Posts Tagged ‘Tips & Tricks’

Who Needs Flash?

In just months, from seemingly nowhere, Apple’s solo campaign to dethrone Flash as the de facto standard for web video has gathered enough momentum to get over the top. The question is no longer whether HTML5 will or should do the job, but when.
Last week signaled the tipping point, when Microsoft confirmed HTML5 video support [...]

8 Sessions You Shouldn’t Miss at Web 2.0 Expo

Tomorrow’s web is being built by a vast community of programmers and designers spread around the globe. They’re all forging new paths on their own, but it’s when they find the occasion to get together and compare notes that the sparks really fly.
Such a gathering is happening this week in San Francisco at the Web [...]

New HTML5 Tools Make Your Browser Sing and Dance

HTML5’s <audio> tag gives you a way to embed audio files directly into a web page without requiring a plug-in. But the audio element could do a lot more than just offer Flash-free inline audio players on your favorite MP3 blogs.
The audio player element could end up fueling a whole new class of web applications [...]

4 Ways To Pin A Folder on Taskbar in Windows 7

We all know that we can’t pin a folder directly to the taskbar in Windows 7. However, if you really want that feature, here are 4 workarounds that you may find helpful, 2 of them we have already covered here before.
Way #1: using a dummy executable file to fool Windows 7
We have covered this before [...]