Google’s New Layout: Love it or Hate It? (25)
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Readers may have noticed that Google changed the way it displays search results this week: the Google logo is smaller, results are indented and spacing has been added above the search box. Google also removed the page size indicator, which gives you a hint of how long the page might take to load. Reader Marek Foss sent us screenshots comparing the old and the new layout (below), which he feels looks more like Google AdSense ...
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Ramblurr said:
it's interesting how the smallest changes to the styles of one of the most viewed layouts on the internet causes so much hubub
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wpbasti said:
The size information was superfluous for years. Good that they removed it. And I like the new white space as well :)
Modernizr: HTML5 and CSS3 detection (23)
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Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them: Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these classes will be along the lines of body.feature or body.no-feature, with the former indicating that the current browser ...
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wpbasti said:
Following the idea of feature detection but this time for CSS features. Interesting concept.
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Evan Sims said:
Hot!
YouTube Increases File Size Limit To 2GB, Now Allows Direct HD Embeds And Links (68)
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While not every tweak to YouTube’s system deserves a post, this one is pretty significant, though very straightforward as well. First, the 1GB file limit for YouTube videos has been doubled to 2GB; this is a boon to many users who have been uploading high definition content more than a few minutes long. Ten minutes of 1080p footage can easily exceed a gig, especially if you’ve been editing it and weren’t careful about re-encoding. A ...
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Sean Blanda said:
video of the comcast center in philly
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wpbasti said:
Uploading 2GB videos via DSL could be fun. With about 1000Kbit upload this result in many hours of uploading.
Ian Hickson on Codecs for the HTML 5 and Tags (32)
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The goal was for there to be at least one standard video codec that would work across all HTML 5 browsers — one format that would work across browsers and platforms with no plugins. But, alas, the result is an impasse. Apple won’t support Ogg Theora, and Mozilla and Opera won’t support H.264. (Google, admirably, is willing to support both in Chrome, but they don’t consider Ogg good enough to use for YouTube.) So there ...
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Alcides Fonseca said:
Shit!
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Joshua said:
Thats too bad. This news only hurts the users.
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Casey said:
sigh :(
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Geoff said:
Here we go again...
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Craig said:
This is the sort of thing that will really delay the widespread adoption of HTML 5 in the mainstream
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wpbasti said:
Still no clear situation with the video codec support in HTML 5. What's about offering H.264 in Firefox with some kind of extension? Could this help the license issue?
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phillip said:
hmm
GSM Pre to launch on O2 in UK (10)
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We heard earlier this morning that the GSM Pre was set for a UK launch, and now it sounds like things are coming together: The Guardian says the Palm's baby will launch on O2. That makes perfect sense, O2 owner Telefonica reportedly secured broad global rights to the Pre back in March. Of course, this is all yet to be official, but with actual GSM handsets floating around out there and an announcement expected next ...
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wpbasti said:
Palm Pre will be available via O2 in UK. The same provider as for the iPhone. T-Mobile Germany, what's about the Palm Pre then? ;)
Birdfeed Twitter App Review: Lean, Fast and Pretty [IPhone Apps] (12)
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It's five dollars. It has half the functionality of Twittelator Pro. But Birdfeed just became my default iPhone Twitter app. It's fast. The fastest Twitter app I've seen since Twitterfon (which isn't that fast anymore, once it started inserting ads.) The user interface is even cleaner and more spare than Tweetie's—the app it will inevitably be compared to the most. For instance, the "load more" button at the bottom is gone—you just keep scrolling down, ...
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av8612 said:
тем, кто страдал, что твиттерфон испортился
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BradMcGonigle said:
This must stop! I can't keep switching twitter clients every few weeks!
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wpbasti said:
Looks nice. Damn there is still now option to try-out applications in the app-store for a trial period. Impressive: Is there any other market twhere is so much competition than for twitter apps?
Flickr2Twitter: Flickr Enters the Twitter Stream (53)
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Flickr has just released their long awaited feature for posting photos to Twitter. It’s been in beta over the past few weeks, but now it’s live for everyone. It’s not exactly like other photo tweeting services like TwitPic, which lets you sign-in using your Twitter account. To use Flickr2Twitter, you first need to sign-in to Flickr, and then authorize the service to post to your Twitter account, which can be done from your settings page. ...
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Benjamin Kabak said:
I like this.
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Chad said:
YES!
