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A couple days ago a friend of mine asked me to help him with his computer. Usually that is no problem, but he had really done something strange, and he lived too far for me to go there, Surely there are several options out there when we are talking about remote access software, from the [...]
Continue Reading →By alex|General talk, Javascript, Programming, Reviews|2 Comments
Discover a great way to embed really customized searches in your site, use the Google search API (Using AJAX) Here I’ll show you how to develop a simple “Hello world” sort of program, using the Google API and AJAX to search. There are 2 requirements though you need to fulfill in order to access the [...]
Continue Reading →By alex|PHP, Programming, Reviews|13 Comments
In a new website I am developing for a client I had to add the usual “Did you mean… ?” in the search results for her. Si I started thinking for the easiest way to do this. There are actually a lot of php functions out there to look for similar text. The most obvious [...]
Continue Reading →By alex|Cool pics, General talk, Graphic Design, Photoshop, Reviews, Web-related|1 Comment
For all of you designers out there that don’t understand exactly what is the difference in “lay” terms of the most common web image formats I will go on with a little explanation and examples for you: The background is a PNG image that is always the same, and the images are set over it [...]
Continue Reading →By alex|CSS, Graphic Design, Layout/Styling, Reviews, Web-related|6 Comments
One of the biggest problems when designing a website is that after all work is done it looks different on different browsers. The solution usually used by most web developers consists on manually changing every bit of CSS they have to make it look all the same, resulting on a very hard and time-consuming approach. [...]
Continue Reading →I am Alex, a software and communications engeneering student. I currently live in the north of Spain.
For the past years I have been working on software and application development, as well as sharing tips and tricks I find useful.