Browse Web Typefaces and Download CSS with Typechart (6)
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Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. You can view different typefaces with different font sizes and emphases. One of the handy features is that you can compare Windows rendering with Apple font rendering. You can also download the CSS code for a specific typographic style, cach style corresponds with a style ID, which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while coding as well. Requirements: ...
Vitamin: Easy Automated Web Application Testing (4)
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Developing web applications is getting more complex - it’s easy to accidentally break functionality as changes are made. In this article, Ben describes the setup his team uses test their apps as changes are committed; automatically notifying the developers of any problems. Being able to support Ajax-heavy applications through multiple browsers across multiple operating systems is now a primary requirement, as is being able to scale to thousands (or, if you’re lucky, millions) of users. ...
Top Job Boards for Web Developers and Designers (7)
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Are you a freelancer? Would you like to find some freelance works related to Web Development or Web Design? There are loads of job boards out there, but how many of them are actually built for web developers and designers? And How many of them are acutally popular? Here is a list of the top job boards for web developers and designers. Please feel free to suggest the ones you like. FreelanceSwitch Job Board Authentic ...
Open Source Ubiquity Enables User-Generated Mashups (3)
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You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. And you haven’t even really sent ...
Google Analytics Advanced Tips and Tricks (10)
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I believe most of us are using Google Analytics in order to track our visitors daily. Most of us love Google Analytics, because it is reliable and powerful. However, how many of us have actually used its full potential? Search Engine Journal has compilied a list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. The followings are some of the useful tricks they shared with us. Track 404 ...
Google Ad Manager is Now Available to All Publishers (4)
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Google Ad Manager is now available to all publishers across all regions. Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver and measure all your directly sold and network-based inventory. The user interface is simple and intuitive, it decreases training time and trafficking steps with simplified tagging and inventory management. And it provides some basic tutorials as well. Now you can ensure quicker ad delivery and fewer reporting ...
Phusion Passenger - Ruby Apps Easy Deployment on Apache (9)
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Phusion Passenger is an Apache module, which makes deploying Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications on Apache a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself” and ease of setup, while at the same time providing enough flexibility. Phusion Passenger is a commercial supported open source product that enables people to deploy their Ruby on Rails applications in an upload-and-go manner, which is very reminiscent of the PHP way of deploying. ...
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Brandon said:
This looks pretty sweet. Would have been useful when I was writing a video site for my High School in Ruby on Rails.
Superfish - Enhanced Suckerfish Style Menu jQuery Plugin (4)
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Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript) and adds the some nice features as well. The reveal of sub-menu is animated, uses a fade-in by default but can be given a custom object to be used in the first argument of the animate function. The animation speed is also customisable but is set to “normal” by default. There is a ...
Android - The First Complete, Open, and Free Mobile Platform (7)
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The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android which is the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. It is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. This beta version of the Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language. They’re offering the Android Software ...
Taking Snapshots with AIR Application WebSnapshot (4)
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WebSnapshot is a simple Adobe AIR application which allows you taking snapshots for any websites easily. Enter the Url and Press Snap. Or Drag and Drop it from your browser. Click on the Thumnails to Save. With Auto Save Checked, the thumnails are immediatly saved to your ’save’ folder. You can select the type of Snapshot you want to make: Thumbnail, Browser size, or Full Page. You can tailor the way the snapshots are take ...
SQL Buddy - Pretty Web Based MySQL Administration Tool (17)
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Some applications look great in a screenshot, but deliver disappointing results when they are actually used. The driving force behind the development of SQL Buddy was not to produce a great-looking screenshot but rather to create a product that would enable developers to enjoy their work and get more done in less time. SQL Buddy is a web based MySQL Administration Tool similar to phpMyAdmin. It is really easy to install SQL Buddy, just unzip ...
Coquette 50 Free Icons in 5 Sizes and PNG Format (18)
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DryIcons has released a new beautiful free icon set called “Coquette“. “Coquette” will make sure to bring all attention and admiration to your software applications, websites, blogs.This playful free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. These free icons flirt with style. “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and ...
Email Standards Project with Detailed Acid Test Results (4)
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The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. The project was formed out of frustration with the inconsistent rendering of HTML emails in major email clients. Their mission is to drive the use and support of web standards in email, working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently. This is a community effort to improve the ...
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qthrul said:
Mental note for my SXSW panel "Too Much Text"
The Best 25 iPhone Web Applications for Free (10)
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iPhone Web Apps combine the power of the Internet with the simplicity of Multi-Touch technology, all on a 3.5-inch screen. When you find a web app you like, you can put it on your Home screen for easy, one-tap access. There are over 600 Web Apps available, I found many of them are useless to be honest. So,what are the best ones? iPhone Toolbox has carefully selected top 25 iPhone Web Apps for us. Feel ...
Advanced Color Palette Tool for Creating Color Schemes (1)
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COPASO is an advanced color palette tool that helps you create the perfect color schemes and themes. With a scratch pad to save colors you’re working with, a photo tool to extract colors and an advanced color picker and color theory wheel to give you tons of color inspiration. Using COPASO you can save your palettes to a private folder or download them to your local computer. When you’re ready, click publish and share your ...
The Yahoo! User Interface 3.0 Preview Release 1 (6)
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The YUI team is pleased to announce the public availability of YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1, an early look at what they’re working on for the next generation of the YUI Library. Documentation for YUI 3.0 is on the YUI website; the download is available on the YUI project area on SourceForge; Keep in mind that this is an early preview, not a production-quality (or even a beta) release. This release is not suitable for ...
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Nick said:
Interested to check this out!
IMG·2·JSON Extracts Meta Data from Images to JSON (1)
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IMG·2·JSON is a simple Google App Engine python application which extracts metadata from images and returns the results as a JSON string. To use IMG·2·JSON all you need to do is perform a request for the fetcher-script URL hosted on Google App Engine. And then it will return the mimeType, width, height, byteSize and EXIF metadata extracted from the image (such as Camera Manufacturer, Model, Orientation, Date, GPS position, etc). I found it useful for ...
Plots Numbers on Canvas 3D Bar Graph (2)
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Canvas 3D Graph is a special type of bar graph that plot numbers in 3D. <canvas> tag is not supported in IE, so the author was forced to use excanvas.js in order to draw graph in IE. As the result of that, you may experience some freezes when you try to plot large amount of data in IE. Firefox and safari works just fine (aprox 10x faster than emulated canvas in IE). This is initial ...
14 Ways to Learn From Creative Programmers (5)
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The common stereotype for programmers is this: nerdy, pocket-protector wielding, and very, very boring. One doesn’t typically link a programmer as a creative individual. However, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Working with code is one of the most creative jobs one can have. Programmers have to balance two very different worlds: a world of structure and a world of imagination. They create abstract concepts using very structured programming languages (like PHP or Java). ...
