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With the increasing popularity of mobile devices such as smartphones and the iPad, location-aware applications are flourishing. On the other hand, with HTML5 and all of its amazing features, web applications seem to be the way to go. So, how exactly...

When your application needs to perform time-consuming operations, you don’t want the interface to hang, so you need to use a separate thread for this operation. Still, if the operation takes some time to process, you may want to give the user some feedback...

Last month at the SXSW, Twitter introduced a new platform named @Anywhere for website developers. It was launched today. The new platform makes it easy to integrate Twitter features within any website with only a few lines of Javascript.
For now, you can automatically linkify Twitter usernames or add hovercards (like this: @olussier). You can also create follow buttons and tweet boxes (to allow visitors to send tweets directly from your website). Finally, @Anywhere brings “Twitter Connect...

Have you ever visited a web page and actually had to take a moment to figure out where the content was because the page was so heavily loaded with non-content stuff? With the growing number of websites, with different designs, one may wish to simply...