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Google has launched Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.

This is a small step in our larger effort to make the web faster. Studies have repeatedly shown that speeding up your site leads to increased user retention and activity, higher revenue and lower costs. Towards the goal of making every webpage load as fast as flipping the pages of a magazine, we have provided articles on best practices, active discussion forums and many tools to diagnose and fix speed issues.

Now we bring data and statistics specifically applicable to your site. On Site Performance, you’ll find how fast your pages load, how they’ve fared over time, how your site’s load time compares to that of other sites, examples of specific pages and their actual page load times, and Page Speed suggestions that can help reduce user-perceived latency. Our goal is to bring you specific and actionable speed information backed by data, so stay tuned for more of this in the future.

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Google is now giving webmasters the ability to prompt users for automatic translations of their pages. With the new website translator gadget, site owners can paste a short snippet of code into their websites and instantly increase their reach to up to 51 languages.

The gadget will automatically detect a user’s preferred language, and if that user’s language settings differ from the content on the gadget-enabled website, a frame will appear over the web page, prompting the user to click a button for instant translation of all text content.

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Think you can make a better fast-booting, Chrome-focused OS than Google? Want to craft a custom Linux system that boots from a USB stick? SUSE Studio gives you 15 GB to do exactly that, and you do it all online.SUSE Studio is what powered the fan-made “Chrome OS” we posted yesterday, which, in that case, was a semi-stripped-down system loaded with the developers’ version of Chrome, Google webapp links, and OpenOffice. If speed and cloud computing aren’t your bag, you can create a fully functional system with Firefox, 3D graphics, and whatever apps you can find installed. Want your system to start up with an AWN dock and Launchy keystroke launcher running? Not a problem.Even if you don’t know all that much about Linux, it’s pretty easy to build a system you can boot from a USB stick or live CD/DVD, run inside a virtual machine program, or actually install it—or, heck, even test it out in your web browser.

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Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.

 Topics Covered

• Regular expressions syntax
• PHP regular expression functions
• Validate domain name
• Enlight a word from a text
• Enlight search results in your WordPress blog
• Get all images from a HTML document
• Remove repeated words (case insensitive)
• Remove repeated punctuation
• Matching a XML/HTML tag
• Matching an XHTML/XML tag with a certain attribute value
• Matching hexadecimal color values
• Find page title
• Parsing Apache logs
• Replacing double quotes by smart qutotes
• Checking password complexity
• WordPress: Using regexp to retrieve images from post
• Generating automatic smileys

Here is the complete article

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Cheat sheets and reference guides are useful for both beginners and advanced web professionals.

They can be used to help you remember syntax or as a tool to aid in memorization.In this post, we aim to cover the reference guides for all of the most commonly used platforms, software and coding languages.

In this web article you’ll find a compilation of the 30 most useful and well-organized cheat sheets, checklists and reference guides.

This is a Great resource for all of us. Here is the Article

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For all you frustrated web designers out there who are constantly testing and retesting to make sure your site looks perfect across browsers then you know there are lots of options out there for testing. The Launch of Browserlabs from Adobe has prompted Bryon to put together a list of 10 browser testing tools for web designers. 

Adobe Browserlabs launched today making it faster and easier to browser test your client sites. Here are 10 browser testing tools and services for web designers.

Here is the entire article from the original source.

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My Dreamweaver started to error when I start editing my php files and when I searched on Adobe website found that its due to a corrupted  config file. Once you delete this file the errors when off. This happened after the daylight saving time was reset in fall.Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when working with certain PHP or ASP files in Code view or Design view after the clock goes back one hour, when Daylight Savings Time ends. The crashes only occur when selecting certain lines in Code view, or selecting certain objects in Design view. The crashes only occur in files that have PHP or ASP code, intermingled with HTML code. The crashes do not occur in Dreamweaver 8 or earlier (Ref. 229536).

REASON

The Dreamweaver CS3 WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file has been corrupted by the time change.

SOLUTION

1. If Dreamweaver is open, quit the application.
2. Delete the WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file from the Dreamweaver user configuration folder. Note that on Windows, the Application Data and AppData folders are hidden by default, so verify that your Windows Explorer folder options are set to View Hidden Folders. The location of this file is as follows:

   Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows Vista:  C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
   Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows XP:  C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
   

3. Restart Dreamweaver.

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When more than one instance of XP (or other Microsoft operating systems) is or were installed, you’ll receive a boot menu when you start the computer. If you don’t need this choice anymore you can change it as shown below.

There is a text file on your computer called boot.ini that contains the information about your installed operating systems, which is usually in “C:\” or C:\boot.ini. Right click it and open it with Notepad or another text editor.

You’ll see a line there for each operating system you have installed. You can delete the line for the old instance of XP to eliminate this menu choice. However, it’s very important that you delete the correct line.
Then “Save” and re-boot. No more OS selections will appear.

This is very simple to do however if you remove the wrong data your in big trouble.
Make a backup of the original file just in case.

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PDF document format has become a defacto file standard for documents.  Although you could read (open) any pdf with the free adobe reader creating pdf documnets needs the adobe professional wich you need to buy.

But over the time many have developed pdf creators that are cheap or free. Here is a list of such utilities. Most of thease drivers are installed as printer drivers. So if any application has a print feature then you can use it to create pdf documents. Hope this helps.

PrimoPDF - Completely free PDF creator - Create PDF files from 300+ file types. Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print. Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.

Pdf995 - The pdf995 suite of products - Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995 - is a complete solution for your document publishing needs. It provides ease of use, flexibility in format, and industry-standard security- and all at no cost to you.

Bullzip PDF Printer - Works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.

CutePDF Writer - Installs itself as a “printer subsystem”. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!

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