Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Points Of Interest or simply POIs are the feature of tomorrow. GPS and compass enabled smartphones will guide our every step and habits. We will enjoy, go shopping, rest choose place to invest basing on the local suggestion of our little friends. Here are some services that enable this future:
http://www.geocode.ca/
http://foodpages.ca/
Enjoy
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
I couldn't find any tool similar to Foxmarks for Google Chrome. However, I encountered this article (http://metaed.blogspot.com/2008/12/using-google-bookmarks-in-google-chrome.html) that suggested adding Google Bookmarks to a list of enabled searche engines in the Google Chrome instance. This basically allows using Google bookmarks.
To add Google Bookmark search to the Chrome address bar, right-click ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Ontario Ministry of Transportation provides traffic data in various formats:
Construction Reports
Traffic Flow Reports
Live Traffic Cameras
Road Closure Announcements
All that data can be found in the online TRIP (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/) and COMPASS (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/traffic_cameras.shtml ) systems.
The following page provides KML files from MTO with the most updated information about the traffic that can be nicely overlayed ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Google started challenging our perception about web application capabilities starting with Google Mail (gmail) and Google Maps. Nowadays, Google tries to move further with 2 new challenges:
Web 3D applications:
http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/
YouTube 3D:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-uRTsHC9k[/youtube]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Well, if you are tired of those annoying ads in the new AJAX Yahoo email application you can use the following trick. Ads can be easily removed using a client side user script.
There is a common platform that allows you to deploy different client side scripts to you browser to ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Google is a massive money making machine that is built on the concept that they are your gate to the internet.
The thing is that internet associates with the browser on your desktop at home. On the street where most of us are it is the iPhone for rich countries and ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
SQL Server based databases support "like" functionality. If someones uses an in-memory hash map to replace a database table, like predicate for the query might be needed. Java String doesn't support the wildcard comparison but provides a regular expression engine. The following class takes advantage of the later to implement ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
I recently switched to Plugoo. That's a nice widget that allows you to be connected with the visitors of your site. This service basically allows you to forward instant messages from your site widget to your favorite instant messanger such as GTalk, MSN Mesanger and others. If you add your blackberry with unlimited data ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Tired if useless TV channels and stupid radio... Want some real stuff?
Internet is here to help. It has tones of data but how to get what you need or even how to know what you need in a time where change is the only thing that is constant?
Well you gotta ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
There is a neat feature posted on the Google Code to format your code snippets in the blog. I found those on my friend's blog page. Take a look:
http://www.zoochee.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
It's called Syntax Highlighter:
http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
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