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Recently Twitter completely deprecated the version 1 of its REST API. The new API 1.1 requires OAuth credentials to access the data. There is a simple way to access the data without OAuth keys.

Nearly around 2 years, the Announcer WordPress plugin was left untouched with no new updates. The old version had all the basic features working well. But the interface and coding standards were to be improved. This (version 2.1) has a lot of new updates. It has the latest code ...

Triangles can be made easily using CSS also without any images. This trick requires only div tags and some CSS works. To get this trick, just use the code below.

Google search text box has a voice recognition feature which is very helpful for inputting long sentences and difficult words. This feature can be brought to normal input text boxes also. But this feature works only in browsers which use the webkit rendering engine (ex: Google Chrome version 11 ...

Images can be converted to Base64 format and can be used in "data' URI scheme instead. The data URI for white and black 1x1 px images are provided in this article.

Email address are frequently used in each and every posts at the bottom or at the top for contacting the post’s author. But those email addresses get spammed more. Replacements like using images instead of directly typing the addresses are also appreciable. But they can be painful inserting the ...

Some useful techniques in debugging PHP are mentioned below Article: http://dev.piwik.org/trac/wiki/HowToSetupDevelopmentEnvironmentWindows Firefox addon – Firephp PHP Extension – Xdebug Using var_dump() phpEd Zend Studio (5.5) with Zend Platform Using, print_r and echo

Firebug is on of the famous extension for inspecting web pages in firefox. Now it is possible to use firebug in any browser using Firebug lite. Firebug lite is the small version of Firebug with limited features and usage, but has the full capability. In order to do this, just save a ...

Watermarks play a very important role in sections of copyright and also in site promotions. But adding custom watermarks to each and every image in site using a Photo-editing software will be painful sometimes. But for regular blogging sites with more images for a single post will definitely be ...

PHP’s date function strtotime () solves the problem of comparing dates and to check whether the user entered date/custom date is expired or not. Inorder to check whether, the custom date is expired or not, we need to do the following steps Get today’s date. Get the date to ...