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Questions about software that utilizes the web. Questions about software that runs off the web belong in Web Applications.

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How to download Google Doodle for offline usage?

I used to play Google Doodle daily. Can anyone say where can I download Google Doodle? I'd like to play Google Doodle on my home PC offline.
BlueBerry - Vignesh4303
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How to Google a question mark?

In a nutshell, I'd like Google to return pages where a question mark is present in the title. My gut was to try something like: allintitle: * "?" However Google doesn't seem to like question marks in its search queries, even if they're in quotes.…
Derek
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How to get a perfect local copy of a web page?

No matter what browser I've tried (even Chrome), when saving a web page as local files, it's never quite exact. Lots of JavaScript & such seems to trip it up. I'm looking for some way to get a 100% perfect local copy of a web page. In other words,…
CaptSaltyJack
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Screen scraping software that will traverse pages

We're creating a mashup site that pulls information from many sources all over the web. Many of these sites don't provide RSS feeds or APIs to access the information they provide. This leaves us with screen scraping as our method for collecting the…
Edward Anderson
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Web based simple interface for elderly user

I have an elderly grandfather who enjoys using his computer for email and games. He is unable to effectively use more advanced interface elements like the 'start menu' in windows. Currently he is running on an Ubuntu Matchbox interface which has a…
thisisjimmy
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How do big websites such as google.com have many web servers running on 1 public ip

So for example, the dns of google.com is a public ip which the user connects to. Google has a huge infrastructure of web servers. How can all of these still run on the same ip so the url is still google.com
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How do I cache a web application offline?

My boss quite regularly has to demo our web application to clients in a situation with no WiFi available and sketchy 3G access - quite often, the 3G lets him down. I have considered setting a copy of our server up in a virtual machine on his laptop…
littlecharva
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Websearch for multiple phrases within multiple websites?

Say you had a list of 20 websites and you wanted to search all of those complete sites for 10 different phrases or words at once, and you wanted the results of the search to be shown in an easy to read format that connects the amount of hits…
gordon
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is it possible to determine through the internet or google, how large a website is in mb (GB)

Like if I was going to be someplace remote and I needed Wikipedia in its entirety or Stack Overflow in its entirety, is there a way to see how large a specific web domain is in GB? This link is to a device that connects with satellites and provides…
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Upload info to a server so one can not get the files back before a certain time

do you know any webservice or kind of a system where I can send a file and the system returns it to me after a preset time (for instance one day or one week, etc). Also that one can not get it before by any means. One application would be to blindly…
Open the way
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Weblogic Server 12.2.1.1.0 to Upgrade 12.2.1.3.0

We are currently using with Weblogic server 12.2.1.1.0 and now its outdated and Security issue because of that we are planning to upgrade weblogic 12.2.1.3. Anyone please give me steps to upgrade new version of weblogic 12.2.1.3.0
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How can I realize a domain resolve to 2 IP addresses?

How can I realize a domain resolve to 2 IP addresses? I want to realize domain resolve to IP load balancing. The bellow is my requirement architecture: I want to the domain www.mydomain.com resolve to two IP address, if one server is down, then…
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Sites blocking copying of text

It seems to be a trend - websites that prevent copying of their text. cNet.com is one. Is there a way to overcome this apart from creating an image of the wanted text. I need to quote short selections in my forum discussions and it is only "fair…
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obtain IMDB database movie links automatically for movie list in text file?

I have a list of movies in a text file. I would like some way to automatically obtain the IMDB movie hyperlinks for each item in my list. Is this possible?
miki
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Get request to retrieve a file from my own web server

i am trying to do a get request to my webserver so i can retrieve a file, the file i want to retrieve is called venom.jpg and the webserver i am trying to connect to it on http://82.26.108.68/ my get request so far is : "GET /venom.jpg…
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