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Are you looking for the best places online where to find free ebooks? Take a look at the following resources that allow you to quickly find everything you need.

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This is one of those simple tips that makes you think “Everybody knows about this but me.”

To open hidden folders such as /etc/apache2 in the Mac OS X Finder, do one of the following:

• Press Shift + Cmd + G and type /etc/apache2
• Open a Terminal window and type open /etc/apache2

Next, hit enter and say “Hello, Finder window.”

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Posted in Mac.

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In November last year, Microsoft revealed some of what will be new and improved in Internet Explorer 9 in the IEBlog post An Early Look At IE9 for Developers.

Today, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch posted a follow-up: HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers. Yes, you can now download what Microsoft calls a Platform Preview to test drive Internet Explorer 9 for yourself.

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Posted in (X)HTML, Browsers, CSS, HTML 5.

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It’s been over three years since Geek Meet Gothenburg February 2007, so it’s about time for another one. Like last time, this event will take place at the NetRelations office in Gothenburg, Sweden. The date is March 24, 2010.

We’ll be talking about the usual web geek stuff, likely with a bit of emphasis on HTML 5 and other up-and-coming web things. Check out Geek Meet Göteborg – the sequel! on the NetRelations blog for the details and to sign up.

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Posted in Web General.

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Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I don’t get why some sites display reader comments in reverse chronological order. It seems especially popular on newspaper sites, which also for some reason tend to use paging for comments. I think the combination of reverse order and paging makes trying to follow discussions very frustrating.

Still, since more and more sites seem to display comments this way I guess there are some people who actually prefer comments displayed backwards, so it is probably here to stay.

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Posted in Usability.

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On March 4, the W3C published no less than seven new or updated working draft documents related to HTML:

• HTML5
• HTML: The Markup Language
• HTML5 differences from HTML4
• HTML+RDFa
• HTML Microdata
• HTML Canvas 2D Context
• Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML

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Posted in (X)HTML, HTML 5.

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The fact that web browsers have different ways of displaying alternative text when images are missing or disabled is something that I talked about in Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images and Steve Faulkner expanded on in alt and title content display in popular browsers.

In How should Web browsers render alternative text?, Vlad Alexander asks (and answers) a few questions on this topic.

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Posted in Accessibility, Browsers.

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Bank Run: Watch. Interact. Play.

Bank Run is an interesting game for the iPhone, produced by SilkTricky, that uses high-quality real video footage to immerse the user into a fun game experience which includes a side-scrolling shooter and a third-person shooter. In this game, players take the role of Evan Sharpe, a young financial analyst that have to save itself and his girlfriend from a deadly conspiracy.

More at: http://woorkup.com/2010/03/02/bank-run-an-iphone-game-with-real-video-footage/

Being a pretty big fan of many winter sports I have spent most evenings of the past two weeks in front of the TV, watching the action from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

With excellent live TV coverage from the games I had no reason to visit either the Vancouver2010.com or the CTVOlympics.ca website to find more info about the games. But one person who has visited and taken a closer look at those sites is Joe Clark. What he found is that the Vancouver Olympics Web sites are inaccessible to disabled people.

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Posted in Accessibility, Web Standards.

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Over the past 24 months, our firm has accepted 3 large pro bono assignments. These assignments were non-profit associations that had been hit hard in the recession. Their budgets were at zero for design, marketing or advertising, yet they still had ambitions, dreams and hopes of continuing with their work as non-profits…

More at: http://woorkup.com/2010/03/01/doing-pro-bono-work-brings-in-big-money/