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Okay, so I am not going to talk about my life specifically but about a certain social networking portal called MyLife. Wait! You might think “not another social networking site”. There is more to MyLife than meets the eye. Really.

It was formerly named Reunion.com and while majority of people into the world use Facebook, there are a good number of people worldwide that still use this service. Facebook is annoying. Privacy is an issue and it has gotten to a point where even senseless verses are posted and everybody just likes them just for the sake of feeding egos.

Other social networking sites cater to professionals like LinkedIn. While it also has social networking aspects to it, its business model is still catering to the professional side of things. From my point of view, MyLife absorbs these 2 aspects of social networking, both personal and professional into 1.

While the growing demands on our time and our increased mobility as a culture can make it easy to lose touch, MyLife helps users find friends, reconnect with a lost loved one, stay in contact with family, or keep track of the dozens of other relationships you have created along the way.

In short, MyLife.com is the most effective and efficient way to find everyone in your life. Now, the best way to experience how the platform works is to go try it out. Register for na account now! It is free.

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So there seems to be an issue regarding the JTable grid when viewed in Mac OSX. The grid lines disappear. Well, not literally. They are probably colored white set as the default hence the perception that the grid lines do not get displayed.

To remedy this issue, just call setGridColor() of JTable and it should then display the grid lines according to the color you specify.

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Share the post "How To Make A Background Transparent In Android Dialog"

This one was pretty tricky because I got fooled into thinking that creating an XML file that contains shape attributes is the solution and setting the solid attribute to transparent would make an Android Dialog‘s background transparent.

This was not the case since I assigned the XML file to the background of a LinearLayout. Most of the forums I read gave this suggestion. However, the result is incorrect.

This is because the background of the Dialog is still not transparent. When I assigned the XML file as the background of the LinearLayout, it only put those attributes on the LinearLayout. Since the Dialog background is not transparent, its solid color overlapped the LinearLayout transparent background thus giving the assumption that it never worked.

To make the background of the Dialog transparent, you can do it this way:

This is my sample XML file set as a drawable background for the LinearLayout.

The solid attribute contains the value #AARRGGBB where A is alpha while RGB are the 3 colors red, green and blue. I set my alpha’s value to 90 so it would not be so transparent. You can change it according to your preference with values between 0 - 99.

Remember, if you set the alpha value to 00, then it will be the same as being invisible.

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