April 2007 - Posts
Many of us have been playing with Animated GIFs for long time and have done funny things with it by using different GIF Animation editors. Mozilla is willing to propose Animated PNGs or APNGs to replace closed source GIF image format, an another Opensource
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I got this mail from Ponder Alliance mailing list. This is very valuable piece of info and people like me who spend most of times infront of computers and wear glasses too must follow this: 20-20-20 These exercises are suggested by an eye doctor. It is
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Yes it did get hacked and they recovered too. If you are intrested to know how these guys tackle with hacked sites then do read the article by Matt Cutts of Google who take care of this business. Intresting read. Technorati tags: Google.Adwords.Hacked
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Wow!, this is really amazing!! Telenor Pakistan has launched first ever Mobile TV service in Pakistan which covers local and International channels including Aljazeera. According to Telenor: Now watch your favorite local and international channels with
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If you are planning to insta;; MS VS 2005 standard edition then you should read this first by Jhon Simmons who is frequent on CodeProject as well. Technorati tags: Microsoft , .NET , VS 2005
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If you are planing to become a serious Javascript developer rather a guy who can just VALIDATE forms with the help of JS then I think you should take advice of Mr. Dustin Diaz , the UI engineer at Google who shares valuable tips which can help you to
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I must congratulate the developers of this system. Amazing idea and easy to use Interface. The product is in Alpha stage but still very much stable to be browsed. You just click on a locaion on Map and find out the people in the area. It also has feature
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Intresting technique, though I might not agree with him unless I try myself. It does save few server roundtrips which are wasted to download images. Read further here .
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Wikipedia goes offline! Now you can read Wikiarticles offline which are stored in a DVD. According to Slashdot : "WikipediaOnDVD, with cooperation with the Wikipedia community, has released its first offline test version. The articles were selected by
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From slashdot : An alarming number of women are currently abandoning IT jobs that require workers to be on-call at all hours, according to a story in Computerworld. One study cited in the article states that by 2012, 40% of women now working in IT will
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Seems like Vista is not giving the desire results. Microsoft *unexpectedly* has announced a program to target the audience which was not touched yet. Yes, I am talking about poor countries who can't afford Microsft products legally. The program named
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I remember it was not an easy task to make a feed parsing utility. Specially it was more pain than fun when you find no Javascript based library to parse feed and you have to deal with IE and non-IE browsers who parse DOM in different manner. Also you
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This is something which sounds very weird in the era where we are used to hear terms like AJAX,Web 2.0 and Mashups. An attempt is being made to celebrate a day using/making applications without Javascript. If yo are with these guys and willing to celebrate
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Frankly speaking I have not tried Generics yet in Java which were introduced in Java5 but after reading comments on Slashdot , it seems that they are not as generic like C++ templates. If you have tried Generics in C++ or C# or even Java then don't hesitate
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An interesting piece by Martin Kliehm
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I am pretty impressed with Yahoo! Pipes, even Google couldn't comeup with something like that. It's based on Unix Pipe architecture, yahoo pipes allowed you to mix different feeds,filter them and produce a new output based on several input feeds[JSON,RSS,ATOM,RDF
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Really? Oh well. Read yourself According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7. The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers
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xHTML 5.0 which is being targetted to deal with Web 2.0/3.0 type of applications. new tags,tags enhancements, offline browsing etc etc. Read details here
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hhahahaha! This is DAMN awesome and Only Google could create such April Fool Jokes Google launches Google TisP . According to Press Release : free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet
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Guess what? Yahoo! finally released Yahoo Mail API in two different flavors, one is JSON-RPC based while other is SOAP based. Jeremy Zawdny of Yahoo officially announced the release of API. You can progeam your customize application in language of your
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