It seems as if almost everyone has incorporated the internet as a part of their daily activities. People are frequently using the net to communicate, socialize, listen to music, download videos and a lot of stuff we would rather not discuss. As a modern-day freelance writer, the internet is something I just can?t be without. The popularity of this worldwide network has led to the emergence of several online markets and the web hosting business is thriving like no other. With more people looking to benefit from all the resources of the internet and World Wide Web be it for personal or business reasons, web hosting firms have been able to make out rather nicely.
What is Web Hosting?
Website or web hosting, is a service that allows you to have your very own website. How does it work? Well, you sign up with a web hosting provider and they allocate disk space among other resources,? for you on a high-capacity computer, more commonly known as a web server. Hence the name, the web host?s server serves your website pages on the web, making them accessible to internet users throughout the world. Nearly every site on the web is being powered by one web hosting company or another.
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Types of Web Hosting
There are many different types of web hosting available, each of which are geared towards businesses, webmasters and developers at varying levels. Some of the most popular types of web hosting including the following:
Shared Hosting
The most common type of web hosting, shared hosting describes a situation where you are literally sharing server space and various resources with other website owners.? Simplicity and cost-efficiency has made this arrangement quite popular among individuals and small businesses.
Dedicated Hosting
More commonly termed as a dedicated server, dedicated web hosting refers to a situation where you have an entire server dedicated to your website or business. Server space and all resources are made exclusive to you, providing the utmost in control and flexibility.
Managed Hosting
Managed hosting generally refers to the full managing and servicing of a dedicated server.? This may include server administration and database management among other services.
Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting is a situation where you purchase server space and associated resources from a web hosting provider and then sell it to your own customers. A reseller essentially acts a middleman between the customer and the web hosting company.
As you can see, web hosting comes in a variety flavors and these are just a few of many. Narrowing them down and finding one that suits your needs isn?t always easy but one thing is for certain ? with all the providers currently on the market, there is sure to be a host capable of meeting your needs.
As the Web Hosting Ghostwriter, Contel Bradford writes numerous web hosting reviews and articles. View more of his work at the WebHostingGhostWriter.com
RAJIN, North Korea (Reuters) ? Destitute North Korea's push to breathe new life into economic relationships with its neighbors China and Russia appears to be bearing fruit in its far north of the country where foreigners are busy helping rebuild a crumbling infrastructure.
A top local official told reporters on Tuesday that China and Russia had invested heavily in the region in order to gain access to its three east coast ports in the towns of Rajin and Songbon, which are the main centers for the secretive North's Rason Special Economic Zone.
"Rason is situated well geographically, and provides favorable conditions for investment," the city's vice mayor Hwang Chol-nam said through an interpreter.
The ports would more than halve the distance Chinese firms needed to ferry goods from landlocked Yanji in Jilin province to the major industrial center of Dalian which is also a shipping hub for northeast China.
Impoverished and squeezed by international sanctions for conducting a series of nuclear and missile tests from 2006, North Korea has reached out to Moscow and Beijing for help to fill the gap left by the drying up of South Korean and the U.S. economic assistance.
Over the past 15 months leader Kim Jong-il, who in the past rarely traveled abroad, has visited China four times and last week made his first trip to Russia in nearly a decade. Kim's visits were mainly aimed at winning economic support, and have raised speculation he may finally be opening one of the world's most closed economies.
The North announced in June it would work with Beijing to make the Rason zone work, along a similar zone in the west at Hwanggumpyong island near the Chinese city of Dandong.
VISIT TO RASON
North Korean authorities this week escorted a group foreign journalists to the lush Rason area where they are hoping to secure foreign investment and raise much needed hard currency.
Over 100 Chinese bulldozers and diggers were seen working on a new mountain road connecting the Chinese border post of Jing Xin and the North Korean ports, while a new railway line linking the area with Russia is all but complete.
Hwang said that the North had also agreed in principle with a Chinese company to build a coal-fired power plant in the so-called Rason Special Economic Zone, where like the rest of North Korea, there is little power.
"We have finished all the feasibility studies," he told reporters visiting the area, adding he hoped construction on the new thermal plant would start next year. Asked the name of the Chinese company, he said: "It's a secret."
Hwang said the power plant would be coal-fired with a maximum capacity of 600,000 kilowatts.
"Power is the lifeline of industry, that is the first urgent problem for developing the Rason Economic Development Zone," he said, adding the zone had introduced new laws permitting international banking transactions, as well as tax incentives.
The North faces acute energy shortages, and in Songbin a massive thermal coal-fired plant lies idle, while oil refinery, complete with 30 massive tanks, sits derelict.
