One of the goodies in HTML5 is it allows you to use the <canvas></canvas> tag pair to draw or manipulate images on it. But not all browsers support the HTML5 Canvas. To have a canvas displayed on your browser, you can simply have the following HTML code.
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If you remember Google Gears, there was a feature (Local Database API) allowing to store data on your local web browser. But since HTML5 has emerged into supporting such a feature, Google has decided to retire its Google Gears.
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We’ve covered the HostIP.info API for converting the IP address to a country and city of your visitor. But you may have noticed sometime HostIP.info does not convert everything and might have comparatively lower accuracy. But if you want better accuracy, HostIP.info also recommends you to get a commercial version such as MaxMind
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The HostIP.info provides API allows you to get the country including the city as well. The simple PHP script that can get the country is as follow:
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To print a web or HTML page without getting the usual printer prompt on your Firefox browser, you can make use of the Firefox plugin, JS Print Setup. Installation like usual installation of any Firefox plugins.
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You wanna call a remote web service using HTTP POST in your PHP, but you do not wanna use cURL as cURL might not be supported in your web host. The following codes explain how you can do it without using cURL.
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Google History is a free service offered by Google where you can have a list of your recent searches on Google. Many of us may not have known of this Google service. It seems like Google didn’t have too much buzz about the Google History. Anyway, the Google History has some usefulness as follows:
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If you’re like me, running a blog powered by WordPress which you always need to show some programming codes in a number of languages, and you want those codes to be well-formatted with syntax highlighted while being displayed to your users. You can then make use of the WordPress’ Plugin, Wp-Syntax to do so.
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Latest version of Opera web browser, Opera 10.50 has been released for the Windows. And it claims to be the “fastest web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers”.
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ZooTool is an interactive and beautiful visual bookmark tool for images, links, videos and documents. The ZooTool was developed based on the MooTools by Bastian Allgeier.
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