Joomla Developer’s Toolbox
from Smashing Magazine by Steven Snell

By Steven Snell

Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can be used to power all kinds of websites. After we published developer’s toolboxes for a variety of other CMS’, many readers requested a collection of resources for Joomla users and developers, so here it is. Joomla grew out of the Mambo CMS and has since built a large and loyal group of users, much like the other popular open-source options. What this means for users and developers is that there is a wealth of information and resources available, and in this post we’ll take a look at many of the best.
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Written by Amit Agarwal on December 31, 2008 Text Size ORIGINAL POST was http://www.labnol.org/software/adobe-pdf-guide-tutorial/6296/

Adobe PDF is the best format for sharing documents because they are compact, the formatting is preserved and most computers / mobile devices / ebook readers can easily handle PDF files. Here you’ll learn how to do just about everything with Adobe PDF files without Adobe Acrobat.

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Cassidy: Silicon Valley innovator left legacy of fun and thrills

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Karl Bacon and Ed Morgan worked together on Disneyland rides back in the… ( karen t. borchers )

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Karl Bacon was a quiet guy who never wanted much of a fuss. So when he died last month at 98, he almost slipped away from us without being noticed.

And that just wouldn’t have been right.

Bacon was a Silicon Valley inventor who did as much for the business of laughs, squeals and butterflies in the stomach as Bill Hewlett and David Packard did for the test instrument business, or Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore did for the business of computerizing almost every aspect of our everyday lives.

Like what? Like building with his partner Danny the Dragon at San Jose’s Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, among other things — which I’ll get to.

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35+ Online Shopping Cart Solutions for Your Business

With the shape of the economy and ever changing gas prices, online shopping may end up growing even faster than some have predicted. If your business hasn’t added an online shopping cart yet, why not?  The technology has been around for years now, and there are solutions for just about every skill level: you can do it yourself, outsource the work, pay companies for hosting, or even turn a WordPress blog into a simple shopping cart using plugins.  Here are over 35 shopping cart solutions for your business.

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Stretching: The Truth – REPRINTED from the NYTimes

October 14, 2008
Vital Signs
Exercise: Program Reduces a Knee Injury in Women
By ERIC NAGOURNEY

A newly designed program of strengthening exercises may help guard against a knee injury that sidelines many girls and young women who play sports, a study says.

The program, which is described in a recent article in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, is intended [...]

Many
of you are familiar with the concept of computer imaging. Essentially,
you take a system, configure it the way that you would like, and then
duplicate the hard drive to all of the other systems, saving yourself
all of the same steps that you did on the first system.

Now, there are a lot of great commercial software programs out there
that can do this for you. Acronis and Ghost come to mind. But, not
everyone can afford these options. For those of you find yourself in
this situation, I present you with a list of options that are available
for free or are open source. (All descriptions are copied from their
respective websites.)

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