At night, Rajin is pitch black except for the few buildings with their own generators.
Russian engineers were seen working on the new rail line just outside of Songbon, about 20 km north of Rajin. "The Russians have constructed the railroad from the border city of Khasan to Rajin port, and they are finishing the project this year," he said, adding Russia has leased one of the ports.
The special economic zone near the border with Russia and China, was initially instigated in the early 1990s, but the project fell by the wayside due to lack of interest from foreign investors.
Hwang said the country's leader Kim Jong-il visited the area in 2009, and issued a directive to push ahead with the plan to promote international trade in cargo, and to develop the local fishing and tourism industries.
But even with the improved infrastructure, the twin ports still have a long way to go. A port meant for timber appeared to be in ruins, while the ports in the Songbon were rundown. Rusted and hole-ridden giant water pipes ran along another port near the derelict thermal power plant.
In the biggest port, Rajin, a 250-meter Russian transport vessel, named "Friendship," was moored with a trickle of smoke coming from its engines. It was unclear if it was operational.
None of the 15 giant cranes cargo were operating on the any of the three piers. A few fishing trawlers and small boats were tied to the piers, the longest of which measured about 500 meters.
Foreign experts say the North's plans to develop the port may just work given China's close involvement but doubt it will ever turn into major cargo hub.
Hwang said there had been considerable interest, mostly from Chinese and Russian companies, but also from Thai and Swiss investors. He said China's biggest cement manufacturer, Jilin Yatai (Group) Co. had agreed to build a factory with a 1 million tonne per year capacity. Textile companies from China and Taiwan have also expressed their interest.
Hwang also had his eyes on even bigger things -- shipbuilding, auto manufacture and the hi-tech industry.
"I think one year after the completion of infrastructure we will be at a high stage."
JAMISON, Pa. ? An Army officer suspected of killing four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia was found dead in a wooded area Sunday after a manhunt during Tropical Storm Irene's winds and drenching rains paralyzed residents in this Philadelphia suburb.
Hours after he fired at several officers, wounding two of them, the body of Leonard John Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Va., was found shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday in this Bucks County community, said Warwick Township Police Chief Mark Goldberg.
The police chief said Egland had a gunshot wound but he would leave it to the coroner to determine whether it was self-inflicted.
Egland's body was found several hundred yards behind a Lukoil gas station where he had fired a semiautomatic rifle at SWAT team members who discovered his truck and found him before dawn in a trash bin. The officers, who were not injured, chased him into the woods but lost him as the storm raked the area, Goldberg said.
"It was bad," he said. "Weather conditions were horrible and it was a very dangerous situation."
He said the SWAT teams had "performed courageously."
With Egland on the run, armed with two weapons, residents were warned to stay indoors and keep their doors locked, the police chief said.
The storm-lashed manhunt, Goldberg said, "tied up departments all over Bucks County ... It didn't prevent us from responding during the storm but it certainly taxed our resources," he said.
Three Bucks County SWAT teams, state police and numerous police departments searched for Egland after his former mother-in-law was found shot to death in her home in Buckingham. Authorities in Virginia said Egland had earlier killed his former wife, her boyfriend and the boyfriend's young son before taking his own young daughter on a frantic drive through Irene's winds and rains into Pennsylvania.
The girl, believed by Goldberg to be about 6 years old, was abandoned Saturday night by Egland, physically unharmed, at St. Luke's Hospital in Quakertown, apparently after the child's grandmother was killed. A note was left with the child, authorities said.
Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler said a nurse or orderly confronted Egland but the officer flashed a pistol and got away. The hospital worker called police with a description of the suspect and his black pickup truck.
Just before midnight, the truck was stopped by state and local police in Doylestown Township. Officers said the suspect fired shots from a semiautomatic rifle, hitting an officer in the arm and shattering a windshield that sent glass into the face of a Dublin officer.
Goldberg said both officers had been released from a hospital.
The body, found in woods behind the gas station and a business under renovation, matched Egland's description, Goldberg said.
Goldberg said that because of the lockdown, numerous residents were prevented from checking for storm damage at their homes.
"I know just from the way the phones were ringing in the police station that it was causing a great deal of anxiety among our people, and for us as well," he said. "It's a tragic event, but at least our residents can rest easy."
Police in Chesterfield County, Va., said Pennsylvania police had asked officers at 1 a.m. Sunday to check on the welfare of people at a home, where officers found the bodies of Egland's ex-wife, her boyfriend and his child. Names of the victims were not being released pending notification of relatives. A spokesman said the suspect had no known criminal history in the area.
Egland's former mother-in-law, 66-year-old Barbara Reuhl of Buckingham, was believed to have been killed Saturday night, Heckler said.
