Another quick announcement. I just released another version (0.9) of curreX – the Ajax based Currency Converter widget for WordPress.
Starting from this version, curreX also includes a Flash based widget and provides you with the option of selecting between the HTML/JavaScript version and it’s Flash counterpart from the widget configuration panel of WordPress.
A quick preview of the flash widget can be obtained from here. I’m pretty bad at creating snazzy graphics in flash – so it’s going to take a while to make the widget look nice. The current version is fully functional though.
As always, I’m open for any questions / comments / bug reports.
Ever felt like giving your site’s theme a cool, striped look but didn’t know how to go about it? Are the graphics tutorials on stripes too complex for you to follow? Here’s you quick and dirty way out. Stripemania is a free online tool that generates striped background images for use with your site’s theme in just a couple of quick, easy steps.
The interface is…
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Nope ! You don’t need any expensive graphics editing tools. Nor do you require to perform painstaking and complicated procedures to generate those ultra-cool reflective Web 2.0 style badges. You can do all of that online under less than a minute and for free with Web 2.0 Badges.
The site offers a whole bunch of pre-created badge templates in the most common formats (rounded/serrated/flowery edges). All…
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A brief intro…
Past few weeks I’ve been extremely busy designing a Property Investment site for a client. The primary requirement was a custom CMS (Content Management System) – which I had to build from scratch. While it drove me over the edge at times overall it was a thoroughly enjoyable as well as an educational journey for me. Since this is a site that caters…
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Nowadays every second site you see employs some form or AJAX or the other – either wholly or in parts. With the old-school model of refreshing the whole page a visitor had always had a clear-cut indication that he/she is supposed to wait till the page-load is complete. That’s one respect AJAX seriously lacks in. In short there’s no way for the user to know…
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For those who want to make some serious headway into the insanely booming technology called AJAX, here’s a golden opportunity. Boston based Sang Shin, who’s a technology architect, consultant, and evangelist at SUN Microsystems offers a free 18-week online course on AJAX.
The course commences on 18th of February, 2007 and covers some hot new topics such as the opensource JavaScript toolkit named Dojo, the NO-JavaScript…
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Arizona based Ten Ships has announced the first public beta of their all new product AjaxDNS, which is an Ajax framework …
… for any systems administrator, support technician, or anyone that needs quick network and domain tools and analysis.
The features offered are:
Live DNS
Whois Search
IP Whois
HTTP Headers
RBL Search
Ping
DNS Traversal
Here’s a screenshot…
Looks quite cool and queries even faster. I say, give it a try
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