Web 2.0 Tutorials, Tips & Tricks

Web 2.0 – It was a huge step forward for the www, where we saw and continue to experience various ways of information sharing which in turn has resulted to a proliferation of content / data, be it user generated or not. This second generation of web has already changed the way a netizen browse the ...

No, I am not talking about capturing screenshot of your desktop using Print Screen or other screen capture softwares. I wanted to implement requirement where I had to capture screenshots of the input website. Now this is a tricky job. If you do not have dedicated server machines and permissions on your shared hosting server, it ...

The basic idea this time is to present a way to form a tag cloud from user input text and text entered in the past. A tag cloud is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites.for this we will create an HTML form that will accept user text & also ...

Gmail has launched yet another fantastic feature in Labs yesterday called the Multiple Inbox. This feature was developed by Octavian "Vivi" Costache of Google in his 20% time.When I first heard about this feature Multiple Inboxes, I thought of a page where you can do logins with multiple accounts and access all accounts simultaneously. ...

A wonderful map created by Ben Marsh combines Google Maps with tagged Twitter messages. A twitter user has to send a hash tweet with her postal code and a number between 0 to 10 representing snowfall in her area. This data will then automatically displayed on Ben Marsh's Google Map, ...

Google Maps API have been in tech world since quite a long period. Recently I had a chance to try my hands on Google Maps API. If you like JavaScript believe me you will gonna love Google Maps API. Thousand of APIs are available to paint a lot of things on Google Map. You can describe ...

This week the tech world was set on ablaze when this article in The Times of London reported that every Google search query contributes in 7 gm of CO2 to the atmosphere and this is equivalent to half the amount of energy needed in heating a tea kettle. The article is a study ...

Twitter: the popular microblogging site, was hit by hackers and 33 high profile accounts including that of Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama was compromised. The attack just followed last weekend phishing attack on website. Hackers were able to get into the back end admin tools that twitter team uses to manage profiles of different people.Soon ...

In the year 2008 Tech industry has seen lot of ups and downs. Starting from Microsoft proposed acquisition of Yahoo to launching of Apple's iPhone; Tech world has seen lots of new things in year 2008. As the year 2008 coming to end, let us sum up some of the BIG stories in tech world in this year.Techmeme.com, the technical news ...

Browsing through internet, I came to this wonderful tool called Wordle which generates a tag cloud with different orientation and effects. It takes input as plain text or your blogs/websites rss/atom feed or your sites URL and generate a cool tag cloud of the words that it encounters on your site. You can change the font and effects on this tag cloud. ...