HOW TO visualize approximate radial distance from a fixed point on a map

The Twitter Location Search app utilizes Google Maps to show approximate radial distance from a specified point on a mapIf you are an API developer, this tool can be useful to visualize approximate radial distance while dealing with location-specific queries.The Twitter Search API supports a parameter called geocode that returns tweets by users located within a given radius of the given latitude/longitude for a given search term.The parameter value...

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Render "cross-domain" content on the client-side with JSONP feeds & jQuery

When websites provide Feeds of their content, they not only allow that content to be read through Feed readers like Google Reader but also let other sites consume that content programmatically. These feeds can be in various formats like RSS, Atom, JSON, JSONP.Instead of scraping content from sites they don't own, developers can use RSS, Atom & JSON feeds with server-side programming languages to display that content on their own sites.JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. The advantage with JSON for developers is that it can be directly...

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Free Online To-Do List apps

A global LinkedIn survey of 6580 professionals revealed that 71% of women & 60% of men keep to-do lists..LinkedIn found professionals working in agriculture claim to be most productive: 83 percent stated that they regularly fulfill most of all of their planned tasks. The regularity of routine (due to sunlight, seasons and the fact that if you don’t feed the pig, the grass, the chickens… well, they die) is real motivation to get your to-do’s done and something those of us outside of agriculture can learn from.Here's a list of web-based...

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An overview of ACS, ADFS, WIF

Notes from the TechNet Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) Academy video series -ACS or Access Control Service is a cloud service that abstracts authentication & lets you focus on app development rather than on plumbingACS is part of Windows Azure Platform - a service within AppFabric  ACS offers federation with Internet identity providers (like Windows Live ID, Facebook, Yahoo, Google) & corporate identity...

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Vent your anger drawing your own "rage comics"

NY Times has a nice article on Rage Comics -When you get angry, you can lash out or seethe inside. Or you can head to the Web to assemble and publish a cartoon to share some of that rage. Many people with little to no artistic ability — but with some pretty funny tales — do that in something called rage comics. ...They have created a genre of Internet humor that, unlike the Keyboard Cat or Rickrolling, two famous Internet memes, continues...

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