При разработке одного проекта необходимо было определять откуда к нам пришел пользователь, точнее из какой страны, города и географические координаты: широта и долгота, а кроме того почтовый индекс.

Сайт представлял из себя каталог SPA -салонов, в котором владельцы отмечали на карте их расположение, а пользователь, зайдя на сайт, видел на карте ближайшие салоны.

Для работы нам потребуется GeoIP. Скачиваем бинарный файл с данными и вот эту вот php’ешную API.

3D in your browser! FoxTab brings innovative 3D functionality to your Firefox.

Locate multiple addresses internationally - North America & Europe - calculate distances - make your own mashup map - instantly.
Take any kind of street address list, for example copied from Excel, and geocode the addresses to get latitude and longitude coordinates using the tool below. The data can then be mapped in your browser, downloaded into Google Earth, saved to a web page, or transferred back into your spreadsheet. You can also use this tool to calculate distances to multiple addresses from a single point, or get quick driving directions to multiple destinations. Mapping multiple locations with your own custom data takes seconds, just follow the 6 steps below to plot your own data on a fully interactive multi-point map. It's fast, easy, and - free to use!

Red Nose Day is, quite simply, a day like no other! We take some fantastic fundraising in schools, offices and homes across the land, mix it with the nation’s favourite celebrities getting up to all kinds of mischief, sprinkle a new Red Nose (or three!) across the entire UK and add a cracking night of comedy on BBC One to make Red Nose Day the phenomenon it is.

"Stay-Open Menu is a extension created for Firefox® to keep the Bookmarks Menu open when middle-clicking, to enable easily opening multiple items in tabs. I find it especially handy for RSS feed (Live Bookmark) items."

Batch Geocoding with the Google Maps API.

I thought I'd share this code that activates the window under the mouse whenever there is scroll wheel movement.

The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). This is a major increase in the usefullness of the mouse wheel.

There are litterally an unlimitted number of ways to toggle an element’s display with JavaScript. Some, more useful than others. Dating back to the late nineties, toggling is perhaps the oldest trick in the book within JavaScript development. However, to this day, it still proves itself useful as hiding/showing elements can improve user interaction (when done tastefully).

The quality and functionality of maps on the internet is improving all the time, soon a website without a map will look out of place. Maps range from the most simple to very complex applications.

The links provided on this page should give you an idea of what the Google Maps API is all about, albeit only from the services that Google provide.

I have the nVidia Black Screen Bug, and after much research and testing, I eventually found a way to fix it. This post is a compilation of fixes I found on the internet, and it ends with the fix I discovered that finally worked. Hopefully this guide will help anyone else who has the nVidia Black Screen Bug.

Setting up virtual hosts with XAMPP is very straight forward and could be done in less than 5 minutes. Although, your local XAMPP server will still work even if virtual hosts are not configured. You might want to ask, is there a need for my local XAMPP setup to configure virtual hosts? Apparently, virtual hosts are needed when

        * your on multiple domains
        * your need to test your projects with same configuration with the server
        * test your projects without touching your public server
        * your just organizing your projects into groups
        * or setup a local copy of your blog or website

Слово this является одним из наиболее мощных ключевых слов JavaScript. Но могут возникнуть трудности с его использованием, если вы точно не знаете, как оно работает и где применяется.

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Spotted on Daniel Glazman’s weblog, a good use of using the CSS :target selector to highlight the active target (example). I knocked-up a simple demonstration.

Browser-specific CSS hacks have become a taboo among standards-aware web designers for good reason; ideally you shouldn't need them. However, as long as the Internet Explorer 6 browser continues to hold significant market share, there will likely remain some cases where you need to use unfashionable CSS rules to accommodate outdated technology.

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