Back in the early part of this year I posted an article around how to get MySQL data out of the database and into a web page via jQuery and Ajax. The tutorial was okay, but I made some rookie mistakes – specifically around the creation of XML data with PHP – This time, I hope to rectify that!
We got lots of fantastic feedback on our earlier iPod-style menu, and decided to upgrade it for jQuery 1.3. In the process of refining the script, we morphed it into more of a menu system, which can be used to create a simple dropdown menu for a single list of options, a flyout menu for a smaller hierarchical list of options where child menus are ...
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For in-store pickup only, Micro Center offers the new Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz 13.3" Widescreen Notebook, model no. MC207LL/A , for $999.99. This $200 mail-in rebate (via Visa Prepaid Card... (more)
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TechCrunch
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?
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Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we're thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs . I'm thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since. It wasn't at all a certainty that he would ever return to the company that he ...
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Apple posts tools for building TuneKit iTunes LPs and Extras
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Apple has taken iTunes LP and Extras public, encouraging independent developers to begin work on interactive digital content for distribution in iTunes starting early next year. The new move signals a big move in taking on Adobe Flash, pushing the adoption of web standards, and creating an new business model for content that could impact how the ...
Michael Rose
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Apple Black Friday deals hit the Australian store
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Filed under: Deals Put aside, for the moment, the incongruity of non-US stores featuring discounts for the day after a US-only holiday... just roll with it, OK? Apple's online store for Australia -- where, of course, it's already Black Friday -- has got the one-day discount page posted and ready to go. The pricing drops are in the vicinity of 8- ...
Ross Miller
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Engadget
Apple's Black Friday deals hit Australia site, same as it ever was
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Apple Down Under[TM] has revealed its today-only holiday gift specials, and with most deals hovering between 5 and 10 percent off, it's nothing out of the ordinary for Cupertino's wares. Still, if you're shopping for a new iMac this season, seems like the perfect opportunity to fill up your virtual shopping cart. If history tells us anything , ...
Steven Sande
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Apple document details Target Display mode for 27" iMac
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Filed under: Video , Odds and ends , iMac In case you're itching to use that new 27" iMac as a big display for a MacBook, DVD player, or some other device -- and assuming your new unit isn't one of the ones that has shown up DOA or with a cracked screen corner -- Apple has released a knowledge base article gives you the scoop on how to do it all.
Www.9to5mac.com
Apple Black Friday deals revealed
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Apple’s Black Friday sales have begun - in Australia - there the company’s range of discount deals have just this minute gone live on the Apple Store online.
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Drupal's multi-site hosting capability is built in with any installation. This is great news for users who run numerous web sites from a single hosting account. A single Drupal installation can be used to run multiple domains, which makes it much easier to manage and maintain the code base. Even if you are dealing with only one domain, the multi- ...
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Do you ever wondered why some blog don’t use adsense becaue they thing the revenue is too low, while some other are very happy with it? The answer to this question is simple : Adsense work with keywords contained within the page. If the page have keywords that pays well, then you’ll make money, otherwise, your Adsense revenue will not ...
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Using Google's AdSense Channels - Video Tutorials
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As you know, one of the topics that I often write about is how to improve and maximize your AdSense earnings. AdSense is still one of my top performers when it comes to making money online and as such, I always share anything that can be useful for publishers to take advantage of everything possible to improve earnings.
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Inside AdSense
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Interested in personalized AdSense suggestions, event invitations, and special offers? Update your email preferences so you'll be eligible to receive these messages -- just sign in and visit the Contact Preferences page under your My Account tab.
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Adsense.blogspot.com
Site targeting: a refresher
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Over the past few months, we've written several posts about site targeting, but given the questions we've received, we thought this might be a good time to review the details of site targeting, what it means for you as an AdSense publisher, and how site-targeted ad campaigns fit into the AdSense model.
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Ars sits down with Valve's director of business development Jason Holtman to discuss the future of the Steam platform and PC gaming. His theory? Listening to customers and keeping them connected are the keys to success. The evidence? Sales boosts that coincide with updates, and frequent, effective price cuts.
