Archive for May, 2006

Webcrawler’s resurgence as a useful search-engine

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Webcrawler was a very popular search-engine before the days of Google. It was well-known for it’s ability to find non-webpage content on the net. It still stands true today with its strength being the ability to find a multitude of media types (video and audio).

It’s now based on Microsoft’s 4.0 Development Kit, which limits its ability to exand onto search in realitivity and makes the search concentrate on more exact phrase matching.

But it still stands as a very open search engine that can seek-out the media you may be looking for.

Investor Research Sites & Google’s cool charting

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Google has a cool new charting flash-app.
View it here
It’s really cool, because it allows you to chart 1m to 1y, and it just expands the graph in real-time. The graph is also interactive, so you can just roll-over points and see the price for that day, the volume and the exact date. The graph also has a srcoll-area above it which covers the larger gaumet of a companies life. You can expand that area by grabbing the sides of the top graph’s frame and pulling.
The best feature by-far for this is the plotting of news and the way it interacts with the news column on the right.
This is all BETA, so there are some bugs. Scrolling and switching quickly can cause the graph-line to go off the page. News-flags are brought in via xml, so parsing it and displaying them when you swtich to a larger view. So it lags… big-time. They should switch to JSON from XML, which there will be standard support for, in ActionScript 3.0.

Globe Investor is currently the most user friendly and in-depth.
Visit Globe Investor

Centered Div, horizontally and vertically in window

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Here is a download of a CSS-based vertically and horizontally centered DIV tag.

Download Centered Div ZIP file

Best Firefox extension for Web Programmers

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

FireBug is an extension for the Firefox web-browser. It is amazing for debugging XML, XHMTL, CSS, JS and just to generally inspect your code.

Don’t take it too seriously though as IE bug-fixes and workarounds always generate errors.

Get FireBug for Firefox.