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wpbasti said:
Was only a time question and finally it is available. Good thing.
Xing To Give Up China And Make Way For LinkedIn In The US? (11)
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LinkedIn has bolstered its position as America’s leading business social network by the month lately, with Germany-based Xing as the only company regarding itself a worthy competitor in the last few years. But now those days seem to be over - in the US and China, at least. Today German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt published an interview [GER] with Xing CEO Stefan Groß-Selbeck (who recently replaced founder Lars Hinrichs), and he revealed a couple of interesting ...
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wpbasti said:
Still Xing really holds a good position in Europe. This should be enough for the moment, but wondering where they see their options for future growth. But the same is true for LinkedIn. They have hard times in China and Europe and may have the same business issues sooner or later.
Spazzing out with webOS app developer Ed Finkler (12)
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Palm emerged in the 1990s as one of the innovative champions of mobile computing. The company practically defined the handheld computer form-factor and contributed many technical concepts and user interface paradigms that are still found in some of the most popular mobile devices. The Palm of today may be a mere shadow of its former glory, but the company could be poised for a surprising comeback. Palm's newest creation, the Pre smartphone, has the potential ...
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wpbasti said:
Hopefully we will see the same possibilities for the iPhone and Android platform as well soon: "A message bus is used to expose underlying platform capabilities to third-party applications through JavaScript. This means that third-party webOS software has full access to hardware features like the GPS and camera, and it also has the ability to leverage software features like the addressbook and dialer. It's worth noting that Palm's own first-party applications, such as the calendar, are built with the same technology."
Firefox Mobile "Fennec" Now Open to All Brave WinMo Alpha Testers [Browsers] (9)
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Good news if you're a Windows Mobile user and were feeling left out the Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser party. Today's Alpha 2 release should now work with most devices using the Windows Mobile 6 platform. (Support had initially been limited to the HTC Touch Pro and some other "VGA phones".) Newly added treats include updated themes and a tweaked UI, improved add-on support and numerous bug fixes. We gave the alpha a quick spin and ...
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wpbasti said:
Seems that Mozilla parallely works on Firefox for Mobiles aka Fennec.
MySpace open sources advanced browser performance tool for IE (44)
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Developers tend to tease MySpace for its look, but the insiders are incredibly impressed by some of the engineering behind the scenes (e.g. their internal monitoring tools are said to be second to none). They have surprised us again with their new tool MSFast which is “a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code performance by capturing and measuring possible bottlenecks on their web pages.” The IE 8 tools are getting better, but ...
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wpbasti said:
The CPU meter looks like a nice tool. Can we have the missing feature in Firebug and Webkit Inspector as well?
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lusever said:
Ну наконец-то что-то красивое оптимизационное для IE. Да, CPU и память они показывают не от безысходности, а потому что на странице есть еще стили и картинки.
Mobile Video is at a Tipping Point (17)
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We’ve been predicting that mobile video would explode in popularity for some time – we just weren’t sure exactly when. Now, with the arrival of the iPhone 3GS, it appears that we might finally be at the inflection point. Just this week, we’ve already seen a number of apps rush to take advantage of the device’s video capabilities, with Kyte updating its app to support video recording, editing, and upload, and Posterous creating a way ...
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Chad said:
Wow, go figure that making it easy to upload would be thing thing that makes it take off [eyeroll].
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CoSkay said:
Article needs to clarify this is the US market. iphones historically haven't sold well in Asia b/c the lack of video
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wpbasti said:
Interesting trend. Still wondering how good the upload speed of these videos is though. Maybe Apple started boosting again a new mobile trend.
Google Voice is Opening Up Today: Here is What You Can Expect (55)
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It's been a long time coming, but according to a message posted to the Google Voice Twitter account this morning, as well as a posting on the Google Blog, Google is getting ready to open up its free Google Voice service to more users. According to NBC's Janet Shamlian, who did a piece about Google Voice for the Today Show this morning, the service might actually open up for all U.S. users today - though ...
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Whatleydude said:
If any of you have one, fancy doing a direct compare and contrast of the voice to text feature? I'd be interested to see the results.. :)
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Jez Arnold said:
what about the UK?? mmmm..
