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by Scott Kellum January 17, 2012 Published in Graphic Design, Mobile/Multidevice, Interaction Design ∙
A note from the editors: This article was augmented post production with vendor prefix information to cover Webkit-based and Opera browsers.
The pixel has always been the smallest unit in…
In Thursday’s Google earnings call , CEO Larry Page told the world that the company’s fledgling social network, Google+ has reached 90 million registered users. He went on to say that, “Over 60 percent of Google+ users use Google products on a daily basis. Over 80 percent of Google+ users use Google…
Why Are There Ads in Your Music? Simple! AOL Radio needs to pay your favorite artists. Please disable your ad blocker or, better yet, . For only $3.99/month we'll remove all ads and give you unlimited song skips. The music will continue in seconds. AOL Radio is now Google Cast-enabled! Loading…
Did I ever mention that I love the community, and I love operating systems with truly inclusive design?! Well, now you know! Here’s a little story that took place in the last half hour: I am looking for an RSS reader for my Mac. Because I’m blind, I have to use VoiceOver to access the screen…
It looks like the web is being born again, again. Here are some things I’ve noticed about the web: Designers have realized the need to design for mobile devices and tablets, and they’ve come up with responsive design rather than doing special mobile versions. CSS3 and HTML5 are gaining support, and…
Open Web FTW By Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress/Automattic (as told to Mathew Ingram) Matt Mullenweg is the founder of WordPress, an open-source publishing platform run by a non-profit foundation, and also the founder CEO of Automattic, a for-profit entity that offers services based around…
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.…
9.01.2012 Lion-Tipp: Kopierbereite Textauswahl in Quick Look aktivieren In einem mit Quick Look schnell betrachteten Dokument lässt sich Text gewöhnlich weder auswählen noch kopieren, ein Tipp der Macworld ändert dies glücklicherweise unmittelbar: defaults write com.apple.finder…
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By on January 5, 2012 Tags: HTML / CSS Over the weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . In his book, Wroblewski mentioned that in order to create the most usable experience on a mobile device, one should probably turn off the auto-correction and auto-capitalization features for input…
An answer to OFFF's invitation to collaborate with a piece under their "Year Zero" 2011 concept. A tribute to the most significant operating systems that has been part of our geek lives. Bon voyage! Created and designed by Soon in Tokyo and Built by rehabstudio Belfast & London . The Restart Page on…
TL;DR I am moving as much of my internet curating to pinboard.in as I can, because I like the dude who runs it, and it’s easier to backup. You can find me on pinboard . Whenever I move arounds large bits of information, that I don’t ever look at, I ask the question why am I moving around information…
Many of my favorite mobile apps are immobile. I can't take them with me. At least not if I'm going somewhere that doesn't offer a fast internet connection. Like the small town I recently visited for five days. I couldn't use Twitter there because it kept timing out before downloading the latest…
Jon Rubinstein, left, and Todd Bradley, Hewlett-Packard executives, holding WebOS devices including the TouchPad. Beck Diefenbach/Reuters The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011 — and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop. The…
The post-Android market It’s a new year, and we’re supposed to make some predictions. So I’ll try to order my thoughts about the post-Android market, although I should warn you I won’t make a true prediction but will be a bit wishy-washy and vague. Back in September or October I was a lot more…
View this email in a web browser FontShop's Best Typefaces of 2011 Another year has whizzed by! While last year saw the real breakthrough for webfonts , this year we witnessed the introduction of mobile fonts and the promise of more diversity and typographic refinement in mobile apps. Yet the news…
As developers, most of us will release some open source code at some point. I’ve released quite a bit of Mac and iOS source code over the years, and I’ve used or referred to the code of countless others. I strongly encourage releasing reusable portions of your code - it’s the lifeblood of the…
Simon Collison 21 Dec ember 2011 Published in UX I’m going to step into my UX trousers for this one. I wouldn’t usually wear them in public, but it’s Christmas, so there’s nothing wrong with looking silly. Anyway, to business. Wherever I roam, I hear the familiar call for simplicity and the…
Recently, Apple open sourced the original encoder and decoder for the Apple Lossless audio codec which is written in C/C++. ALAC is, as its name implies, a lossless codec, which means that it is compressed but does not lose any quality. When decoded, ALAC audio files are bit-for-bit identical to the…
There are over 500,000 applications for the iPhone and iPad, 300,000+ on Android and thousands more on other platforms. The average user has 65 apps installed on their phone (source: Flurry ) . Many of us have more. Entire businesses have been built to solve the problem of “app discovery” – that is,…
Jake Archibald 8 Dec ember 2011 Published in UX When I was asked to write an article for 24 ways I jumped at the chance, as I’d been wanting to write about some fun hacks for responsive images and related parsing behaviours. My heart sank a little when Matt Wilcox beat me to the subject , but it…
by Our Gentle Readers December 13, 2011 Published in Industry, State of the Web ∙
In 2011 I learned that emotion is at the heart of every decision we make. From fashion to web forms, and spouses to site sign ups, emotion shapes our behavior by casting the tie-breaking vote when logic determines…
Interesting Things Richard Bradshaw's idea of what is interesting Speed up writing CSS backgrounds by Richard Bradshaw I often need to write code like: background: url("/media/img/footer.png") no-repeat; width: 960px; height: 147px; Whenever I do, I have to find the image, then get the dimensions,…
Every time I do some web development there are a few things I need to do:
Each of these takes a few seconds to remember/type the command. Wouldn’t it be nice to speed things up?
