After I got my new PC, the first thing I wanted to do was replace some of the functionality of my dynamic desktop. Primarily this meant a useful Google Search box. My search found 3 gadgets already in play, but to my dismay, they all link to adwords sponsored websites.
So, using Darren's example, I found that gadgets are really just little tiny websites. Hmm, I can code websites. Even really tiny ones.
<?php
$url = 'http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/atom/hourly';
$xml = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = substr($xml,strpos($xml,'<ol>'),(strpos($xml,'Medium')-17) - strpos($xml,'<ol>'));
$xml = $xml. '</ol>';
$xml = str_replace('&sa=X">' ,'&sa=X" target="_blank">' ,$xml);
echo trim($xml);
?>
By first quarter 2009, all over-the-air transmission across the VHF/UHF spectrum will end. No longer will tin foil and rabbit ears be sufficient to watch prime-time television.
I was just introduced to a cool new add-in for Firefox, called GooglePedia. This cool little tool splits Google's search results screen into two windows, the left side containing your search results, the right side containing a Wikipedia screen containing your search string.
Today on CNET, I read an article about what they are dubbing "Google Earth Killer". Google Earth is a viewer to see the USGS satelite photography in a nice handy display. Google's viewer allows you to see some objects 3 dimensionally (building in downtown San Francisco, several large mountains, etc.).
My wife is a seventh grade science teacher. One of the many difficulties she has to deal with, especially on large written projects is student plagiarism. The Internet is just too tempting for some students to avoid. Here they have searched and found the perfect article that answers all the questions that the project asks of them. Why not just print it out and turn it in??
