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PNG fix IE: CSS only

Category : CSS

In IE6, PNG images with transparency do not show their transparent regions, so you have to use some crazy IE6 proprietary filters.

I have used the css code snippet below in my projects to achieve PNG image transparency. Place it in a css file.

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* <a class="zem_slink" title="HTML" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">html</a> img,
* html .png{
position:relative;
behavior: expression((this.runtimeStyle.behavior="none")&amp;&amp;(this.pngSet?this.pngSet=true:(this.nodeName == "IMG" &amp;&amp; this.src.toLowerCase().indexOf('.png')&gt;-1?(this.runtimeStyle.backgroundImage = "none",
this.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + this.src + "', sizingMethod='image')",
this.src = "transparent.gif"):(this.origBg = this.origBg? this.origBg :this.currentStyle.backgroundImage.toString().replace('url("','').replace('")',''),
this.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + this.origBg + "', sizingMethod='crop')",
this.runtimeStyle.backgroundImage = "none")),this.pngSet=true)
);
}

You can use conditional include for this hack code so that the good browsers do not see this.

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Microsoft Analytics Is Shutting Down

Category : Information

 

Microsoft has announced that they will shut down Microsoft Analytics platform. The date decided for this is  December 31st 2009 and Microsoft plans to re-direct existing clients to services like Google Analytics, Yahoo Analytics and others.

After swapping out Ian, the smart lead person of the product last year, this doesn’t really come to a surprise to me. The entire product wasn’t thought through or planned out. Even the existing version still had and has major issues and was always released with major delays.

Last flaw, which personally bothered me, was the upgrade to a version, which runs solely on MS Silverlight.  Overall it’s really unfortunate to see Microsoft dropping another promising product. Especially since it was connected directly with MS’s Adcenter.

 

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Top 20 Sites in India: Courtesy Alexa

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Category : General

Google India

Indian version of this popular search engine. Search the whole web or only webpages from India. Interfaces offered in English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil.

Yahoo!
Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.

Google

Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company’s focus is developing search technology.

Orkut.co.in

Rediff.com India Ltd.

Online portal with free e-mail and many other services.

YouTube
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

Blogger.com
Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.

Windows Live
Search engine from Microsoft.

Microsoft Network (MSN)
Dialup access and content provider.

Facebook
A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.

Wikipedia
An online collaborative encyclopedia.

Indiatimes
Portal site; includes news stories under subject headings, and links to other information sources.

RapidShare
Users can upload up to 100 meg files for sharing. Provides downloads of 100 megs per hour on the free service. Premium service also available.

Microsoft Corporation
Main site for product information, support, and news.

WordPress.com
Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated stats, automatic spam protection and many more features.

IN.com
IN.com gives you a short @in.com email address, and lets you find the best of News, Music, Videos and Games, from more than 16,000 websites.

Naukri.com
India’s No. 1 job site.

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation
Offers online rail ticket booking, and checking of ticket reservation status. Includes train schedules, availability of tickets, and a travel planner.

Cricinfo
International cricket news, live scores, photos, columns and player profiles. Provides archive scorecards, statistics database, ratings and email newsletter. Part of ESPN International. UK.

 

 

Orkut
Social networking and discussion site operated by Google.


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Google.is.Microsoft

Category : Internet News

Nice URL: http://www.google.is/microsoft This is neither an easter egg nor reason for conspiracy theories though: “.is” is just the domain for Iceland, and it maps to URLs Google made accessible globally… like the “microsoft” one, which is an MS-specific search engine Google created years ago. E.g. google.is/unclesam or google.com/microsoft works just the same.

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Amit Yadav is Digg proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache