Here are some quick screenshots of Windows 7 Beta. I should have a full review up with in the next couple of days, along with all the changes you see in the screen shots. Hows it holding up so far? Pretty well, a lot better then I would have thought. First thing I noticed was the quick shut down and quick boot time. I don’t have an exact time but its much quicker then Vista is. Also the indexing for the live search when you hit the windows key is a lot quicker.

So this supposedly is the closest I could come to getting this web site to look like me. I saw the post on metafilter and thought I would give it a shot. What do you guys think?

Over the past couple of weeks I have been updating my web site as well as learning and implementing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets ) into my design. Now since I had little clue of how CSS worked and how to design with it I was a little intimidated to say the least. After reading some articles online, watching some examples on youtube and looking at some examples I got the basics down and was able to get the gist of it. While searching for examples and information I had to wade through a lot of websites that weren’t all that helpful or were to vague to figure out, so I decided to compile a list here so people could have easy access to many of the sites.

1. w3schools.com-Where to get all the basic info that you need to get started. Also check out the example pages where you can view and test out some of the basic CSS skills.
2. Youtube tutorial-Its a little long at a little under 40 mins. But it goes step by step starting for the beginning of how to create a page using CSS.
3. DynamicDrive-Where I figured out how to get the menu and other examples to work right and implemented. They also have a lot of other information on web design.
4. Smashing Magazine-This is more a collection of links but is been a very good resource for me. They show you good designs, layouts, and navigation along with having  links to how to create different things like graphs, forms, and image galleries. Keep checking back here for good CSS techniques and other design software.

*Bonus little bit of information that I was having trouble with. When I was entering different lines of information the line spacing was way off. So to get the line information you just enter this into your CSS and then add the class to the lines that are spaced to far apart. Just change the percentage to what you want:

p.small {line-height: 90%}

Today was the official release of the ever popular Firefox 3. Today was the official day to download to try and set the Guinness book of world records record.

Today was Apples WWDC (world wide developers conference) conference today. With the much anticipated iPhone 3G release as well as the iPhone 2.0. So why am I saying No no no? Well look at at the name “iPhone” first of all nothing was released about the phone part of it, just add-ons for it. Then there’s the price for it….you ready…..$199 for 8GB and $299 for 16GB version. That’s it. For a phone. An iPhone. A PHONE. Are you kidding me?

When my parents signed up for the their mobile plan they got my phone for free. Now my phone doesn’t have a camera, or have GPS or have a touch screen but you know what it does do? It makes phone calls, receives phone calls, receives voice mail, receives and sends text messages, plays games, does email and even has Internet.

Now why would anybody want to pay $199 for a phone when you could easily get pretty much the same features for $199 less? Hit the jump to find out the big secret.