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Can I add Public Google Calendar Search to my site?

I'm intrigued by Google Calendar's public calendar search capability and am wondering if there's any way to reverse engineer it and add it to my own site. Possible?...

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How can I make the text adjacent to my checkbox clickable?

I've noticed that on some of the more slick Web 2.0-style Web sites, you can click on the text description adjacent to a checkbox and have it act as if you'd clicked on the checkbox itself, just as you can...

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What is a "public terminal" when it comes to logging in to a Web site?

This is baffling me: I have accounts on quite a few different Web sites and most of them just ask me for my account and password. Some of them, however, have a handy checkbox labeled "remember me" but now I...

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Why don't my readers participate on my blog?

I don't get it. From my statistics, it appears that I have a pretty good readership for my weblog, about 200-300 people per day, but no-one ever comments on what I'm writing. I just don't get it, what's wrong? is...

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