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David Hinkle
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Joystiq
EA takes 30 percent off several PC games until Monday
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EA's online store is running an exciting Black Friday sale , with downloadable PC games getting 30 percent off from now until Monday. We're talking about discounts on a bunch of games here, with standouts such as Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box for a cool $21 and Mass Effect for a very reasonable $14. Not everything is on sale, however -- some ...
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Griffin McElroy
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Joystiq
Valve addresses Left 4 Dead 2 server lag on Xbox 360
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What's the only thing worse than having two dead team members, an approaching wave of special infected, and a fresh sheen of Boomer puke on your person? Having to suffer all those things while also -- fighting -- server la -- tency issues. Fortunately, that experience has become less common, as Valve recently did a bit dusting around their ...
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Verteidigungsministers Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg will den umstrittenen Luftangriff in Afghanistan neu beurteilen. Im ZDF sagte der Politiker, ihm seien "wesentliche Informationen" vorenthalten worden. Eine umfassende Aufklärung müsse unter Bundestagsbeteiligung erfolgen.
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Ex-Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Jung hat jegliche Vertuschungsvorwürfe in der Affäre um den Nato-Angriff bei Kundus zurückgewiesen. Er habe Parlament und Öffentlichkeit "korrekt informiert".
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Jung-Affäre: Dubiose Quellen statt offener Karten
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Wusste der damalige Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Jung von den zivilen Opfern des Luftschlags bei Kundus? Wenn ja, würde das seine zweifelhafte Informationspolitik im September dieses Jahres zusätzlich diskreditieren. Ein Rückblick mit neuen Informationen.
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Times have changed, and most people have music on computers instead of CD's. CD's are already becoming an obsolete music format. You may have had the experience of connecting speakers to your laptop computer to listen to music and hearing how terrible the sound quality is. It doesn't matter how expensive the speakers are; they simply won't sound ...
There are now > 100,000 iPhone applications available on the App Store. However, Apple has a secret, undocumented, unquestionable, random process for deciding which applications to “allow” onto the deck.
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Si os gustó el post de pintadas geeks en las calles o en los servicios de la uni, seguro que la siguiente galería tampoco os desagradará. Film Geek Graffiti es una recopilación de 53 pintadas callejeras (o graffitis) bastante geeks cinéfilamente hablando. Vamos, que son pintadas referenciando a películas.
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Debt crisis in millionaires' playground could herald new phase in global financial meltdown Share prices in the City suffered their biggest fall since March today amid fears that a debt crisis in the millionaires' playground of Dubai heralded a new phase in the global financial meltdown and a double-dip recession in 2010. With Alistair Darling ...
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Jetzt.de
Aus der Traum
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Die Krise hat den Persischen Golf erreicht. Das einstige Glitzeremirat Dubai ist in Zahlungsnöten.Es ist noch nicht lange her, da galt auf der größten Baustelle der Welt das Versprechen immerwährenden Wachstums. Wer nach Dubai kam, fand die Traumkulisse eines entfesselten Kapitalismus, der scheinbar keine Grenzen zu akzeptieren hat. Die ...
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Larry Elliott
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The Guardian World News
Borders UK goes into administration
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The firm, which has 45 stores employing 1,150 people across the UK, has come under severe pressure from internet competition during the past year The UK bookshop chain Borders was placed in administration today, raising doubts over 1,150 jobs. The firm, which has 45 branded Borders and Books Etc stores across the UK, has come under severe ...
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Turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, along with a visit by the commanding general in Iraq and a phone call from President Obama, were some of the ways the White House and Pentagon helped U.S. troops overseas celebrate Thanksgiving.
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NPR Programs
Thanksgiving At The White House
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At the White House Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, there were no surprises on the menu. There was turkey and honey-baked ham, cornbread and oyster stuffing, sweet potato and mashed potatoes and six kinds of pie. Fifty guests were on the list, including staff, friends and family.
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NYT
Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law, an investigation ordered by Ireland’s government concluded.
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NPR Topics
Commission Finds Church Covered Up Child Abuse
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The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year probe into previously secret church records.
