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Build your own Flash RSS Reader [Tutorial: Flash ActionScript 3.0]

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You’re building a website, and at some point, you decided that you want to show some RSS feeds to a couple of blogs or other websites. The options are limited between buying a good looking solution, or getting a free, ugly one, that usually bares the name of it’s creator website – which doesn’t seem appealing at all, especially that 90% of the time the reader doesn’t match your design!
So, here’s a quick tutorial that shows you how you could build your own RSS reader in Flash .. Read the rest of this entry »

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September 9, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Create you own polls, votes and surveys using Google Spreadsheets

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In many situations, a person needs to execute some survey, vote-collection or throwing a poll for instance. There are several online services that offer that at a low price. Since most of us prefer not paying, we either go to distributing documents through mass-mails then suffer collecting the results by hand, or simply let a user group do that service for you (as Yahoo! Groups – meaning that your audience should be member users), or use creepy pages with tons of ads to get it free.

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August 8, 2008 at 3:36 pm

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