How to: Create a Chrome Extension in 15 seconds

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Developing chrome extensions become much easier now with the Extensionizr a boilerplate for creating chrome extensions.Using this you can create a basic chrome extension with specific set of features based on your needs. It’s more like Initializr which is a boilerplate template for creating html5 websites.

[How to] Activate Second sign-in verification in Yahoo

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Many of the Internet Giants like Facebook , Google, Dropbox , LinkedIn are trying to tighten up their user’s privacy by introducing 2 factor notification which is very promising till now .Recently Yahoo also introduced second sign-in verification which is similar to 2 factor notification which was initially introduced by Google.

How to: launching an Amazon EC2 Instance

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Amazon offers wide variety of services for developers  to create scalable applications.A web application is scalable if it allows more number of users without affecting performance and speed.The application server would need more number of CPU cycles ‘s if the number of simultaneous users increases and hence you need additional CPU resource. Amazon EC2 known [...]

Using base64 encoded images in HTML/CSS

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The most important part of increasing the webpage performance is to reduce the number of http requests,Which can be achieved by CSS Sprites.Sprite images require single http request to load the sequence of images but usually the sprite images are somehow difficult to construct and there is no automated tool available.Data URI is the alternate [...]

How to :create noisy gradient background in photoshop

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Background layer always plays the major role in designing and enhances the UI at most places.A little noise effect added to the background image enriches the UI and overall look. See our series of photoshop tutorials