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Just a quick note on an interesting test I have done on AdSense content targeting. Simply put, I uploaded a number of copies of a html document with some text about DVD-players (in Swedish), altering only the <title></title> and the file name of the documents. A 250 x 250 AdSense unit were also included.
The results [...]
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Masked passwords pose a significant useability issue which can be avoided. Masked passwords often lead to user frustration and possibly encourage users to chose simple passwords that are easy to enter without making mistakes.
Further, the security benefits from masked passwords are likely minimal for most users and applications. However, there are situations and applications that [...]
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With the relatively new 3.5+ release comes a new Geolocation API that enables geographical positioning of the browser client. Positioning is done through an array of means:
“Common sources of location information include Global Positioning System (GPS) and location inferred from network signals such as IP address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses, and GSM/CDMA cell [...]
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Sometimes when integrating a Google map on a site it is useful to give feedback to the user when hovering the mouse over a map marker. While not very difficult to achieve, it may not be completely straight forward to beginners, so I just wanted to post my solution here.
The trick is to add a [...]
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This problem were driving me nuts for a couple of hours so I decided to post it here, to the benefit of others. Using the PHPMailer class to send mail to members from one of our sites I were writing a new function, but all of a sudden my mailing function refused to cooperate, and [...]
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