Uki is a JavaScript library that allows you to develop web applications to have the look and feel and interactiveness of a desktop application. You can get Uki from Ukijs.org.
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You should have been pretty familiar with the above prompt of your web browser, especially Internet Explorer, if you’ve been involved in developing web pages for your websites that are delivered via the HTTPS secure channel.
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I’ve started a new blog, Have Your Business Online, which is a blog that centers around web hosting services, reviews, e-commerce and CMS solutions or the essential tools that you need to bring your business online.
One of my projects is studying on how to convert any documents in Word, Excel or Powerpoint formats into FLASH format which is viewable by most browsers with flash plugin.
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The Google Chart API provides an easy way to generate a chart dynamically by sending a simple URL to Google Chart service as follows:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250×100&chl=Hello|World
And Google Chart returns you an image of the chart. As shown the above you just need to pass the Google Chart with three parameters, which are cht (Chart Type), chd (The percentage distribution of your data on Chart), chs (Chart size), and the chl (Chart Label)
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The Google Gears Geolocation API allows you to display your current position data by obtaining it from your WiFi antenna. The Google Gears Geolocation API is able to obtain the exact location of the user’s current location, in terms of latitude, longitude and even the address etc. User browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox must have Google Gears installed excepts Google Chrome, in order to have the Google Gears API to work on your browser.
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Facebook have tons of photos uploaded by the members and the friends everyday. So there are lots of photos scattered around and many of them are NOT tagged and linked to the members themselves. Lets say, your friend has uploaded one photo that has you in it, but it’s not properly tagged, so the photo will not appear in your profile or you’re totally unaware of that it exists in Facebook.
PHP Curl allows you to validate if a given URL exists. What you need to do is just a simple function as follows, which takes an input URL and returns the code. If the returned code is 200, then the URL exists, else it doesn’t!
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TinyURL allows long URL to be shortened. In this example, I’d like to show how you can build a text form that contains text keyed in by a user, and sends to the server-side PHP to detect those overly long URLs and shorten them one by one by sending them to TinyURL service.
Before I proceed, I’d like to let you know that TinyURL has an API, which is as follows and it returns a single string only that is the tiny url which has been shortened from the given “url” parameter.
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If you’re one of the webmasters or bloggers having a couple of your websites or blogs pulling lots of traffic from the Google search engine and others, you shall already know what Google AdSense is. And of course, you shall be showing AdSense ads on your popular websites or blogs and making lots of Google Money!
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