Goldberg said other family members were under police protection during the search for Egland, including one person who was at the police department. The police chief said he believed Egland's daughter girl was being cared for Sunday afternoon by relatives.
Just before midnight, the truck was stopped by state and local police in Doylestown Township, where he allegedly fired shots from a semi-automatic rifle, hitting a Doylestown officer in the arm and shattering a windshield that sent glass into the face of a Dublin officer.
The truck was spotted around 4 a.m. Sunday parked at a restaurant in a Warwick Township shopping center. Local officers found Egland's truck and spotted him in the same area about an hour later and reported being fired upon. The officers, members of the Central Bucks SWAT team, were not hit, Goldberg said.
A rifle and pistol were found with the body, which was discovered more than 10 hours after Egland fired at police the second time, authorities said.
Egland had recently returned from the latest of three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Heckler said.
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Living with acne and no adult acne cure is similar to living with a curse, or some sort of birth defect. I believe that I can say this considering I was a life-long acne terminal case myself. Being an person of legal age and still having to deal with those awful blotches on your face is embarrassing to say the least. In this article I am going to give you a resolution that worked for me, as well as for numerous others around the world. I cannot personally take the credit for this strategy, however I can share my experiences with you which is outstanding.
Most likely if you are reading this you have already tried every over the counter item currently on the market with little to no results. After trying everything known to man, I put my faith in a dermatologist, just to be told that their was no such thing as an adult acne cure. I figured since a dermatologist was considered to be an expert when it came to skin care I had given up on all hope.
Years later I came across a study that revealed that most skin specialist simply have no idea what the real cause of acne is. Though they are acquainted with the signs and symptoms and they fully grasp the topical outcome they are oblivious when it comes to comprehending the internal ailments and causes. For me this was good news, in fact I thought it was to good to be true, so I schedule an appointment to find out for myself. I was surprised when my skin doctor verified that the survey was true by saying, no one was 100% sure about the internal causes of acne.
Most medications that you see advertised on television actually work. Well nearly work would be a better way of putting it. You see they take care of the result of the dilemma, which is the acne or the splotch on the skin. Topical skin solutions do not solve the acne situation. What they do basically is drain your pockets from all of your hard earned money. Since their medicines do not fix the problem you have to keep purchasing them to mask the condition.
In any other sphere of business that would be called a scam. Companies are knowingly selling you a commodity that they are falsely wanting you to believe will cure your problem. Here is the bottom-line. Without fixing the internal problem that is causing you to have acne, you will generally be stuck with acne. Its just that straight forward.
If I advised you that you are very lucky to have acne, you would most likely tell me that I was crazy. Having said that the fact is you are lucky ? let me tell you. The acne is a obvious from your body telling you that something is wrong inside, and it needs your instantaneous help. By correcting your internal predicament you accomplish a few things. One you will re-balance your body thus stopping future toxic related conditions from manifesting on the surface of your skin, and you will eternally rid yourself of having to deal with acne.
Irrespective of what you see on television and read on some online sites who are just trying to get you to click on their ads for revenue. You will never get rid of acne without using a 100 % natural approach as your teen and or adult acne cure. The 100 % natural method as far as I know, is the only 100% certain method for dealing with acne. Once I figured that out and took steps my skin improved and my self confidence went through the roof. You no longer have any justifications, because the power to improve your skin is now in your hands.
If this adult acne cure does not work you can punch me in the face.
Barack Obama?s 787 dollars billion stimulus package was passed late in the night Friday 13th, 2009. (Hopefully the date is not a foreshadowing of how well the stimulus will do.) Many people are wondering ?what exactly do the payouts in the stimulus include and what do I get out of the package?. Well, here is a quick overview of some of the stimulus package and who gets what out of it. In part one we went over how it affected taxes and health care. In this part we?ll go over how the nations infrastructure will benefit along with what to expect for schools and national energy projects.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The nations physical structure has been stressed and failing in many areas for decades. Many highways have not been repaved for decades and bridges have been under excess strain from our oversized SUV?s. The economic stimulus package will repave many highways, reinforce crumbling bridges with new concrete and steel and replace waterlines that have not been dug up in nearly a century. Ninety dollars billion in revamping, even though not nearly enough to repair everything needed, will help create jobs for the declining employment rate in the country.
ENERGY
This could very well be a very important part of this particular topic. As mentioned in part one of this article, homeowners will be able to receive a thirty percent tax credit up to 1500 dollars towards purchases of energy efficient furnaces and air conditioners, windows and also insulation. Along with benefits for homeowners the fourty-two dollars billion energy investment included in the economic stimulus package includes twenty dollars billion portioned for ?green? jobs. Makers of ?green? energy products such as solar panels, wind turbines and companies involved with bringing the green energy process into the computer age will benefit greatly. Another five dollars billion will be put towards helping the poor and low-income homeowners of America make energy improvements to their homes. Two dollars billion will energize the research on batteries for future electric cars.
