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Have you ever wondered which domain name was ever registered first? Well I’ve myself alot of times. I thought Intel or HP were the first one to register very first domains, but surprisingly it was symbolics.com. And more amazingly, Microsoft didn’t registered their domain till 1991, interesting? yeah!

Here is the list of first 100 .Com domains ever registered.

1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985
3. think.com: May 24, 1985
4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985
5. dec.com: Sept. 30, 1985
6. northrop.com: Nov. 7, 1985
7. xerox.com: Jan. 9, 1986
8. sri.com: Jan. 17, 1986
9. hp.com: March 3, 1986
10. bellcore.com: March 5, 1986
11. ibm.com: March 19, 1986
12. sun.com: March 19, 1986
13. intel.com: March 25, 1986
14. ti.com: March 25, 1986
15. att.com: April 25, 1986
16. gmr.com: May 8, 1986
17. tek.com: May 8, 1986
18. fmc.com: July 10, 1986
19. ub.com: July 10, 1986
20. bell-atl.com: Aug. 5, 1986
21. ge.com: Aug. 5, 1986
22. grebyn.com: Aug. 5, 1986
23. isc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
24. nsc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
25. stargate.com: Aug. 5, 1986
26. boeing.com: Sept. 2, 1986
27. itcorp.com: Sept. 18, 1986
28. siemens.com: Sept. 29, 1986
29. pyramid.com: Oct. 18, 1986
30. alphacdc.com: Oct. 27, 1986
31. bdm.com: Oct. 27, 1986
32. fluke.com: Oct. 27, 1986
33. inmet.com: Oct. 27, 1986
34. kesmai.com: Oct. 27, 1986
35. mentor.com: Oct. 27, 1986
36. nec.com: Oct. 27, 1986
37. ray.com: Oct. 27, 1986
38. rosemount.com: Oct. 27, 1986
39. vortex.com: Oct. 27, 1986
40. alcoa.com: Nov. 5, 1986
41. gte.com: Nov. 5, 1986
42. adobe.com: Nov. 17, 1986
43. amd.com: Nov. 17, 1986
44. das.com: Nov. 17, 1986
45. data-io.com: Nov. 17, 1986
46. octopus.com: Nov. 17, 1986
47. portal.com: Nov. 17, 1986
48. teltone.com: Nov. 17, 1986
49. 3com.com: Dec. 11, 1986
50. amdahl.com: Dec. 11, 1986
51. ccur.com: Dec. 11, 1986
52. ci.com: Dec. 11, 1986
53. convergent.com: Dec. 11, 1986
54. dg.com: Dec. 11, 1986
55. peregrine.com: Dec. 11, 1986
56. quad.com: Dec. 11, 1986
57. sq.com: Dec. 11, 1986
58. tandy.com: Dec. 11, 1986
59. tti.com: Dec. 11, 1986
60. unisys.com: Dec. 11, 1986
61. cgi.com: Jan. 19, 1987
62. cts.com: Jan. 19, 1987
63. spdcc.com: Jan. 19, 1987
64. apple.com: Feb. 19, 1987
65. nma.com: March 4, 1987
66. prime.com: March 4, 1987
67. philips.com: April 4, 1987
68. datacube.com: April 23, 1987
69. kai.com: April 23, 1987
70. tic.com: April 23, 1987
71. vine.com: April 23, 1987
72. ncr.com: April 30, 1987
73. cisco.com: May 14, 1987
74. rdl.com: May 14, 1987
75. slb.com: May 20, 1987
76. parcplace.com: May 27, 1987
77. utc.com: May 27, 1987
78. ide.com: June 26, 1987
79. trw.com: July 9, 1987
80. unipress.com: July 13, 1987
81. dupont.com: July 27, 1987
82. lockheed.com: July 27, 1987
83. rosetta.com: July 28, 1987
84. toad.com: Aug. 18, 1987
85. quick.com: Aug. 31, 1987
86. allied.com: Sept. 3, 1987
87. dsc.com: Sept. 3, 1987
88. sco.com: Sept. 3, 1987
89. gene.com: Sept. 22, 1987
90. kccs.com: Sept. 22, 1987
91. spectra.com: Sept. 22, 1987
92. wlk.com: Sept. 22, 1987
93. mentat.com: Sept. 30, 1987
94. wyse.com: Oct. 14, 1987
95. cfg.com: Nov. 2, 1987
96. marble.com: Nov. 9, 1987
97. cayman.com: Nov. 16, 1987
98. entity.com: Nov. 16, 1987
99. ksr.com: Nov. 24, 1987
100. nynexst.com: Nov. 30, 1987

Source: IWhois.Com

Today the new collection of Adobe CS series is out. All with allot of innovative or improved functions with make the life easier for designers. Adobe is offering Adobe Creative Suit 4 in four packages:

• Design Premium
• Web Premium
• Production Premium
• Master Collection

If you are a web designer or in printing/production, we’d recommend you to get Adobe Master Collection 4. It got all Adobe’s software collection and best value of your money. You can download trial versions and use it for a month and then buy your license, if you decide to keep using it.

