Windows Text to Speech Convertor: Try at Home

July 7, 2008   -   Web Development   -   18 comments

Ever wondered about one great thing in windows which can amaze you? Well here is one for you Try to do the following steps, and you will see a perfect example of text to speech convertor: Open notepad and put the following code into it: Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it") Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") sapi.Speak [...]

iGoogle Portal Implementation: How to do it?

June 30, 2008   -   Web Development   -   12 comments

After developing the draggable div application the other day, I was itched to implement the whole iGoogle portal. Probably the drive came when a few of you asked me “These draggable divs are just like iGoogle”, so I thought why not to give a shot at it. Here is what I was able to come [...]

Draggable DIVs : How to make one?

June 29, 2008   -   Web Development   -   11 comments

You all must have seen a similar thing on your iGoogle home page. Further for years this application is an integral part of Yahoo User Interface Library i.e. YUI. I tried to tweak into the iGoogle and YUI implementation of the draggable div implementation, but somehow I found them rather too complex to understand. Hence [...]

Photo Tagging API : Easy plugin for your websites and blogs

June 16, 2008   -   Web Development   -   16 comments

Flickr, Facebook and now Orkut. One by One everyone has implemented the photo tagging feature into their social network. Initially introduced by Flickr, extended by Facebook and finally Orkut was forced to implement it too. Last night I tried to look into it to found out what does it take to make one and I [...]

Caching problem in IE with Ajax : A Solution

June 5, 2008   -   Web Development   -   17 comments

Hello All, Problem Definition: I made my first browser based chat messenger way back in January this year, and I tried making a improved version of it yesterday again. But unfortunately Microsoft continues to give 1000 reasons for a web developer to suicide. They continue to serve the same old buggy browser way back in [...]

Gmail Type Attachment – How to make one?

May 30, 2008   -   Web Development   -   19 comments

Google and its wide range of web applications have simple changed the way we used to look at internet. Be it the revolutionary fast Google search engine or mail by Google i.e Gmail. You will find enormous amount of threads and forums discussing How do google achieve doing XYZ? or How do they make it [...]

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft toolkit for startups

May 14, 2008   -   Web Development   -   Comment

Welcome, Well there is some good news for young entrepreneurs out there. Google released Google Apps which can be used by for your websites email, hosting needs. You can use all the google applications (Gmail, Gtalk, Google docs, Calendar, Page Creator etc) for your site and all for free. This really helps one to focus [...]

How to configure Ubuntu and LAMP on Windows

May 13, 2008   -   Web Development   -   4 comments

Hello all Linux freaks, Having already looked upon how to configure Apache-PHP-MySQL on Windows, now here I will try to explain in short how to do the same on Linux OS. I personally don’t have a seperate machine for linux. I run Ubuntu on my Windows machine using VM Ware. So before we go on [...]

Essential frameworks for web development

May 12, 2008   -   Web Development   -   2 comments

Hello developers, Initially when I started working on Altertunes, I was unaware of the various frameworks which one can use for his website. Though I never have used any of them for Altertunes (main reason being the eagerness to do everything by myself), but may be some of you out there might be interested in [...]

How to write crawlers and parse a page using Perl (Part 1)

May 9, 2008   -   Web Development   -   12 comments

Hello all perl freaks, One of the most powerful thing which we can achieve using perl is, extracting any content from a website you want to. For example, you can use perl to extract information of all the artists from All Music, extract information about all cricket players and matches from CricInfo. In the past [...]

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