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URL or URI ohh!! its too confusing

Since the days of my second semester in my engineering when I came to know about URI and URL, I always had this confusion in my mind which took ages to get cleared. Here is a small post which gives briefs about URI, URI and URN, and what are the differences between them. Lets check what Wikipedia has to say on all of this. Wikipedia on Uniform resource locator(URL) A uniform resource locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource . A URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier (URI) but in many technical documents and verbal discussions URL is often used as a synonym for URI Wikipedia on Uniform resource identifier(URI)  A uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource . Such identification enables interaction with representations of the resource over a network (typically the World Wide Web) using specific protocols. Wik

jQuery plugin for image zoom and rotate..together!!

Well check the following url http://code.google.com/p/jqueryrotatezoom/ Some working examples can be found on jsFiddle http://jsfiddle.net/sandeeprajoria/jGyBZ/3/ contains full fledged working examples http://jsfiddle.net/sandeeprajoria/jGyBZ/1/ contains the most basic implementation First of all, this is a re-implementation of a plugin named jqueryrotate  (URL - http://code.google.com/p/jqueryrotate/ ). The main idea behind this plugin is to provide smooth image zoom feature while rotating them in different angles and speed(or easing functions). So it would seem, like a picture is coming from nowhere, while rotating and zooming itself to its maximum or limited zoom percentage. Now how did this come together? Well it all started with tutsplus.com... Their lead trainer Mr. Jeffery Way gave a fabulous webcast titles 'jQuery in 30 days' . The webcast can still be found on their website tutsplus.com That was when I came to know about