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Qlock is an interesting application which displays world time in realtime with AJAX. Qlock does not limit to that, it has much more variety of features to offer including the website/blog integration of the Qlock.

Features

Integrated RSS/Atom feed reader
Stay up to date with the latest times and news from around the world while you carry on working. Qlock fetches your most important news/stock/blog feeds and displays them in easy to read windows.

Daily foreign exchange rates
Get daily FX rates for all major currency pairs straight to your desktop. Set Strike prices for each pair to help you keep on top of the market

Sticky notes
These are a useful way of keeping track of to-do items, meetings, phone numbers or in fact anything that you would normally use a small sticky note for. If your monitor/desk is covered in those little things, then this feature is for you!

When the time is..
This feature is useful when you want to see other local times for any given time. For instance, if you have a meeting in Los Angeles at 4 pm and want to see what time it will be across the globe, just right click on Los Angeles, select “When the time is..” and set it to 16:00.
All of the clocks will automatically display their local time and date for 4 pm in Los Angeles. As soon as you close the window, all of the clocks revert back to their normal time.

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Weebly is the easiest way to create a great looking website and share it with the world for free. From personal to professional sites, Weebly will enable you to spend your time on the most valuable part of your site, its content. It uses an Ajax interface to create the page and has many templates to choose from. Weebly is currently in beta, and accepting signups. (more…)

Nokia is going Web 2.0 ! Its trying to make its browsers support Ajax.This article offers an outline of AJAX issues on the Nokia Web Browser. It opens the discussion - and makes a case - for developers to begin considering the benefits from using this technology. Forum Nokia plans to begin a series of publications aimed at helping developers bring much more dynamic and engaging content onto mobile browser screens.

Basically, the purpose of the document is to start a discussion (espessially with web developers) about how to ensure that mobile users gain the same benefits from AJAX technology as those who are browsing from their desktop PCs. Nokia aims to collect and publish a set of best practices and guidelines for general AJAX development that targets mobile Internet access via the new Nokia Web Browser.

Although Nokia’s latest S60 browser is truly an amazing experience , it still can’t be called complete yet. As there are Challenges encountered in this trial, Many AJAX patterns are impossible to use without a mouse or touchscreen, for example:

• The click/drag method used in A9 maps.
  • AJAX effect does work, but too slowly (much data transfer, processing power needed).
  • Application map area is too small or squeezed. Mobile screen size needs to be considered.
• Drag-and-drop, using an AJAX-based shopping basket.
• “Hover here” for pop-up details. Pop-up might be off-screen in mobile browser with no means to navigate to it.

Today Google officially aquired JotSpot, a Online Spreadsheets application, Its been a very popular Ajax based web 2.0 application. Perhaps Google has started a sort of trend to acquire a new web 2.0 application every month ;) , in fact its not even a month since it got hold of youtube

Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Apps for Your Domain and Google Groups.

Flapjax is a new programming language designed around the demands of modern, client-based Web applications. Its principal features include Templating syntax, Event-driven, reactive evaluation, Access-control for shared data, Convenient data sharing and Interfaces to external Web services.

Flapjax is easy to learn: its syntax is precisely that of JavaScript. Furthermore, because Flapjax is built entirely atop JavaScript, it runs on traditional Web browsers without the need for plug-ins or other downloads. In fact, you can (in exchange for a little more code) use Flapjax purely as a library in JavaScript rather than use the compiler from Flapjax to JavaScript, so you can integrate it into your existing programs.

ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogues or even wizards (sequences of dialogues) without using conventional popups and page reloads. And yes, it may also be useful for showing bigger versions of images. :)

ModalBox is built with pure JavaScript and is based on Sam Stephenson’s excellent Prototype JavaScript Framework and valid XHTML/CSS. ModalBox uses AJAX to load content.

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Searchmach is the latest lil buzz around, its new search from Google, though does not state anywhere that it is a part of Google. A quick whois lookup shows the search engine on Google’s server. searchmash basically has few differences compared to normal google search.

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Google Image Labeler is new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.

You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.