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Here are some free portable applications you can carry on your USB and use when needed: PortableApps is a set of applications that can quite simply fit on your USB drive. Depending on the suite, you can download only the "Platform" (2MB - you can then add custom applications to it), the "Light" (47MB, all of the applications but OpenOffice) or the "Standard" version (139MB, with OpenOffice). The "Platform" version is multilingual. LiberKey is a richer set of applications, with 289 applications sorted by categories which you can choose from. They have everything - from graphics editing to system utilities! You can also choose from a couple of suites, from the "Platform only" to the "Ultimate" version. Zoho can be used online. All you need is your Gmail account to login, and afterwards you can do anything your heart feels like: make presentations, text files, databases, share, collaborate,... The sky is the limit! Google docs can also be used online. They have fewer options than Zoho, but they're OK when working "on budget" with your bandwith, since they don't use that much Upload/Download speed like Zoho. Aviary is great! It's a free package that can also be used online. I would describe it as an smaller Adobe package-like because it looks and feels a lot like their applications. You have a couple of image/vector editing apps, a music production app, an effects app, a color editor and an image capture app that can be used from your browser. That's my list! Although this text isn't from my website, I'd like that you put a link to http://www.reviewedtutorials.co.cc/ or this topic if you use this review on your website. Actually, I hereby give you permission to use it, but only if you put a link to Reviewed tutorials .

Hey, is it possible to upgrade the domain in any way (particulary, the bandwith)? And, while I'm posting, does/do the hosting package/packages have cPanel control panel?Thanks for the answer...

Hi again, thanks for the answers. Now, if I understood correctly - I log in to Xisto - Support.com, and then just wait to have enough account balance so I can buy a hosting (and domain) account I want to. For instance, a .com domain is 9.99$ for an entire year and the logic hosting 2$/month - I pay for it (let's say I have 12$ on my account) and then I need to keep posting so my account balance will become bigger and so I can keep paying for the hosting? How many posts generally make 100 myCents? I think I'm starting to get the hang of it, but I just need to clarify some things.

This is a rather interesting feature I learned some time ago, which helps you change your "classic" text selection color from the usual dark blue selection. It's a CSS3 declaration, called ::selection, which is modified in a slightly different way for Firefox than for other browsers that support it. While talking about CSS3, let's just say that also most of the other CSS3-only cool features are declared slightly different for Firefox than for other browsers, in terms of: -moz-SOMETHING for Mozilla [b]vs.[/b] SOMETHING for the others Alrighty then , let's see the text selection in practice: ::selection { background:#CFE2E9; color: white;}::-moz-selection { background:#CFE2E9; color: white;} Firstly, I changed the background color of the selection (i.e. not the letters) to a lighter shade of blue, and then the letter color to white. The second one was for Mozilla Firefox (everything is the same, except for the name). If you'd like to assign this to a <p> tag, for instance, you'd use something like this: p.red::selection { background: red;}p.red::-moz-selection { background: red;} And I just assigned the selection color to red for a <p> tag with an class of red. You could do the same steps for any other part of the site, but I must warn you that I'm not sure if this works in IE 6(probably not). I somehow remember that IE7 does understand this selector.

When working for someone, it usually goes like this: Fireworks(wireframe) --> Fireworks(basic functionality) --> Photoshop (design) --> Dreamweaver(coding). If some other functionality is needed, I tend to use Flash (which I also use to make games:)). This was the Adobe-Macromedia (expensive) side of the story. For something free, it would go: GIMP(wireframe + design) --> Notepad++ (coding - this is not the ordinary notepad and I highly reccommend it as a coding editor) Also, Mac users can choose between Coda, TextEdit and Aptana.

True, I mostly feel the same when reading tutorials from other sites that are poorly explained so I don't understand a word. I like to go through code and say "Oh yeah, here he made the function that will move the box X pixels on a click" - that kind of thing. And also, I'm a lot into programming and every now and then I like to read a tutorial about some new programming language (I learned JQuery basics a few weeks ago), so it bugs me a lot when tutorials are very long and too descriptive. I like to learn a few basics the first day (so I can make the simplest application), and then go through at a moderate pace (that depends on my schedule and free time). If they start explaining the background code and everything, I just don't want to follow anymore because there is other work I can do... For instance, the blogger API just takes me away, contrary to, let's say, Wordpress or Tumblr (better explanation and text formatting, etc.).

I realise that this topic is quite old, but that's why I'm posting: Has the Google policy changed since? Because I've read about the company not offering AdSense anymore outside of USA, but then that changed... Now I'm hearing you need to have a privacy policy for it to work and that the "clicker" IP needs to be from USA. Anyway, I don't like that Google changed their "non-USA" policy because people outside of USA were also clicking these ads, which means much less to no earnings for people writing content in their native language (non-english). Also, many people would like to set up and test their site entirely before going online, which means that installing AdSense after 6 months will probably corrupt their plans, which means more room for mistakes (for the inexperienced), maybe less readers due to "not available" messages etc.

Well, since you have posted the Javascript version here I hope it would be OK that I post the simplest Jquery? If not, someone please warn me before I get banned, or worse Anyhow, here is the simplest version: <html><head><!-- The classic stuff like the website title goes here, etc. --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script><!-- I just inserted the jquery... --><!-- And now we have the script, where is simply say: When the document is ready, execute: get images and on hover do this: get any image and fade out slowly;--><script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $('img').hover(function() { $('img').fadeOut( 'slow' ); }); });</script></head><body><!-- here is a sample John Frusciante image that you can hover over --><img src="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; /></body></html> The upper code is commented, if you'd like to change for it to fade in you'd have to do something like this (only javascript this time): $(function() { $('img').hover(function() { $('img').fadeIn( 'slow' ); }); }); You'll notice that I only changed fadeOut to fadeIn. If you want to change the speed, you can change it to 'fast', 'medium' or enter a numeric value in miliseconds, without the quotes. Hope it was helpful.

Hi, community of Xisto! I just wanted to introduce myself as a new user of this forum. I'd like to register my site http://www.reviewedtutorials.co.cc/ on one of the supported servers here so I don't have to use Blogger as a CMS anymore and so I can switch to Wordpress. However, I'd like it very much if someone who's been using this service for some time can explain me how exactly does it work. I understand that I need to be active in this forum to get points that will later enable me to get a .com domain and hosting. But, how do I know when I can get my domain? And, how much bandwith does the hosting allow? Sorry for these newbie questions, I'm not finding my way on the flash site of Xisto (and I would advise the admins of the site to revert to some simpler look with a bit readable letters)... Cheers and thanks for your help.