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This is a small collection of my personal preference of color themes for xcode programming environment. For those who are looking for a dark theme. You can chose from one of the following color themes. I’m currently using teliaz theme, it has been tested and works very smoothly.

To get

teliaz theme

run the following code in Terminal:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes; cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes; curl http://teliaz.com/files/apple/TeliazTheme.xccolortheme &> TeliazTheme.xccolortheme

To get

Ego theme

run the following code in Terminal:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes; cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes; curl http://teliaz.com/files/apple/XCodeColorTheme.xccolortheme &> EgoTheme.xccolortheme

“EGO” uses the font “DejaVu Sans Mono” at 12pt. Some of you may know it as “Panic Sans” from Panic’s Coda (which is a repackaged version of it). You can grab the font over at dejavu-fonts.org. If you already have Code installed, feel free to swap in Panic Sans in place of DejaVu Sans Mono.

To get

Humane Theme

run the following code in Terminal:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes; cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes; curl http://teliaz.com/files/apple/Humane.xccolortheme &> Humane.xccolortheme

Now just restart Xcode, go to Preferences > Fonts & Colors, and select “one of these themes” from the color theme drop down. Hope you like it!! Happy coding…

Here is the list ….

1. The Best Designs
2. Six Shooter Media’s Free Templates
3. 2Advanced Studios
4. Andreas Viklund Free Website Templates
5. Studio7Designs
6. Style Grind
7. Open Source Web Design
8. The Web Design Inspiration Photoset
9. Most Inspired
10. Open Source Templates
11. Templates Box
12. Smashing Magazine
13. CSS Beauty
14. CSS Galleries
15. Drupal Sites
16. Open Source Web Templates
17. CSS Remix
18. Glenn Wolsey 10 Most Beautiful Blog Designs
19. CSS Drive
20. Perfection
21. CSS Elite
22. SyleGala
23. Creative Pakistan
24. The FWA
25. CSS Hazard
26. Beautifully Webdesign
27. Unmatched Style
28. CSS Import
29. Light on Dark
30. StyleBoost
31. CSS Bloom
32. Screen Fluent
33. CSS Websites
34. Website Design Awards
35. 3point7designs
36. CSS Galaxy
37. Screenalicio.us
38. The Dreamer
39. Style Crunch
40. CSS Flavor
41. Inspiration King
42. CSS Thesis
43. Web Creme
44. CSS Zen Garden
45. CSS Reboot
46. WebDigity
47. The Pixel Creativity
48. Top Wordpess Themes
49. CSSClip
50. Deviant Art
51. 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes (smashing magazine)
52. Go Drupal
53. One Pixel Army
54. CSS Mania
55. Design Shack
56. Css Gallery

This is a the new version of Flash ActionScript3 Navigation menu. It’s an xml driven

Features:

• you can use it anywhere you want, all classes are open-source (caurina tweener included)
• easy implementation of links and sub-links, fully xml driven
• handles ok on non or relative links

Bugs Fixed:

• MouseHand is now updated when hovering on a link ()
• CallArg Class is now included ok, sorry for that i had this in my default class location

Download the sample files from this link.
The .fla file is included. Any comments on the code is appreciated. Feel free to use!!

IE8 is still in a premature version. For all the developers that need to re-insure that web pages will be displayed and work as before there is one quick tip. A single line of code to add to your pages.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

This meta tag will make IE8 work as IE7 did.
Maybe there are still very few ppl that browse with IE8 (browser statistics) but i thought you should know this tip.

Let’s say you have an image with no transparency.
This is a  technique i found to make photos transparent to a specific color.

In the following tut color was black.

You can follow these step to add the desired transparency
PHOTOSHOP NEEDED

Step no 1.
Make a copy of the image. Make it in grayscale. Play a little with the levels so you can do the grey areas whiter.
Make a brush with this image. (DEFINE BRUSH)

Step 2.
Take the original image with no transparency and add a layer mask.
Then use the brush you made in the first step.

Step 3.
Save image in psd or png format. You re Done!!!

These are the before and after images
Original Image

The image “with transparency” (added a random background there to see the result)

The cool thing using this technique is that you dont need to lasso or feather anything. All steps are a standard procedure. The only thing you must master is the leveling so that you can make the transparency to a desired level.

If you’re using XHTML, add this:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

If you’re using HTML, add this instead:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Here is a nice tutorial to make your own favicons in PhotoshopSupport.

Retain scroll position after browser refresh
As Joel Spolsky points out, updating web pages by getting just the bits of information that have changed instead of refreshing the whole page is the wave of the future. Whether we’re calling web services within a client-side page or using a gmail-like JavaScript technique (darn cool), it’s going to be a major architectural shift. It’s going to be hard.

