"I’m guessing that most people with a digital camera or a web site have spent time cropping pictures. There are lots of programs that can do this. Often we start out by using the ones that happen to be installed, and we manage for better or worse with the functionality they happen to have. In this post I hope to show you that the GIMP is a great tool for cropping pictures..."

"...The benefit of requiring the alt attribute to be omitted, rather than simply requiring the empty value, is that it makes a clear distinction between an image that has no alternate text (such as an iconic or graphical representation of the surrounding text) and an image that is a critical part of the content, but for which not alt text is available...”

"Ruby on Rails is quickly becoming one of the most popular modern programming language framework combinations. Specifically, Ruby is a programming language that has been around for a few years and Rails is a framework for Ruby that is a bit newer and is just about the hottest thing in application and web development right now.

"While you might have heard of Flash, SilverLight etc which are proprietary application frameworks to create RIA(Rich Internet Application) and have been developed by Adobe and Microsoft respectively. But did you know that Firefox has inbuilt support for various frameworks such as SVG, Theora and OGG, which can be used to create and build RIAs..."

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"...If you pass the path of a XUL application.ini file to Firefox with the -app parameter, the application will run just like it would with an actual XULRunner runtime. When Firefox 3 is finally shipped, developers will be able to easily deploy their third-party XUL applications far and wide..."

"According to the OpenID website, from a consumers point of view OpenID is "the elimination of multiple user names and passwords and a smoother, more secure, online experience. ". What it provides is a single identity for you to use at multiple websites.