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Adding Gatorpeeps.com to your lifestream

By admin • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Design, Programming, Tutorials

Gatorpeeps.com is a new African centric, Twitter like micro blogging service from the creators of Afrigator.Initially I was quite surprised Afrigator launched a Twitter like service, given the history of similar endeavors. That said, I’m willing to give it a shot, after all, it’s success is dependant on a relevant service (Localised tweeting, worth a [...]

IP Address Geolocation Javascript API : JSON

By admin • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category:

Neat API to determine location the location of an IP and present it on Google maps.
“For one of my project I needed IP geolocation database. While surfing I came to realize that there is a very good database available at iplocationtools.com. This website also provides XML API for this. This API can be accessed found [...]

Pull and save an image on your server from any site

By admin • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: , Programming

This is a little script I’ve been playing with. I’m using it on my pet project GoGuide.co.za, a social bookmarking site. The plan is for the site to pull a thumbnail image of a submitted URL’s page. The script scans specified sites for the first image with a width greater than 200px. [...]

Nobox first time SABlogAwards finalist

By admin • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: , Showcase

Wow,  I’m thrilled to be nominated as a finalist in no less than two categories of the SABlogAwards!
I launched Nobox in November last year and as such this is my first time as a nominee.
I must say it is quite an honor to be listed with some of SA’s coolest blogs, however, it would be a [...]

I deleted my database and I’m an idiot

By admin • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category:

Yesterday was quite a day. You may notice a few articles are missing. After a long days work, large amounts of caffeine and flu medication pumping through my veins, I some how managed to delete the NoboxMedia database - don’t laugh, grunt or roll your eyes. This is the first time I have deleted an [...]

I’m building a Social Network and so are you – Part 1

By admin • Nov 23rd, 2007 • Category:

Yup, that’s right - I’m building a Social Network and so are you ! Stop laughing! Stop rolling your eyes! I have experience in building successful social networks, as I have been involved in the building of two. They have done pretty well. I now think it is time to invest my energy in producing [...]

New Digg Button

By admin • Nov 22nd, 2007 • Category:

Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed allot of sites have old tired Digg buttons. I’ve also noticed allot of sites don’t have Digg buttons at all - crazy! We find to be an extremely valuable resource at getting our articles out there and as such thought I would offer this typical web2.0 styled Digg [...]

AJAX frameworks - For newbies

By admin • Nov 22nd, 2007 • Category:

First of all, if AJAX is new to you, an Ajax framework is a library of scripts that help you to develop web applications faster and with greater ease. Frameworks help with the processing of requests sent to the server or JavaScript. A framework helps programmers in two levels: on the client side, it offers [...]

66 Web2.0 sites on the wall…

By admin • Nov 20th, 2007 • Category: , Showcase

I’ve put together a list of 66 Web2.0 sites. As far as I can tell, they pretty much the best the web have to offer. If you have any suggestions on new, up and coming sites, please drop it in the comments below.

The Secret Source, build your own YouTUBE

By admin • Nov 19th, 2007 • Category:

A how to on Installing FFMPEG on Ubuntu
So you would like to set up a site that allows users to upload videos of any format, get the server to convert the video to a Macromedia Flash format and then play it through a cool customized flash video player (Much like TouTube)? Well then this is [...]

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