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After developing a few mobile websites in the past few months, I notice that I am reusing certain Javascript code in every project. Followings are the 10 Useful Javascript Snippets that I use for mobile sites. Note that some snippets require jQuery mobile framework.
1. Add class name “iPhone” or “Android” to body element [...]

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Using Google Fonts in your WordPress Theme is very easy and it can be completed in 3 simple steps.
1.
Go to Google Web Fonts, browse all the fonts available for use on your website and pick any font you like. For this example, I will be using Droid Sans.
2.
Click on [...]

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If you have been developing websites and web apps for mobile, you may have noticed that the images are not very crisp on iPhone 4. The Retina display on iPhone 4 is the sharpest, most vibrant, highest-resolution phone screen ever but you need to know how to utilise it. The images you use [...]

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jQuery Mobile is a framework for mobile web apps and mobile websites with an aim to provide a unified user interface system across many mobile device platforms such iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile. The framework is built on top of one of the most popular Javascript frameworks, jQuery.
Followings are some of [...]

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WordPress Hosting
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In this tutorial, I will show you how you can customise your Facebook Fan page quickly and easily using the powerful Facebook Markup Language. If you haven’t already got a Facebook Fan Page for your brand (be it website, blog or company), you might want to create one now. [...]

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The following Javascript snippets are sourced from snipplr, a Social Snippet Repository. They are written in pure Javascript lanaguage, without using any Javascript framework like jQuery, MooTools, Dojo, etc.
1. Email Validation
Source

function checkMail(email){
var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if (filter.test(email)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

2. Toogle Checkboxes
Source

<script type="text/javascript">

function toggle_checkboxes(id) {
if (!document.getElementById){ return; }
[...]

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So I have released two native iPhone apps in the last 2 months. The first iPhone app is called Salary Calculator, and it was released on 06 October 2010. The app was submitted to iTunes Connect on 28 September 2010.
The second app was a niche app for Property Investors in Australia, [...]

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Australian Mobile Internet Usage Infographics (click to enlarge)
This infographics is created by Anansi Web Development, Sydney, Australia, the creator of Store Locator app for iPhone.
http://www.anansi.com.au http://sitelocator.mobi
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/australians-take-to-mobile-internet-20100429-tszn.html (The Nielsen Company)

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