Change brightness of background-image?

You can have more layers in the “background” like this: .someObj{ background: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,0.5), rgba(255,255,255,0.5)), url(myBgImage.png); } This will put 50% white over the original image making it brighter. Linear-gradient function has to be used, otherwise it doesn’t work. Alternatively use: .someObj:after{ content:”; background:rgba(255,255,255,.5); … } and this is better for code maintainability.

How can I bind a background color in WPF/XAML?

Important: Make sure you’re using System.Windows.Media.Brush and not System.Drawing.Brush They’re not compatible and you’ll get binding errors. The color enumeration you need to use is also different System.Windows.Media.Colors.Aquamarine (class name is Colors) <— use this one System.Drawing.Color.Aquamarine (class name is Color) If in doubt use Snoop and inspect the element’s background property to look for …

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background-size contain, but don’t scale up

Unfortunately, what you want to do isn’t possible in CSS. Your best bet is to set the background-size using Javascript. However, if you want the image to scale down if the container is smaller than it, you will have to be able to retrieve the image’s natural height. if ($(‘.el’).height() < imageHeight) { $(‘.el’).css(‘background-size’, ‘contain’); …

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Android – Performing stop of activity that is not resumed

One Line: It seems some of your activity variables were freed from memory as Android OS needed memory for the Facebook application. Explanation: When an application in foreground needs more memory than that is available, Android frees some memory from the apps that are running in background. Foreground tasks always have higher priority than background …

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