SCHOOLS
Hillel?s Early Childhood Education Program ? YouTube
The economic stimulus will put fifty-four dollars billion towards restoring state budget cuts. The main concern is to prevent a possible 600,000 teaching jobs from being eliminated over the next three years. Districts have been trying to prevent larger class sizes in schools which would be impossible with so many teachers being cut. Of that, the No Child Left Behind program will receive twenty-five dollars billion to help pay teachers and help with special education programs. Head Start early education programs and child care programs will benefit from a four dollars billion stimulus.
We?ll talk more about what the economic stimulus package includes in later articles, but we as individuals have to begin creating our own economic stimulus plan. Let?s show our country and everyone else around the world that its not only our country, but us as individuals also, that are making plans for our financial success and freedom. Let us take advantage of the opportunity that has been given to us, whether we agree with it or not, and create some real momentum towards a stronger America.
David Eigenfeld is a top internet marketing and home business coach, working with people from around the world. Most recently David has started an ?online marketing boot camp? with his team of mentors and is offering the course, for free, to people intrested in learning how to market online. The goal of the boot camp is to teach others how to achieve their goals, dreams and aspirations by applying strategies used by top internet marketers today. To learn more about David and his team of mentors visit him at http://link2profits.com.
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Although acquiring property through a tax-delinquent foreclosure sale, also known as a ?tax sale,? can be profitable, investors should weigh both the environmental and legal risks against the financial rewards prior to inking a deal. The tax sale process can limit the investor?s ability to conduct environmental due diligence and expose the investor to risk.
The traditional environmental due diligence process is outlined in the Association for Testing Materials 1527-05. This process becomes more challenging when an investor acquires property through the tax sale. A taxing authority is often hesitant to step into the chain-of-title of a property because of the real or perceived environmental risk. Therefore, obtaining permission to access a property to conduct an environmental assessment is difficult.
The inability to conduct the environmental assessment increases the potential risk for the investor and decreases the interest in purchasing the property. Consequently, ownership remains with the original property owner, no revenue is generated for taxing authorities, and the surrounding community suffers from a decaying property. A significant legal issue involves who can grant access to a property trapped within the tax delinquent foreclosure process.
Risks associated with soil and groundwater impacts from on-site and/or off-site sources are manageable with assistance from legal counsel and an environmental consultant. The Texas Property Tax Code can provide a means for access to the property, enabling an environmental team of consultants and attorneys to aide in the necessary assessments.
Amy Rickers is a shareholder at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC, where she specializes in business litigation. Her co-author, Chris Shulz, is a project manager at SKA Consulting LP.
Windows Explorer is a foundation of the user experience of the Windows desktop and has undergone several design changes over the years, but has not seen a substantial change in quite some time. Windows 8 is about reimagining Windows, so we took on the challenge to improve the most widely used desktop tool (except maybe for Solitaire) in Windows. Alex Simons on the program management team authored this post with a detailed look at the evolution of Explorer and the major improvements to its interface and functionality for Windows 8. Judging by the passion on file operations and user interface design, we know this is an important subject so we expect a pretty engaged dialog on the topic.? We put this in one lengthy post, will watch the comments and dialog, and down the road we'll continue the discussion. -- Steven
It?s exciting to have this opportunity to share the improvements we?re making to the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer. Explorer is one of the most venerable parts of Windows with a heritage you can trace back to the ?MS-DOS Executive? in Windows 1.0!
? MS-DOS Executive in Windows 1.0
Over the years, Explorer and its forerunners have gone through several major iterations:
File Manager in Windows 3.1
Explorer in Windows XP
Explorer in Windows 7
It?s a bit daunting but also pretty exciting to have the opportunity to revisit and rethink this cornerstone of our product. Many of you who are reading this (and most of us on the development team) are among the most extreme ?power users? of the file management tools in Explorer and likely start from a different perspective than the broad base of customers. As we approach the work to improve file management in Windows, we do so knowing many of you have long ago "given up" on Explorer and are using some of the wide variety of add-ons or alternatives.
As we mentioned in our post on improvements in the copy function, telemetry data indicates these add-ons and alternatives are mostly used by us power-users and we represent a small but influential group of people. The most popular add-ons and replacements (programs like TeraCopy, FastCopy, xplorer2 & QTTabBar) are installed (note that does not mean used) on about 0.45% of PC?s. Our goal is to improve the usage experience for a majority of customers while recognizing that, with such a long history and variety of depth usage, we cannot possibly provide all of the power everyone might want. We expect that there will be a vibrant third-party toolset for some time to come. Windows 8 is an opportunity to substantially improve the experience for everyone.
