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Did you know that Google Calendar provides three free ways so you can be reminded of events?

1. Pop-up
2. Email
3. SMS

To get started, click on the little down arrow next to your calendar and select Notifications.

For receiving SMS reminders, click on ‘Set up your mobile phone to receive notifications’. Ensure that country is set to the right one and type in your mobile number and click on ‘Send Verification Code’ button.

You’ll then receive the code via SMS to your mobile. Enter that back in Google Calendar to complete the mobile reminders setup.

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Web2book is a free program using which you can make formatted HTML, RTF, LRF or PDF files from RSS feeds, Web sites, Project Gutenberg books, Wikipedia entries, Crossword Compiler crossword, Microsoft Reader .Lit files, and other sources.

Daily updates can be scheduled to make archived copies of websites and RSS feeds.

The first thing to do after installing Web2book is to go to its options (under the Tools menu) and set the output folder.

To save a web page as HTML file:

Go to ‘Web Page’ tab, give a name for the output file and the URL of the web page. Hit ‘Go’ button.

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Socialtext Open is the open source version of Socialtext’s hosted enterprise-strength Wiki software, its Wikiwyg editor, and associated projects. Socialtext Open can NOT be installed on shared hosting accounts like DreamHost and HostGator since they don’t provide you with root access. However if you have dedicated web hosting or want to install it on your intranet server running Linux, download it from here and try it out.

There are quite a few places where you can download quality CSS and HTML templates/themes/designs for use on your website.

• Nuvio
• Rambling Soul’s Free CSS Templates
• FreeCSSTemplates.org
• Studio7designs
• Andreas Viklund templates
• Solucija CSS Templates
• The Open Design Community
• Template World
• Styleshout.com
• Zymic
• free-css-templates.com

More Resources:

• Top 14 Open Source Web Template Sites
• Lifehacker’s Free CSS/HTML template roundup
• 30+ Free Three-Column Website Templates
• Open Source Web Design

Make sure you read and follow the terms and conditions of usage, if any

When you want to have the content of a div centered vertically using CSS, it isn’t as easy as using tables. Below are few solutions that are available currently to vertically center a div:

• Vertically center content with CSS
• How do I center the content of an element vertically with CSS?
• infinitywebdesign’s solution
• A vertically centered CSS template

Are you aware of more ways to solve this problem? Do let us know by commenting.