Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.
Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Cake PHP is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.
The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.