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jQuery Preload images – tutorial and example
Not so long ago i created jQuery Image Resize Plugin, today i want to show you another plugin: jQuery Image Preloader. Basically it is a script that loads images in the background and track number of loaded images. It’s very simple, only 25 lines of code, but maybe useful if you are creating jQuery image gallery or some other script that requires image preloading.
Posted in GeneralBy Greg
Two new and helpful keyword tools
Keywords help immensely with your search engine optimization (or SEO, for short). They help the engines find your websites and relate them to certain topics, objects, words… Whatever it may be. In short, they help people find your site. Well, Wordstream launched two new, free services yesterday, to handle the keywords for you and help you focus on other parts of your site.
Posted in General, Web DevelopmentBy Connor
Create FireFox extension in jQuery
Few days ago Mozilla launched special site where you can find special FireFox addons. Special because they were written in JetPack. It’s a new technology that allows to write FireFox extensions not only in XUL, but in HTML, CSS and AJAX.
What is more important is that JetPack allows to use third party JavaScript libraries in your project, so developers can get full advantage of jQuery, Dojo, Google Maps and many other great JavaScript libraries.
Posted in General, Web Developer NewsBy Greg
Phone Stolen? How to Erase Your Data Remotely
Do you store confidential, personal information on your smartphone? How about friends and family members’ phone numbers and e-mail addresses? Replacing a lost or stolen handset is fairly easy, but the data on it is the important part. Keeping this data from falling into the wrong hands should be a top priority if you are ever a victim of phone loss or theft.
Posted in GeneralBy D3lux3
Motorola’s First Android Phone Takes Social Networking World In Hand
Motorola’s newest phone, the Cliq, just debuted as the company’s first Android offering. The primary feature of the Cliq is its “Moto Blur” custom interface that meshes e-mail, texts, Facebook messages, Twitter feeds and photos into a single interface.
Posted in GeneralBy D3lux3
Beyond Add-ons: Cool Firefox Tools
You can find Web sites full of extensions and themes for Firefox to improve every aspect of its appearance and performance. Since the focus is usually on these add-ons, we think it’s time to spotlight some pretty nifty external Firefox tools to help you squeeze optimal performance from the ‘Fox.
Posted in GeneralBy D3lux3
OneRiot Pulls Ahead in Real-Time Search Engine Race
The real-time search engine field has exploded the last few months, but most contestants so far haven’t lived up to the hype (Scoopler, Topsy, Collecta, CrowdEye). Traffic tends to drop sharply after the early interest wanes. The exception to the rule appears to be OneRiot, which is certainly pulling ahead in the first leg of the real-time search competition
Posted in GeneralBy D3lux3
Stunning 66% of Social Networkers Vulnerable to Attack
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites are sweeping the world with tweets, friends and more messaging than ever before, but what’s the cost of all this networking? More than two-thirds of social community members don’t proactively protect themselves from cyber attacks, a survey by the CMO Council and security software maker AVG found.
Posted in General, Web Developer NewsBy D3lux3
Web Application programming competition
Yesterday Brandon from Mortgage Place contacted me about a contest that they are having with amazingly high ($10 000) first place reward. The goal is to create mortage calculator using PHP, JavaScript and AJAX, so it will be a kind of web application.
Posted in GeneralBy Greg
JavaScript AddEventListener method
Despite it’s already outdated a lot of programmers are still using onClick, onChange and so … events in the tags attributes and i actually find myself doing it sometimes as well. So i want to show you nice and clean way of adding events to the objects/tags without implicitly declaring some action in the tag – sounds complicated but it’s really not.
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