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Screen Capture & Thumbnail Creation using Visual Basic & Freeimage

How to use the windows API to simulate a print screen button event, capturing the screen contents to the clipboard, and then using Freeimage to create a thumbnail of the clipboard image.

Plotting Items onto UK Google Maps

Using the Google Maps API to geocode UK postcodes which can then be plotted onto Google Maps.

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Creating Video Demonstrations of your Software Products

Need to create video demonstrations of your software products or services? - This short article covers things I have learned while creating my first video demo, including what software I used and why outsourcing your voice over is a good idea.

Offsite Backups For Small Businesses Using S3, OpenSSL and Jungle Disk

How to encrypt your backups before sending them to Amazon S3, and the easiest method of transferring your files to and from your S3 account.

Using fsockopen with HTTP POST requests over an SSL connection

Shows you how to check that OpenSSL is installed on your PHP installation, with sample code showing HTTP POST requests using fsockopen.

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Reducing the opacity of an image using PHP graphics functions

An estate agent client wanted the property photographs on their web site to be dimmed when the database record had been updated to indicate that the property was under offer, see how it's done.