Before the “Barrel roll” trick from Google dies off, Google has launched an another trick to mesmerize the search users when they search for “let it snow” for the December month.

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When the user searches for “let it snow” you can see the snow flakes falling down your browser, you can clear the fog on the browser by clicking the mouse button & moving the cursor.
Nonetheless, Google provides you the “Defrost” as well to clear the screen.

Google AdSense is the current leader in content based marketing ads.The below are the alternatives to the google adsense for making money online.

1. AdBrite
AdBrite, is currently one of the best alternatives there is to Google’s adsense.
adBrite is the largest independent ad exchange offering an entirely transparent marketplace, direct access to superior campaign data and analytics and ultimately, greater control over what matters most – results.
Revenue is typically split 75/25 in your favor.

2. Bidvertiser
“Make money from your Website or Blog – get paid for clicks and conversions!”
Simply display the BidVertiser ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other.
Bidvertiser will always display the highest bidders to maximize your revenue so you will make more money!

3. Chitika
Chitika allows you to display ads on your website, blog, app or mobile site, with content from our high-quality network of advertisers. Chitika offers search-targeted, mobile, and local ads to best target your users. Become a publisher today and bring your revenue to whole new level with Chitika.
You can use Chitika Ads with AdSense because Chitika Ads are non-contextual and do not look like AdSense units.

4. Infolinks
A relative newcomer to the scene Infolinks specializes in In-Text Advertizing. That is it indexes your page looking for keywords and phrases that are not currently links and converts them into advertizing links. When a user places their mouse over the link a box opens up showing the ad. If they click on the link you get paid. It is very simple and works very effectively. The nice part is that you can use Infolinks to compliment an existing advertizing campaign on your website. For example you can show banner ads with AdBrite or Bidvertiser and show text links with Infolinks. Or you can even show text links with both AdBrite and Infolinks together on the same page to maximize your revenue.

5. Pocket Cents
A relative new comer to the field is Pocket Cents. Pocket Cents has been built from the ground up as a Click Banner provider. Specializing in automatic focus on local markets Pocket Cents offers an intriguing alternative to adsense/adwords. While unlikely to replace your entire creative portfolio, Pocket Cents does off an attractive alternative for banner ads. It could also act as a good alternative ad provider for backfill from one of the larger networks.

Developers, data architects, and others who regularly work with databases often need to locate changes, find differences, or synchronize the database tables. Keep your databases up-to-date with the below tools as it’s simple, easy to use and fast. Synchronizing your development databases to production is a snap; a few clicks and the differences are scripted and applied to your target.

Below is the list of tools which includes a powerful database compare and merge tool to satisfy all these requirements. List number doesn’t specify any ranking.Also few tools are free, few trial versions are free & few are paid.

1. DBcomparer
DBComparer is a professional database comparison tool for analyzing the differences in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (and 2005) database structures. It is an excellent tool for any project development team or DBA managing multiple copies of the same database on an SQL Server. This database comparison tool has a clean and straight-forward user interface. Results are clearly presented so that you can immediately see the differences in your databases. It will make locating and eliminating differences in your database fast and easy.

2. SQL Delta
Keep your databases up-to-date with SQL Delta. SQL Delta lets you manage one comparison or hundreds with its advanced project manager. Synchronizing your development databases to production is a snap; a few clicks and the differences are scripted and applied to your target.

3. Altova DatabaseSpy
DatabaseSpy® 2012 displays database comparisons in an intuitive graphical table representation with connecting lines to illustrate column mapping between tables. DatabaseSpy® 2012 automatically maps columns with the same names, or you can drag connecting lines to manually map columns for comparison.

4. Adept SQL
AdeptSQL Diff is a lightning fast and intuitive tool to visually compare and synchronize two MS SQL Server databases. The program scans both databases and displays the combined schema tree view, with all differences color-marked.

I have come across a wonderful article on Gayadesign on how to create a moving backgrounds for text using jquery like flash.

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It’s that time of the year again when we kick off our shoes from work and enjoy the festive season. As we welcome the year ahead, I’m sure most of us have made some kind of resolutions for ourselves.
you will be looking at your new calendar for the new year for the next 365 days. Why not get a thought-provoking, creatively designed or aesthetic calendar that you can appreciate each and every day? Hongkiat have compiled some of the best designed calendars over the recent years to let each of you have an idea on the variety of calendars that designers have came up with.


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

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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.

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.

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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;
}
});
});

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);