Daily Friction #300
Is the MacBook Air worth the money? I bet you guess the answer. Turn your $60 router into a super-router with Tomato, learn about SUN’s MySQL acquisition, learn about ten tips for KDE 4.0 beginners, design CSS gradient text effects and 101 other CSS techniques and much not too more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Hardware
- Is MacBook Air Worth the Money? Five Slim Laptops Face Off - We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop. It’s so thin! You can’t argue with that! But if you’re in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the best option?
- Turn Your $60 Router into a Super-Router with Tomato - Since last year there’s been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we’re taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. It does almost everything you expect, from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation, in addition to offering a simplified interface chock full of fancy charts and graphs.
Information
- Sun targets open source LAMP stack with MySQL acquisition - In a surprise announcement, MySQL reveals that it has been acquired by Sun. This acquisition appears to be part of a broader strategy by Sun to displace the LAMP stack with its own Solaris and Java technologies.
- Ten Tips for KDE 4.0 Beginners - This is a list of ten tips that may help you out in getting started with KDE 4.0. All of these I discovered since installing KDE 4.0 in Ubuntu.
- Yahoo Implements OpenID - Yahoo said Tuesday that it plans to support the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework and bring its 248 million users to the Web’s interoperability party. When it comes to frameworks like OpenID my eyes typically glaze over. Why? Success or failure depends on getting massive players on board. It’s herding cats to a degree.
Wed Development
- CSS Gradient Text Effect - Do you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? Here is a simple CSS trick to show you how to create gradient text effect with a PNG image (pure CSS, no Javascript or Flash).
- 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time - 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look at.
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