Create Magnifying Lens Using CSS and JQuery

I was impressed today by a cool css and script trick that creates a magnifying glass over a web page. The script provides magnifying lens effect using a background image and background position animation. The lens follows the mouse pointer position with a slight delay. Here a snippet from the whole code. It creates the magnifier effect:

Wi-Fi Problems Troubleshooting Flowchart

With the abundance of mobile devices nowadays, one way or another you'll have to use wireless network to hook your mobile device to the internet. It is also a pretty obvious choice over cable specially when your always on the move. Because your here and reading this, I bet that you have your own Wi-Fi connection setup at home or at the office which has a problem right now. Here is an easy to follow flowchart diagram by 7Tutorials to help walk you through your wireless networking problems. The charts cover every basic problem to more complex one. Grab your copy now and print it or share it to your friend that needed help.

Prevent Duplicate Tabs In Google Chrome

Multi-Tab browsing is one of the best feature of browser that has been invented since Chrome was first released. It make your browsing more organize and better than opening multiple windows. Sometimes we open the same URL in multiple tabs which can happen accidentally or unintentionally. This can be prevented using an extension called Prevent Duplicate Tabs. This extension lives by its name, it checks if your about to open the same URL that is already opened in another tab and then prevent it. It supports three modes: keep the new tab and close the old one, keep the old tab and close the new one, and deactivate this extension. Once installed, the extension adds an icon next to the URL bar that can be clicked to toggle between the modes.

Extract Text Files From PDF With Free PDF to Text Converter

PDF format is now widely used in sharing confidential documents over other formats because it is by default read only document. Although you can convert them with PDF Converter like Docdroid and Boxoft PDF to Word, still you can't modify it as straight forward as a Word format. A PDF document can also be protected by the author to hinder conversion tool from converting it completely. If your the recipient and wanted only the text file from the PDF document then Free PDF to Text Converter is the tool you need. It is a portable application that allows you to convert a single or multiple PDF documents into a simple text file minus the styles and pictures. If you convert multiple documents, it extracts and merges the document to create a single text file.

Read PDF Files Like A Book With Flipping PDF Reader

If you now preferred reading eBook over an actual hard bound book but missing the flipping of pages then you can try Codebox or Flipping PDF Reader. With Flipping PDF Reader, you'll have a nice alternative to Adobe Reader with the nice flip book. It allows you to read PDF documents in user friendly interface with flipping book effect like in a real book. It provides option to switch to a two page view, view recently accessed files in a book shelf, a thumbnail view of the table of contents, a customizable interface and scroll through pages or zoom in/out using the mouse pointer.

Clean And Sort Your Bookmarks With SuperSorter

If you have a habit of bookmarking any site you came across just to view it later but never read it, then you may have a messy bookmarks. Your bookmarks folder may contain duplicate links, old links with old story and as well as unsorted links. To help you clean your bookmarks in Chrome, install SuperSorter. It is an extension that allows you to sort bookmarks in ascending or descending order, delete duplicates, merge folders, and sort automatically every minutes to keep it everything in order. Once installed, the extension adds a small green arrow icon next to the URL bar. To set your sorting options, visit the extension's options page. You can set SuperSorter to delete empty folders, deletes duplicate bookmarks in the same folder and merge neighbouring folders that have the same name.

Built-In ISO Image Mounting In Windows 8

With today's Windows, you need to install a third party app to mount an ISO or VHD image before you can manage its content. Having it available as native feature in Windows 8 is another good news to Windows users population. With Windows 8, you won't need to install a separate tool but instead, mounting ISO and VHD files will be readily available upon Windows installation. To mount an image, just select "Mount" from the enhanced Explorer ribbon, double click the file, or right click the file. Once you mount the ISO, a new drive letter will be added. You can access its contents just as they would have been had you inserted the CD/DVD media into a physical optical drive.

Clean And Format Your Visual Studio 2010 Codes With BatchFormat

When we are in rush to code a project, sometimes our least priority is to keep our codes clean. We tend to leave behind unused Using directives and unsorted functions and etc. Considering to take care of this unnecessary code at the later stage of the development is not a good idea because it may not happen at all. Going through the code line by line is tiring so some of us just ignore doing it. To help you in this situation is BatchFormat, a Visual Studio 2010 add-in that allows you to format your code by removing and sorting Usings directives. Once installed, you'll have a BatchFormat menu in Solution Explorer right click menu. To format document, just select any document you want to format then followed by BatchFormat option you wish to be performed on that document.