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Subaru delivers SiriusXM for 2012 models

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<img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-90935" height="64" mce_src="http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6/siriussubaru.jpg" src="http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6/siriussubaru.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="sirius-subaru" width="300" />If you are a music lover, then surely you would know that getting the right kind of tracks playing in the background while you drive will greatly enhance the journey’s experience, including making it feel as though that 10-hour road trip is shorter than imagined. Well, good news for fans of SiriusXM – Subaru will be offering satellite radio from SiriusXM for all 2012 models, starting with the Legacy and Outback Limited models, followed by 2012 Impreza and Forester models that will sport an all-new factory navigation system to boot.</div>
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Subaru delivers SiriusXM for 2012 models

If you are a music lover, then surely you would know that getting the right kind of tracks playing in the background while you drive wil...

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<img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="90" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/3020/main200200.jpg" width="120" /> When IE head Dean Hachamovitch announced the first platform preview of IE 10 at the MIX conference in April he said further preview releases would be "between 8 and 12 weeks apart". Platform Preview 2 arrives after 11 weeks and adds features for web apps, including Drag-drop and File Reader; so you can drag objects around on a web page - look for a magnetic fridge poetry demo on the IE test drive site soon - or drag files into browser windows to upload them and have that happen in the background. File access is possibly the first feature from the HTML5 Labs previews to make it into IE. PP2 also gets the web workers spec. Rob Mauceri, the lead program manager on the IE team, calls that "a popular request from developers" (we count it as the most common request in the IE blog after Flebox, which arrived in PP1) and it's going to make a big difference to the performance of web apps – and maybe your battery life. With web workers, a web app can shift some code to a thread running in the background – so a game can be working out the next turn without slowing you down while you play (usually the JavaScript for that would slow down what you're doing). This should work particularly well in IE because of the way the Chakra JavaScript engine can split code across multiple cores (and Microsoft's latest figures say that as of March 2011, the average PC has 2.4 cores). Other browsers already support web workers, although Firefox 5 does not allow messages sent through a direct 'channel' between different pieces of background code which Microsoft says explains why PP2 does better than Firefox at its new Bellagio Fountain test drive demo. <img alt="IE10" class="aligncenter" height="161" src="http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/2152/bellagioff5242090.jpg" width="252" /> FASTER: IE10 gets Web workers after other browsers… <img alt="IE10" class="aligncenter" height="268" src="http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/929/bellagioff5142090.jpg" width="420" /> FIREFOX 5: …Microsoft says Firefox is slower at this test because it doesn't have message channels PP2 is the first browser to support three new performance APIs, including the Page Visibility setting that the Chrome team has been suggesting web sites use to check if a page is in a background or tab or a minimised window. "If a web app is pinging the server for data it could be doing a lot of work and increasing the cost of running that server, none of which is needed because the window isn't visible to the user," Mauceri explained. The IE team confirmed that IE10 PP2 is "the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public "Windows 8" demos". One new feature that would explain the snappiness of the interface reflowing as you change the size of windows is Media Query Listeners; instead of the browser having to check periodically to see if you've changed the window size, changing the size sends a message to the server that it's changed and might need a new layout. IE10 PP2 is also the first browser to include CSS3 Positioned Floats (a spec Microsoft recently proposed to the W3C) and Rob Mauceri told us this is "part of the bigger picture of where reading is going online, towards a more print-like experience"; once you have a multi-column page flowing through a grid (all standards added in PP1), you want to be able to position a picture and have the columns flow around it – and that could be useful for web app layouts too. <img alt="IE10" class="aligncenter" height="172" src="http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2241/bellagioff5442090.jpg" width="252" /> FULL HARDWARE: Using hardware acceleration PP2 shows more fireflies… <img alt="IE10" src="http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4753/bellagioff5342090.jpg" width="420" /> CHROME: It might run on XP but Microsoft shows Chrome lagging on this demo There are also security improvements for embedding content like maps, ads or feeds form social networks in a web page using iframes; these will now run in a sandbox for extra security (again, something Microsoft tools us Firefox 5 doesn't support). PP2 also adds HTML5 forms and fields that will only accept specific types of information like email addresses or telephone numbers (something Joe Marini first mentioned to us as coming in the Windows Phone version of IE in the Mango update, suggesting that might be a version somewhere between IE9 and IE10). Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard recently told us Firefox is "almost as fast as IE9 and faster in some places" and Mike Belshie of the Chrome team showed background tabs in Chrome running faster than in IE9 at the Velocity conference this month (but using more battery to do it) but it looks like Microsoft is keeping up with performance improvements. The IE team isn't afraid to point at problems in other browsers either. <img alt="IE10" class="aligncenter" height="161" src="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5622/bellagioff5742090.jpg" width="252" /> COLOURFUL IE10: It's not enough to implement HTML5 if you get it wrong, says Microsoft A demo titled 'how stuff works' (showing an HTML5 Canvas app that works in Chrome and Firefox but displays the wrong colours) could almost be called 'how IE10 works better'. <img alt="IE10" class="aligncenter" height="161" src="http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7771/bellagioff5642090.jpg" width="252" /> OFF-COLOUR FIREFOX: HTML5 is supposed to cope better with pages that aren't quite perfect – Firefox doesn't seem to manage that as well <img alt="IE10" class="aligncenter" height="161" src="http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/6679/bellagioff5542090.jpg" width="252" /> GREY GOOGLE: Even worse, Chrome gets no colours at all Although Mauceri diplomatically phrases it as "we've made a lot of progress as an industry but there is still work to do". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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<a backgrounds="" can="" colorful="" more="" photo="" plain="" replaced="" title="#jsArticleIntroImageCredit rel=thinbox><IMG title=" white="" with=""></A> Plain white photo backgrounds can replaced with more colorful ones.Photographs can sometimes be taken against a background color that is unflattering or abstract. To replace this backdrop, <a class="StrongLink"" href="http://www.ehow.com/computers/">computer</A> users can import the image into a design program such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro. The tools in the program can be used to isolate the background and change it to a different color. Upon completion, the photo can be used in a photo collage or be added to a video project. Open the photo file in the design program by selecting "File," then "Open," from the toolbar at the top of the window. Click on the photo file from the window that appears, and select "Open" to import it into the project. Change the size and resolution of the photo after opening. Select "Image," then "Image Size," from the toolbar menu. Enter a numerical value into the height and width boxes of the "Document Size" section, then enter a value for the resolution. Photos that will be printed should have a resolution of 300 pixels per inch (ppi), while photos that will be used for video should be at 72 ppi. Select "OK." Duplicate the original photo layer in case an undesired effect occurs while replacing the background color. Click on the original photo layer, then navigate to the toolbar menu, and select "Layer," followed by "Duplicate Layer." Rename the layer in the window that opens, then select "OK." A new layer will appear in the layer's pallet. Choose the "Polygonal Lasso" tool from the toolbox to select the portion of the image that is to remain untouched while replacing the background color. Place the mouse pointer onto the edge of the object, and click on it to make the first anchor point. Move the pointer around the object to outline it, making occasional anchor points, until the last point and first point meet. Isolate the background to replace the color by choosing "Select," then "Inverse," from the toolbar menu. The background will automatically become selected. Use the "Eye Dropper" tool in the toolbox to select a color from the "Color Pallet" in the work window, then click on the "Paint Bucket" tool, also located in the toolbox. Click on the background with the paint bucket tool to add the new color to it. Click on sections of the background that do not paint individually to add the new color. Deselect the background selection once the color has been replaced by pressing the "Control" key on the keyboard, followed by the "D" key. Save the changes made to the photo by selecting "File," then "Save As," from the toolbar. Choosing "Save As" will permit the original photo file to remain intact. Enter a name for the photo file in the "File Name" box, select a file type and the destination, then click "Save." photo camera image by A74.FR Ben Fontaine from <a href="http://www.fotolia.com/">Fotolia.com</A>

How to Replace the Background Color of a Photo

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Download your style sheet using whichever FTP access method you prefer. Dreamweaver, FileZilla or any other will work. Make sure you have the most current style sheet from your server, not from your local machine. If you are using an internal style sheet or inline styles as part of an HTML page, download the HTML page or pages you need.Open the style sheet or HTML page where you want to change the background using Notepad or other code editing software. If you are using a style sheet, continue to step three. If you are editing HTML styles, continue to step four.Locate your "body" style. It will normally be located near the top of your style sheet. Locate the following entry within your body style: background-color. It should be followed by a pound sign and then a six-digit number (a hexadecimal code). That number should be "#000000" if your background is black.Locate your "body" style. It will either be near the top of the page if you are using an internal style sheet, or it will be within the "<body>" tag at the start of your page content.Delete the six-digit number and enter the hexadecimal code for a lighter color.Save your document and upload it to your server using your FTP access software.Double check the color in a few browsers to ensure it is what you want.

How to Change the Black Background of Web Pages to a Lighter One

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