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• Yahoo! Widgets Gallery

  Software
  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 Notepad. There’s more than 1800 user submitted widgets available for download at: widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/ Link :Yahoo! Widgets Gallery

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• DRM to unbelievable heights !

  Tech Stuff
  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 CD-R/RW functions (such as portable players or car stereos). Some car stereos with satellite “Guidance” systems Some CD [...]

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• Design Patterns for AJAX Usability

  Ajax
  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 usability, and the underlying technology has already delivered some stunning applications. But it’s no magic bullet. Careful design is always required, and [...]

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• Preview Seek – A worthy Competitor to Google?

  Sites
  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 “Test� and the results page was quite a stunner. The results were categorized properly [...]

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• Tiny 500GB Disk

  Tech Stuff
  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

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• Difference between “require()” and “include()” in PHP

  PHP
  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 the two. Difference between “require()” and “include()” in PHP

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• BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine

  Sites
  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 seconds. My BlinkList is available at: http://www.blinklist.com/vinuthomas/ BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine

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• Rapid development framework for PHP

  PHP
  Here are some Rapid Development Frameworks for PHP: Prado PHP Framework: PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework for rapid Web programming in PHP 5. PRADO reconceptualizes Web application development in terms of components, events and properties instead of procedures, URLs and query parameters. Cake PHP: Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which [...]

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• Ajax Link Tracker

  Ajax
  Here’s a cool way to check which portions of your pages are being clicked by viewers. The author of this article has used Javascript to capture the mouse clicks on the screen and save the location to the database using Ajax. “One of the more interesting aspects of Ajax is the ability to track a [...]

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• fileNice

  Ajax
  fileNice is a simple remote file browser which uses PHP and Ajax to display files which are in your dump folder. fileNice generates links to the filesto paste in your web pages and also allows you to upload your images directly to flickr. A great tool to have if you’ve got tons of stuff uploaded [...]

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