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wpbasti said:
Google Voice sounds like another awesome product from Google. I always wonder what all-these-other-companies do while Google is developingor to be fair buying stuff which is much more impressive than what - for example we have seen in Skype - in the last one or two year. Hopefully this will be available in Germany soon!
iPhone 3GS JavaScript Performance Blows Away Rivals, Approaches MacBook Speed (44)
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A few speed tests done on the new iPhone 3GS pitting it both against the old iPhone as well as its main rivals. So far, these have either been eyeball tests or page rendering/boot time tests that take a bunch of variables into account. Mobile analytics and advertising company Medialets has released numbers for a test that it considers to be the most direct line of comparison for the iPhone 3GS against the iPhone 3G, ...
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Joseph Young said:
Now you know what the "S" in "3GS" is for...
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wpbasti said:
Pretty impressive chart. Wondering about thew fact that G1 and Palm Pre are not faster than iPhone 3G with the new OS. Seems iPhone is in lead position again.
The HTC Hero gets a YouTube demo (7)
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Got HTC Hero overload yet? Well, here’s the official demo video of HTC’s latest. Enjoy.
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wpbasti said:
Very cool video showing the interface of the new HTC hero. Really looks awesome. Need to get one into my hand ASAP ;)
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Peter said:
Android actually looking good, and very iPhone like :)
The Thinnest Buildings In the World Come with Toilets to Match [Image Cache] (16)
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We knew that Japan probably has the thinnest houses in the world. Of course, the toilets match. Just looking at the girl inside makes me anxious: More anxious and claustrophobic than the Death Star trash compactor. [Bouncing Red Ball]
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wpbasti said:
Help. This is nothing for people with claustrophobia.
HTC Introduces Sense, the First Customized Android Installation On Its New Hero Smartphone (32)
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The era of true Android customization has begun with HTC's Sense UI, a customized overlay for Android that adds HTC's stunning graphical interface to the sturdy Android OS. The UI will run on the new Hero, a 3.2-inch touchscreen phone running at 528MHz with MicroSD slot. More specs on the phone: With its 3.2-inch HVGA display, the HTC Hero is optimized for Web, multimedia and other content, while maintaining a small size and weight that ...
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huixing said:
The era of true Android customization has begun with HTC's Sense UI, a customized overlay for Android that adds HTC's stunning graphical interface to the sturdy Android OS.
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wpbasti said:
Looks really cool. I especially like the overlay interface which brings some "pep" into the Android world.
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Will said:
Looks great. I've been watching the Hero's status for a little while, but as a T-mobile subscriber I can look all I want. There is talk on the xda-developers forum about porting this android flavor to the HTC Touch Pro 2: a phone with awesome specs being shipped with Windows Mobile.
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Jason Richman said:
flash!!!!
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kris7topher said:
KELL!
Let's make the web faster (101)
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From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure development, because our research indicates that people prefer faster, more responsive apps. Over the years, through continuous experimentation, we've identified some performance best practices that we'd like to share with the web community on code.google.com/speed, a new ...
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Emil Kaiser said:
Lets!
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wpbasti said:
New Google portal for "speed" affine web developers with tips and tools.
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Surgo said:
GDDセッションでもあったやつだ。
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John Masson said:
I think this gives you an insight into why google built chrome ?
Gmail Makes Its iPhone Web Version More App-Like With Swipe Gestures (73)
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A lot of people complain about Gmail not having a native application on the iPhone. While it’s not clear if Apple will even allow that yet with the new iPhone 3.0 SDK, one thing that is becoming more clear: Soon it won’t need one. The reason is that its iPhone-optimized mobile version continues to get some killer features. The latest is the ability to use the swipe gesture to archive messages — yes, within the ...
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Mitch said:
The look and feel of Google's iPhone web apps is very impressive. Maybe I don't have to learn Objective C after all?
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wpbasti said:
Swipe to delete for a web app. Will put this on my agenda as well :)
10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To (95)
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Advertisements Design patterns were first described in the 1960s by Christopher Alexander, a civil engineer who noticed that many things in our lives happen according to patterns. He adapted his observations to his work and published many findings on the topic. Since then, design patterns have found their place in many areas of our lives, and can be found in the design and development of user interfaces as well. In short, design patterns are solutions ...
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Cale said:
Good source of UI design patterns.
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Christopher said:
NWF'ers, take note!
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Aaron said:
usability, interface-design, patterns, design, webdesign, development, resources, interaction-design
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wpbasti said:
Excellent list of Web 2.0 like GUI for better usability and user experience.
