For anyone writing a PHP Twitter App to interact with the Twitter API, TwitterOAuth is an incredibly helpful piece of open source code. It handles the secure authentication through OAuth, and then includes function calls for using that authenticated status to carry out any desired GET or POST exchange with the Twitter API.
The project is [...]
In addition to the extensions described in the previous post, Chrome includes functionality for a few helpful keyboard shortcuts and diagnostic/status information about browser operations.
Keyboard Shortcuts: Many of these are well known but they are all incredibly helpful
CTRL-F6 or ALT-d:
Select the URL in the address bar
CTRL-SHIFT-N:
New incognito window
SHIFT-ESC:
Open Chrome Task Manager
CTRL-SHIFT-T:
Open recently [...]
This is the first in a series of several posts outlining ways to take advantage of lesser-known Chrome features.
To try out the most recent development version of Chrome, you will need to make a few easy changes to your installation.
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Instructions:
download the Chrome channel switcher here
after installing and running the program, select the ‘Dev’ [...]
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It’s stupid but cute. In the extended alphabet sets of, there is a vast selection of letters. Among these are those that can be used to model normal english characters upside-down. This site has a script for converting text and a key of each [...]
The age of Web 2.0 has been dominating more clearly with every successfully integrated web app out there. Facebook apps dominate hours of time in the lives of people from all walks of life. The iPhone’s webapp integration is familiar to way more people than it should be, and high-speed internet has steadily [...]
IEs4Linux Main Site
Why would you want to run IE when you don’t have to? Some websites require particular browsers and web developers need to test for browser compatibility. This link is for you.
IEs4Linux simplifies the process of installing several versions of Internet Explorer for linux distributions using Wine. Download and run the script and [...]
Well I’m a bit slow on this one, but I finally noticed that mozilla labs has been working on the project previously known as Webrunner. For those who don’t know, Webrunner was a ‘browser’ of sorts that allows a web application (gmail, google reader, meebo, etc.) to be run as if it were a [...]
“The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections”
If you’ve got an unreliable internet connection, it’s possible to build up remote desktop connections that don’t time out when they should, putting you in a rough position. If you have access to another server machine, you can use the following commands to view and [...]
Here are a few rules that would go a long way to clean things up:
Ask yourself: If I ran across this post without knowing the author, would I care?
Is this adding value to the wealth of information or the organization of the web?
No personal, isolated stories included simply for the sake of telling
Did some thought [...]
There are a few classes of web pages on the web:
Those from which I can glean some value from, as an anonymous visitor, and
Those about which I couldn’t really care less, essentially consisting of a glorified journal entry by someone, somewhere, who [...]
