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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Swing Buttons provides many exclusive features that are not found in the Button class defined in the AWT package. Swing Buttons are the subclass of AbstractButton class,which extends JComponent. You can always associate an icon of your choice with a Swing Button. The Icons are set as program runs or set when some event is [...]
By: Vaibhav Pandey
Topics: Java, Web Development
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Developers who have households full of developers-in-the-making (or just regular kids who they want to be developers-in-the-making) may owe Microsoft a “thank you.” The company’s unveiled a game-creation tool that’s designed to teach children about developing basics.
Kodu, as it’s known, is available in a public beta for the PC. And a press release explained, “With [...]
By: Doug Caverly
Topics: Kodu, Microsoft
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
ICS Mobile, developer of Navy Patrol: Coastal Defense, Blacksmith Games, developer of Apple’s featured game Plushed, OpenFeint, iPhone social gaming network and TapJoy, developer of the free game TapDefense, are partnering to launch FreeAppaDay.com
Today, discovering the best apps can literally amount to finding a needle in a haystack. FreeAppaDay.com facilitates the discovery process by creating [...]
By: Mike Sachoff
Topics: Apple, FreeAppaDay
Friday, January 8th, 2010
At Pubcon this year Google announced page load time was going to become a ranking factor in 2010 (see video below). Shortly after this announcement, Google started showing load time data in webmaster central. Being a bit proactive, I decided to start looking at ways to speed up this site.
By: Michael Gray
Topics: Web Development
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Maybe you’ve seen a lot of free Icons so far. But you know most of them are just free to personal use and if you’re making some commercial products like premium WordPress themes, most of the free icons you’ve seen are not free to commercial use.
I was setting up my toolkit for designing some premium [...]
Topics: Design, Firefox, Google Chrome, PHP, Wordpress
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
In this tutorial I will show you how to make social networking icons that look like a sewn patch. This tutorial shows you techniques with the pen tool, paths, creating textures, and blending modes.
Topics: Design, Icons, Photoshop
Friday, July 24th, 2009
This week’s tutorial was inspired by a story I heard about recently where alienware is debating the prospect of entering the phone market. That got me thinking what would an alien where phone look like. It had to be something unique. So hear it is:
Topics: Design, Illustration, Photoshop
Monday, May 4th, 2009
As a freelance web designer there are a number of different methods for creating income than just making websites. Some of those are more passive than others and there are quite a few that won’t generate income immediately but could easily lead to more business. Understanding these methods and their benefits for your business can [...]
By: Dustin Brewer
Topics: CSS, Design, Flash, Freelancing, Open Source, PHP, Programming, Web Development
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
AJAX is a very useful concept which the web is really starting to experience the benefits from. Recently, developers have been able to do some amazing things with AJAX which in the past took a more complex programing language like C++ to create. Here are some scripts which show off the power [...]
By: Derald
Topics: Ajax, Apple, Design, DHTML, Flash, jQuery, PHP, Web Development
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
According to recent estimates, there are 650 million people with disabilities across the globe. In the U.K. alone, the combined spending power of the disabled population is estimated to be around £80 billion (US$116 billion), and if online retailers want a cut of this spend, they need to ensure their websites are accessible.
While ramps, [...]
Topics: Accessibility, Design, Flash, Graphics, Web Development