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  • Images smaller than JPEG
    By vinu on January 12th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s an interesting piece of news. Someone’s come up with a loseless image compression algorithm which compresses images up to 300% smaller than JPEG images ! Ernst and Young have also verfied that the imag...
  • Advanced CSS Layouts
    By vinu on January 11th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s a good article on advanced layouts using CSS. In this article they aim to create a layout which looks like the following: “Rogelio Lizaolo improves on Kwon Ekstrom’s CSS version of WebRef’...
  • 5 Regular Expression Tutorials for PHP
    By vinu on January 11th, 2006 | 1 Comment1 Comment Comments
    While looking around for training material on Regular expressions, I came across the following tutorials on Regular expressions in PHP. PHPBuilder.com, the best resource for PHP tutorials, templates, PHP manuals, conten...
  • Yahoo! Widgets Gallery
    By vinu on January 10th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Just found out that Yahoo had bought out Konfabulator and made it a free software. They’ve renamed it to Yahoo Widgets. The new version included widgets for Yahoo services such as Yahoo Maps, Search, Mail and Not...
  • DRM to unbelievable heights !
    By vinu on January 9th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    A Massive list of Players on which Coldplay’s new album won’t play on! Some CD players that have the capability of burning into an MP3 (such as portable players or car stereos). Some CD players that possess...
  • Design Patterns for AJAX Usability
    By vinu on January 8th, 2006 | 1 Comment1 Comment Comments
    Here’s an interesting Topic for developers getting started off on Ajax: Design Patterns for Ajax Usability. A good article even for experienced developers on Ajax. “AJAX holds a lot of promise for web usabili...
  • Preview Seek - A worthy Competitor to Google?
    By vinu on January 8th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    A colleague of mine asked me to check out Preview Seek, new search engine which is still in beta. The search screen was quite bland, and I didn’t expect much from the search results. I put in a search request for “T...
  • Tiny 500GB Disk
    By vinu on January 7th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s something amazing…. a 500GB drive which transfers data at speeds up to 4GB/sec, works on windows and MAC, can come in sizes up to 4TB !! Link: Live From CES: Quantum Disk From Atom Chip Corp. - Gizmodo...
  • Difference between “require()” and “...
    By vinu on January 7th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    This is something which PHP programmers should know. Of late, while I’ve been taking interviews for PHP programmers, I’ve realized that many programmers don’t have a clue about the difference between t...
  • BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookm...
    By vinu on January 6th, 2006 | 1 Comment1 Comment Comments
    After Delicious’ frequent downtime, I went out looking for another social bookmarking network, and landed up at blinklist. Blinklist imported all my delicious bookmarks and I was up and running here in a few second...

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