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What’s Next?

I’m finally done with the first part of the tutorial on making widgets. To be honest, it doesn’t talk about widgets at all. It really is about HTML (which you need to know in order to make a widget), so if you’re on Linux or Windows, you can also learn something from it.

Besides for writing the other parts of the tutorial, I’m going to be doing a lot of other things in the next few weeks. One of the more important things I’ll be doing, is writing a BIG tutorial on how to install Linux (and more importantly, why you should install Linux). I’m not only going to go through the steps of installing Linux, but also I’m going to explain how to get several important things set up, and how to use Linux. Believe it or not, after using Linux for one month, I think its better than Mac OSX I’ll go into all the reasons why I think that another time. For now, I’ll give you one tiny reason why I think that Linux is better… Beryl. Beryl is a windows manager (don’t worry if you don’t know what that means) for Linux. You can set it up easily on any Linux computer in about five minutes. Here’s a video of Beryl.

I also am going to be switching domain names sometime soon. Check back sometime in the next month to find out what the new one will be.

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HTML 101

This is a tutorial on basic HTML. HTML is a markup language (a markup language is similar to a programming language) that is mainly used to create websites. It is also used to make widgets for Mac OSX. This tutorial is the first part of a series on how to make widgets. Eventually, I’m going to even explain how I made my Chuck Norris widget. You may also be interested in reading this tutorial if you use Windows or Linux, because HTML is used on every website that exists today. All of the screenshots are taken on a Mac, but it shouldn’t be too hard for Windows and Linux users to figure out what to do.

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Google’s Founders Don’t Know HTML

According to a lecture by Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google), Google’s founders didn’t know HTML. One other interesting thing that was mentioned was:

“Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied ‘We are waiting for the rest of it’. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.”

I could see that happening. Go to Google right now and look at it. You’ll see what I mean. Anyways you should read the full article. Its an interesting read.