How Explorer is used today
Over the years, Explorer has grown to support a number of different scenarios, many unrelated to file management ? launching programs, viewing photos, playing videos, and playing music, to name just a few. We wanted to know which of these capabilities customers were really using. Using telemetry data, we were able to answer the question of how the broadest set of customers use Explorer in aggregate. As a reminder, the telemetry data is opt-in, anonymous, and private, but it does represent hundreds of millions of sessions from all customer types.
This data is pretty interesting. First it shows that even though there are over 200 commands in Explorer, customers use a small number of them with any real frequency: the top 10 commands represent 81.8% of total usage. Additionally it shows us that people overwhelmingly use Explorer for core file management tasks - the top 7 commands (72.2% of usage) are all for managing/manipulating files.
This data represents the total usage of Explorer and includes cases where a person has a third-party add-on installed that uses one of our built-in commands (i.e. ?play,? ?open,? ?edit,? ?email,? etc.) A good example would be that a customer might have a third-party music app installed, which is the default player for all their music formats. The command usage of this third-party add-in from within Explorer is included in the data above. There are a class of add-ons that add their own custom commands (i.e. ?rotate?) and we don?t get telemetry data for those, though we do know how often they are installed and get invoked (<2% of user sessions). This data is pretty solid and given the hundreds of millions of data points, it gives us a very clear picture of average usage across the population as a whole, and also of the spectrum of usage patterns (depth and breadth, frequency, etc.).
We also wanted to know how people most frequently invoke commands in Explorer.
The telemetry data here shows that 54.5% of commands are invoked using a right-click context menu, and another 32.2% are invoked using keyboard shortcuts (?Hotkey? above) while only 10.9% come from the Command bar, the most visible UI element in Explorer in Windows 7 and Vista. With greater than 85% of command usage being invoked using a method other than the primary UI, there was clearly an opportunity to improve the Explorer user experience to make it more effective?more visible and uniformly accessible.? While context menus are convenient, the features in them can be overlooked if you don't condition yourself to "search" via a context menu for the feature (a well-known challenge with the mechanism).
We also did an analysis of which of the commands that customers used were available in the Command bar:
Only 2 of the top 10 commands customers invoke in Explorer are available in the Command bar, the main UI element for invoking commands. This further reinforced our thinking that there was a big opportunity here to improve Explorer by making common commands more readily available. A clear user interface design principle is that frequently used commands should be easy to get to?clearly we had not yet accomplished that with existing designs.
Next, we turned to customers and community feedback. Customers have a lot of suggestions for how they?d like to see Explorer evolve. Many of these suggestions are for things that after-market add-ons like TeraCopy, QTTabBar, DMEXBar, & StExBar, or Explorer replacements like xplorer2, XYplorer or FreeCommander already offer.
The biggest category of feedback was requests to bring back features from Windows XP that were removed in Windows Vista, especially things like bringing back the "Up" button from Windows XP, adding cut, copy, & paste back into the top-level UI, and for providing a more customizable command surface. Also frequently requested is the need for more keyboard shortcuts. As you?ll read below, we?ve addressed many of these top requests in the redesigned Explorer.? Each of these "removed" commands has a long history rooted in the changes to the Windows architecture and/or design philosophy.
Goals of the new Windows Explorer
We set out to accomplish three main goals with this new version of Explorer.
Optimize Explorer for file management tasks. Return Explorer to its roots as an efficient file manager and expose some hidden gems, those file management commands already in Explorer that many customers might not even know exist.
Create a streamlined command experience. Put the most used commands in the most prominent parts of the UI so they are easy to find, in places that make sense and are reliable. Organize the commands in predictable places and logical groupings according to context, and present relevant information right where you need it.
Respect Explorer?s heritage. Maintain the power and richness of Explorer and bring back the most relevant and requested features from the Windows XP era when the current architecture and security model of Windows permits.
We evaluated several different UI command affordances including expanded versions of the Vista/Windows 7 command bar, Windows 95/Windows XP style toolbars and menus, several entirely new UI approaches, and the Office style ribbon. Of these, the ribbon approach offered benefits in line with our goals:
Provides the ability to put the most important commands in very prominent, front and center locations.
Makes it easy to find commands predictably and reliably. Every important file management command could be given a home in the ribbon, and customers would always know where to look for them.
Exposes a large set of commands (~200) in one easy and consistent experience and organizes commands into scenario-focused groups without the use of nested menus, popups, dialogs, and right-click menus.
