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Use Google History to keep track of what you’ve searched recently


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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Wp-syntax plugin for Wordpress to automatically format or highlight syntax on programming codes in your blog posts

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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How to develop desktop-like web applications ?

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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Google Chart API example : Display data on chart made easy

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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Google Gears Geolocation API, example displays your location on Google Map

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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To validate if an URL exists, use PHP CURL

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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Google AdSense : Useful tools, tips and resources

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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Developing Facebook applications makes you rich

It was reported by SmartMedia, that some Indie developers managed to pull in USD $700,000 in ads revenue in the month of December last year from the Facebook applications that was developed by them.

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Bookmarked: 70 useful ajax and javascript techniques

SmashingMagazine has published 70 useful ajax and javascript techniques, it’s a handy resource that I shall explore one by one later. There are many cool animated calendars, timelines, menus, tool tips, sliders built using ajax and javascript techniques.

How to recover deleted files emptied from the Recycle bin


I know it’s a disaster, when you’ve mistakenly deleted some important files or documents and you’ve mistakenly emptied the recycle bin of your Windows again. If you’ve done both, in your mind those files must have been completely gone, there is no way for you to have the files back in Windows, it’s just like a complete disaster to you now.

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