Monthly Archives: September 2006

How to keep your windows always on top, PushPin

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Sometimes it annoys me not to have “Always On Top” option on every windows because we need a post-it style windows to appear on top of our active application. This is particularly useful when you are typing something in your wordprocessor while talking to somebody through a webcam.

I searched the internet and I found a nice little application that called PushPin. Upon running it, it let you select the “Always on Top” option from the Windows.

PushPin can be easily removed by right-clicking on the PushPin icon in the system tray and selecting the remove menu item.The best thing about this application that its small (25KB), resource friendly, and best of all free of charge! You can download PushPin from its website, and try it on your self!

http://rosafamily.org/software/pushpin/[tags]windows,freeware,utilities,desktop,software,free download,downloads[/tags]

Optimise and Compress your MS Powerpoint slide

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I found a cool app (PPTMinimizer) that lets you optimise your Microsoft Powerpoint slide to a smaller size. This is achieve by compacting the Powerpoint slide by removing unused information contained within it.

Additionally, PPTMinimizer has a strong compression setting that dramatically reduces Powerpoint slides size to 30-80% making it load faster in the process.

Smaller size makes the slide easier to be mail through the internet (especially over 10MB in size), thus saving your waiting time and makes it easier for your recepient to download the attachments.

Here’s some screenshot of PPTMinimiser in action,

You can download PPTMinimizer at Tucows

[tags]slide,powerpoint, ppt, microsoft, windows, microsoft office,office[/tags]

CleanCSS – Optimise your website CSS file

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CleanCSS is a useful website that helps you optimise your CSS file in order to make it small and load faster on the internet. The optimiser are based on csstidy , and opensource css parser and optimiser.

CleanCSS is handy for removing redundant css selector, thus producing cleaner and more readable css file. The service support css version 1.0 up to 2.1 and has an option for maximum compression by sacrificing readability over size. This will produce small sized css but unreadable css file.

The main limitation of CleanCSS that it does not validate the CSS file itself, it assume that the supplied input is valid. This requires  you to validate your css file first using W3C CSS Validator before you start using CleanCSS.

I’ve tried CleanCSS personally, and it works briliantly on my CSS files. I think you should give it a shot too!

[tags]css, web,web2.0,website,web development,w3c[/tags]

Web: Difficulty with Rounded Corners?

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Creating rounded corners for your website is no longer a difficult task with curvyCorners, a library that simplify your task in designing website. curvyCorners helps you create rounded corners on-the-fly with the help of Javascript that look as good as any graphically created corners.

Features of curvyCorners :

  • Easy to use JavaScript object
  • Requires no images or image editing
  • Full Anti-Aliasing support
  • Anti-Aliasing over graphical backgrounds
  • Background-image support (round corners of images)
  • Fluid height/width support
  • Solid border support, any colour/width with Anti-Aliasing
  • User defined per corner radiuses

Demo of curvyCorners can be found here and here

curveyCorners can be downloaded from it’s project website, and its licensed under the GNU LGPL license.
[tags]css,javascript,web development,web,web 2.0[/tags]