Other celebrations include a range of 10 stamps by the Royal Mail which will show the Underground from its early days as a steam locomotive on the Metropolitan Line in 1863 to the opening of Canary Wharf station in 1999.

London Underground in partnership with the London Transport Museum is celebrating the tube’s birthday with a range of events and activities throughout 2013.

The tube was also recently described as Londons “key strategic weakness” (circa 1960). in the recent Doctor Who Christmas special (as shown on a vintage 1960’s lunchbox emblazoned with the map of the day).

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As usual the creative boys and girls behind the Google doodle have turned the Google logo into the iconic Star Trek The Original Series crew.

Whats more is there is a story to be told in this doodle recreating memorable scenes from the TV show including Kirk’s showdown with the Gorn.

If your a Trek fan or have an interest in Sci-fi in general check out Trekmovie.com‘s coverage of the anniversary and well done to the Trekkies at Google!

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She repeated the trip in 1932 and went on to become the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California in 1935 and in 1937 Earhart attempted a round-the-world flight and disappeared never to be found. Over the decades there have been a number of attempts to solve the mystery of her disappearance however to this day her fate still remains unknown.

There have been many theories, one fictional account to the mystery came from the TV show Star Trek Voyager, in which a group of people from 1937 were abducted by aliens and taken half way across the galaxy including Amelia Earhart (Memory-Alpha.org). Similarly BBC TV show Torchwood featured a pair of (accidental) time traveling aviators from the 1950’s and it is suggested that something similar may have happened to Earhart.

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It should be noted that neither IE6, 7 nor 8 support any of the CSS3 properties (with the exception of @font-face). IE9 has much better support for CSS3 and is thought of as an important step forward in bringing IE in line with the other choices on the web.

Border Radius

The ability to have rounded corners without images and JavaScript is one of the most sought after features of CSS3. Having to make images for each corner or importing a new library just to get the nice round edge will be a thing of the past with CSS3 Border Radius.

Box Shadow

A box shadow allows you to create a drop shadow for an element. Usually this effect is achieved using a repeated image around the element. However, with the property box-shadow this can be achieved by writing a single line of CSS code.

@font-face

Say goodbye to limited web safe fonts! CSS3′s @font-face feature allows you to use absolutely any font you like to in the design of your web pages. @font-face is supported by all the current browsers, and unbelievably even the older versions of IE. Free fonts are available at the Google Web Fonts Directory and Font Squirrel or you can us the @Font Face Generator to convert any font you want to a web font format and generate the CSS for use in your site.

Text Shadow

The text shadow property is another tool that designers can use to add something extra to a webpage adding drop shadows to the text on a webpage. Similar to the box-shadow property, prior to CSS 3, this would be done by either using an image or duplicating a text element and then positioning it.

Opacity

Probably the favorite feature to come in CSS3 is opacity. It is also probably the most already used CSS3 feature as well. There have been ways to use opacity in the past with IE hacks and other methods but the new CSS3 property will allow it to me done much easier.

Multiple Backgrounds

In the past, having layered backgrounds required you to create more than one element. But now, with CSS3 you can have multiple backgrounds on a single element. This will eliminate a huge annoyance that we have had to deal with in the past.

Multi-Column Layout

Another CSS3 feature that developers, including myself are very eager to start using is the Multi-Column Layout. It offers a new way to arrange text in more of a “news paper” type way. You have the choice to pick the amount of columns, the column width, column gap width, and column separator. A feature like this was not possible before CSS3.

It will still take a while before CSS3 is complete, even longer till every browser supports it (IE). But, we can start using them in are designs for browsers that do support them and just not have the extra features for the older browsers. All in all, just get excited, CSS3 will move the web development world in a good direction.

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Ive, who grew up in North London has been recognised by the Queen for ‘services to design and enterprise’ and been given a Knighthood.

Ive’s who owns 400 patents was previously awarded a CBE by the Queen, who has revealed she owns an iPod along with numerous other awards an honors. In 2003 he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum in London and was given the title Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts. He has also won the prestigious Industrial Design Excellence Award in the USA.

Ive’s has said “To be recognised with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful”

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