First thing I’ve done is to point MAMP at the ~/activeSite, and never change it. To get content there I’m going to symlink…
Forms in HTML have typically been pretty boring – input boxes and buttons with all validation performed by javascript. With the new HTML5 Forms module things have become a little more useful. As of May 2010, only bleeding edge browsers support this, Webkit Nightlies, Chrome Dev Channel builds and…
Scott Kosman 13 Dec ember 2011 Published in Code jQuery is an amazing tool that’s made JavaScript accessible to developers and designers of all levels of experience. However, as Spiderman taught us, “with great power comes great responsibility.” The unfortunate downside to jQuery is that while it…
This article is the third in our new series that introduces new, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree ; the second introduced Foundation , a responsive framework that helps you…
“Consider that many Facebook engineers spend their days developing PHP code in an endless edit-reload-debug cycle. The difference between 8-second and 5-second reloads due to switching from HipHop interpreter to the HipHop Virtual Machine makes a big difference to productivity.” That’s how Facebook…
Just a few notable updates to money.js and the open exchange rates API: Open Exchange Rates API In a nutshell: We’ve added exchange rate data going back to 1999 , thanks to the hard work of Sebastian Majstorovic and his epic 390,000-line pull request The data is now collected from the public Yahoo!…
Interesting Things Richard Bradshaw's idea of what is interesting Dynamically drawing gradients with PHP by Richard Bradshaw Just a little script to create a PNG image of a simple linear gradient using PHP. You could adapt this to make it better in many ways! Insipired (by which I mean 99% ripped…
A vim cheat sheet wallpaper. 18 commits 1 branch 0 releases Fetching contributors Clone with HTTPS Use Git or checkout with SVN using the web URL. Open in Desktop Download ZIP Find file Switch branches/tags master Nothing to show Nothing to show Latest commit cb91019 Oct 23, 2014 LevelbossMike…
webOS open-sourced to death So HP open-sources webOS. That may sound like good news, but I doubt it. This is HP’s last resort. Apparently no one was interested in buying or licensing webOS. No word as to whether the webOS UX, by far the most interesting part of the project, is also open source now.…
There’s an interesting post over at TechCrunch discussing the current hot topic of the iPad design — or more specifically: how Apple has created a design for a tablet that is so simple and obvious that their competition has no other way forward but to implement their own products the same way,…
Sie wurde in aller Öffentlichkeit erwachsen, hemmungslos, wild und ohne jeden Respekt fürs Überleben. Doch anders als ihre männlichen Kollegen erntet Britney Spears, einer der letzten Punks im Popgeschäft, keine Anerkennung - sondern Hohn. Eine Geburtstags-Ode von Martin Wittmann Man stelle sich…
In this article, I’d like to reacquaint you with the humble workhorse of communication that is the paragraph. Paragraphs are everywhere. In fact, at the high risk of stating the obvious, you are reading one now. Despite their ubiquity, we frequently neglect their presentation. This is a mistake.…
Slider.js is an easy-to-use customizable Javascript library to create image slideshows.
more customization, a live editing system to contribute to new themes and transitions with Github (gist), a build system for making custom packages, a brand new transition mode using WebGL shaders, and much…
Despite my best efforts, I have not had a chance to learn Scala like I wanted to earlier in the year. I was commissioned to build a large scale web application right after I made the decision to learn a new language and curtail the amount of PHP I was programming. Doing the application in a language…
By Louis Lazaris on December 1st, 2011 | With all the hype surrounding the new APIs and the fancy parts of CSS3, I had almost forgotten about the new reversed attribute that allows you to write a descending list of numbered items, as opposed to the default ascending list of numbered items. You can…
Ben Bodien fosters seasonal goodwill with his sparkling vision of web workers as dedicated craftspeople: understanding and sharpening the tools of our trade; appreciating the challenges, nuances and responsibilities of our craft; and instinctively knowing when something just works. Hope and joy for…
# I’ve migrated several projects from SVN to Git in the last couple of weeks. In doing so I’ve worked out a little process that has seen me right in preserving all of the history. This process relies on the git-svn tool, which you may need to install as a separate package. 1) Create an authors.txt…
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