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Wired Webmonkey Web Dev Design Ajax Backend Blog Publishing CSS Databases Fonts Frameworks HTML HTML 5 JavaScript Mobile Multimedia Programming Security UI UX Web Standards Software Apps Browsers Software Web Apps Platform APIs APIs Identity Location Social Web Services Reference Color Charts HTML Cheat Sheets Special Characters Glossary Templates Code Snippets twitter facebook RSS Feeds Search : for Jul 29 2010 File : Under Fonts Web Apps Test Drive Your Type With Google Font Preview By Michael Calore Google launched a new web-based tool Wednesday that helps you configure , test and easily embed one of the company’s free fonts into your web . pages The Font Previewer lets you pick one of the open source fonts from Google’s Font Library then tweak the size , spacing and decorations using
Watch a screencast tutorial that's recorded and narrated by President Obama himself. Its a video demo of the new healthcare.gov website.
Google has been dominating the search engine market for years, but at least there are some competitors that have a few percent each.
But if you look at mobile search, i.e. search on mobile devices, which is more or less the smartphone market, Google is utterly crushing the competition to a level that it’s never managed in the regular search market.
Just look at this very telling chart, showing Google’s overall search and mobile search market shares in relation to those of Yahoo and Bing, its two closest rivals. (These are global stats.)
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You can use the browser search bar of Chrome, Firefox and IE to do more interesting things like fixing grammatical errors, storing long strings of text or even for removing formatting from clipboard content.
This is a list of common passwords that you should absolutely avoid using with your accounts on the Internet.
You can easily generate a Sitemaps.org compliant Image Sitemap (XML) for your website as long as its powered by WordPress.
Wired Webmonkey Web Dev Design Ajax Backend Blog Publishing CSS Databases Fonts Frameworks HTML HTML 5 JavaScript Mobile Multimedia Programming Security UI UX Web Standards Software Apps Browsers Software Web Apps Platform APIs APIs Identity Location Social Web Services Reference Color Charts HTML Cheat Sheets Special Characters Glossary Templates Code Snippets twitter facebook RSS Feeds Search : for Jul 26 2010 File : Under HTML5 Play Pac-Man in HTML5 By Michael Calore Programmer Dale Harvey has created a playable version of Pac-Man using only web . standards To rebuild the same gameplay found in the arcade classic using browser-native code , he’s relying on local storage , HTML5 audio , Canvas and font-face . Harvey is sharing all the code on Github as well , so you can run it . locally
Interest in Canvas, as well as mobile apps, has led to a renaissance of old-school 8-bit graphics. Joe Huckaby of Effect Games has been playing around with color cycling, leading to some stunning effects.
Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to [...]
The marketshare of smartphone makers like R.I.M., Apple, HTC and Nokia is also reflected in the online traffic to their websites.
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Learn how you can easily embed a YouTube video in your site using both HTML5 and Flash video. The video player will automatically switch depending upon the OS and browser of the visitor.
The Dojo project continues to pump out goodness announcing version 1.5 of the Dojo Toolkit with a number of new and exciting features.
Dylan Schiemann had this to say about the release:
The JavaScript world is evolving at an intense pace. We're very pleased with this release of Dojo, which offers the stability needed for existing [...]
There is a cool workshop being given by Jamie Kosoy called No Flash? No Problem and he had a great quote in the description: There’s a long list of common complaints about the use of Flash, but many of the criticisms just aren’t true. Detractors say that Flash isn’t search engine friendly; Screen readers can’t [...]
You can watch Indian TV channels live on your computer or mobile phone through the Internet using the free Mundu TV app.
Are you waiting to buy the latest iPhone 4 in India through the official channels and not the unlocked version?
This article describes how you can disable the touchpad (or the track pad) of your laptop computer through built-in settings.
Learn how to block those annoying Facebook apps from your profile and wall forever.
Meet a free document scanning software that will let you scan and upload paper documents directly to Google Docs as scanned PDF files.
We are happy to announce that the wait is over.
Firefox Home, a free application, is now available for download on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Get up and go and have exactly what you are looking for on the Web [...]
Yoono is a powerful but easy to use social app that helps you simplify your online social life by connecting you to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Friendfeed, AIM, Yahoo IM and more all in one place. View your real time stream of updates from friends as it happens. Yoono is also the...
To celebrate the world’s largest football tournament, we launched the Firefox Cup — a friendly, global competition based on the number of users for each team Persona. We’ve seen thousands of fans from around the world showing their team spirit by wearing Personas on their Firefox. The winner for each round was chosen based on [...]
This hits two of my favorite things; Flex applications and in-browser RIAs. Picnik, the Seattle-based startup that was purchased by Google a little while ago built one of the coolest photo editing applications on the web and were very early users of Flex. I always loved the customization work they did to Flex and stopped [...]
The official Flex team blog reminded me that Effortless Flex 4 Development is now available. It’s the perfect book for Flex and PHP developers and I got an inside look at it as I did the tech-reviewing for it. Larry is an awesome author who usually does a lot with PHP but recently started getting [...]
Wired Webmonkey Web Dev Design Ajax Backend Blog Publishing CSS Databases Fonts Frameworks HTML HTML 5 JavaScript Mobile Multimedia Programming Security UI UX Web Standards Software Apps Browsers Software Web Apps Platform APIs APIs Identity Location Social Web Services Reference Color Charts HTML Cheat Sheets Special Characters Glossary Templates Code Snippets twitter facebook RSS Feeds Search : for Jul 12 2010 File : Under HTML5 Web Standards Chrome Shows Off Some Fancy HTML5 Tricks By Michael Calore Google’s Chrome browser has a well-established reputation for being not only extremely fast at rendering JavaScript , but also robust in its support of cutting-edge HTML5 technologies . Both of these capabilities are on display at Chrome Experiments a site that Google set up to showcase some
BlogRadio is simple and Adobe AIR application. If you are busy, but you want to stay up to date on your favorite blogs. We allow you to listen to your favorite blogs. Listen to them at home, in the office, or anywhere.
How does BlogRadio work? It's really easy:
1. Subscribe to your favorite...
BlogEd is a client side only Blog Editor put together as a quick hack by James Gosling. It is original in that all the editing a content creation (html and RSS files) is done on the client, and is then pushed to a thin server (a server with nothing more than a web server running) using ftp or...
Semagic is a windows client program for weblogs based on LiveJournal engine. A LiveJournal client to help you with your work.
Semagic can perform spellchecking either via MS Word or using internal spellchecker which is based on MySpell library. Spellchecking via MS Word was initially provided...
Firefox 4 Beta 1 is now ready to download and test! This first version gives an early look at what’s planned for Firefox 4. Stay tuned, because there is more to come and we plan to release new beta versions every two to three weeks. Your feedback is essential to help [...]