All the useful ukulele chords in one place…

Listen to the TED video (it’s only 3 minutes long) and it will tell you what the 8 things are. If your even more impatient and don’t even want to have a short explanation here’s the list – do it – become successful – not my words, but sounds like good advice!

1. Persist
2. Focus
3. Work
4. Passion
5. Serve
6. Push
7. Good
8. Ideas

Strange as it may seem the value of Pi (Pie) is actually easy to remember and strangly symetrical…

The iFrame would then contain the document you wanted to view, including the ability to scroll the pages and print, etc. this is a good way to show the final document to your viewers in an easy to read format.

The document viewer http://docs.google.com/viewer has two parameters:

1. url: the URL of the document
2. embedded: if set to TRUE the viewer will use the embedded mode interface

So, if you wanted to view a PDF or DOC on your web page you would use an IFrame and the document (PDF, DOC, etc.)

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://freesoftware.mit.edu/papers/sturmer.pdf&embedded=true

I have created an example of the above page here

The benefit of using this method instead of just using the native Google viewer is that the user still has the focus of your web page with all the surrounding information and is not taken off to the google site to view the document. You can use this technique to view all supported Google documents, which would be very useful for such things as presentations and spreadsheets. The ifame is the container to hold the document, in the above example the width and height were set to keep the document within the page of the web page, these are of course not required. There are other attributes for iFrames such as the frameborder and scrolling properties. You could also apply some CSS styling to make the appearance more in keeping with your sites theme. for example:

You could use the iFrame generator to create all the basic code for you and then just add your Google document to the src attribute.

Lastly… if you just want to view a PDF or other document online you could go directly to: http://docs.google.com/viewer

KnowEm allows you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or username instantly on over 350 popular and emerging social media websites. Grab your name and secure your brand before someone else does.

KnowEm was developed to assist everyone – from individuals to Fortune 500 companies – in discovering where their names, brands, or trademarked terms are available (or stolen) on Social Media networks. KnowEm will not only help you secure your name across the vast social media landscape but we can also show you how to contact each site in order to have the name released and returned to you.

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• 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery | Encosia
  Five quick tips that I found valuable while learning jQuery in depth. I learned them the hard way so you don’t have to! Really good post outlining using jquery with:

1. Using Firebug to experiment interactively
2. Caching selector results
3. Explains about the best times to use jQuery (e.g. NOT all the time!)
4. Advanced selectors, filters and traversals

• Share button and Subscribe button generator – AddToAny – FREE

  Help your visitors share & bookmark your pages and subscribe to your feeds using any service. System to interactively create a bookmarking widget that allows your users to subscribe to all the popular social networking systems. Easy to use and can generate in multiple languages.

  Addtoany has a comprehensive API that allows you to get and set key parameters. The API page has plenty of good examples of how to use. The button can be small and unobtrusive. This system can be used with Feedburner, and the service is absolutely FREE

  (tags: tools web2.0 social bookmark bookmarking button wordpress socialnetworking)

• Storyboards for eLearning
  Storyboards for eLearning
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• Practical Strategies for Debugging Cross-Browser Display Issues
  Practical Strategies for Debugging Cross-Browser Display Issues
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• A Case Study: Rapid #WordPress Design and Prototyping with #Expression Web 3
  A Case Study: Rapid WordPress Design and Prototyping with Expression Web 3
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• Videos :: Microsoft MIX10 – great techy videos for web developers
  This page provides a handy “all-in-one” list of MIX10 session recordings that are available to download and watch on-demand. While we commit to publishing the highest quality video of a session within 24 hours of its completion, it often takes many hours to encode, edit, and upload each video before it becomes available. So, if the session you’re looking for isn’t here, be sure to check back later.
  (tags: microsoft video silverlight videos .net tutorial programming conference)

• Fiddler Web Debugger – Useful Extensions
  Fiddler Web Debugger – Useful Extensions
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• Recording web traffic with #FiddlerCap – great html/web traffic debugging tool
  Capturing web traffic logs with fiddlercap
• Advanced Web Debugging with #Fiddler
  Advanced Web Debugging with Fiddler
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• Capture your Screen. Edit the Screenshot. Add Arrows, Text and more to the #Screenshot. Send the Screenshot to a Bug Tracking or Issue Management System.
  Capture your Screen. Edit the Screenshot. Add Arrows, Text and more to the Screenshot. Send the Screenshot to a Bug Tracking or Issue Management System. Or send the screenshot via Skype or Email.
  (tags: software tools screencapture screenshot freeware image testing utilities)
• ASP.NET: 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications
  10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications
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• How to cache in ASP.NET by using Visual C# .NET
  How to cache in ASP.NET by using Visual C# .NET
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• How to Modify the Cache-Control HTTP Header When You Use IIS
  How to Modify the Cache-Control HTTP Header When You Use IIS
  (tags: iis asp asp.net cache microsoft performance)
• #Fiddler (Free web tool) PowerToy – Great article on HTTP Performance
  Fiddler PowerToy – Part 2: HTTP Performance
  (tags: fiddler performance http tools asp.net optimization web ie)
• Liu Bolin - Eli Klein Fine Art – find the body in the art…
  Liu Bolin – Eli Klein Fine Art – find the body in the art…
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