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Born with IOS: techno-toddlers: a is for apple

Dec
2011
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In the last chapter of her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan imagines a dystopian near future in which toddlers in the year 2020 download music to their ubiquitous “kiddie handsets”, which also feature “finger drawing, GPS systems for babies just learning to walk, PicMail”. But if that’s the future, it’s already here. There [...]

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It’s like steroids for web developers

Dec
2011
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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

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Discover mozilla popcorn.js

Nov
2011
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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 [...]

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‘Invisibility Cloak’ uses mirages to make objects vanish

Nov
2011
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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. [...]

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Predict how you will watch tv in 4 years

Nov
2011
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By WatchTheDaily for YouTube, uploaded on 02 Nov 2011.

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Interesting new touch software from adobe – proto

Nov
2011
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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

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A beautiful boilerplate for responsive, mobile-friendly development

Nov
2011
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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 [...]

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The beginning of the end for flash

Nov
2011
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Even though Adobe just mentioned it was planning to invest further in HTML5 after restructuring, a rumor from ZDNet suggests the changes could go even further by dropping development for Flash Player on mobiles entirely. According to an email reportedly received by the company’s partners, its future work on Flash for cellphones and tablets will focus on enabling [...]

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The future is amazing, and microsoft has the video to prove it

Nov
2011
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This might be as close as we’re going to get to a time machine. Unless they’re working on that, too. Microsoft this morning is premiering a new video that shows how the company believes technology is poised to evolve over the next five to 10 years, based on the trends its researchers and engineers are seeing [...]

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Make anything a touchscreen

Oct
2011
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The idea of a portable, impressively useful touchscreen interface has very quickly gone from the world of science fiction to depictions of dubious accuracy on mainstream shows like NCIS or CSI. The consumer, alas, has had to make due with smaller touchscreen interfaces on our phones and tablets and giant, spy-catching rigs aren’t coming to [...]

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