The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of IT for the last week No. 45 (February 16 - 21, 2013)
We bring to your attention the next selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
Sony introduced PlayStation 4 , Several reports on the PlayStation Meeting 2013 here and here , in this article in brief about the new gamepad, camera and exclusives, here is the same in the form of infographics , also a photo gallery from the Ribbon , and how it really was . Plus, short news from competitors: Kinect 2.0 specification leaked to the network
HTC has introduced a new mobile flagship. We offer you to get acquainted with the impressions from London from Nomobile and the Preview from mobile-review . Video presentation , Testing HTC One in popular benchmarks , Meet the new UltraPixel technology , HTC introduced the SDK for infrared
Demonstration of the Project Glass interface and distribution of prototypes , as well as the video “How It Feels” + the official website of the Google Glass project. Also, Google introduced the Chromebook Pixel premium laptop for $ 1299. A little text on why they did it . In addition, the company spoke about some plans for the development of its search , and also plans to build a network of its own stores
Canonical introduced the Ubuntu tablet option , the official page , Overview of the expected features of the Ubuntu tablet . Smartphones running Ubuntu will appear in 2014
Rumor has it that Samsung will leave Android this year on Tizen, a new version of the Tizen mobile OS has been announced: Tizen 2.0 , the release of the Tizen 2.0 mobile platform with support for launching native programs , Tizen 2.0 screenshots have appeared on the network
Chrome 25 came out with support for the Web Speech API , which allows you to integrate speech recognition functions into web applications. Also, Firefox 19 was released , which added a built-in function to view PDF files . Plus, Firefox Developer Roundup
I think that all typesetters were faced with the task of customizing the system scrollbar on the pages of the site. The developers of 2GIS in their article examined in detail the mechanisms of the scroll, js-alternatives and proposed their own solution to the problem with a detailed description of the process. In addition, this article was indirectly mentioned on moskva.fm;)
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Hot seven
 | PlayStation Meeting 2013 |
 | HTC One |
 | Google News |
 | Ubuntu tablet |
 | Tizen |
 | Meet new browsers |
 | Cross-browser customization of the system scrollbar |
Development
- Cross-browser customization of the system scrollbar , demo
- HTML standards developers worried about W3C endorsing DRM implementation for Web
- Unigine 3D engine demonstration running in a web browser
- Reduce HTML5 code to the maximum
- The evolution of the BEM methodology
- Making a screensaver using HTML
- Accessibility Bookmarklets - bookmarklets for testing pages for accessibility for users with disabilities
- Accessibility presentation by Nikolas Zakas
- Viewport target-densitydpi support removed from webkit
- Mozilla developers say native audio for browsers is ready
- Introduction to HTML5 WebSockets API
- Using WAI-ARIA Landmarks - 2013
- The concept of implementing the correct "infinite" page scroll
- Using indentation to increase readability of HTML / CSS code
- LearnGitBranching - About GIT Brunches
- A small overview of Edge Reflow
CSS
- “Layered CSS” - Report by Robert Kharitonov from Odnoklassniki.ru with Web Standards Days October 13, 2012
- CSS Browser Compatibility Chart
- Hotmail and Outlook.com remove Margin support
- Latest EAP PHPstorm supports Emmet in CSS
- Using Flexbox : Blend Old and New for Better Cross-Browsing
- Flexbox syntax for IE 10
- CSS Secrets by Lea Verou
- Setting Weights And Styles With The @ font-face Declaration
- Improving CSS typography
- Create a glitter effect with styles
- Understanding LESS Color Functions
- Create Sticky Note in CSS
- Simulation float: down
- CSS3 Image Slider with 3D Transforms
- New CSS tests for selectors and columns properties
- On / Off FlipSwitch
Javascripts
- jQuery Learning Center
- typeahead.js - Twitter has opened the code of Typeahead.js, JavaScript libraries for organizing input completion
- CSS3 Transforms Animation Using MooTools Fx
- jqueryrotate - cross-browser block rotation
- Pronto - jQuery plugin for faster page loading
- A selection of jQuery plugins for processing photos in instagram styles
- vminpoly - polyfile to support vw, vh and vmin
news
- PlayStation 4:
- Sony introduced PlayStation 4
- A few reports on PlayStation Meeting 2013 here and here.
- in this article briefly about the new gamepad, camera and exclusives
- here is the same in the form of infographics
- Photo Gallery from Ribbon
- And how it really was
- Short news from competitors: Kinect 2.0 specification leaked to the network
- The new mobile flagship HTC One:
- Impressions from London from Nomobile and Preview from mobile-review .
