Secondbar

If there is one of very few problems about Mac OS X, then a menubar not being visible on a secondary monitor when you connect another display to your Mac is certainly one of those problems.

I recently stumbled across Secondbar while browsing about the internet. It is such a useful tool and I will be using it constantly now that I've found it, just so I don't have to bother pointing over to the primary monitor when using dual displays just to access the menubar.

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If you know of any other utilities that make the workflow of a Mac, Windows or Linux machine even better then post a comment to let us know.

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WordPress is one of the most used blogging software on the web. Because of the popularity that is has there are also a lot of themes; some good, some bad. In this short list you will find 10 free attractive WordPress themes.

Notepad Chaos

The Web News

Trifecta

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Here is a recap of the posts from this week.

Build a Twitter-like site with CodeIgniter and jQuery Part 2

5 PHP Frameworks you may not know about

Creating a basic iPad application

Because of the recent announcement of the iPad more people are going to want to learn how to develop for the iPhone OS. This tutorial will be a basic walk-through for beginners who want to start developing.

The application that we will be creating will consist of two button and one label.
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There are many PHP frameworks available for developers to choose from when creating a project. Frameworks such as CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony and Zend are the most popular frameworks used by developers.

In this article I will compile a list of 5 frameworks that many developers may not know of.
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Don't forget to check out part 1 if you have no read it.

In the second part of this 5 part tutorial series on how to build a Twitter-like website, we will be creating a signup form so that users can register to our website.

We will be adding records to the database that we created in part 1 and creating validation rules to make sure that the user didn't put any invalid data into the form.
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Here is a list of posts from this week if you may have missed anything.

20 Stunning Wallpapers For Your Desktop

10 Awesome jQuery Tutorials You Should Check Out

10 Flash and Actionscript Tutorials for the Beginner

Cheat sheets: jQuery, MooTools, Prototype

Deep Linking with jQuery

Build a Twitter-like site with CodeIgniter and jQuery

This tutorial will be the first of a five part series where we will built a social network site similar to Twitter from scratch. We will be using the CodeIgniter framework for the core of the website and jQuery for the effects. In this first part we will be configuring CodeIgniter to display everything correctly and we will also set up a database and connect to it.

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You can view a demo and download the resources for this tutorial at the bottom of the post.

Web 2.0 websites have a lot of Ajax functionality, some times when you load a new element of a page you may want the user to be able to click the back or forward button so that they can see the previously loaded content. One method to add this function to a website is to use the jQuery Address plugin with jQuery.

jQuery Address has 4 main methods; init, change, internalChange, externalChange. The init method is what is called when the plugin is initiated. The change method is called when the URL is changed, an element in the page is changed or either the forward or backward button is pressed. The change method has the combined functionality of internalChange and externalChange. The internalChange is only called when a hyperlink inside the page is clicked; externalChange is only called when the URL is changed or the backward or forward button is pressed.

To allow deep linking within your website the only two methods that are required is init and change, you can then use internalChange and externalChange wherever you may need them.
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