Archive for December, 2009

A Colorful Clock With CSS & jQuery

A wonderful clock design explained on tutorialzine site using css & jquery.

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How to highlight the important keywords in text using jQuery.

A solution to highlight identified keywords (using named entity recognition) inside the chunk of user generated text had been posted on 5thirtyone .Look at the below pictures which demonstrates the actual working.
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With format selected, highlights the particular meaningful text.
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The article on dotnetcurry demonstrates how to click and view a larger image when the thumbnail is clicked on.imageincrease

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How to disable the right click using jQuery

Some of us might want to disable the mouse right click .Below simple code snippet can be used to d the job easily using jQuery.

$(document).ready(function(){
$(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
return false;
});
});

As a web developer, most of the times you would have to do some functionality / operation before form gets submitted.By default form gets submitted on click of enter key when the input field is focussed.Below code snipppet can be used to avoid default form submision.

$(document).ready(function() {
$(”form”).bind(”keypress”, function(e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
searchFunc($(”#searchInput”).attr(’value’)); //perform some operation
return false;
}
});
});

How to count the number of lines in the input textarea

Below code snippet helps you to find the number of lines in the input textarea using Jquery & native RegEx functionality.

var textInput = $(”#textareaId”).val();
var lines = textInput .split(/\r|\r\n|\n/);
alert(lines.length);

Plurk gets sudden spurge of traffic due to unexpected free publicity

Plurk could have not asked more than this.
Canadian startup Plurk, a Twitter-like social networking site that has gotten quite popular in China, accused Microsoft China of not only stealing the service’s design, but 80 percent of the service’s code too. In response, Microsoft has pulled its microblogging site, which goes by the name of Juku and was developed by a third-party vendor for the company’s MSN China joint venture.

Plurk has been busy this week, attracting the attention of Social Media evangelists, most who are current Twitter users.This is the best thing that could have happened for plurk due to the outburst.
We are showcasing the few statistical analysis of traffic growth from alexa:
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Plurk saw more than 50% increase in traffic& 200% in alexa traffic rank.

50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design

Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design is on smashing magazine.Go grab it!
…Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying “list”-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. Like it or hate it, but the feedback that we get from the design community when we publish such posts is mostly positive which is why we keep doing it.More>>
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Image source:Deviantart
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Best CSS Rounded Corner Tutorials

Best CSS Rounded Corner tutorials list are available on the vagrant radio site.
Sometimes creating rounded corners with Css is a big challenge for most designers. Many will end up with a design where they don’t use rounded corners in order to avoid the entire rounded corner kerfuffle that has always been an issue in HTML/ CSS. The question has always been which method or solution is best, and what is the easiest way…..Read more


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Regular expressions can be a pain. HiFi RegExp tool is designed to help developers learn, practice, and compose regular expressions.

The HiFi RegExp tool is 100% JavaScript using jQuery. This tool was created by New Media Campaigns, the team behind HiFi, a next-generation CMS for web designers, developers, and agencies. Enjoy!

HiFi RegExp tool

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