Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has posted a lengthy response on the Engineering Windows 7 blog.

The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser's Gecko rendering engine makes the jump from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3.

"Given identical hardware, Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac, and it is for the most part the same code running in Flash for each operating system," said Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch in a follow-up comment to his own blog post. But Adobe and Apple have been cooperating to make things better, he said.

Display all your events, appointments, reservations or availability in a stylish event Calendar. Get your event data from many different sources such as own database or Google Calendars and show it all in a single calendar! Daily, Weekly, Monthly or full Year views are available to fully suite your needs. The Calendar is completely Ajax based so when navigating to the next or previous week/month it fully loads its data dynamically without refreshing the page! Choose from the 11 great looking CSS designs to style the calendar so it fully fit in your site design.

Smart Image Processor 2 is DMXzone’s most powerful Image Resize, Enhancement and Manipulation extension that allows you to quickly and easily process multiple images, create thumbnails, use image options such as crop, flip, rotate, sharpen and blur, or create grayscale images. You can even brand your image by including a watermark or text.

If you have ASP.NET on your server NO additional Server components are needed!

Take a look at the PHP version of Smart Image Processor 2.

A week ago we started a competition to give 5 copies of WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner's guide  book away! Today, after pointing out names in the dark, we have our lucky winners: Dan Trudeau, Arthus Woods, Kim Christensen, Michael Ryle and Peter Stevenson. Everyone will be notified via email, so you can get your books as quick as possible.

With this movie we will show you how to adjust events time setting according each user's local time or use the events default settings from the database.

Enhance your website Calendar with date pickup, designer tooltips, amazing lightbox preview and Swiss knife form validation.

The Bundle includes:

• Ajax Event Calendar
• DMXzone Calendar
• Advanced Tooltips
• DMXzone Lightbox
• Universal Form Validator ASP

With this movie we will show you how to combine the Ajax Event Calendar with DMXzone Calendar using behavior connector.

You already may have child themes down and you've built a few from some WordPress themes. But, have you thought about building a child theme from another child theme? In this article, Linda shows how to accomplish this small feat, which is very similar to building a child theme from scratch.

When it comes to developing websites and pages we could all use a little help now and then when it comes down to the real detail. Fortunately there's a wide variety of tools on offer to developers that can be of use when it comes to developing, monitoring, evaluating and debugging web pages. Here are 10 which I've found useful over the years.

The Bundle includes:

• Ajax Event Calendar
• DMXzone Calendar
• Advanced Tooltips
• DMXzone Lightbox
• Universal Form Validator ASP
  

CSS3 is coming. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers.

Today we are making an AJAX-enabled Sticky Note management system. It will give visitors the ability to create notes with a live preview, and move them around on the screen. Every movement is going to be sent to the back-end via AJAX and saved in the database.

An online petition calling for British government agencies to drop Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been launched on the official site of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Microsoft has provided some early testers with a near-final "release candidate" version of Office 2010 as the software maker works to make the suite broadly available in June.

Organizing the content of a page in a both intuitive and eye-catching manner, is a must in modern web design. One principle that has been around for some time is dividing text into tabs. This allows you to squeeze much more content in a seemingly limited space and provide a structured way of accessing it.

About two weeks ago, a startup based in Alexandria, Minnesota by the name of Striquent quietly launched a new website that combines results from major search engines. "The idea for qrobe.it was born out of a discussion on if the search experience can be improved upon or as the saying goes 'one can't improve what is already perfect,'" Nisha Boban, QA Analyst at Striquent.

In a blog post, Aaron Boodman, the developer of the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox, announced that Chrome version 4 and later will support most of the JavaScript-coded Greasemonkey scripts without any additional tweaking necessary.

There were rumors for months about Apple's new masterpiece and finally, it was introduced - the iPad, a device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store.

Display all your events, appointments, reservations or availability in a stylish event Calendar. Get your event data from many different sources such as own database or Google Calendars and show it all in a single calendar! Daily, Weekly, Monthly or full Year views are available to fully suite your needs.

The DMXzone Calendar extension enables you to add a great looking calendar with many different styles and effects on your sites.  Enrich any form used for events, appointments or birthdays. Use it as a date picker or inline calendar with its unique design and in flight animation options.

Create Rich Media Tooltips, provide online help, zoom in to images display rich content and tips with just a few clicks. 

The Bundle includes:

• Ajax Event Calendar
• DMXzone Calendar
• Advanced Tooltips
  

Discover the power of interactive presentations – the Sliding Billboard ! Organize your work greatly in a virtual book, which auto scrolls and enables your users to slide from page to page or chapter to chapter naturally. You can present any type of work this way: your portfolio, photo albums, products index, web shop, ads and much more. Choose from the 13 cool CSS designs included, so your billboard always looks great and suites your site perfectly.

Create Rich Media Tooltips, provide online help, zoom in to images display rich content and tips with just a few clicks. Check out the demo.

Customize the display of the tooltips, including the style, color and position. Apply rich designs, include and auto-fit photos, slideshows, movies, alerts or other content in your tooltips.

Apply special transition effects such as fade, slide and fly effects for a staggering user experience and place your tooltips anywhere you like on your site.

The DMXzone Calendar extension enables you to add a great looking calendar with many different styles and effects on your sites.  Enrich any form used for events, appointments or birthdays. Use it as a date picker or inline calendar with its unique design and in flight animation options. Embed multiple calendars, select date ranges, and limit the selection to specific dates.

No matter where on the planet you are, the calendar speaks your language - supports 35 languages.

The Hybrid Theme, developed originally by Justin Tadlock, opens doors to a variety of possible layouts - all easy to change and to adapt through child themes. In this article, Linda shows how to create a site with a static page and more with the Hybrid News Theme.

We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of Vladimir Prelovac's new book - WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner's Guide. Our friends from Packt Publishing are giving away 5 books!

With this movie we will show you how to combine Ajax Event Calendar and Advanced Tooltips in order to enhance the user experience.

Display all your events, appointments, reservations or availability in a stylish event Calendar. Get your event data from many different sources such as own database or Google Calendars and show it all in a single calendar! Enrich any form used for events, appointments or birthdays. Use it as a date picker or inline calendar with its unique design and in flight animation options. Create Rich Media Tooltips, provide online help, zoom in to images display rich content and tips with just a few clicks. 

If you are a regular user of WordPress then you might get bored of the default user interface of WordPress. Although the User Interface of WordPress is good but there is always room for improvement. Automattic the company behind WordPress has decided to go for Open Source Design Contests to make the User Interface of WordPress even better.

Previously in this series on CSS3, we talked not only about how to create scalable and compelling buttons but about how to effectively use new CSS3 properties to speed up development and quickly create rich page elements. In this final article of the series, we’ll really get into it and use CSS3 visual effects to push the envelope.