Posts made in January, 2008

  • Fireshot – Capture, Edit and Annotate web pages

    Software
    Fireshot – Capture, Edit and Annotate web pages

    Here’s a good Firefox addon which allows you to take screenshots of web pages, annotate them, edit the image and save the image to a file, send it to clipboard or even email it. This addon also allows you to capture long webpages even if the page scrolls on the browser window. FireShot is a [...]

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  • Got me a shiny new Nokia N82

    General Stuff
    Got me a shiny new Nokia N82

    Got a Nokia N82 mobile this week with a ton of features which my ol’ E61i didn’t have. The first thing which struck me was the responsiveness of the OS compared to the E61i. This phone’s got a built-in GPS receiver, a 5MP camera with Xenon flash, 2GB memory card, Wifi, TV out, FM receiver [...]

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  • Improve page load time with a class and 3 lines of PHP

    PHP
    Improve page load time with a class and 3 lines of PHP

    Here’s a PHP script from Leon Chevalier which improves your page load time drastically. His compressor class improves your site’s performance by combining and minifying the css, Javascript and HTML files on the page, allowing for fewer HTTP requests and smaller sizes of these files. All you need to do is to download the class [...]

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  • knjPHPBCompiler

    PHP
    knjPHPBCompiler

    knjPHPBcompiler is a application which compiles PHP files into Bytecode PHP files. You can use this application to byte compile all the pages of your website. This helps in speeding up the “cold” load of a PHP script on the server. This program requires bcompile which is available at php.net/bcompiler. Link: knjPHPBcompiler Sourceforge project

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  • Create Thumbnails for Text Files in PHP

    General Stuff

    Here’s a tutorial which shows you how to create a thumbnail of a text file using PHP and GD. It’s quite useful if you’d like to show a snippet of the text as an icon for the text file. Link: Creating thumbs from textfiles with PHP and GD

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  • Patent on Wish List

    General Stuff

    Looks like Microsoft’s gone ahead and gotten a patent for Wish Lists right on New Year’s day. Here’s part of the abstract from the patent: An electronic item list system and method, such as a wish or gift list, for an electronic shopping mall/online shopping portal, or an item list system provided as a software [...]

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  • ImageFlow – Javascript Image Gallery

    Ajax
    ImageFlow – Javascript Image Gallery

    Here’s a cool image gallery script written in Javascript. It’s quite easy to integrate into your site. This is how the author describes ImageFlow: ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive image handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the thumbing through a physical image stack. That intuitive handling is automatically caused [...]

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  • PHP help at your command line

    PHP

      If you’d like to get help on PHP commands without having to fire up your browser, here’s something which you may like. In Ubuntu/Debian systems you can install phpm, which is a command line PHP help utility. The installation instructions are available at: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/11/28/php-manual-cli-style-20/

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  • Open Source Living

    Sites

      Here’s a site I came across, which has a boat load of links to Open Source software.  The list is divided into various categories to ease your search. So if you’re looking for open source tools to get work done, check this one out first. Link: Open Source Living 

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