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Posted on 10th July 2008 by Matt

CCleaner is a FREE computer cleanup program which allows you to quickly and easily clean up your computer. The tool can free up lots of memory on your hard drive and also clean up your registry. It also all has a tool to allow you to add/remove programs from your computer.

Files removed with CCleaner can be completely deleted or overwritten which means the files should be recoverable even after they are deleted.

A full list of features are provided at http://www.ccleaner.com/features

To latest version can be downloaded at http://www.ccleaner.com/download

Screen shots can be seen at http://www.ccleaner.com/screenshots

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Posted on 9th July 2008 by Matt

I’m just starting out with JQUERY/JQUERY UI and have been meaning to start using them for a long time but haven’t had the time to really have a play. I’ve finally found some time and from using the documentation on the JQUERY site i managed to come up with a font slider which increases/decreases the font size of all the text within my wrapper div(could be any element including the body if you wanted) 1em at a time. Here is the code:

The XHTML


<div id="wrapper">
  <div id="fontslider" class="font-slider" style="margin:10px;">
	<div class="ui-slider-handle"></div>
  </div>
</div>

The CSS


body {
	font-size:small;
}
.font-slider {
 width: 200px;
 height: 23px;
 position: relative;
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 background-position: center center;
}
.ui-slider-handle {
position: absolute;
 z-index: 1;
 height: 23px;
 width: 12px;
 top: 0px;
 left: 0px;
 background-image: url(slider-handle.gif);
}
.ui-slider-handleactive { border: 1px dotted black;  }
.ui-slider-disabled .ui-slider-handle {
 opacity: 0.5;
 filter: alpha(opacity=50);
}
.ui-slider-range {
 position: absolute;
 background: #50A029;
 opacity: 0.3;
 filter: alpha(opacity=30);
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
}
.font-slider {background-image: url(slider-bg-1.png); }

The JS


$(document).ready(function(){
 $("#fontslider").slider({
		min: '1',
		max: '10',
		startValue: 1,
		steps: 10,
		change: function(e, ui){
			$("#wrapper").css("font-size", + ui.value +"em");
		}
	});
});

you will need to make sure you include the the jquery library, ui.core.js and ui.slider.js files from

http://jquery.com

http://ui.jquery.com

I have also created an example * Package *.

Will hopefully get a demo up online soon as well.

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Posted on 28th June 2008 by Matt

JQUERY devs release JQUERY 1.5.1 which fixes more than 50 known issues within JQUERY. This release note was posted by the JQUERY team on the 27/06/2008. The full post can be read on the JQUERY blog here: http://jquery.com/blog/2008/06/27/jquery-ui-151/

http://ui.jquery.com/

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Posted on 26th June 2008 by Matt

8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours !!!

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

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Posted on 17th June 2008 by Matt

Help Firefox set a Guinness World record for the most downloads within 24 hours!! Click the graphic below to pledge that you will download FireFox on download which is currently set for 17/06/2008 (Today).

It’s easy to pledge all you do is choose your country and enter your email address and they will email you when the download is released.

Download Day 2008

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Posted on 10th June 2008 by Matt

I was looking around in the Google tools earlier and found the beta version of Google translator, it still has all the functionality you would expect from a translation tool however at closer inspection I came across the translation tool tips.

Google Translator

To see the tool tips you first need to translate a website to a foreign language that is currently supported by Google Translator.

In the screen shots below i translated the Microsoft website from English to Finnish.

microsoft secrurity updates


This is the translated version showing the tool-tip and as you can see Google translator has translated the phrase exactly.

microsoft translated

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