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Random word selection

Is there a way to get a random word from an online dictionary like dictionary.com, into a string for use in PHP. API's etc... Impossible or not? ...

Any online data storage services which provide a C# api?

Hi, Is there an online backup service (like Dropbox), which supports a C# or JAVA API? I want to use this as part of a build process to host my code offsite. Thanks ...

What digital camera models support programmatic control? (I want to use .net)

Has anyone seen a list of digital cameras that support live programmatic control? Taking pictures and live video streams. Probably via USB connection. I will probably use silverlight. ...

YUI Rich text editor, image centering ?

Apparently YUI RTE seems to have text flow settings for images, left, right, inline, block... Im wondering how I can get 1 option for centering the image, if there is a way to add it with custom code, can any one guide me to the right direction to achieve this ? I know that to center the image, i will need to add a style of margin-left:...

Limit libcurl response data

i'm trying to get some number of bytes from source using libcurl by setting: curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 100); //get 100 bytes from source But I get different size of data each time, not even close sometimes only 22 bytes. does this work? ...

Programmatic API for downloading historical financial statements

Folks I am looking for a web API (free or available at some reasonable cost for an individual developer) to download financial statements for a given stock symbol (income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements) I searched on this site and found couple of useful links about stock quotes (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417...

Saving multiple Word documents as HTML through Office API

I have a large amount of Word documents that I need to parse. As they all were created from the same template, I think that the best approach would be to save them as HTML files and parse the HTML itself. While it's quite easy to save a single Word document as HTML, I haven't found a way to do a bulk procedure from inside Word. Thus, I'...

Android Api - get mobile number from contacts

Hi, I tried so much tutorials, and read a lot here at SO, but i cant solve my problem: When a button is clicked, the user can choose the mobile number of a contact. Actual I can get the name of the selected contact, but i can't find a way, to get/chose the mobile number.. public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onC...

How to get phone number of an android CDMA phone?

The TelephonyManager.getLine1Number() works on GSM phones, but not CDMA phones. Is it possible to get the phone number of a CDMA phone through android API calls at all? thanks ...

Getting Zune information into Trillian

So I've been trying to get this to work for a long time, but I don't really know the Trillian API and need some help. I can do it three different ways: Get song info from registry (using http://znp.codeplex.com/) Read information from a fake Winamp window (http://tinyurl.com/znpdig) Act as WLM to recieve the messages Zune sends The ...

API to generate CSS in Java

Is there a Java API that can be used to generate CSS? ...

How can we call the CLI executables commands using Python

How can we call the CLI executables commands using Python For example i have 3 linux servers which are at the remote location and i want to execute some commands on those servers like finding the version of the operating system or executing any other commands. So how can we do this in Python. I know this is done through some sort of web...

Tumblr Integration: What is best practice for caching data from API?

Hello! I have a websites that has a blog section, which pulls the data using the Tumblr API. My client just updates her Tumblr blog and the website would just access the Tumblr API to populate the blog page on the website. Also, any blog items tagged as news will show up on the home page. I could be wrong, but I am sure there are limi...

String class in specific languages

I'm becoming more interested in API's and was about starting to write my own, but then I was thinking a bit about the standard library of Java. The standard library of Java has a String class with tons of methods, isn't this bad design? I mean, if I would create a new instance of the String class, it would create an object with dozens o...

What's the quickest way to gather gmail email data for a php web app?

I'm looking at the gmail api's and I'm not sure which one will allow me access to user's email data with the least amount of coding effort. I've never used zend or google's oauth features - this makes learning the OAuth access to IMAP and SMTP options somewhat time consuming. I'm considering the atom feed, but I'm not using this wit...

Create new directory like explorer menu

Hello, My c# (winForm) app contain dataTree view with context Menu strip, i want to add Menu strip Item at name : New Directory , that when it click i create a new directory on my treeview. The problem is i want to create the dirctory like it done in windows , right-click -->new -> folder. (i want dir appear and i choose her name exactl...

How do you create a wiggle animation similar to iphone deletion animation

We are currently developing an application that contains a series of icons. We want the icons to wiggle like the app deletion animations when pressed. What would be the best way to code this animation sequence? ...

Can't login via facebook API

I'm using the Javascript SDK to allow the user to login to facebook, retrieve their friends profile pictures, and then finally post a message on the logged in users wall. Problem is I keep getting an error, "Error while loading page from Pencils of Promise," when the user has to authorize the application. <script src="http://connect.fac...

Geo-targeting with the openx API

I am using the openx api to insert advertisers/campaigns/banners but I cannot seem to find any documentation on geo-targeting a campaign or banner via the API. Can this be done, or am I going to have to start injecting directly into the database. ...

Google Apps Email Migration API Limits

We are using Google Apps Email Migration api to migrate the email content to Apps. But we are facing an issue with email where attachments are more than 2 MB in size. For those items the email are not getting migrated and providing error. As per the below link http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/email_migration/developers_guide_pro...