 | Remember finger painting? Most of us gave us finger painting as preschoolers but now we’re back in artistic form, using an iPhone app called “Brushes”, which allows users to paint on the white digital canvas of an iPhone screen or iPod Touch, with our fingers.
Last summer Jorge Colombo drew a New Yorker Magazine week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s... |
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 | Mozilla, racing to release Firefox 3.6 before the end of the year, has released a second beta of the open-source browser.
Firefox 3.6 beta 1 introduced most of the new features, most visibly the ability to customize Firefox's look through Personas, less than two weeks ago. But among the 190 patches in the new beta is what Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox...
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 | Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an experimental programming language project called Go.
And on Tuesday, they're taking the veil of secrecy off Go, releasing what they've built so far and inviting others to join the newly open-source project.
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| It all started 5 years ago with firefox 1 ...
within 4 days 1 million downloads where registered.
In 5 years Firefox managed to revolutionize the internet browser industry and quickly started stealing users from the mono-political windows IE browser.
Over the years IE has been taking ideas from firefox... its plain to see.
Nonetheless, firefox has now over 330 million downloads ... thousands of themes and over 7000... |
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 | If the iPhone didn't finish off Windows Mobile in the smartphone market, the Motorola Droid may.
Windows Mobile is losing the last vestiges of its mojo--if it really had any to begin with--as the Droid and other phones based on the Android 2.0 operating system push the buzz meter needle into the red zone.
Many in the media--which can play a big role in steering users to one technology platform or another--sense that Windows Mobile... |
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 | Adobe Systems has released a version of Photoshop.com Mobile for Android OS. This is a huge addition for the Google’s OS powered SmartPhones. It will enable users do some basic image-editing tools and photo-sharing capabilities.
This app lets users crop, rotate and flip this images. The Soft Focus filter can be used to create a subtle blur effect, and for performing color adjustments such as exposure, saturation, tint changes, and classic... |
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 | There is a new kid on the block. Well the kid isn't a kid more of a teen already. Virb has been functioning for quite a while, but was pushed down by the big dogs of the social industry.
So what is so great about Virb?
First it lacks nothing ... Virb offers HTML template editing, and CSS customization... anything that doesn't appear... |
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 | Zero-day flaw found in Web encryption
Security researchers Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa unveiled the TLS (Transport Layer Security) flaw on Wednesday, following the disclosure of separate, but similar, security findings. TLS and its predecessor, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), are typically used by online retailers and banks to provide security for web transactions.
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 | Google offers JavaScript programming tools
With a project called Closure Tools, Google plans on Thursday to start helping developers who aspire to match the company's proficiency in creating Web sites and Web applications.
Google is a strong proponent of using JavaScript to write Web-based programs, part of its Web-centric ethos.
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| "The iPhone is the worst phone in the world"
CNET
Despite all the rating, despite all the sales ... people are starting to realise that the iphone is just a great marketing program rather than a proper mobile system.
Smartphones have been around for a long long time ... how come, only when apple makes a smartphone, and the US makes a deal out of it do people start using smartphone? |
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 | Font Dragr is a HTML5/CSS3 powered web app for testing custom web fonts. The app allows you to drag and drop your truetype (ttf), opentype (otf), scalable vector graphics (svg) or Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts into the webpage for an instant preview of how the font will be rendered in the browser, you can even edit the example text.
This useful app allows web designers to preview how embeddable fonts will render in their target browsers without... |
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 | "Somewhere around 23:00 GMT+1 , a sudden silence devoured TLG. This was the calm before the storm. Minutes later, the forum exploded with guests and members all grabbing and snatching, trying to reach for their own cribble html.
I immediately jumped out of my seat and started calculating the marketing benefits. Soon twitter bots joined the party, a general ecstasy engulfed the members and guests.
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Yes I've finally finished the download site for the cribbles.
Unfortunately I have run into a bit of a failure with 2 of the colors, so their uploaded is still postponed.
But members can already try out cribble orange.
Ready for download!
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 | Yesterday at around 15h00 I typed in the info to my excel worksheet. a couple minutes later I had the full list of tickets in front of me.
It took me a while to find the right formula, mainly because I'm still used to excel 2003. Nonetheless the function was applied and 1 raffle ticket was drawn!
The winner was no surprise to me. No it is not anyone that is staff on this forum. ooooh I think I made a few faces sad. The winner is NOT... |
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 | Alright listen UP!
Cribble is waiting for you! What is cribble? Well its actually a free html template for your forumotion sites.
Sleek simple and it comes in 3 colors.
want a peak?
look here:
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 | I have got a special surprise for you guys today.
After playing around with all the border settings I have finally developed some of my own buttons made entirely out of CSS3 ... almost no image use was required.
I decided to make the images a lot more attractive by adding a few gradient images.
But I have 1 perfectly gradient only CSS3 button
check it out:
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| I bet we've all seen the new fad in town, or at least in the web graphics world.
Letter press or slight indent text is now very modern and brings out some really cool effects with your typography. Here are some examples of letterpress. The examples are from deviantart.com which uses a large variety of rendered letter pressed typography.
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Border radius is a special features that comes with CSS3. What it does is render completely fluid corner images for your div boxes. This means that you no longer need to use a large quantity of corner images to get a web 2,0 rounded edges effect.
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| Yeah you guys heard it, Firefox has released a new candidate 3,6 with improved CSS3 function and abilities.
Firefox code name Namoroka (which BTW is the name of Madagascar's national park) is now available for testing.
As a side note this browser is stand alone. It doesn't replace firefox! I have myself a version and will be testing the new features that come along with it.
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| Css3 was announced over a year ago by W3C schools, but it took a while to finalize and broadcast to the entire world... But it is finally here and its starting to work!
No longer do we need to create images for each of the 4 corners, in a simple fluid design. No longer do we need to resort to fixed width sites to make rounding edges easier. |
With CSS3 it all possible with a single line of text. |
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| One of the most important aspects of your forums success is the first impression a visitor receives when entering your site. I have prepared a few do's and don't based on my experience and after observing successful forumotion forums.
There is a lack of design harmony on a large percentage of forumotion forums.
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