Guest post by Michael Fridman.

It has often been said that the kids of today will inherit the Earth of tomorrow. It will surely be one where the challenges of climate change and environmental conservation will be stiffer.With the right eco-education, we can hope they will hit the ground running. A lot of schools and educational institutions are doing their bit by including the environment as part of the curriculum. Words like ‘carbon footprint’ and global warming’ comes to them as easily as the name of any present-day rock star.

If you work with lots of text-based documents, including emails, web content, lists, phone numbers and HTML code, you might occasionally need to clean up randomly ordered text, convert the case of titles, or strip away extra spaces and word duplications. When it comes to cleaning up longer pieces of text, it can be tedious and time consuming.

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If you blog using Wordpress as your blogging software, you will know that it offers a lot of flexibility in design. You can run a blog, run a normal website, and even a create a  social networking site. You can also run a newspaper or magazine site using Wordpress.

When you work a lot on the computer, you come face to face with the desktop several times a day. The most important is first thing in the morning, when you start up your computer for the day, to check your email and read a few of your favorite blogs.

Windows 7 was released about 10 months ago and it currently has a market share of 20%.If you are one of the 80% of users who might be afraid to upgrade from Vista or XP because you feel it is completely different to what you are used to, you should read MakeUseOf’s new guide, “The Windows 7 Guide: From Newbies To Pros”.That being said, even those who have been using Windows 7 for some time likely to find a few useful tips here. 

Google’s online image editor, Picasa, has yet again been updated. The new 3.8 version of Picasa is yet another small stride towards an all-in-one photo organization and editing suite. It includes one major new feature – integration with Picnik, an online photo editing application.

Those of you who visit this blog often know that I have a certain love for the simple things: simple CSS enhancements, simple PHP scripts, and most importantly, simple JavaScript plugins. One plugin that recently caught my attention was Arieh Glazer Event.Mock plugin. Event.Mock is a tiny MooTools plugin (essentially just a small function; not a MooTools class) that does exactly what it says: provides a Mock event for easy use with Element.fireEvent.