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Henry McDonald
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The Guardian World News
Irish police 'covered up abuse'
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Devastating report on abuse of children by clergy from 1975 to 2004 accuses church and Garda of colluding to cover up scandal Ireland's police colluded with the Catholic church in covering up clerical child abuse in Dublin on a huge scale, according to a damning report on decades of sex crimes committed by priests. The devastating report on the ...
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Anfang nächsten Jahres ist es endlich soweit. Der Nachfolger zum großartigen “Rest Now Weary Head You Will Get Well Soon” sollte inzwischen im Kasten sein und am 8. Januar 2010 erscheinen. Der Titel des neuen Longplayers wird “Vaxations” lauten, und Konstantin Gropper hat diesmal wohl richtig aufgefahren. So sind auf der ...
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SPIEGEL ONLINE
Tage des Terrors: Indien gedenkt der Opfer von Mumbai
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Drei Tage lang hielt eine kleine Gruppe von Terroristen die indische Millionenmetropole Mumbai vor einem Jahr in Angst und Schrecken. Am Ende waren 166 Menschen tot und mehr als 300 verletzt. Indien gedenkt nun der Opfer. Bislang ist wenig geschehen, um künftige Anschläge zu verhindern.
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Filed under: Desktops , Hardware , Mac Pro Warning: some NSFW lyrics on the music in the video above. What do you get when you combine an old Xbox with OS X and some Mac Pro level hardware? This monstrosity . Built by Will Urbina, the OS Xbox Pro is a hackintosh casemodded into an original Xbox dev kit, with some crazy hardware under the hood, ...
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Mat Lu
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Ask TUAW: iMac processor upgrade, 27" iMac as display, wireless input devices, and more
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Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW Happy holiday, and welcome back to Ask TUAW , our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about upgrading an iMac processor, using the 27" iMac as a display, sharing a Magic Mouse and Bluetooth keyboard with a Linux machine, and more. As always, your suggestions and ...
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Joachim Bean
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Provision profile expiration time: does it leave you wondering?
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Filed under: Bad Apple , Developer , SDK Back when the iPhone Developer Program was first announced , developer provisions (the 'permission slips' that allow developers to distribute pre-release builds of apps in progress) lasted one year. It seemed natural to have a one year expiration, as our developer memberships also lasted one year. ...
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If you have been following the community there has been quite a stir around lack of sound features in the Flash Player. Not only lack of sound features, but the last two dot releases have injected serious bugs in the sound support. This is unfortunate and some of these are squarely my fault, but some of them are design choices for which there are ...
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Www.kaourantin.net
Adobe Is Making Some Noise Part 3
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Along with the new event to drive dynamically generated audio playback there is one gaping hole: Where do you get source audio from? Sure, you can load raw audio from external sources through ByteArray but that is less than efficient. What you really need is a way to have sound assets you can access from your ActionScript code.
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AP - Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.
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Iran Reportedly Seizes Activist's Nobel Medal
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Norway's government says Shirin Ebadi's medal was seized "within the last week or so" from a safe-deposit box in Iran. The human rights lawyer won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy.
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In the spirit of rapid web development, I’ve stumbled upon jQuery. Here’s a testimonial from a jQuery user: You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM JavaScript. By the time you are done it’s down to two or three lines and it couldn’t get any shorter unless it read your mind.”
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Promi-Parade in Potsdam: Äußerst freigiebig zeigte sich Hollywood-Star Kate Winslet bei der 61. Bambi-Verleihung - und teilte ihren Preis mit einem jungen Kollegen. Bewegend geriet der Video-Auftritt von Altkanzler Helmut Kohl. Auch Silbermond, Uli Hoeneß und Wolfgang Joop durften sich freuen.
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Bambi-Verleihung: Bambi für Kate Winslet
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Hollywood-Glanz bei der Bambi-Verleihung: Kate Winslet hat sich zu der Verleihung in Potsdam angekündigt und wird als beste internationale Schauspielerin geehrt. Auch deutsche Prominenz ist reichlich vertreten.
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