If you need to import your Gmail contacts into the local Address Book, to be used by Mail for example, here are the simple steps you need to make. Open safari and login to your Gmail account. In the left side, under the mailboxes you have the menu Contacts. Click on it and it will [...]
As the guys from Mozilla say “The JavaScript shell provides a simple way to run scripts in batch mode or an interactive environment for exploratory programming.” So basically you can create some tests for you app based on javascript without needing a browser, but using rhino. With Mootools is a little complicated, as it needs [...]
This tutorial will show us how to get the last news of a blog and put it on our site. We may have the case when our site is not fully driven by a blog engine, but we have one, so we want to put on the ‘News’ section the last posts, or we want [...]
On 01.15.09, In Submitted news, by Dan Tamas
CSS Gallery has a new skin and prepares many new & interesting posts in the near future. Stay tuned 
Dashboard – nice eye candy tool, lot of widgets, from temperature stats to calculators, radios or anything else. Why would I want it closed? Well being on a G4 , I want it a little faster, and faster…( we all want it, don’t we? ), so I need to close some apps/services for this, and [...]
Mootools ‘ajax’ request for local files or how to make ajax requests to a local file without the need of a web server.
Everybody knows SVN and “everybody” is using it. No doubt SVN is one of the best things that happend in the last time. but for a web developer, svn can be a little frustrating – at least for me. Let me explain: I am on a mac, a G4 one,so I cannot afford a MAMP [...]
On 12.11.08, In Submitted news, by Dan Tamas
Mootools 1.2 tutorials, covering much of the basics of the library, the bundled plugins and downloadable examples.
Kroppr is an unobtrusive script that willenhance any site that wants to offer an image cropping tool for its visitors. Unlike other scripts, Kroppr is able to ROTATE, zoom and move the image in the real time without using plugins – flash or java. The actual picture crop is done after the user is satisfied [...]
Some coders are doing a living from selling php scripts. Nothing new here. But to protect themselves from piracy they need to encode the php code to prevent stealing, unauthorized usage and so on. This can be accomplished using various encoders, some strong , some weak that will give them a specific amount of security, [...]