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TestDisk Download TestDisk & PhotoRec To be keep informed of new release, subscribe to testdisk-announce TestDisk & PhotoRec are portable applications, extract the files and the applications are ready to be used. No need to run an installer. TestDisk & PhotoRec can also be found on LiveCD. Online documentation: TestDisk, PhotoRec Beta: TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery For more information, read the git history. Conservapedia 25 Free Stock Photo Sites | Digital Image Magazine When I began the research for this article, I knew of only a handful of free stock photography sites. I set out to find as many good ones as I could, thinking maybe I’d find a dozen. I was quite surprised to find 25 good, solid resources out there. There are probably more, but these are the ones I found. Note the terms of use for each site. Keep in mind that “Royalty Free” does not mean the images are free; it means that you don’t need to pay the photographer a royalty each time you use the image. Update: Check out our latest list of 18 MORE free stock photos sites. QualityStockPhotos.com is my favorite site for free stock photography. Stock.XCHNG is a great site for free stock photography. This is a huge resource, currently indexing over 3 million photos! The photos on Imagebase are free to use, and are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Morguefile is a completely free source for stock photos. Unprofound is unusual in that photos are grouped by color, rather than category.

Probert Encyclopaedia Free and Open Source Educational Software indicates that files are located on another CD. Tools to create archives and extract files are located in the system tools folder. README.html is printer friendly version of this document. Table of Contents: Key Learning Areas Educational Software The Arts ( art , painting , photography , multimedia , music , dance , drama ) English ( vocabulary , online books , mindmap , child education , reading ) Health and Physical Education ( fitness , nutrition , health case ) Cultural Literacy and Languages ( Japanese , German , Spanish , Portuguese ) Mathematics ( calculators , graphs , computations , algebra , courses , tutorials ) Science ( chemistry , physics , biology , geology , astronomy , weather ) Study of Society and the Environment ( history , geography , government , environment ) Technology ( graphics , programming , manuals , editors , development ) Desktop ( more office tools , more communications , more tools ) Open Source Web Sites Business + Office Software Quotes

WikiIndex The Kernel Boot Process The previous post explained how computers boot up right up to the point where the boot loader, after stuffing the kernel image into memory, is about to jump into the kernel entry point. This last post about booting takes a look at the guts of the kernel to see how an operating system starts life. Since I have an empirical bent I’ll link heavily to the sources for Linux kernel 2.6.25.6 at the Linux Cross Reference. The sources are very readable if you are familiar with C-like syntax; even if you miss some details you can get the gist of what’s happening. The main obstacle is the lack of context around some of the code, such as when or why it runs or the underlying features of the machine. I hope to provide a bit of that context. At this point in the Intel x86 boot story the processor is running in real-mode, is able to address 1 MB of memory, and RAM looks like this for a modern Linux system: RAM contents after boot loader is done Architecture-specific Linux Kernel Initialization

Janko At Warp Speed - Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks We're all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details. Label positioning, context highlighting or justifying elements. But, with just a few simple CSS tricks you can make a usual, boring web forms more effective and exciting. See it live The example you are going to see is something that you use every day: blog comment form. …add some borders At least what you can do is to add borders and padding to your input fields. Let me review the code above shortly. Now, this was very simple. … add some background You can also add some solid background like in the example below Or you can add a soft gradient as a background. The trick is simple and is contained in last three lines of the code. But you can do even more! …add some behavior But very simple. As you can see, the code is very simple. It is now working in IE. Experiment

Testing Grounds projects Revised Image Replacement Plenty of new and interesting revisions to the original Fahrner Image Replacement technique sprouted up in late 2003. This was an attempt to consolidate them. Please note that this page is no longer being maintained. Requirements: the replacement must solve the screen reader problem, and it must address the "images off, css on" problem. 2008 Update: what does Google think of these methods? Classic FIR Using Doug Bowman's original tutorial, we surround the text with empty spans to hide it with display: none; Issues: most screen readers will not pick up the text when it is not rendered on-screen, nothing shows up under "images off, css on" scenarios, semantically meaningless <span>s necessary. Revised Image Replacement code: Single-pixel <img> Replacement Radu Darvas proposed adding a one-pixel, transparent GIF image to the header to restore alt text. Revised Image Replacement Radu Method Leahy/Langridge Method Phark Method Phark Revisited Dwyer Method Lindsay Method

Our Crap is Your Crap &lt;&lt; totallycrap.com [Mark Shepard] A Flex component for graph visualization « Flexed November 20, 2006 by Kumaran SpringGraph is a Adobe Flex 2.0 component that displays a set of items that are linked to each other. The component calculates the layout for the items using an organic-looking annealing algorithm based on the size and links of each item, and draws lines to represent the links. The component allows the user to drag and/or interact with individual items. Here are some sample applications that use SpringGraph. Spring Graph Component Tester Molecular Viewer Amazon Roamer [Read More | Download Source Sode ] Like this: Like Loading...

ComponentList - flexlib - Google Code - The list of all the components currently in FlexLib. This wiki page contains a list of all components contained in the current build of flexlib. After adding new components to FlexLib, you should edit this page and include a short summary of the component and the links to the ASDoc documentation and the sample SWF file, if available. Include the names of contributors for each component. package: flexlib.controls Base64Image An image component that renders base-64 encoded images. Documentation | Example | Contributor: Stacy Young CanvasButton The CanvasButton is an extension of Button that lets you set the contents of the Button to any UI components, as opposed to only a single icon and label like the normal Button control allows. Documentation | Example | Contributor: Doug McCune CanvasButtonAccordionHeader The CanvasButtonAccordionHeader allows you to use a CanvasButton component as the header renderer of an Accordion, meaning you have full control over the header renderer and can add additional UI control, etc. ConvertibleTreeList Fire Highlighter

birdeye - Google Code Overview BirdEye is a community project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex. The actionscript-based library enables users to create multi-dimensional data visualization interfaces for the analysis and presentation of information. Update A "next generation" development of BirdEye is underway. Contribute Want to contribute? Questions and Discussion You are invited to join the Group Support site to pose questions and discuss implementation of the library. flex-drag-n-drop-lib - Google Code If you are looking for drag n' drop functionality for your Flex RIA much like iGoogle then dNdLib is for you. dNdLib is very easy to use. Place any UIComponent child within your DnDContainers. In order to execute a drag n' drop, you have the dragable child do the following: Make sure your DnDContainers have, at the very least, a background color w. alpha set to 0 in order to properly work. note This library has dependencies on the mx_framework which means you will not be able to use this library for as3 flash-based projects.

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