A Guide to Mobile Web Design Tips and Tricks. Having a mobile-optimized web site can really make your site stand apart from the pack.
Even though smartphones like the iPhone and Google Android devices can display "the full web," having a web page formatted for smaller screens and with features that can take advantage of a touch screen, geolocation, or address book functionality can make the mobile web browsing experience that much better. Even just a few years ago, optimizing websites for mobile browsers was a painful and difficult process, in part because of the limitations of most mobile browsers.
Today, thanks to the proliferation of WebKit (which powers the browsers on the iPhone, Android and webOS devices, with BlackBerry expected to join the mix next year), it's much easier to decide on a strategy for making your website pop on mobile platforms. We've put together a toolkit of resources for the designer and non-designer alike to get you started. Treesaver: A new design for the web.
A beginner’s introduction to the GNU/Linux command line. So you have decided to try a free software operating system such as GNU/Linux, congratulations.
GNU/Linux is not that different from other operating systems on the surface. You point and click using the mouse and call down menus to get programs to work. However, these icons and windows are just the sweet candy coating on top of a much older system, a system of programs designed to be accessed by the command line. If you know the correct commands, then you can start any program, check your computer’s status, and see what files you have stored without having to find the listing in your menu.