All posts in AJAX

GTD – Printable Checklist

Printable Checklist is simple yet effective website for creating to-do lists that you can print just before you go for shopping. The page is powered with ajax.

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Bookmark the URL if you use paper to-do lists a lot in your daily life.

Website: http://printablechecklist.org

AdesBlog readers, give me feedback

I have installed a feedback script on the blog (see orange feedback button on the left). Now all my ears are on you my readers, do let me know what you want to see on AdesBlog. Your suggestions don’t have to be related to the blog posts only, it can be anything. So, suggest anything that you think would be beneficial to the readers.

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With this script you can also vote on existing ideas that others had suggested. So if there is an idea that you find useful, you can vote for it.

As an admin, I can change the status of the ideas to: planned, accepted, started working on it…etc. This way you know the progress of your idea.

Put it on your blog

If you want to put this script on your blog just go to my feedback page, and click on “Want your own UserVoice Page?” link. Or you can just go to http://www.uservoice.com and sign up.

P.S saw this script first on LiewCF.

Real-life like online bookstore

Have you wondered how Amazon’s books would look like if it was in a real bookstore? Well, zoomii tries to visualize just that (see below). It’s a real life like bookstore that is based on Amazon. It’s very interactive, you can click and drag, and use your mouse wheel to zoom-in and zoom-out. Clicking on a book will display the book details.

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See it in action below. Cool huh? I won’t be surprised if Amazon will buy this website…



Site:
http://zoomii.com

Web2.0 Tool: HTML Entity Character Lookup

It ca be painful to look up HTML codes for these kind of signs ¢ ® š or ©. However with this tool it’s pretty easy to find the HTML equivalents for these and many more special characters. You simply type and it automatically gives you the matched or related characters, similar to Google Suggest. It also has a Dashboard Widget for Mac users.

http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/entity-lookup/

ThickBox3 – Cool Ajax script for image and text display

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal. Here is the examples of what ThickBox can do.

http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

Imo.im – all your 4 IMs in one place

Imo.im provides one login for all your 4 IMs (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk). It’s Ajax based online tool. You can login to all your IMs at one time. Once you are logged in you will be displayed with dragable boxes like in NetVibes. https://imo.im

Ajax Indicator GIFs – Download them!

If you do ajax projects then you might need these images. Here is a two (one and two) website that offer ajax activity indicators [similar to the one below].

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http://www.ajaxload.info – is an online tool where you can create your own customized ajax indicators, you can choose the background color and the indicator color and download it in GIF format. There are total of 20+ different indicators.

MagikWidget – your blogging widgets

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Yesterday I signed up with MagikWidget after seeing it on the Guy Kawasaki blog. I liked the star rating widget in particular that you can put for your blog posts. magik widget However I was disappointed to find out that you couldn’t integrate it to your template.Technically you can integrate it to your template to show up after every post but the problem is that all of the widgets will be rating the same item and displaying the same rating. If you want to put for every post you need to create a new widget every time and integrate it manually.

I am guessing they did it intentionally, because for every widget you create you need to spend 1 credit. And credits do not come free 500 credits will cost you $25. Other than that they have Poll Widget, Skypecasts Widget, Delicious Widget, Digg Widget and many more on the way.

At the moment they are accepting suggestions from users for creating new widgets. If they accept your idea, they will give you credit and your link will have the option to be integrated into the widget [see image at the left].

I think it’s okay if they charge for their service but I personally think the widgets should be usable throughout the blog (on every post). Rather than charging 1 credit for it, they could charge 50 or 100 credits. www.majikwidget.com

Social Bookmarks (del.icio.us, furl…etc) Link Creator

Here is a nice tool that can create almost all social bookmarks links for your blog and here is a tool that makes RSS buttons. www.TopRankBlog.com

Downloadable AJAX Galleries, Slideshows and Effects

Max Kiesler has made a page with lots of cool ajax scripts.

Over the course of the last year I’ve spent some time searching and collecting links for downloadable image galleries and slideshows. Below you’ll find a categorized list of all of the AJAX image solutions I’ve been able to find that were of some use.

The scripts are categorized into:

  • AJAX Galleries
  • AJAX Lightboxes
  • AJAX Slides
  • AJAX Slideshows
  • AJAX Image Manipulation

www.maxkiesler.com

Script – Easy shout-box for your website

Yshout! is a AJAX+CSS+PHP based shout-box script. It is XHTML compliant and very easy to install. Here you can see the working demo. The name of the script looks like as if it is from Yahoo! Maybe the author wants Yahoo! to acquire this script, maybe? http://yurivish.com/yshout/

Does Ajax Reduce Your Pagecount?

Here is an interesting article about ajax and pagecounts at Business 2.0 blog. Since ajax applications do not require reloading pages, it might reduce your website’s pagecount. If you make money from advertising, particularly from CPM (cost per 1 thousand impression) based ad networks then using ajax on your site might reduce your earnings. When you have a lower pagecount you cannot charge advertisers more than what your pagecount claims.

Therefore it’s important to structure your design in a way so that your ads get displayed properly and reloaded if necassary. After all Google has done it, and is making a lot money with its Gmail using ajax. Also, more important characteristic for advertisers is not the pagecount but unique visitors that visit your site per day/month/year. And using ajax on your site do not alter the unique visitor statistics. I personally would say; go for ajax as long as it improves your site’s usability.