Monthly Archives: December 2004

Google giving suggestions for searches

Google has quietly added a new feature to their already popular search site called Google Suggest. As you type, Suggest gives a list of similar searches as ideas to further refine your search.

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PHP: Benchmarking echo vs. print vs. printf

PHP has 3 functions that output text; echo, print, and printf. But, what’s the difference? More importantly, which one should be used in which situation?

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Script timing in PHP

It you have spent time on sites that use a CMS system as a back-end, you may have noticed a line towards the bottom that tells you how long that page took to generate. While not always useful for the … Continue reading

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More on CSS & Web Buttons

After a previous article, I decided I needed a way to expand web buttons to look even more like ‘normal’ computer buttons. Windows XP buttons highlight when your mouse goes over them. I knew this was possible with links, so … Continue reading

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Hamrick Software releases VueScan 8.1

Hamrick software released an update to their award winning VueScan software with version 8.1.12.

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CSS & Web Buttons

Tired of the boring gray buttons on web forms? With a little CSS you can make your buttons look just how you like.

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And now – more in the Spammers vs. Lycos Europe fight

Lycos Europe has apparently scrapped the MakeLoveNotSpam screen saver that turns the users computer in to a DDoS attacker against spamming web sites.

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A flowering mobile phone

Warwick University researchers have developed a mobile phone case that is biodegradable. Even better, it grows a flower when planted.

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Lycos Europe is hacked

On my other blog I wrote about Lycos Europe releasing a screen saver that hits web servers that are “spam friendly”. Lycos denies that this constitutes a DDoS attack, but if it walks like a duck… Well, the spammers aren’t … Continue reading

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