What people love and hate about the iPhone 4S
Jan2012
Here’s a look at what people love and hate about the iPhone 4S from ChangeWave Research. As you can see, people love Siri, the ease of use, and the nice camera. They hate the battery life and the fact that it doesn’t have 4G. Read more By Jay Yarow and Jon Terbush for Business Insider, 01 Dec 2011.
It’s like steroids for web developers
Dec2011
CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects. And that’s just the first paragraph. Visit site
Occupy flash
Dec2011
Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often [...]
Discover mozilla popcorn.js
Nov2011
Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers. Think jQuery for video. You can leave the heavy lifting to Popcorn, and concentrate on what you do best: writing awesome code. Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plugin system to a graphical user interface, with familiar timeline controls. Completely free and open [...]
It’s official: flash mobile player is dead
Nov2011
Adobe confirmed what reports were saying all morning: It’s done with the Flash Mobile Player and has now thrown its lot in with the HTML5 crowd — for mobile at least. “We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) [...]
‘Invisibility Cloak’ uses mirages to make objects vanish
Nov2011
Researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas have hijacked one of nature’s most intriguing phenomena — the mirage — to make an invisibility cloak. It can hide objects from view, works best underwater and even has a near-instant on/off switch. To understand how it works, you need to first grasp the basics of the mirage effect. [...]
Interesting new touch software from adobe – proto
Nov2011
Adobe Proto, a new Adobe Touch App, lets you create interactive wireframes and prototypes of websites and mobile apps on your tablet. Communicate and share ideas with teams and clients using a touch-based interface. Visit site
16 examples of steve jobs being a huge jerk
Nov2011
When it comes to Steve Jobs, there’s the “Good Steve,” and then, there’s the “Bad Steve,” says biographer Walter Isaacson. His mammoth personality could inspire those around him just as easily as it could tear them down. Here are 16 examples of when he did the latter. Read more By Dylan Love for Business Insider, 25 Oct [...]
A beautiful boilerplate for responsive, mobile-friendly development
Nov2011
Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17″ laptop screen or an iPhone. Skeleton is built on three core principles: Skeleton has a familiar, lightweight 960 grid as its base, but elegantly scales down to downsized [...]