Free website templates

Today I was searching for some free website templates that implement table-less CSS and div's for creating a cool website.

I came across the follwoing websites that offer free website templates to download. I am planning to use a mix of designs from different templates that I have gathered to come out with a unique yet usable website design.

Whatever website design experiences I had gathered in creating one of my websites - www.sjason.8k.com and my past work at Bridgeline Software Inc will be very much put into excellent use now.

So here's the list of site's from where you can download some cool website templates. Most of these templates include the psd / css / images etc as part of the zip file.

• www.opensourcetemplates.org
• www.oswd.org
• www.templatesbox.com

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Keyboard shortcuts for Apple iTunes 7

Touted as one of the best digital media players in the world, iTunes 7. A good summary of features can be found under itunes overview. A number of iTunes Hot Tips can be found on the Apple website. Following are some rather cool keyboard shortcuts (iTunes > Help > Keyboard Shortcuts):

• Ctrl + M: Toggle the iTunes window between full and Mini Player views
• Ctrl + Alt + F: Select the search field
• Ctrl + U: Open a stream via a URL
• Control-click the checkbox next to a song: Select or deselect all the songs in a list (add or remove all checkboxes)

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How to remove DRM legally from the iTunes collection you own?

Many of you might have found out that the music you legally purchase from iTunes works only on your iPod and iTunes Player. The same m4p files cannot be played on your regular mp3 players!!! Hence, I have a very simple and completely legal solution for you. Read on.....

The absence of a official linux version of iTunes giving all linux users no legal way of obtaining and playing back protected songs. QT Fair Use is a smart application that removes DRM from songs bought by iTunes leaving the tag of the user who bought it in the file. This makes it useless to try and spread the file on the internet afterwards because it would be to easy to find out which user purchased the songs and got the ball rolling in first place.

QT Fair Use can process all songs that are currently in the iTunes library at once making it an ideal tool for users that have a lot of songs that they bought from iTunes. A great feature is that the program works on Windows, Macintosh and most Linux distributions making it a highly flexible solution for most users.

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Beauty of mathematics

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321


1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111


9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888


Brilliant, isn't it?
And finally, take a look at this symmetry:


1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321

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ThinkFree Office :: The best free Office Suite Online

You might not have heard about ThinkFree Office. Most people haven’t - that's the reason why I thought of sharing the secret with you all.

BTW, I am in NO way associated with this company NOR am I paid a penny for this post :)

ThinkFree allows you to create word processor, spreadsheet, and presentations very easily. The interface is really impressive. ThinkFree allows you to have 1GB of storage, which can be upped in various ways. This allows you to store your docs from anywhere. You can create folders and organize your documents very easily and nicely.

The user interface is very impressive. It is java based and pretty much looks like what you would expect from a desktop application, except the crashing window. You can almost anything that you could do with your regular office documents. My best suggestion is for you to sign up and check it out.

One of the best parts about ThinkFree is the collaboration and sharing components.

• You can invite others to view or edit your documents.


• You can set up collaborative folders for a team to work on together.


• And you can also look at revisions. This is a great versioning system.


• You can see who edited the document, when they edited it, and what they actually edited. Very cool indeed.


• And you can also comment on any version. This is going to be a very helpful tool for people.


• You can also share documents with the world and incorporate different creative commons licenses.

Now check it out and let me know your thoughts on this.

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Simple way to find the source of a SPAM mail using gmail

There's a simple way to find out which site leaked/traded your e-mail credentials to a Spammer. To find out who did it, all you need is a gmail account.

If your Gmail login name was myname@gmail.com and you went to www.testsite.com to fill out a registration form, instead of just entering myname@gmail.com as your email, enter it as myname+testsite.com@gmail.com[Let the '+' be in between] instead. When Gmail sees a “+” in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to myname@gmail.com.

Now what will help you is if you search Gmail for myname+testsite.com, you will see all messages[read as Spam] that were sent to that email address.

To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address. Now you've zeroed in on who sold your e-mail credentials to a Spammer.

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Indian Leave plan for 2007

As like last year, 2007's leave plan is here..........  So plan fast before your colleages do :)

 

Apply for Leave from 26-Dec-06 till 29-Dec-06 ( a total of : 4 days ) and you are going to get a total of 10 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 16-Jan-07 till 19-Jan-07 ( a total of : 4 days ) and you are going to get a total of 9 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 16-Jan-07 till 25-Jan-07 ( a total of : 8 days ) and you are going to get a total of 16 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 20-Mar-07 till 23-Mar-07 ( a total of : 4 days ) and you are going to get a total of 9 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 02-Apr-07 till 05-Apr-07 ( a total of : 4 days ) and you are going to get a total of 9 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 31-Apr-07 till 04-May-07 ( a total of : 4 days ) and you are going to get a total of 9 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 13-Aug-07 till 17-Aug-07 ( a total of : 4 days ) and you are going to get a total of 9 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 01-Oct-07 till 05-Oct-07 ( a total of : 4 days ) and you are going to get a total of 9 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 29-Oct-07 till 09-Nov-07 ( a total of :  8  days ) and you are going to get a total of 16 holidays.
Apply for Leave from 24-Dec-07 till 04-Jan-08 ( a total of : 8 days ) and you are going to get a total of 17 holidays.

 

And How is that….

