background preloader

Digital Divide

Facebook Twitter

7 Things You Can Do in KDE, But Not in Windows — Datamation.com. 6) Creating Screen Edges Hot Spots Following the lead of Symphony OS, KDE allows the creation of up to eight hot spots on the edges of the screen. Each of these hot spots can be configured to produce a different effect when you drag the mouse over them. For instance, you can use a hot spot to show the desktop, switch workspaces, or arrange open windows in a grid.

You can have the option to maximize any window by dragging it to the top of the screen, or to tile them by dragging them to either side. The one problem with screen edges is that the hotspots in the middle of an edge can be hard to find. Otherwise, the hot spots reduce the repetitive motions required to move windows about, and have no parallels in Windows 7) Desktop Effects and Compositing KDE is not the only desktop to have special effects of course. Returning the Pity Some of these features are not unique to KDE. Nor is Windows totally without default features that KDE lacks. The Power of Adobe Fireworks: What Can You Achieve With It? - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Our recent article covering the new features of Adobe Fireworks CS5 provoked a very interesting and intense debate.

But because comments ranged from “Fireworks is the best tool for screen design!” To “What exactly is Fireworks?” , we thought that another article on this topic might be very useful to Smashing Magazine readers. However, this time the article will not focus so much on the tool itself, but rather on what can be achieved with it, and more specifically — what can be achieved with its visual/graphic design capabilities. …What Exactly Is Fireworks? Finding the answer to this question is not so easy. Perhaps presenting you with a quick overview of some of the key features of Fireworks will help you decide the answer to that question yourself. What is it? Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor formerly developed by Macromedia and since 2006 developed by Adobe.

What is it good for? Export features Formats support Highly extensible 1. . {01} Golden Compass illustration. Google Gravity. The Wilderness Downtown (HTML5) Student Competitions - Largest Source of World's Student Competitions. Clutter. The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols | Gadget Lab. By Bryan Gardiner They are road signs for your daily rituals – the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins?

Power It’s plastered on T-shirts; it tells you which button will start your Prius; it’s even been used on NYC condom wrappers. Command What do Swedish campgrounds and overuse of the Apple logo have in common? Bluetooth You’ve probably heard the story of 10th-century Danish King, Harald Blåtand, as it relates to Bluetooth, right?