Questions about how to better interact with a website either through its API or other tricks
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What are the best travel web apps/sites? [closed]
The "web revolutionized the travel" industry, enabling "people to be their own travel agents". With the improvements in mapping technologies and the ability to share knowledge, it has never been ...
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5answers
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Web app to test web page speed
What web service can I use to test the speed of a web page? It would be great if it can further diagnose the page so that I can see which elements in the page take longer to load.
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What services exists for checking a website loading time? [closed]
I know of Yslow with firefox and http://webwait.com/
Any other services around ?
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2answers
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Instapaper RSS feed is not working?
I have been using Instapaper for a long time. I have used RSS feed from it and Google Reader for feed reader. Somehow this stopped working for about a month ago. I don't get any feeds from Instapaper ...
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3answers
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May I use Dropbox as hosting for website's static files?
I'm making a website on a free hosting that doesn't have much space or bandwidth.
So I considered using Dropbox Public folder for static files, such as:
Javascript, CSS
Images
Downloads (each a few ...
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1answer
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Website for generating random names and addresses
Is there a website which can generate random (fake) names & addresses ?
If it can also provide random fake Credit Cards, SSN that would be great, as is the capability to generate a whole set of ...
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3answers
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Do you know any Web Search apps where you can specify more engines/websites at a time?
Google is the Web Search engine that I use more often, but I would like to know if there are web apps were you can define a list of search engines or webisite you want to retrieve the data for, in a ...
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3answers
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Torrent to direct-link converter
Which are the websites which help to direct download bit-torrent files?
One such service is torrific
What torrific does is, when we give the
url of a .torrent file, it will
download the file ...
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2answers
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View MSDN pages in full screen width
Is there a way to see MSDN pages in an non-frames and non-panel way such that the full width of the screen is used for the actual content? (At large font sizes this is especially important.)
In the ...
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2answers
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Huge form-based websites?
Does anyone have any great examples of well-designed form-driven websites? We are converting a large DOS/Windows-based client app to a web application, and the app currently feels too plain and ...
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8answers
587 views
Is there any website to upload/edit source code? [closed]
I really like PBworks but when i hit 'formatted' and paste my code (no other settings keeps single lines single) the spaces get missed up so it looks weird when i paste it back. (Luckily i dont write ...
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2answers
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Online count down timer/alarm clock that gives a nudge when a set time is up?
Is there an online count down timer/alarm clock that gives you nudge when a set time is up?
I do not want it to play a sound, but rather give me a notification that I can see (like when you get a msn ...
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1answer
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Facebook - privacy when posting on wall of 'liked' website
If I comment on a Facebook website, can non-friends who 'like' that site see my whole profile?
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2answers
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What web application will receive an SMS/MMS image from a phone and display it in the website?
Hi Web Application forum users,
I am new to this forum and excited for being here.
A little intro:
I want to find a web application that I can setup a sms number in it, and people can send images ...
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0answers
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My blogspot domain to a custom domain is not redirecting properly
My Blogspot domain http://www.jimankandeka.blogspot.com was redirected to http://www.withjim.com almost a year ago. Though the site works fine half the time, other half it shows an error which I have ...
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1answer
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Showing a graph of website activity, to check whether it is stagnant or active
I thought Alexa had a kind of graph to show how a website's activity was progressing over a period of time. I wanted to see how Knol had evolved this year, but I am having trouble finding this on a ...
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2answers
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How to search videos in Picasa Web Albums
I am not able to find a way to search videos in my Picasa Web Albums, Picasa search shows options for 'photos only', 'videos only' for 'community photos' search but not for 'My Photos'
What is more ...
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4answers
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Online Stop Watch Using Pure Javascript and HTML and CSS ( No Flash!)
Is there an online stop watch that is constructed using pure Javascript, HTML and CSS, without using Flash?
There are a couple of flash-based online stopwatch websites, but since I don't prefer ...
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2answers
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Services to host images online?
all I need is a simple service that allows me to host images online and have access to the direct URL of the image (without paying and without obtrusive ads).
http://imageshack.us does not give me ...
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3answers
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Home/personal page creator [closed]
I know there are a few apps out there to help you desing a personal page such as this: http://www.zachklein.com/ (I dont think he used those apps, but the style).
I am sure there is a famous one ...
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1answer
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Web-Application to create organization/group website
Suggest me a good, free, open source, downloadable web application in php to make a good website for a organization or group having more than one member. Only administrator(s) can change the content ...
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1answer
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Lifehacker page no longer loads properly. How do I fix this? [closed]
If lifehacker site loads at all, it loads looking like a 90s page with a bunch of links left justified and no content. It also takes quite a while to load this very pared down page. I'm going to stop ...
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1answer
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How do I find the most popular stories on FanFiction.net?
Is there a published/up to date list somewhere of stories by some sort of popularity ranking?
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2answers
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Is there a website which rates British medical doctors to find the proper one? [closed]
I am living in the UK and need to find a good specialist doctor which turned out to be tricky. Is there a website where clients can provide ratings and feedbacks, similar to www.ratedpeople.com, ...
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4answers
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How to find out main page of a website
When a website's main page cannot be opened as in this example, is it possible to find out the full address? In this example, I tried /index.htm and /index.html without success.
