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Is it against the ToS to add a custom commercial feature on top of a Google service?

Now let me explain real quick what I mean by "commercial". By that, I simply mean my feature would come with ads to produce revenue. The end user still gets free access. You see, I came up with some ideas for features that would be really nice if they supported, but I would doubt they would support any time soon. The terms of service...

Is Google the only OpenID provider that requires "identifier_select"?

I am developing an OpenID consumer in PHP and am using the fantastic LightOpenID library (http://gitorious.org/lightopenid). Basing my code off of that found in the example client script I have successfully created a consumer. However, I've run across a snag: Google requires the openid.identity and openid.claimed_id to be set to "http://...

Remove Google background

How do I remove the Google background image? ...

resize image based on browser resize (and keeping dimensions)

Google recently added backgrounds to it's home page .. Like it or hate it, it's got the ability to resize the background image while keeping the same proportions as the browser window resizes... Anyone know of any jQuery to do that? ...

Building Outline Data in Google Maps (Android)

I'm working on an Android project that focuses on knowing how close you are to buildings. I wanted to know if there is some way to extract the geographic information about the outlines of buildings out of the Google Maps API. Thanks. EDIT: The functionality I'm looking for is similar to what's going on in this app. (Click the link near ...

Getting the first URL of an image search result with google image API in PHP

Hello, did you know a php script (a class will be nice) who get the url of the first image result of a google api image search? Thanks Example. <?php echo(geturl("searchterm")) ?> ...

Creating a Google-style background image fader?

Hey guys. If you haven't already seen, Google has the ability to add a custom background image (for better or worse) and I was wondering how to achieve the same fade-in-on-load effect using jQuery. Any ideas? ...

google maps api

Hello everyone I want to have google map on my page and I hope it can be based of a zipcode.example 90001. I also would like to have the general stuff like the ability to zoom out, zoom in etc. Where can I get this? ...

Google Maps - polyline depending on map zoom?

Hi, I'm new in google maps programming, i have two encoded polylines and i want to show them depending on present map zoom. For example, first polyline is shown in first half of the zoom scale, second polyline is shown on the rest of the scale. Only one polyline at a time. What is the usual way/approach to do this? Kuba ...

Tracking Google Code Issues

(Other than manually bookmarking and manually keeping track) how do you track issues over various (third party) google code projects? ...

Google OpenID-OAuth hybrid implementation on Heroku

Hi, I am looking for a step by step guide to implement Google OpenID+OAuth in our Webapplication running on Heroku for getting calendar/contacts data. I have looked at many documents and Q&A about this but still can't make things work and was wondering if anyone here knew of a place which describes the plugins, gems needed and a step by...

Vertical crosshair reposition on Google Map after map resize Issue

I use the following function to add a crosshair to my Google Map. It works great for horizontal resizing. I can not figure out how to make it work for vertical. After resizing the map it requires the user to either zoom in or out 1 layer, upon which the crosshair snaps to center. var crosshairsSize=17; GMap2.prototype.addCrosshairs=f...

OAuth authentication for Google API with Qt

Hello guys, I'm trying to get authenticated for receiving and publishing Google Buzz-es from a Qt 4.6(c++) application. I'm looking for a cross-platform solution. Could anyone provide some working solution for this purpose? ...

SEO Help with Pages Indexed by Google

I'm working on optimizing my site for Google's search engine, and lately I've noticed that when doing a "site:www.joemajewski.com" query, I get results for pages that shouldn't be indexed at all. Let's take a look at this page, for example: http://www.joemajewski.com/wow/profile.php?id=3 I created my own CMS, and this is simply a break...

Problem on Loading Map Into div

I'm using Google Maps API v3. When I'm loading map into a div, it doesnt load as I expected.. The map area takes the whole div, but the map only loads into top left of the div(only a part).. All the controls including zooming, are loading normally, How can I fix this ? ...

Need a design approach or suggestion for a simple structure using Servlet.

Hi I have to design such that whenever user pass a query I process it using servlet and then call the js page to draw the chart 1> user writes a query on a page 2> the page call the servelt class public class MyServlet extends Httpservlet implements DataSourceServlet {..... return data The user see a beautiful string like this.. g...

SEO: It's recommended to upload and put live a beta / non-finished version of web site??

I'm working on this big website and I want to put it online before its fully finished... I'm working locally and the database is getting really big so I wanted to upload the website and continue to work on it in the server, but allowing people to enter, so I can test. The question is if this is good for SEO, I mean, there are a lot of ...

how to make our website to be among ten in goole results?

Hi how to make our site viewable in top ten of the google search... I want my website to be available for the user who google with search name social networking or something like ssit How to do that? ...

Map works, but throws a popup error at load complainig about wrong api key

Ok, I see a lot of people have this problem, but none answer I found either here or at stackoverflow. Problem: Map works super fine! But throws an error at load "This map needs a different api key... sign up at......" Already signed up, already got a key. On some forum post a guy told that in this case map loads twice, once with the wron...

Error 404 when trying to fetch the Google Buzz @consumption feed

I'm writing an Qt application and I go through authorization process and everything. I'm even able to fetch the @self feed, but for some reason I get error 404 when trying to do the same thing with @consumption: "Download of https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/v.kiril/@consumption failed: Error downloading https://www.googleap...