Track Santa on a Google Map, In Real Time

Friday, November 30th, 2007

This year, you’ll be able to track Santa on Google Maps as he makes his way around the world on Christmas Eve. Through a partnership with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which has been in the spirit of helping kids track Santa for 52 years now, you’ll ...

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In Case You Need to Digg and YouTube at the Same Time

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

What’s the easiest way to keep track of your Dugg YouTube videos? Use a mashup. Paul Yanez has created one such application, which goes by no name but is simply called the Digg and YouTube mashup. Open up the application here, and you’ll see a giant YouTube ...

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This Is Not The Place Or Time For The Truth

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

YouTube has suspended the account of Wael Abbas, an Egyptian anti-torture activist, because he posted videos of police brutality. The account, which could previously be reached at this address - http://youtube.com/user/waelabbas - now sports the standard “This account is suspended” message. YouTube’s guidelines are very clear on this: “Graphic or ...

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GDrive is Here; This Time We’re Not Kidding…

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

… at least we hope not. According to the Journal, Google is finally set to release the long rumored, never released GDrive. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment on specific online storage plans aside from “storage is an important component of making Web [applications] fit easily into consumers’ and ...

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Tagmee: Flickr Clone Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Tagmee is a new site that’s looking to be a viable Flickr competitor, and this is evident right from the start, considering how much the website resembles the popular photo-sharing site. The Good and The Bad Sides of Cloning But the good thing about this is clone mentality is ...

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Optimizing Queries with Operators for Date, Time and Other Functions

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

This article will give you a good grounding in operators branching and functions in MySQL so you can make the database instead of your own code do the bulk of the work. It is the third of three parts and excerpted from chapter four of ...

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