- Presentation video
- Testing HTC One in popular benchmarks
- Introducing New UltraPixel Technology
- HTC introduced the SDK for infrared
- Google News:
- Demonstration of the Project Glass interface and distribution of prototypes , as well as video
- "How It Feels" + the official website of the Google Glass project
- Google introduced the Chromebook Pixel premium laptop for $ 1299 and why they did it
- Google wants to give users answers, not links
- Google is about to build a network of its own stores
- Google predicts possible Oscar Award winners based on search engine popularity
- Ubuntu Tablet:
- Canonical unveils Ubuntu for tablets
- officially
- Overview of the expected features of the Ubuntu tablet . While smartphones running Ubuntu will appear in 2014 , while the iPhone 5 is the best-selling smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2012.
- Tizen 2:
- Rumor has it that Samsung will leave Android this year
- Release of Tizen 2.0 mobile platform with support for launching native programs
- Tizen Mobile OS Announced: Tizen 2.0
- Screenshots of Tizen 2.0 appeared on the web
- Short news from social services:
- Facebook launches video ads
- YouTube hired professional translators
- Rambler Cards close
- Mega will launch mail, chat, voice, video and mobile service
- Skype calls accounted for one-third of global voice traffic in 2012 and launch video messaging
- Microsoft shuts down Hotmail
- Yandex opens Small ShAD
Browsers
- Firefox 19 came out , which added a built-in function to view PDF files
- Firefox Developer Roundup
- Chrome 25 release
- Transition of Opera to Webkit:
Mozilla on the transition of Opera to WebKit ,
How does the drying out of a variety of browsers come with? ,
Opera Software has fired the bulk of the developers of its browser engine - Who writes WebKit?
Services
- Programmers, repent!
- color.hailpixel.com - page - color palette
- hsmaker - Harlem shake for sites
- Gangnam style maker
- vined - watch what is happening in the world: type a hash tag or username , and see the list of Vine videos
- ami.responsivedesign.is - service for checking website responsiveness
- tlk.io - simple web chat
Demo
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- jiouhe.com - Taiwanese are good at custom navigation
- fourroses.es - a small site with a nice design and parallax
- wildbluetech.com - a laconic site with a scroll effect scroll both vertically and horizontally
- theclassicdomain.com - a one-page slider site with unobtrusive animation and simple elements created using SVG
Design
- So different designers. How not to mix it up?
- Grunge Style in Web Design
- Usability of mobile forms : avoid separation of single inputs
- Landing Page Analysis
- How I Create Icon Web Fonts - A Short Video by Ben Schwarz
- iconsTimes - important news in graphic form
- Guideline Colors - a collection of primary colors of the most famous sites
- Interview with Shaun Yue , who participated in the creation of interfaces in the film Prometeus Ridley Scott
- Create a readable design
- Five keys to the door to creating a successful logo design
- Design for touch , by Luke Wroblewski
- Five dozens of “powerful” logos , as well as a logo in which natural elements are used
- Examples of cute black and white , as well as orange sites, as well as sites with a full-screen background image
- How to make a Cinemagraph image , or simply animated photo-gifs, in Photoshop
- More than two dozen lessons on Photoshop CS6
- Fortune 500 Gold List Web Design Trends (Infographic)
- Learning by Design and Usability Mistakes
A selection of free designer cookies
- A few textures in the resolution of 3600x3600 , two dozen metal textures , textures from geographical maps
- Square UI - a set of interface elements with a "flat" and square spot design
- Facebook Timeline Template
- Almost two dozen fresh fonts : from Myra to Vger Grotesque, including PROMESH - athletic serif font
- Salt & Foam - a unicase font representing surfing
- Snow Fonts Collection
- Over three dozen fonts for headings from Junction to Caprica
- IconBeast Lite - Three Hundred Icons for iOS Tab Bar
- MFG Labs - an icon pack with a web font, originally designed for internal use
- A collection of various shapes for Photoshop
Entertaining
- Nashi on GitHub: rating
- Celebrities are massively migrating to Android
- How Google and Facebook Ads Affect the Human Brain
- Summary of Sergey Brin on the eve of the birth of Google
- Between any web pages, an average of 19 clicks
- Bill Gates criticized Microsoft for lagging in the smartphone market
- 3Doodler launched on Kickstarter - a pen that can be drawn in space
- Type me ... face. 3d printer for Fantomas
- 14 computer games recognized as works of art
- Harlem Shake: scientists about the reasons for success , as well as a selection of dance flash mobs from well-known IT companies
- Google asked the media to “hush” the history of data leaks in its service
- 50+ Worldwide Free Online Education Resources
- Zuckerberg, Brin, Levinson and Milner institute a science prize
- Travel anywhere in the world
- Original Google Search Engine Wedding Invitation
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