I have installed Fedora 14 on my computer. Due to inability to solve sound crackling and stuttering on Skype using dozens of advices found online, and having wasted many hours trying to solve this, I decided to completely remove PulseAudio:

# yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio pulseaudio padevchooser pavumeter paprefs pavucontrol

Now everything works fine, sound in Skype is flawless, but sound icon or Volume Control applet is missing and I cannot see it in the ‘Add to Panel’ list.

Can anyone help me how to get Volume Control icon back on the system tray?

$ su -
# yum install gmixer

It isn’t the applet, but an application that shows in the Notification Area and does the thing. (If it isn’t automatically added in System → Preferences → Startup Applications, it should be done manually.)

HTML is the markup language that makes up every page on the web. The newest version, HTML5, includes specifications for a video tag, that is meant to allow website developers to add a video to a page the same way they would add an image. In order for this to work, web browser developers (Mozilla, Webkit, Opera, etc.) have to build the video functionality into their browsers. The W3C has created directions on how video should work in browsers, and it’s up to browser developers to follow those directions, so that video works the same across all browsers. This doesn’t always happen thanks to technology, legal, and financial choices made by browser developers, but so far no one’s varying too far from the specifications. However the specifications are still being changed and refined, so browsers developers have to keep up with that as well.

This example of a Facebook-style overlay is created with YUI 3 and CSS 3.
The overlay is modal (i.e. you can’t click or select anything under it) and is also draggable; grab it by the heading.

It’s really easy to find yourself wondering how your CSS got to be such a mess.

Sometimes it’s the result of sloppy coding from the start, sometimes it’s because of multiple hacks and changes over time.

Whatever the cause, it doesn’t have to be that way. Writing clean, super-manageable CSS is simple when you start off on the right foot and make your code easier to maintain and edit later on.

Providing a simple and reliable means of feedback from site visitors is a crucial part of any web presence. The most simple and common feedback channel are contact forms.

We are using PHP, CSS and jQuery with the help of the formValidator plugin for form validation and the JQTransform plugin, which will style all the input fields and buttons of the form. In addition we are using the PHPMailer class to send out the contact form emails.

The form degrades gracefully, which means it is perfectly usable even with JavaScript turned off.