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Do you want to create your own Text-To-Speech convertor? Well, you may want to directly use Google "Unofficial" API to convert Text to Speech. Google Translate had announced few weeks back some new enhancements. Where a new feature was added that can convert the text into speech. Now the hack is, you can use ... Full story

Recently Google declared its Chromium OS open source. Chromium is their own version of Linux specially build for netbooks/pcs to access internet in a better and faster way. Since I was free for the day & had no plans ahead of me, I decided to give it a shot. Some Googling led me to the Google Chrome OS ... Full story

Following are few CSS Tips and Tricks that I think every web developer should be aware of. You may already know many of these tricks. Disclaimer: Not all from the below CSS tricks are written by me. Some of them are taken from different sources on internet. 1. Round Corners without images Here is a simple CSS technique of ... Full story

Google Custom Search API are wonderful tools to create some awesome search engine like tools. Also if you want to add a search option to your website and customize the look and feel of your search results, Google Custom Search API serve best to you. I have created a Real Time Search engine (I call it real ... Full story

Let us see how can we create a Bounce Effect in HTML pages using jQuery. Bounce effect is an effect which resembles bouncing of a ball on floor or on a wall. These kind of effects dramatically improve user experience. Related: FadeIn / FadeOut Effect jQuery The Goal... Full story

Inner classes, also called Nested Classes, are nothing but classes that are defined within other classes. The nesting is a relationship between classes, not objects. Inner classes have clearly two benefits, name control & access control. In Java, this benefit is not as important because Java packages give the name control. Java inner classes have feature that ... Full story

Let us create a simple Accordion Menu using jQuery. Accordion Menu are the menu with some animation effect. It has few top line menu items which when clicked toggles to open sub menu options. When another top level menu is selected, other open menu will automatically collapse and save useful screen area. We will use jQuery effects to animate the accordion menu. jQuery provides ... Full story

Garbage collection is a way in which Java recollects the space occupied by loitering objects. By doing so, it ensures that your application never runs out of memory (though we cannot be assured that the program will ever run out of memory). Full story

Architectural Patterns always been interesting from designer perspective. MVC, Pipe’n’filter, Layered,3-tier, n-tier, etc. But one very basic architectural concept coming from Civil engineers in practice. ‘’Have common building block with minimal facility as a base, with modular and customizable components to suit customers need will provide flexibility to whole town /architectural planning and also help to save cost for designer ’’ Same concept is ... Full story

A lot of time we want to run multiple instances of Apache Tomcat server on a single machine. Generally this is done for creating a separate load balancer server for an application or install a different application independently. This can be achieved easy by some configuration in Tomcat Server. We need to install a second instance ... Full story