Aids command identification with support for grouping, a variety of button sizes and icons, and aids deeper investigation with live previews and expanded tooltips.
Takes a similar approach to Office, Microsoft Paint, and Windows Live Essentials, which means that many of our customers will be familiar with the model and not have a lot to learn.
Provides a consistent, reliable UI that doesn?t degrade over time like traditional toolbar and menu-based user interfaces do. See Jensen?s earlier blog on this topic?from the development of the ribbon.
These strengths fit well with our three goals ? the ribbon would allow us to create an optimized file manager where commands would have reliable, logical locations in a streamlined experience. The flexibility of the ribbon with many icon options, tabs, flexible layout and groupings also ensured that we could respect Explorer?s heritage. We could present a rich set of commands without removing access to previously top-level commands, something we knew was really important to our customers. As it so happens, while not primarily a touch interface, the ribbon also provides a much more reliable and usable touch-only interface than pull-down menus and context menus (we'll have lots more to say on the topic of touch, of course?as a reminder, check out this Windows 8 video--we definitely know there is a lot of interest but also want to make clear that we know how important keyboard and mouse scenarios are to power-user scenarios of file management).
Explorer in "Windows 8"
We knew that using a ribbon for Explorer would likely be met with skepticism by a set of power-users (like me), but there are clear benefits?in ways that the ribbon:
Exposes hidden features that they already use but which require third party add-ons to use in the Explorer UI today.
Provides keyboard shortcuts for every command in the ribbon, something many people have been asking for.
Provides UI customization with the quick access toolbar, taking us back to a customization level that is basically equivalent to Windows XP.
We also knew that, similar to when we added the ribbon into Office, there would be concerns about reduced screen real estate. We worked hard to mitigate this issue, and I?ll tell you what we did here a little later in this blog post.
Finally, there are quite a few third-party add-ons that some of our more advanced customers use with Explorer today. These add-ons will continue to work in the right-click context menus in Windows 8, which is by far the most common access point for experienced customers running these add-ins (where discovery and occasional usage are not the primary design points).? However, add-ins will not be able to plug into the ribbon UI. This was a difficult engineering choice for us and we expect that many of you will read this and suggest we add the capability--of course if we could get it right this time around we would have done that. A big part of this blog is sharing these choices--tradeoffs--between new features and adding everything we can dream up and finishing.? We also think the customization we provide and the improvements are worthwhile this time around.
In a related note, one of the most common requests we get in any redesign is to continue to provide the old user interface along with the new. Sometimes this is suggested as a "transitional" benefit, and other times as a "compatibility mode." We've learned over many product cycles that the work to provide this significantly impacts the evolution of the product. The most immediate challenge is that any new commands added to the ribbon then need to be added in the old UI, even if there is no logical place for them. And of course as the new UI evolves, backward compatibility proves doubly challenging. Each time we change we double the number of "old" experiences we carry forward. Our hope is that those who maintain software understand that these are tradeoffs we make in a thoughtful and deliberate manner, and are not meant to be forceful or painful in any way. We are fully aware of the responsibility that comes from changing an interface used by so many people.
A ribbon gave us a lot of layout options and we explored a number of different approaches to tabs and grouping. We decided to go with three main tabs: Home, Share, and View, plus a File menu and a variety of contextual tabs.
The new ribbon
The Home tab is focused on the core file management tasks, and we?ve put all the major file management commands there in prominent locations: Copy, Paste, Delete, Rename, Cut, and Properties. We?ve also given new prominence to two popular heritage features, Move to and Copy to, along with exposing a hidden gem, Copy path, which is really useful when you need to paste a file path into a file dialog, or when you want to email someone a link to a file on a server.
The new Home tab
The Home tab is the heart of our new, much more streamlined Explorer experience. The commands that make up 84% of what customers do in Explorer are now all available on this one tab:
Overlay showing Command usage % by button on the new Home tab
The Share tab is for sharing files by typical methods like zipping them up and emailing them to a friend, or burning them to optical media. Or you can quickly share files with other people in your home group or your network domain. It also provides one-click access to the ACLs for the currently highlighted file.
? The new Share tab
The View tab provides access to options for view customization. We?ve enabled one-click access for turning on/off the Navigation pane, Preview pane, and Details pane, a live preview gallery for the different icon display sizes, quick access to sorting and grouping by column, the ability to quickly add columns, plus easy access to three hidden features: show file name extensions, show hidden items, and hide selected items.
? The View tab
The customization options for the Navigation pane are also much easier to access ? in the drop-down menu, you get one-click access to them, including a new option to show or hide favorites.
