EU to Ban Lead & Mercury based IT Products
Read the whole article at Computerworld Magazine’s web site.
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Read the whole article at Computerworld Magazine’s web site.
This years ISPCON Conference and Exhibition will take place from May 16-18 at Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. It is one of the largest events during the year that brings together wired and wireless ISPs to showcase new technologies and trends in the industry.
Are you ready to make a switch? You can find that job you are looking for now at 37 Signals job board.
CSS Beauty Monster is another good place to see Web and Design related jobs.
Portable and foldable bikes. Very cool.
Coke Blak = Coke with coffee essence? Weird….
Google is beta testing Google Page Creator that lets anyone with a Google account to create and publish a web page.

The interface is very simple and easy to use. The online tool creates all the html code in clean XHTML with CSS to style the content. Like all other Google applications, the Page Creator has a very user-friendly interface and offers ways to change the layout and 100 MB of space to publish your web site. Also, you can choose from 5-10 different templates with different color schemes to style your homepage any way you want.
Take a test drive and see for your self!
Only $7.99 a bar, get your morning dose of caffeine in the shower. Via Wired.com
Vitamin is another great resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs that offers great articles and posts by web development experts who have been there and done that. I am starting to take vitamins everyday now, are you?
See which 50 jobs ranked as the best in the U.S. by CNNMoney.com. This chart offers detailed summary of each job, job growth forecast and salary ranges.
Create, share and remix your videos easily online through Jumpcut.
However, if you want to broadcast your TV Show to millions of people all over the world (Peercasting) then you will need Veoh.
Please do not underline text on a web page to emphasize a word or a sentence on the page.
Use {HTML: strong} tag to bold it instead. I have seen many sites lately that underline important text in their content. I am not going to point fingers here, but these sites have thousands of visitors everyday, it is important that this basic usability priciple needs to be understood by “webmasters”….
Underlining on the Web means that it is a link, so unless it is a link, please stop underlining your text on the web!
This year’s Web Visions conference will take place in Portland, Oregon from July 20 to 21, 2006. The conference covers range of topics on design, usability, programming and emerging new technologies. Registration is open now, and you can view the conference speakers and agenda at webvisionsevent.com.
Creative ways to plug USB connection into things in our lives…
NY Times and CNN.com have redesigned their web sites. Both sites use more CSS and white space to balance million bits of information and news that used to crowd their homepages. Nice work!
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