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How do I request data securely via Google OAuth?

Until recently users of my site were able to import data from Google, via OAuth. However, recently they have received the warning below, in a yellow box, when authorising (although the import still works). I've also noticed this same warning on Facebook's GMail authenticator! What's changed / am I missing? This website is registere...

How do I access currently selected text from a bookmarklet, while on gmail.com

I'm using FF 3.5.3 on Windows Vista. This is my (edited for shortness) bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){ var text = window.content.getSelection().toString(); alert(text); })(); Works, but not on gmail.com. Probably due to dynamicly generated content. I'm aware of this workaround, but it only works for Firefox extensions. ...

Integrating Google Custom Search Engine Overlay with Simple Controls Gallery

I'm using the Google CSE Overlay on a page, but I'm having trouble integrating the Simple Controls Gallery (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/simplegallery.htm) to the site. SimpleControlsGallery is based on jQuery and does some preloading and uses high z-index values to swap between a list of images. This causes the image to cy...

What's the simplest way to get a user's latitude and longitude from an ip address

I always end up needing the user's location on most web projects that I work on. I've used Maxmind's GeoIp, but it involves you importing their dataset and it needs constant updating. There are also other free and paid services, but I just wanted something simple that I could add to any site in a matter of seconds. So this is sort of...

Google Chrome Extension: is there any per-tab storage?

Is there any "per-tab" storage accessible by the toolstrips? ...

Google Books XML?

Hi everyone, I've been using Amazon Web Services for a while and am looking to change to another data provider. I've been looking into Google Books, but I'm unable to see how to get the data out in say XML format. I would like to do something like: Request Book from ISBN using REST > Receive XML file containing book information etc Do...

Rotating 2D image/scriptable object in Google Earth (Is it possible?)

Is there a way to insert a 2D image into Google Earth which could then be rotated to always face the camera? It's done in Sketch-up with the man that stands there when you initially open a new scene. You can rotate your view around, but he will keep facing you until you look at him from the top, which then reviels that he is actually a ...

Is there a Java API for Google's AJAX Search API

Does anyone know of a Java library that provides a structured interface to Google's AJAX Search API http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/? I could only find Java API's for their old SOAP based interface. ...

how do I chart this data with the google chart api?

Hi I have a query that I have run with MySql and I need to chart the data. I would be grateful if someone can tell me how I can format the output using php and feed it to Google in the right way and with the syntax - I have tried everything but no joy. A code sample would be really useful if possible. Ideally I would like a line chart t...

PHP - Can't consume web services

I've been trying to access google maps webservices or even yahoo maps using PHP. When i run it, i get nothing. All the html and prints come out but absolutely nothing from Google service. When i gave the code to my friend to run it on his local pc, it showed up fine and was working showing the map. But it seems i have trouble here at un...

How do I parse XML responses from google checkout?

I have seen the XML response from google checkout when an order is processed here. I have also seen the google responsehandlerdemo.php file which I've copied below. I cannot figure out where I am supposed to insert the code that I will use to update the inventory levels on my shop. Can someone point me there? I also am not quite sure h...

Adobe made a deal with Google to improve SEO on flash. Anything about Silverlight?

Adobe made a deal with Google so that google engine reads SWF contents for SEO. The whole thing has to do with indexing some static swf content and not crawling it any further, but that's at least something. Example Does anybody know if similar efforts were/will be made for Silverlight? At least will Bing support reading Silverlight cont...

Properly Sizing of Google Map in a DIV in percentage

Hi all, I am facing an interesting problem while working on Google Map Page. Actually I want the Map DIV will cover the 70% of Width leaving 30% for My Menus and 60% of Height leaving 40% for my website banner. When I assigned the div height and width in % the map will not render properly instead it either shrinks to top or left depend...

Google AuthSubRequest: Password required twice?

I am using AuthSub to access Google Analytics API Data. I think I must be doing something wrong because it requires the end user to provide the google password twice. Here are the steps: My application makes AuthSubRequest call. Google returns with a html page which has a google account login form. This page has a post to google. I ...

Icons to use in a program generating feeds for Google Search Appliance

We're developing a program that generates search feeds for Google Search Appliance. We would like to use icons that would be associated with Google Search Appliance in the program interface. Is there a list of icons Google officially allows to use in such cases? ...

Google Chat in ASP.NET application

Hi, I want to provide chat facility to my website visitors. This should be same as google chat (person to person communication). Are there any free tools available to integrate in the website? Or is there any way that we can use Google Chat's API and can integrate in our website? Pls help me. ...

How to toggle the option returned by ConnectivityManager.getBackgroundDataSetting() ?

Did anybody watch jsharkey's battery life google io presentation ? How does one toggle the option returned by ConnectivityManager#getBackgroundDataSetting() in the emulator ? ...

For a Google Wave Gadget, is there a defined point at which it's ok to modify UI?

I'd like my gadget to have two different views: One when it's just been added, to let the user enter some information, and, once he's done with that, another which displays some data based on that information. The earliest point at which I can decide which of those two views I have to display is when I get the state for the first tim...

How to create ads using google adwords API?

Basically, I have a list of keywords, such as: - red balloons - free red balloons - buy red balloons - blue balloons - .... for each keyword, I have a list of 3-4 ads, each ad consisting of a title, line 1, line 2, and a url, e.g: Title: Free red balloons! Line 1: Buy free red balloons right now! Line 2: No hidden fees...

SMTP: inter-server communication

As I know the email message sending process looks like this: The message is sent from sender's client to his server (say mail.com). The mail.com server redirects the message to recipients server (say gmail.com). Recipient's client connects to gmail.com and recieves new messages. I'm interested in stage 2. I thought that the servers u...