Navigation pane options?
The file menu and other tools
The file menu lets you quickly open new Explorer windows, access your shortcuts, and change folder and search options. It also includes a hidden feature that we love, Open command prompt, and a really useful new command, Open command prompt as administrator, both of which launch a command prompt with the path set to the currently selected folder.
File menu
We?ve provided a variety of contextual tabs that activate in the context of specific files and folders, and for tasks like searching, managing libraries, viewing pictures, and playing music. One of the best examples is the new Search Tools contextual tab which launches when you click in the search box.
Search tab
The Search tab surfaces a bunch of hidden gems that most people are not aware of, but that could solve some common problems for them. You can quickly adjust the scope of any search, filter by common date ranges, file type, file size, and other properties like the author or name. Then you can save these searches for future use.
Here are examples of some of the other Explorer context tabs:
Library Tools?
Picture Tools
Disk Tools
Designing for a wider screen
When considering the ribbon UI, we knew we had to be conscious of one of the primary customer concerns we hear about: screen real estate. As we looked at ways to mitigate this issue, we dug up some more telemetry data for Windows 7:
As this data shows, widescreen formats (those with a resolution ratio > 1.3) have become the standard. Of the top 20 screen resolutions, 17 of them are widescreen formats and they account for 83% of the total Windows 7 PC base.? This should make sense to everyone because the majority of PCs are laptops and almost all laptops are wide screen.? The two common standard resolutions are almost exclusively desktop PCs.? We had a lot of good discussion about display resolution in Engineering Windows 7 and likely this will be an interesting topic again.
Knowing this, we investigated a number of options for using widescreen formats more effectively with the goal that the total vertical space available for content was the same after we added the ribbon as it had been in Windows 7. We removed the header at the top of the main view and moved the Details pane to the right side (and also did a visual revamp of the pane) while keeping a one-line status bar at the bottom of the window where we show you critical information.
? Details pane for images
This approach gives you a new Details pane that is much easier to read, makes better use of widescreen formats, and preserves screen real estate for the main file/folder pane. The exact number of lines might vary a bit from PC to PC depending on what add-ins you have, but for the out-of-the-box configuration running full screen at 1366 X 768, you can actually fit two more lines on the screen than you could in Windows 7.
And this comparison assumes you have the ribbon open. If you collapse the ribbon (double-click the tab, or click the Minimize arrow on the right side of the ribbon), you get even more vertical real estate with our new approach.
Making it work well for power users too
Finally, while most of the work we?ve done is focused on making Explorer work for everyone, we also wanted to make sure we were giving our more sophisticated users a good experience as well.
One of the top requests from more advanced users is for more keyboard shortcuts. All of the existing Windows Explorer shortcuts work in this version of Explorer, but with our new approach, all of the approximately 200 commands in the ribbon now have keyboard shortcuts as well. (Note that we haven?t finalized the exact number of commands in the ribbon yet. It will likely end up between 198 and 203 when we?re done.)
Keyboard shortcuts
Advanced customers have also traditionally asked for the ability to customize Explorer more. The Explorer in Windows XP was probably the most customizable version to date (you could add or remove a pre-specified set of buttons from the toolbar and customize the layout) but the Explorer UI in Windows 7 and Vista had very limited customization options beyond installing third-party add-ons.
The new Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in Explorer provides a lot of customization opportunities. Similar to Office, by right-clicking any button in the ribbon, you can add it to the QAT. Additionally, you can choose to have the QAT display above or below the ribbon, and to display the ribbon in an open or minimized state. This is a big increase in the level of customization available in Explorer (you can choose approximately 200 commands to add to the QAT) and returns it to a level equal to or greater than we had in Windows XP.
QAT customization options
? A customized QAT with a minimized ribbon
Finally, as you may have noticed in several of the screen shots, we just had to bring back the ?Up" button.
? The return of the ?Up" button!
This is far and away the most requested improvement to Explorer, and a great opportunity to bring back some of Windows Explorer?s heritage features.
I'll leave you with this quick demo where I walk you through the main features of the new Windows Explorer.
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Many self-help groups and authors, the organization reported that there is fear in the hearts of men, while the application of new techniques and processing. However, one must understand the true way to eliminate their fears. We can also say that the correct way to eliminate fear is to understand. Many self-help groups org. analyzes your training sessions that seek to inform the public about the basic philosophy of life, is not nothing to stop and not sticky. This means that the life of the names of the acceptance of tissues and replaced if necessary. There will always be in poor condition and not in good condition, but those who remain in a "bad" often think of you in need of improvement, but needs constant self-improvement of living standards, only to live independently in the situation. In life we ??can not avoid these risks is the way life is. However, continuous personal development of their shorter life expectancy will be more ups and downs.
