This article has been provided by Brave Media internet Marketing Vancouver While TinyURL has been around since 2002, it’s only since the increase in the popularity of Twitter that URL shorteners like TinyURL and bit.ly have seen their use rapidly increase. With its character limit, Twitter has made the service of taking a longer URL and transforming it into a manageable link quite valuable. Other than Twitter there are other reasons why URL shorteners are useful.

We’ve all seen the brilliant functionality on Mashable where news stories and interesting articles can be shared to social networking sites; the functionality is driven by the images accompanying the articles; you click and hold on an image and can then drag it into a toolbar to share it. It’s brilliant and intuitive, and in this article I’m going to show you how we can replicate this behavior with jQuery and jQuery UI.

By: Connor Have you ever wanted to be in a music video? With the help of a web cam and some fancy flash code, you can be. While you’re only in the video as an extra, augmented reality has a lot of potential. What is augmented reality? Essentially, it combines both real and virtual aspects, in real-time, and is 3-D. Common examples include the yellow first down line seen in football broadcasts, or the shot tracer that follows the puck in hockey games.

If you’re new here and find this article useful, please consider subcribing to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Ah, gadget violence: if you want to create a viral video, it cannot fail. That’s what Sony Australia was thinking when they created a video in which a PS3 Slim gets smashed into a Sony Bravia LCD TV at 50 mph (22 meters per second). We give Sony points for not trying to hide the fact that they’re behind the video: it’s part of a promotion during which Sony Australia is giving away 25,000 PS3 slims for buyers of selected Bravia LCD TV models.