1. Click the Start button
2. Select Control Panel
3. Double-click the System icon
4. Click the Advanced tab
5. In the Performance box click Settings
6. Leave only the following ticked:
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There are certain programs that Windows will start every time you boot up your system, and during the startup phase, they’re all competing for a slice of your CPU speed. Extra or unwanted items in the startup list will definitely increase your startup time, perhaps by several minutes. Some common examples are things related to AOL, RealPlayer, Napster, instant messengers, and video managers.
If you’re not sure about an item, no big deal. You can turn it off, restart your PC, and see if everything seems to work. If not, you can always go back and re-enable an item in the Startup list. This tip alone should speed up your start-up by 250%. Here are is what you have to do:
1. Go to Start button -> Run
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Some time ago I wrote this post where I explained some useful tips to enrich HTML Form using simple JavaScript functions. Some readers asked to me to illustrate similar examples using MooTools and unobtrusive JavaScript code, so in this tutorial I implemented the Twitter-like chars counter example of my previous post. This counter decreases, from the max value of available chars in the input field (20 in this example) to zero, while you type something into the input field:
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In this post I want to illustrate how to get the ID of DOM elements using MooTools and unobtrusive elegant code.
1. An “Obtrusive” way to implement it
Before to explain how to do it with MooTools, I think it’s better take a look at the following HTML code: Read the rest of this entry »
In this first lesson you can see how to manipulate element properties, in particular how to get DOM element by ID, how to use getStyle(), setStyle() (to get and set CSS properties), toInt() to convert string to number and some examples to introduce how to write unobtrusive JavaScript code with MooTools.
1. Add Mootols framework to your page
First, you have to download the latest version of MooTools and add a link to the framework within the <head> tag of the page: Read the rest of this entry »