 

Apply for Leave from	Apply for Leave till	Total leave days	You will get holidays	How is that possible ?
26-Dec-06	29-Dec-06	4	10	Dec 23 2006 is Saturday, Dec 24 2006 is Sunday Dec 25  2006 Monday  Christmas Dec 30 2006 is Saturday, Dec 31 2006 is Sunday Jan 1 2007 Monday New Year Day/ Bakrid
16-Jan-07	19-Jan-07	4	9	Jan 13 2007 is Saturday, Jan 14 2007 is Sunday Jan 15  2007 Monday Makara sankrathi Jan 20 2007 is Saturday, Jan 21 2007 is Sunday
16-Jan-07	25-Jan-07	8	16	Jan 13 2007 is Saturday, Jan 14 2007 is Sunday Jan 15  2007 Monday Makara sankrathi Jan 20 2007 is Saturday, Jan 21 2007 is Sunday Jan 26  2007 Friday  Republic Day Jan 27 2007 is Saturday, Jan 28 2007 is Sunday
20-Mar-07	23-Mar-07	4	9	Mar 17 2007 is Saturday, Mar 18 2007 is Sunday Mar 19  2007 Monday  Chandramana Ugathi Mar 24 2007 is Saturday, Mar 25 2007 is Sunday
2-Apr-07	5-Apr-07	4	9	Mar 31 2007 is Saturday, Apr 1 2007 is Sunday Apr 6  2007 Friday  Good Friday Apr 7 2007 is Saturday, Apr 8 2007 is Sunday
31 Apr 2007	4-May-07	4	9	Apr 29 2007 is Saturday, Apr 30 2007 is Sunday May 1  2007 Tuesday  May Day May 5 2007 is Saturday, May 6 2007 is Sunday
13-Aug-07	17-Aug-07	4	9	Aug 11 2007 is Saturday, Aug 12 2007 is Sunday Aug 15  2007 Wednesday  Independence Day Aug 18 2007 is Saturday, Aug 19 2007 is Sunday
1-Oct-07	5-Oct-07	4	9	Sep 30 2007 is Saturday, Oct 1 2007 is Sunday Oct 2  2007 Tuesday  Gandhi Jayanthi Oct 6 2007 is Saturday, Oct 7 2007 is Sunday
29-Oct-07	9-Nov-07	8	16	Oct 27 2007 is Saturday, Oct 28 2007 is Sunday Nov 1  2007 Thursday  Rajyotsava Day Nov 3 2007 is Saturday, Nov 4 2007 is Sunday Nov 8  2007 Thursday  Naraka Chaturdasi Nov 10 2007 is Saturday, Nov 11 2007 is Sunday
24-Dec-07	4-Jan-08	8	17	Dec 21  2007 Friday  Bakrid Dec 22 2007 is Saturday, Dec 23 2007 is Sunday Dec 25  2007 Tuesday  Christmas Dec 29 2007 is Saturday, Dec 30 2007 is Sunday Jan 1 2008 Tuesday New Year Day/ Bakrid Jan 5 2008  is Saturday, Jan 6 2008  is Sunday

 

P.S: This is applicable only in India :) 

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WHAT DOES YOUR SIGNATURE MEAN ABOUT YOU?

The various types of Signatures you come across & the attitude of a person
are listed below: <Very interesting read>

# SINGLE UNDERLINE BELOW THE SIGN!!
These persons are very confident and are good personalities. They are a
little bit selfish but believe in "Happiness of human life"

# TWO DOTS BELOW THE SIGN!!
These persons are considered to be Romantic, can easily change their
fiancées as if they change their clothes. They prefer beauty in other
persons & they themselves try to look beautiful. They easily attract
others.

# SINGLE DOT BELOW THE SIGN!
These persons are more inclined towards classical arts, simple & are very
cool. If you loose faith with them, then these persons will never look back
at you. Hence its always better to be careful with these people.

# NO UNDERLINES OR DOTS BELOW THE SIGN!!
These persons enjoy their life in their own way, never pay attention to
others views. These are considered to be good natured but are selfish too.

# RANDOM SIGN, NO SIMILARITY BETWEEN NAME & SIGN!!
These persons try to be very smart, hide each & every matter, never say
anything in straight forward manner, never pay attention to the other
person of what he is talking of.

# RANDOM SIGN, SIMILARITY BETWEEN NAME & SIGN!!
These persons are considered to be intelligent but never think. These
people change their ideas & views as fast as the wind changes its direction
of flow. They never think whether that particular thing is right or wrong.
You can win them just by flattering them.

# SIGN IN PRINTED LETTERS!!
These persons are very kind to us, have a good heart, selfless, are ready
to sacrifice their life for the sake of their near & dear. But these seem
to think a lot and may get angry very soon.

# WRITING COMPLETE NAME AS THEIR SIGN!!
These persons are very kind hearted, can adjust themselves to any
environment & to the person they are talking.These persons are very firm on
their views & posses a lot of will power.

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How to Nudge Objects Slightly in Powerpoint

Are you frustrated when you try to move an object on a slide just a little bit? Objects on a slide snap to a grid, but maybe you find it difficult to move them the small amount needed. Here are some techniques:

1. Choose Draw > Nudge on the Drawing toolbar, then choose Up, Down, Left or Right to move the selected object one grid unit
2. Press Ctrl with one of the arrow keys to move the selected object in increments of .02 inches
3. Press Alt while you drag an object to disable the grid completely and allow total control

You can also make the grid visible and control its spacing. Choose Draw > Grid and Guides and then change the settings in the Grid and Guides dialog box. Click OK when you are finished.

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Tips for Making Great Handouts in Powerpoint

You can make handouts in PowerPoint by formatting the Handout Master.

1. Choose View > Master > Handout Master
2. To print them, choose File > Print and choose Handouts in the Print What drop-down list
3. Change the settings in the Handouts section of the Print dialog box and click OK

But, these handouts are basically just a copy of your presentation. You have more flexibility by sending the presentation to Microsoft Word.

1. Choose File > Send To > Microsoft Word
2. In the Send To Microsoft Word dialog box, choose one of the options and click OK. You even have the option to create a link (choose Paste Link) so that the Word document is updated if you change your presentation

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