

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Building your own game: Understanding how to get started!

Posted in IT on September 18th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

ChessHave you ever been amazed at how brilliantly the computer beat you in a game? And found yourself wondering how computers actually “think”, and what they call as “artificial intelligence” all about?
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Facebook or Google: A fight of numbers

Posted in IT, Websites on September 16th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Facebook or GoogleA recent research survey showed that Facebook might well win over Google, not when it comes to the number of users, but when it comes to the total time users spend on the website. comScore concluded that at least for US users, Facebook grabbed the top position for the month of August.

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Silverlight might surpass HTML5

Posted in IT on September 14th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

SilverlightMicrosoft’s Silverlight is said to have features and capabilities which can surpass those provided by the HTML5 standard (which is yet to be fully completed). As applications like Silverlight and Flash provided users with Internet applications which enriched their experience, there had considerable speculations and debate over whether the completion of the HTML5 specification would end up with the doing away of such applications, as the need for them might not be felt then.

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