Quick recap of useful sites I found on 01/28/2016

Apple Reaches Peak Iphone Foursquare Plans Your Vacation? [tech News Digest]

Apple moves beyond the iPhone, Foursquare plans your next vacation, GoPro and Periscope are a match made in Heaven, the Microsoft executive caught using an iPhone, and a rapper and physicist argue about science. Apple Looks Beyond the iPhone Apple has issued its latest earning report, covering the first fiscal quarter of 2016. We won’t bore you with the details, because if you’re an investor you’ll already know, and if you’re not an investor you won’t care. However, these financial results are interesting for one very good reason. Apple made more money in the last quarter than ever before, bringing...

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Dog Gets Seventh Place In Human HalfMarathon

Ludivine, a big goofy hound, finished the race in 1:32:56 ? which was fast enough to earn her a top 10. Not that we're surprised, she's a dog.

How Le Corbusier Wanted To Ruin Paris

Replace the buildings of central Paris with 18 identical skyscrapers? A terrible idea, or ahead of its time?

Inside Facebook?s Decision To Blow Up The Like Button

The solution would eventually be named Reactions. It will arrive soon. And it will expand the range of Facebook-compatible human emotions from one to six.

What Is Css? Why Its Popular?

Styling is something that has been a part of our society since forever, really. Whenever you print certain text, it has to be edited and formatted. And to manage this, desktop publishing programs and word processing programs make use of styles. Word Processors offer you the provision of creating and saving styles for common features (headlines, captions etc.).

When it comes to print design, styles help you combine a collection of formatting options into one. You can take the likes of bold, italics and Arial etc. and put them into a single style and then go on to make that style applicable to any selected text that you might have. And all this is done by using a sing style. Needless to say, this lowers your time consumption. Moreover, if you make any alteration in a certain style, that change can be applied throughout the places that style has been used in a document.

All this is put to use just in the print design scene. Imagine the world of possibilities that open when styles are put to use on the web. There the significance of styles goes way beyond text formatting. Say, you decide to use styling for the purpose of changing background and link colors, or use CSS for creating styles that align images to a certain side of the page, add padding around text or images. You can even come up with multiple style sheets. Distinct style sheets for desktop, mobile devices and print pages, etc. It?s just a matter of what suits your preferences.

These were just a handful of reasons that make CSS ever so beneficial in the modern day and age. People are focusing more and more on designing their webpages through this particular means.

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Your Password Is Too Damn Short

I'm a little tired of writing about passwords. But like taxes, email, and pinkeye, they're not going away any time soon. Here's what I know to be true, and backed up by plenty of empirical data:

• No matter what you tell them, users will always choose simple passwords.

• No matter

20 Delicate Cursive & Handwritten Fonts To Download

There are a lot of various free fonts all over the web, but it could be quite challenging to find one that gives off a natural vibe. In this showcase we have put together 20 free script handwritten fonts for any of your needs, be it a wedding

9 Useful Tools Web Designers Can?t Live Without

Tools are the best buddies for the designers, developers, bloggers and anyone in general who tends to spend lots of time in browsing internet. Different tools are designed to simplify certain tasks so that you can achieve results more effectively. This huge availability of different kinds of...

20 Ways For Recent Graduates How To Behave On A New Job

Your collaboration with professional resume writers turned out great and you finally got your first job? That?s awesome! This is a whole new stage of your life, so you?ll need to make some adaptations.

You took part in internships and extracurriculars during college, but a ?real? job is a much different experience. The mere fact that you are getting paid for your work is enough to explain the new level of responsibility you have. You will need to meet deadlines, adjust to office etiquette, impress colleagues and superiors, and do your job in the best way possible.

It?s not easy to launch yourself from the classroom into office environment. However, the challenge is not impossible: you can fit into the new setting if you follow these tips that teach you how to behave on a new job.

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