In the meantime, there is a really easy way to fix the problem of having to scroll back down to the part of the page you were using when a refresh occurred. Because ASP.NET’s post-back model forces a trip to the server for anything interesting to happen, this technique is essential if you’re using ASP.NET. However, it works just as well in Perl, PHP, JSP – whatever your server-side technology. It requires client-side JavaScript to be enabled, but so do the fancier techniques we are looking forward to.
Note that you could also just turn “smart navigation” on in ASP.NET, but I’ve had issues where smart navigation messes up other JavaScript. I prefer not to use it.
I’ve implemented an example of the technique for this post separately in PHP and ASP.NET/C#. You can see the PHP example in action or download a zip file of the ASP.NET/C# example. For both examples, I use hidden fields and client-side script. They imply an http POST, and typically you will be posting to the same page. You could make it work with GET and/or with another page, but the problem itself gets more confusing in those scenarios.

Here is the complete PHP example:

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#preloadedimages {
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
background-image: url('path/to/image1.png');
background-image: url('path/to/image2.png');
background-image: url('path/to/image3.png');

}

You dont even have to put this in a html element.  Just in your stylesheet!!!

pretty simple, isnt it?

In a web application where the users are real dum the ussualy double click in buttons so the filled forms are submitting more than 1 time. Here is the script to prevent that.

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Mysteries Of The Favicon.ico — How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop

A Favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up in your bookmarked sites, on the tabs in tabbed browsers, and as the icon for Internet shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in Windows. And when I say little, I mean 16 pixels by 16 pixels. So if you like a good design challenge try your hand at this one.

All you need to add a Favicon to your site is a Windows Icon (.ico) file usually called favicon.ico that you upload to the main directory of your website. Nowadays, most browsers besides Internet Explorer can use a GIF (including animated ones) or PNG (including full transparency) instead. But since all browsers including IE understand the .ico format, and because it’s got a lot of intriguing features that GIFs and PNGs don’t, read on to find out how to make one.

Download The Plugin

You’ll need the Windows Icon (ICO) file format Photoshop Plugin to export to the .ico file format. You can download the plugin from Telegraphics. The plugin reads and writes ICO files in 1, 4 and 8-bit Indexed and 24-bit RGB modes, and also reads and writes 32-bit “XP” icons (with 8-bit alpha channel). Make sure to install the plugin before you begin this tutorial.

Let’s Begin
Because 16 x 16 is such a small canvas area, it can be very difficult to be creative. So instead start your project with a canvas set at 64 x 64 (always use even multiples when you plan on resizing files). Do this by selecting File>New, and opening a new canvas that is 64 x 64 pixels in size.

The Design
If you already have a logo you should reduce it to the 16 x 16 size to see if it holds up. If it doesn’t look good at this size, work with the 64 x 64 canvas and try creating a simple design that incorporates colors from your website’s palette.

When you’re ready to test the design select Image>Image Size menu and enter 16 x 16. Click on Resample Image and choose “Bicubic Sharper” from the drop-down menu (CS only for this step). This is the best setting for making sure that an image doesn’t blur as it’s being resized. If it’s still not sharp enough, go back and oversharpen, oversaturate and/or heighten the contrast of the original image and then resize it again.

If you feel the icon is not quite what you wanted, just keep tweaking it until it is perfect. At this tiny size it can take a few tries before you get it right.

Saving The Custom Icon
Go to File>Save As and make sure you name the file favicon.ico. Under Format you must choose Windows Icon (ICO) from the pulldown menu. This format will only be available in Photoshop after you download and install the plugin. In the next step you’ll need to upload this new file to the root folder of your website, so it’s a good idea to navigate and save it to that location on your hard drive now.

Uploading The Favicon.ico File
Connect to your server and upload your Favicon.ico file to your website. You must place it into the same directory as your home (index) page, and leave it loose, making sure not to put it in an images directory or other folder. The standard location is the “root” folder of your site, which is same directory as your home (index) page, not inside an images directory or other folder. If you put it there (and name it favicon.ico), most browsers will find it automatically.

Some browsers will look for a direct link in the HTML source code to your site’s favicon.ico file. You can help these browsers by adding this link in the head section of each page on which you want the Favicon.ico to appear.
Here is the link code to include: <link rel=”Shortcut Icon” href=”/favicon.ico”>
Once you’ve added this code, upload all of your modified pages.

(Some people suggest that the following is actually more correct: <link rel=”icon” href=”/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”> You can use both if you want!)

If you want to use a GIF or PNG instead, use this format instead (just remember that it won’t work in IE):
<link rel=”icon” href=”/favicon.png” type=”image/png”> or
<link rel=”icon” href=”/favicon.gif” type=”image/gif”>

Testing
If your new Favicon does not show up right away, try refreshing the page or clearing your cache — or put a ‘?’ at the end of the url, which will trick a browser into thinking the page is new and not cached.