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2answers
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Online logotypes review site
I'm looking for some site that would allow me to submita logotype design and get some creative feedback from users/designers. I did a google search on the subject but the results i get in return are ...
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4answers
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SItes or applications to save web pages [closed]
It's my first question, so sorry if something is not right.
Please, suggest sites or programs that allow the user to save a web page. It does not matter on the Internet or on user's computer, or it is ...
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1answer
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Is there a webapp for tracking my sleep patterns/habits? [closed]
Is there an app that some way can track the times I go to sleep and more importantly log the times at which I (assumably) awake every day?
For instance, install a small script to Ubuntu or a webapp ...
2
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1answer
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There's a specific website like jsFiddle, but i can't remember the name/url. Can you help? [closed]
A while ago i found a website much like jsFiddle, focused on collaborative editing. It has forking and it's full of HTML5 experiments. Unfortunately i can't remember the name; do you by any chance ...
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1answer
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Is there a website where you can enter a list of your skills and find out what types of jobs you are qualified for?
I'm envisioning a website where you type in a list of your skills and get back a list of job alternatives or near-alternatives; alternatives that aren't so obvious. Alternatives that may require just ...
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3answers
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Is there a web application that will monitor websites for free? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
External Monitoring Web App
I am looking for a free web application service that will monitor my websites.
Due to some concerns over clarity I am adding some additional ...
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3answers
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How to monitor & highlight changes in a specific part of a webpage?
I am looking for a web service (if not a script which I could run through cron) to monitor a specific part of a webpage (which I could filter with XPath or something similar) and output the ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to get notified when a comment is posted
Is there a site that will notify me when someone responds to a comment on another site like on reddit or stackoverflow? I get tired of the refresh, wait, refresh cycle.
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3answers
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How to track / monitor changes in an online PDF file?
How to track / monitor changes in an on-line PDF file? Need to be notified when that happens.
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7answers
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What's a good web-based mp3 (.m4a etc) streamer that I can run at home to access remotely?
I have enough music that it's not practical for me to move hard drives around. I've attempted to use Rhythmbox as my server but the amount of time it takes to download the library contents hits some ...
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1answer
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Web site which allows users to provide feedback/rate web site designs?
I've come up with several mockups for a design refresh of one of my existing sites, but I'm having a hard time selecting a design.
Is there any web site which allows to submit a number of designs and ...
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3answers
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Which is the best application to test mobile website? [closed]
I want to test my website build for mobile in the most smartphones and mobile phones.
Maybe with a desktop software or with a web application.
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0answers
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Making sure user has watched entirety of embedded YouTube video [closed]
Background:
I want to force users to watch a whole video. I plan on checking whether one or two random timecodes were hit, as well as whether the movie finished playing, would make it reasonably ...
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0answers
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web sites to try performance of hardware accelerated webGL? [closed]
Has anyone found any good web sites to test the performance of hardware acceleration of webGL? Something other than these webgl samples:
http://code.google.com/p/webglsamples/
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0answers
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Google Notebook list navigation box is too small
I'm using Google Notebook (the web version) and I've got many lists. So basically the left hand side list navigation box shows me 8 list items at a time.
Now, when I increase the font size (Ctrl + ...
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1answer
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Send file to email from URL
Is there a website that I can enter a file URL and an email address, and the website will download the file and send it directly to the email address?
I can set this up on a private server, but I'm ...
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Is there a way to search on LifeHacker?
So, this may certainly not be the right forum. But it's the closest I could find of all available in this family of sites to ask the question. Please educate me if this isn't the right location.
Am I ...
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1answer
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Is there a web application that puts a white polaroid-border on images?
Does anyone know of a free web application that allows you to upload images and turn them into polaroid-looking pictures, i.e.:
apply white border
tilt slightly
apply subtle shadow
something like ...
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6answers
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Easy web cms or software
I need something really simple for my church to update a site, add/remove pictures, and change events in a calendar.
What's easy?
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2answers
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Can I display Facebook Page status on my website?
Is it possible to let my website show the status message of my facebook page? How can this be done?
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how to create blog for free?
I want to create a blog for non programmer + non technical person.
requirements are:
It should be free
It should be easily maintainable.
custom designing should be one of the feature.
URL should ...
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2answers
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Archive bookmarked sites? [closed]
I have a huge list of bookmarks and from time to time the sites I've bookmarked go down and the bookmarked link does not work anymore, is there a way I can archive all the sites I've bookmarked in way ...
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1answer
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Blogger subdomain not redirecting to my custom domain
I bought a domain for my blog through Google (which uses GoDaddy to actually get the domains), but it seems like there are some problems. I can't get yannbane.blogspot.com to redirect to ...
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1answer
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Does webring.com have a method of canceling your service?
I recently joined http://www.webring.com which was a mistake. It is just another crappy website that I'd like to delete my account on? Anyone know how?
They recently enraged me with this amusing ...
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1answer
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Service that let me view multiple websites at once
Checking many sites every morning for news can be a bit time consuming. I wonder if there is a web application where I can see multiple pages at once and go through them and view the top news.
For ...
