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Comment on Unfinished Widgets by Cyantre

Cyantre — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:12:18 +0000

Heather’s Weather is definitely my favorite unreleased widget from this post. =)

Comment on Unfinished Widgets by Hunter

Hunter — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:26:27 +0000

I like the looks of Heather’s Weather. Do you think you could post it at the K! forums, or email it to me? bhrdesign at sbc global dot net

Comment on Unfinished Widgets by admin

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:36:02 +0000

Taylor – Technically these are all Yahoo! Widgets, but yeah, same concept. :-) Thanks.

Comment on Unfinished Widgets by Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:21:57 +0000

man you are good at making widgets. I hope you are recognized for your abilities soon. Widgets are definitely the wave of the future on Leopard and guys like you will usher in its full capabilities.

Comment on Unfinished Widgets by matt

matt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:24:14 +0000

Wow you were busy. Does Laurie know about that political Widget? I bet he’d want it…

Also make your own wp design you lazy slob. Act like you’re a designer or something.

Comment on Unfinished Widgets by Petey

Petey — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:24:11 +0000

*swings cages*

Comment on Glossy World Flags by admin

admin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:53:14 +0000

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Comment on Glossy World Flags by Spellboots

Spellboots — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:52:32 +0000

Hi, I am working on a commercial website for someone and your flags are beautiful. How much would you charge for using a few on a commercial website?

Comment on Glossy World Flags by chris262

chris262 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:15:56 +0000

Thank you very much, nice job !

Comment on Hey! Something cool happened. by admin

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:06:48 +0000

Hey there redhat, Glad to be of help.

I found it on Yahoo! search. :-) http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=TZ+shapefile (second result)

I didn’t find exactly the same file as I did the last time, but this purports to map to tz:
http://efele.net/maps/tz.zip

…and I might use this one instead, because it actually has the tzids built in, whereas the one I have does not.

It’s a shapefile, which is a common format for geographic data. Unfortunately for me, I have to convert the database to an entirely different format since JavaScript can’t read binary data, but there are classes for many different languages which will read the information in straightaway. Do a search like this:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=PHP+shapefile+class

Good luck with whatever it is you’re working on (now I’m curious)!

EDIT: Okay, sorry… That only maps to the United States. Let me do some more digging.

EDIT 2: Here’s the original link I found: http://forums.topografix.com/index.php?showtopic=1164 (third result in the search). Scroll down to the bottom post for the fixed information. It doesn’t have the tzids though, which means we’re going to have to do some data manipulation.