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• Preloaders.net - Make your own AJAX loading animation GIFs

 by Stanley, February 26, 2009

If you’re looking for spinners or loaders for your AJAX applications, I don’t know if you’ve been to this website - Preloaders.net. It’s one of the better AJAX loaders generating websites right now.

Not only can you generate loader GIFs in 2D animation, you have a selection of 3D animation sprites to choose from and customise to your fancy. I’m fairly impressed with the variety and configurable options available. Some of the parameters you can configure is animation speed, image size, foreground and background colors and transparency.

Check it out!

• Life insurance

 February 24, 2009
I had a long night yesterday when my friend explained life insurance stuff to me. Man, he really took the time and effort to take me through everything regarding buying life insurances. He’s been in the business for a decade now. Since he left school in fact. Normally I don’t hang around sales or insurance [...]
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• json_encode and json_decode that works in PHP4 and PHP5

 January 15, 2009
Last night, I spent 2 hours overhauling a snippet of code in my WordPress plugin. My plugin uses PHP5’s json_encode and json_decode functions but a lot of users have been complaining of problems. The biggest cause is the servers their on are using PHP4 instead of the latest PHP5 installation. Some users managed to workaround [...]
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• Where to find older versions of Winamp

 December 3, 2008
Winamp has now reached version 5.541 and looking back all the way to version 3.0, I just realise how bloated this MP3 player has become. Comparing version 5.0 to the current 5.541, you’ll notice Winamp installation file size has doubled from 4MB to 9MB. Like most softwares that has become bloated through the years, you’ll [...]
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• Internet drops, dialer crashes

 December 1, 2008
I spent an entire night trying to fix my mom-in-law’s PC yesterday to no avail. Here’s the problem. She has been experiencing internet connectivity disconnection very frequently for the past few weeks. Now here’s the strange part. Once the connectivity is stuck, the dialup window hangs so there’s no way of redialing for reconnection. The [...]
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• Major WordPress release near end of year holidays, no thanks.

 November 17, 2008
As a web developer, WordPress skills rank pretty high on my CV. Making clients familiar with administration of a WordPress blog is one of my required duties on top of delivering the goods. WordPress is on the brink of introducing version 2.7 where we’ll see a major overhaul of it’s administration panel. What that means [...]
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• Taking a swipe again at one of the worst web hosting companies around, HostNine!

 November 15, 2008
Hostnine, the web hosting company I’m using for my sites, is giving me the familiar sense of uneasiness lately. The server seems to be slow for most part of the week. And just 30 minutes ago, I could not connect with its server. I feel I can’t warn you readers enough to stay away from HostNine. [...]
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