The new functions for Illustrator:

• Draw multiple drawing field on a single file. Make possible to choose wich fielt to export and have all designs in a single file.
• Transparent gradient. Finally they added this, because with the older version this was not possible and only could bypass it with making a opacity mask.
• Improved gradients tools like flash. They also finally imported this tool from Flash wich had a much better and easier tool to edit or change gradients.

New Photoshop functions:

Content aware scaling, special image scaling without loosing things. It was rumored a long time that Adobe had bought this and would implement into Photoshop and they did it.

• More and better 3d functions to improve work helping designers who do game textures designs. Also handy for us packaging designers who need to color in a 3d model of a package.
• New adjustment panel which make it easier and faster to use, normally you had to go to the image menu and then to adjustment to access list of things to adjust various things of the picture and color, brightness and more.

InDesign new features:

• Live preflight to detect error which could occur during productions.
• Smart guides which they copied out of Illustrator
• The biggest thing that InDesign now works together with Flash, which sounds odd but this for making better layouts.

New Flash features:

• 3D controls of 2D objects, now you pan, rotate and more and also include these movement in an animation. Where previously you could only code this or do smart stopmotion like changes to these objects.
• Bones tool give you more control over your designs and animation easier and faster. Previously you have to use a kind of hierarchy to make the moments of object, now with bones its like what have been used in many 3d programs.
• Animation control, when you ad a motion control you can now change the path easily instead of making a path guide.

New addition to the Adobe family is Flex:
With Flex you can make online web apps that can do allot of things. Flex isn’t really new but there is a whole community which uses free flex SDK to built on new online web apps. And this new program actually makes it faster and easier to code or design these new apps.

To learn more or get more detailed info of the new Adobe Creative Suit 4 got to their website Adobe.com.

Editors Note: Currently Adobe has take off downloading likes of Adobe Creative Suit 4 (possibily due to cheaters). They are now sending invitations through e-mails.

Apple has swept the board at Britain’s T3 technology magazine’s annual awards, winning four top prizes, including gadget of the year for its iPod Touch.

The touch-screen music and video player beat the Asus Eee Pc budget laptop, TomTom’s GO 920 car navigation system, Sony’s HDR-TG3 compact camcorder and six other devices.

T3 Editor Michael Brook said Apple had ‘nailed the mix of style and usability’ with its latest crop of gadgets.

‘The iPod wasn’t the first MP3 player, but it was, and is, by far the best,’ he said. ‘The iPhone clearly wasn’t the first smartphone, but it was the first one that every man, his dog and his dog’s ticks would sell limbs to own.’

Apple won three other awards: best commuter gadget (iPhone); best music gadget (iPod Touch 32GB) and a prize given by the magazine’s blog, Gadget Candy (MacBook Air).

The magazine’s second annual awards ceremony was held in Park Lane, central London, on Thursday evening and was hosted by ‘Cold Feet’ actor James Nesbitt.

Readers cast more than 54,000 votes to pick 11 of the prizes, including the gadget of the year award. The others were chosen by T3.

Here is a full list of winners:

1. Gadget of the year: Apple iPod Touch
2. Best music gadget: Apple iPod Touch 32GB
3. Best imaging gadget: Nikon D60
4. Drop dead gorgeous: Audi R8
5. Best new media: BBC iPlayer
6. Gaming gadget: Nintendo’s Wii Fit
7. Toy of the year: Guitar Hero, music video game
8. Commuter gadget: Apple iPhone
9. Gadget Candy: Apple MacBook Air
10. Retailer of the year: Dixons.co.uk
11. Innovation of the year: Sony XEL-1 OLED television
12. Green gadget: Honda Civic Hybrid
13. Hi Def award: Sony PlayStation 3
14. Home gadget: Sky+ HD, digital television
15. Gadget you can’t live without: TomTom GO 930

The Beta version of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is out there. We’d like to share new features of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.

Create next-generation web experiences

Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Adobe® Dreamweaver®. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.

Live View

Design your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View in Dreamweaver CS4 — while still retaining direct access to the code. Changes to the code are instantly reflected in the rendered display.

Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks

Write JavaScript more quickly and accurately with improved support for JavaScript core objects and primitive data types. Put the extended coding functionality of Dreamweaver CS4 to work by incorporating popular JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery, Prototype, and Spry.

Related Files

Manage the various files that make up today’s web pages more efficiently in Dreamweaver CS4 with the Related Files feature. Click any related file to see both its source in Code view and the parent page in Design view.

