Stripe background will go well with many type of website layout, so if you need to jazz up a website, all you need is add a matching stripe background. Now question is how to create a stripe background? I know you can do a microscopic work in photoshop using lots of zoom and then making a tiny stripe image and then repeating it using css. This is a time consuming job and when you are in website design business, time means money. Fortunately there are some online stripe generators which do the job very well. All you need to do is input hex values of colors needed in stripe, find tune using slick interface and you are done. You also get a small preview of how the stripe will look which means no more wastage of time in testing. Best part is that when you created stripe in this way, you create something unique. Sounds cool right? Why not try it yourself? Here are few selected stripe generator websites:

stripegenerator.com
kissyourshadow.com/stripe_maker.php
stripemania.com

Today if you go in the market for buying laptop, you will find so many brands, models and types of laptops that you are sure to get confused. Deciding on which laptop to buy becomes harder now. There are few popular brands which sell more than others but buying those brands of laptop with eyes closed thinking that what others are buying will be good for you is not the right decision. You may find a better laptop at better price if you do some research. Usually people ask their friends and relatives and end up buying what these people have because people have tendency to recommend brands what they posses no matter it is the best available or not. This means that asking others is not the best thing to do, you need expert’s advice. Fortunately expert’s advice is just a lick away, all you need is to log on to consumermate.com and check out the wide range or laptop computers with their full details and test rating. Test ratings are given by trusted computer magazine test center Digit. First of all when we go to buy laptop, we have a budget in mind and we try to find the best laptop in that price range. Doing this is time consuming but at consumermate.com, you can not check laptop prices but also sort laptops according to their price, brand, weight and screen size. Finding laptop in this way will definitely save a lot of time which we would have spent deciding. Website also features newly launched laptops and laptops with good offers. If you are buying laptop for the first time and don’t know much about laptops then there is a buying guide on this site which you can consult. Website is very much user friendly, allowing users to ask questions, providing consumer support and they also host a forum for discussing various related topics.

You cannot avoid spammers, at least once or twice you are going to get spam mail. When you create a new email ID, you are not spammed at all but once you start using that email ID, you also start getting spam mails. So how these spammers come to know about you email ID? There are many places on internet from where these spammers gather emails but I am writing only those which are popular.

- You join a website whose administrator is an evil person and sell user email ID with his/her private information as well.

- You join a website whose administrator is non techcy and webmaster leaks email to his spammers friends.

- You post your email ID in forums and other portals where this email id is crawled by special software’s used by spammers to collect emails from web pages.

- Your email id is in contact list of your friend (which is obvious) and your friend’s computer is infected with spyware. All his contact emails are stolen with some private information as well and then personalized spam mails are sent. A real example I would like to give here, I met my old friend on social networking site and she was in Russia. Now she added me in her contact list and her laptop was infected in spyware. Since we were talking about Russia, how that place is which means word “Russia” was sent to spammers along with my email ID. Now these spammers send me those famous Russian Bride spam mails!

Even if we escape from first three possibilities, we cannot control what’s going on in our friend’s computer. Best thing to do is educate your friends about spywares, malwares, data miners and other bad stuff. You can also create an email ID only for signing up non serious websites and keep a private email ID for serious work.

Suddenly many web designers started discouraging using of tables in layout. It was just like discarding floppy drives from desktop computers and today when we buy a PC, it does not come with floppy drive as standard. However things have gone advance and today there is absolutely no use of floppy drive but think of a case when operating system becomes corrupt, you cannot boot and you mess up with BIOS too. This is definitely a nightmare but floppy can be used to boot in this situation and BIOS can be flashed using floppy. Ok I am not going to talk about this issue as I am not aware of latest hardware BIOS flashing method but I am writing about the importance of tables.

You might have received newsletter in emails and these emails look just like a complete webpage. If you look at the source code of these newsletter, these are created using tables. Email services and even personal email client software’s are not able to render complex CSS files so we have to rely on good old tables method. Its pity that same web designers making newsletter for their client using tables shout that don’t support using tables anymore. In real web pages too there are places where using tables is more efficient so days of tables in layout is definitely no over!

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Wonder why Microsoft.com website works best only on Internet explorer? Not only this, most part of its website works ‘only’ in internet explorer. We call it monopolies of Microsoft that it has always disgraced use of software’s that are not made by Microsoft. EU has already fined Microsoft for this bad business practice. There is no doubt that Microsoft is a reputed company and we all use their software because they are easy to use but I don’t understand why they have to follow such cheap tactics. If internet explorer fails to meet security standards then they should work on it instead and something like Internet explorer 7 should have been made long before.