Thursday, May 13, 2010

Cheat Sheets

This article will collect the cheat sheets I've found useful.

CSS - Cascading Style Sheet
CSS 2 Help Sheet
CSS 3 Help Sheet
CSS 3 Cheat Sheet
DevCheatSheet’s CSS3 Cheat Sheets
CSS3 Color Names (CodeNique)
CSS3 – Information and samples (Robert Nyman)





HTML 
HTML 5 Cheat Sheet
DevCheatSheet’s HTML5 Cheat Sheets  with 22 cheat sheets
Browser Compatibility Charts  (MediaLoot)
HTML5 – Information and samples for HTML5 and related APIs (Robert Nyman)
HTML5/CSS3 Cheatsheet (Stories In Flight)
HTML Cheat Sheet for Transition to HTML 5 (html-5.com)
W3C cheatsheet (W3C)





Editors
VI Cheat Sheet

Thursday, May 06, 2010

How to create an Ebook and Ebook cover

The article consists of links to resources available on the internet. There are a lot of links out there but many are just viral marketing and not useful at all. The aim of this article is to provide only the useful links and tips without costing you a cent.

To create an Ebook cover:
http://3d-pack.com/ - 3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free! Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported).

Ebook writing guides:
http://multiebook.com/write-and-create-ebook/how-to-write-and-create-ebook.html - a very comprehensive no nonsense article on how to create ebook.

Possible Viral Ebook marketing, but worth a look on their webpage just to get inspiration and ideas:
http://www.databasedesign-resource.com/free-ebook.html
http://www.guidetoebookmarketing.com/ebook-articles.php

My experience so far:
1. The 3d-pack.com site is quite amazing after ours of sifting through the internet and also trying my own design using OpenOffice Draw.
2. In terms of producing PDF files, the best free tool so far is OpenOffice Suite. There is an Export functionality to PDFs which has a multitude of options when exporting to PDFs. ..... hope to add more details here later ....


Ebook Real Life Examples:
http://investbuygoldbullion.inspiriting.com/AdditionalMaterials.html - this Ebook is about all you need to know about investing in gold. The author sells directly from his website as well as offering affiliate program for other sellers via e-junkie

Articles
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2040044/Kindle-How-make-million-writing-e-book.html
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/KDPSelect

Sunday, May 02, 2010

PC PRO / PC WORLD / PC AUTHORITY Articles

This article will be a collection of interesting things found in the PC Authority magazine (may be related to the PC Pro magazine).

Features
May 2010  the-dark-side-of-the-web - web surfing anonymously using FreeNet, TOR, or Blog anonymously using TOR.


Software - mostly Free
May 2010 - Vue Pioneer - Free software to create 3D worlds
May 2010 - fontjazz - A javascript based system for creating fancy fonts on webpages, but renders it as text so that it can be picked up by search engines.
May 2010 - PortableApps - a suite of software that can fit and RUN in a USB stick. This is also highly configurable and allow other software to be added.
May 2010 - DosBox - An open source DOS emulator for BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Windows. Primarily focuses on running DOS Games.