Integrated coding

Tap the power of built-in code hints for faster and cleaner coding in HTML; JavaScript; Ajax frameworks such as Spry, jQuery, and Prototype; and several server languages.

CSS best practices

Implement CSS best practices without writing code. Create new CSS rules in the Properties panel, and get clear, simple explanations of where each property fits in the cascade of styles

Code Navigator

See all the code sources that affect your current selection, such as CSS rules, server-side includes, external JavaScript functions, Dreamweaver templates, iframe source files, and more.

Adobe AIR authoring support

Create new HTML and JavaScript based Adobe AIR™ applications directly within Dreamweaver. Preview AIR applications without leaving Dreamweaver. Get your Adobe AIR application ready to deploy with AIR packaging and code-signing features.

Adobe AIR authoring support

Create new HTML and JavaScript based Adobe AIR™ applications directly within Dreamweaver. Preview AIR applications without leaving Dreamweaver. Get your Adobe AIR application ready to deploy with AIR packaging and code-signing features.

View Full List of New Features in Dreamweaver CS4 beta

View FREE Videos of Dreamweaver CS4 @ Lynda.com

So Finally, Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface. To skip past the P.R. phrasing, Google Chrome is designed to be simple to use without sacrificing any of the features required for daily web browsing.

Google Chrome uses the same rendering engine as Apple’s Safari browser, named Webkit. In recent history, the developers of Webkit have made great strides in creating what is, as of today, the fastest browser engine in terms of rendering speed. Google Chrome, currently version 0.2.149.27, seems to use a slightly older build of Webkit (version 525.13, to be precise), however, so some of the recent Webkit development gains will not have made it into the first release of the browser.

Other features of Chrome include a dynamic tab system which allows you to drag and drop tabs inside and outside of the browser window, an incognito mode in which the sites you visit are not added to your browsing history, and a feature similar to Opera’s Speed Dial, in which you are presented with your nine most visited websites, in thumbnail form, when opening a new tab.

Link: Google Chrome
Download: Google Chrome 0.2.149.27

Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce its first desktop microprocessors produced using 45nm process technology on the 8th of January, 2009, the first day of Consumer Electronics Show. The code-named Deneb chips will not get truly high clock-speed boost, but will be able to offer substantially higher performance thanks to larger cache and architectural improvements.

The first desktop processors from AMD made using 45nm process technology will be AMD Phenom X4 chips clocked at 2.80GHz and 3.00GHz, sources familiar with AMD’s plans said. The new processors will support both DDR2 and DDR3 memory, but since the initial chips will be available in socket AM2+ form-factor, the chips will have to rely on dual-channel DDR2 PC2-8500 (1066MHz DDR2) memory.

Surprisingly, but the 45nm process technology will not allow AMD to reduce power consumption of its quad-core AMD Phenom X4 process considerably and the new chips are projected to have 125W thermal design power (TDP), inline with today’s higher-end Phenom X4 chips. Still, the new microprocessors will definitely have better performance-per-watt ratio compared to predecessors.

Earlier this year AMD said that code-named Shanghai and Deneb microprocessors, which are based on the improved K10 micro-architecture, will be able to offer higher instructions per clock (IPC) throughput compared to currently available AMD Phenom and AMD Opteron processors, which should transform into higher overall performance per clock. Thanks to higher IPC and larger level-three cache (6MB instead of 2MB), the new processors are likely to offer considerably higher speed than existing quad-core chips by AMD.

Pricing of the new chips will depend on their performance against competitors as well as other market conditions.

Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows.

Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft’s older programs. It is centred on the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to a single PC. It is seen as Microsoft’s answer to rivals’ use of “virtualisation” as a way to solve many of the problems of modern-day computing.

Tie breaking

Although Midori has been heard about before now, more details have now been published by Software Development Times after viewing internal Microsoft documents describing the technology.

View the Whole Story @ BBC News

I’ve seen couple of times, new webmasters often ask how to move CSS rules to an external file in Dreamweaver. It is pretty easy and simple, I’m writing down procedure below.

Open your HTML document, you’re working in Dreamweaver. On right top side, you should see CSS palette. Click on CSS Styles tab, so you can see your CSS rules you’ve defined in your HTML documents.

Now click on very last CSS rule, hold SHIFT key and use the UP arrow key on the keyboard. Select all the CSS rules in the CSS palette. Like so in the image below.

Now all the CSS rules highlighted, right click your mouse button and click on Move CSS Rules

Save CSS rules to A New Style sheet and simply choose the root directory, where you want to save your CSS file.

Give name to your CSS file and hit the Save button.

Note: You might wanna save your CSS file in relative directory, or your HTML links could break.