We all know that every body has these improvements in your life, the result of the large animals to keep. It is a kind of life to live more productive and better. An example of life is the name of the movement and vision. If a child is the most beautiful creature to speak a house on the left to learn and understand language and orientation of their parents. This present resulting low level of understanding and intellectual production, now that the child remains in the heart of the family. And if the process of continuous self-improvement by 20 years. one can easily understand what happens to children, the importance is now a man without All animals are equal to humans, the results. Because it produces food for our family, or produce products of our company, or have the love and comfort for our loved ones. We always produce something, and we are alive.
It is must be something from time to time, freeing you to some of the monotony is not it surprising, looking at the moment in a specific case, but the fear of change that I hope with all my heart.
We can say that personal development is not something he had feared. As you read this, you understand that life is the name that you upgrade your car with new and recent changes in the world. Once the character is updated with new trends again the toast of society.
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With this particular shower theme you might use these proposed color hues: Dark Green, Dark Blue and Dark Brown /Green, Brown and/or Blue/Dark Green, Lime and Blue.
When it comes to phrasing on the baby shower invitation card, if blank, you can utilize the following:
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To create and look the experience of the jungle, it is possible to make palms by acquiring empty cardboard rolls from a carpeting retail store. Cover the roll with green, brown/dark green, green and brown paper garlands (you can possibly braid them for more effect). To make the leaves, you can use green, dark brown, as well as gold tone wrapping paper (or tissue paper). Have three to four tissue papers stacked together, fold all of them by two (long side), then cut out shape of a big leaf, and then trim the sides in riffles. Put a wire within the already folded section (could be cut from any hanger) and attach on the roll. Do about 4 of these to obtain the palm tree impact.
Otherwise you?ll be able to buy a inflatable palm tree. Both, hand crafted or purchased trees are usually put in the corner of the room next to the present table.
You are able to also get big cords, perhaps even wrap paper and connect them together to create a jungle vine effect. You can certainly purchase foliage that you simply can attach / hang on wall surfaces and doors, another great decorating tip is utilizing tissue paper together with vivid colors for example dark orange and reddish to make flowers. This may be affixed towards the vines, or on surfaces and doorways.
Needless to say this is usually time consuming whenever creating these kind of home made decor.
To present the very best jungle effect, you?ll need some stuffed animals like lions, monkeys, parrots, turtles, giraffes, and so on? You are able to suspend the parrot or monkey/monkey and parrot from one of the vines, or possibly have an wildlife toy bent over a large punch bowl as though it had been stopping to have a drink. The fluffy animals can be bought and offered as a shower gift for the mommy-to-be.
With regard to table centerpieces you?ll be able to use the standard party decorations: blue colored water using a floating candle (or maybe flower formed candles), around the bowl/it you are able to position the tissue flowers you made. You may place a bowl of green and blue/blue and green M&Ms or some other type of colored candy. Regarding the principle table, you can create or invest in a diaper cake, and if mama is environmentaly friendly, she would really like a nappy cake made from nappy cloth diaper.
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The talk about addiction never seems to cover being addicted to the chocolate which is one of the most affordable and socially acceptable items on earth. Whenever one thinks of the word ?addiction,? people start imagining hard chemical stuff and they cannot see a picture of a person who is so dependent on chocolates that they actually need help and support. Here are three tips on how to get a chocolate addict on a road to kicking off addiction for good.
You must first come to terms with the realities of the situation. It is usually said that whatever happens in this life has a root cause. Addiction to chocolate is quite the same.
So face the situation frankly and sincerely that there is need for something to be done and open a page where you can record every step of the journey to self improvement. Well, eating chocolate is nothing one should be ashamed of till it starts to get out of hand.
Self reflection and realization will show you how and why you started this habit. On checking back, you will certainly see how the addictive pattern is repeatedly manifesting and what actually triggers it. It could be something to do with the emotions and feelings. For example if you notice that you have this craving at certain periods only; during which you would reach for a bar of chocolates and afterwards would feel perfectly alright.
Immediately you get to this realization, you begin to see how the patterns in your life like loneliness, heartbreak, and melancholy for example were responsible for your predicament. These are the things you need to put down on paper from today so that you can now start taking new steps towards a wholesome life.
It is some of these feelings in your past that you would have to jot down on the notepad this very instant so that the work of recovery may begin straight away.
It is worthwhile to know that this is the beginning of a journey to self fulfillment because you will now be able to deal successfully with the root cause of the addiction.
The journey might take several weeks or months, but your satisfaction should lie in the fact that finally you are dealing with a situation in your life that could have led to disastrous results.
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