Category Archives: Open Source

Acquiring Multiple Key Presses in JavaScript

While trying to emulate the wonderful “Speed Dial” feature available in the Opera Web Browser in a web-based project, I was looking to write JavaScript to capture multiple keystrokes before a certain action is executed. For eg. a screen of … Continue reading

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Opera Widget: NSE Ticker

Turns out that there isn’t a single working software that allows you to have a “Stock Ticker” on your desktop that scrolls the latest prices of shares on the National Stock Exchange (of India). Yahoo! Finance and Google Finance provide … Continue reading

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PocketPass – JavaME Password Manager Application

The best way to learn any programming language is to take a real world problem and try to build an application for it. A lot of times, finding that real-world problem is itself a problem. However, the problem of having … Continue reading

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ChangeExtension

ChangeExtension allows you to change the extensions of files from the context menu in Windows Explorer. To change the file extensions of multiple files, simply select all the files whose extensions need to be changed, and type in the new … Continue reading

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[FIX] WordPress 3.0 Invalid HTML5 Gallery Code

WordPress 3.0 generated the following code for a gallery in one of my posts — <!– see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php –> <div id=’gallery-1′ class=’gallery galleryid-1512′> <dl class=’gallery-item’> <dt class=’gallery-icon’> <!– Image and link here –> </dt> </dl> <dl class=’gallery-item’> <dt … Continue reading

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