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AOL's circaVie is a utility which is used to create interactive timelines containing photos and text. This post will walk through the process of using PHP and the Thickbox javascript framework to display and view the timeline search results such that the browser does not need to reload the window.

The purpose of this post is to show how to use Yahoo! Pipes in combination with Google Translate to not only translate a Ficlets RSS feed but also to modify the underlying URLs so that if these links are followed, the web pages viewed are translated as well.

Google Translate is a language translation utility that can translate either user-entered text or a web page. For the purposes of this post, we will focus on the web page translation functionality. As an example, here is http://dev.aol.com translated into German. You will see by inspecting the URL (http://www.google.com/translate) that there are four parameters:

In this post, we will walk through the process of how to use the GD library in PHP to plot data on a MapQuest map.

By data, I am not referring to plotting just a location on a map, but plotting location specific data as well. Location gives you the "where", data will give you the "what" about that location. By using one of the icons from the MapQuest icon repository, you could plot a location with an icon indicating a restaurant or a gas station. By looking at a map such as this, we could quickly process where the gas stations and restaurants are and any patterns relating to the location of these businesses. For example, a high density of gas stations and restaurants along a line may indicate a major business route.