The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week

We bring to your attention another collection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.

Hot seven

Yandex.Money has got its own bank card

Internet penetration offline is becoming more pronounced. This time, the locomotive of search in runet pleases with its initiative!
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Skype will work in any HTML5 based web browser.

It seems that the demonstration from Mozilla, which showed the possibility of creating a video chat in the browser goes in the same thread with the development of larger companies. Now announced the direction of activity in this area and the giant from Redmond.

Internet Explorer 6. Farewell review.

The program, which served as the main cause of headaches of the global community of web designers, and periodically supplying pharmacists with a secured clientele, finally becomes history! This can not but rejoice and inspire everyone who is familiar with the words HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Firefox 14 plans to enable the ability to activate Flash content only after a click

It seems that the problem of frozen tabs has reached its reasonable limit, and has forced Mozilla developers to take care of including much-needed functionality in their default browser!

The real "Internet accelerator" is already possible to install on the server - Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy

The benefits of using the SPDY protocol are becoming more apparent to users of advanced browsers. Naturally, the requirements for hosting should also be taken into account.

1366 × 768px went around 1024 × 768px in the list of the most popular screen resolutions

Laptop users have formed the most popular resolution, shifting the gold 1024x768, which seemed unshakable for many years, to second place!

10 startups that can buy for $ 1 billion

After a staggering purchase of Instagram, analysts rushed to the list of startups, which today can cause no less interest.

news

• Google joins the big cloud storage race and plans to launch Google Drive in a week . Among the buns - all 5 GB for free
• If you are a Microsoft fan and follow their products, you are likely to be interested in Microsoft big plans for the release of Office 15, IE10 and their other key products.
• Microsoft Office 15 advertising will tell you about the advantages of a cloudy office from small ones and that Google Docs is not one.
• Microsoft has announced that there will be only 3 consumer editions of Windows 8 - Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8 RT. No more Starter, Home, Pro and Ultimate!
• Facebook plans to create a “personalized” e-mail , which undoubtedly will please active users of this social network.
• Perhaps not everyone noticed, but the profile photos on the Facebook Timeline have become a bit bigger .
• Facebook is returning to its university background - schools will be able to create their own private groups .
• Are you planning to make a Facebook account, but it’s a pity to lose information? Use the “Download Your Information” feature that has been recently updated .
• Google will buy domains .google and .youtube - we are waiting for the replenishment of the addresses of their services and the dominance of custom channels with their domain names.
• Google continues to grow, significantly increasing revenue and profits in the first quarter of 2012 .
• Pomatrosil and quit: Google sells Motorola - full of patents, Google refuses Motorola Mobility.
• In the footsteps of batchert about the new Google+ design - as it turned out, empty areas in the new design were made specially .
• WordPress uses every second of the world's top 100 blogs , which is not surprising for such a popular platform.
• Adobe doesn’t get tired of improving its products - After Effects CS6 works better with memory and with Illustrator files
• The big date of the computing legend is that on April 16, the Apple II personal computer turned 35 years old.

Browsers

• Chinese hybrid browser Maxthon is actively developing, improving not only the interface, but also the engine. Maxthon, A New King Of HTML5
• Pre-installed browsers without the possibility of changing to an alternative - the evil and pain of all the designers of the world. IE leads the daytime browsers, Google Chrome in the evenings
• The Date Picker is now available in Chrome Canary and Chromium.
• New functionality in Google Chrome Canary makes life easier for developers of mobile sites.

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• glamour.biz - themed site with high-quality illustrations
• campbellharrison.co.uk - a site with dynamic block animation
• zxcvbnmnbvcxz.com - thematic site with parallax
• loisjeans.com - a site with a non-standard block structure
• biamar.com.br - site with full-size backgrounds and preloading of page elements
• bobadilium.com - one-page site with different colors
• michel-doudin.com - non-standard implementation of site navigation
• www.version-four.com - an interesting implementation of the page coming soon
• selagroup.com - unusual interactive site Sela Group
• ecodazoo.com - flash site with excellent use of 3D and illustrations
• mikimottes.com - creative portfolio of illustrator and animator Mickey Mottes, made on a flash
• soft.se - flash site with reasonable 3D usage
• razvangarofeanu.com - nice one-page portfolio website with a nice design
• your-majesty.com - a dynamic flash site creative agency Your Majesty
• colorz.fr - a site perfectly implemented with Ajax and distinguished by well-thought-out targeting effects.
• thebarrelhouseflat.com - a stylish retro-style website of the Barrel House Flat restaurant

Design

• Starbucks, big coffee lovers from Seattle, decided to share the full quality style guide on starbucks.com , their cute website with responsive design.
• The principle of the golden section in web design is now examined with specific examples, with specific pixel dimensions.
• Why does infographic make sense?
• About what to pay attention to make the forms on the site more usable, told us from the Singapore design portal
• A small collection of mainstream designs of live mobile sites.
• A selection of sites where the use of stretched full-screen background photos
• A few tips on good organization of work with PSD-files
• Black and white versions of logos make it possible to concentrate on the perception of the forms that were actually collected in one article.
• Spring came, bringing with it the long-awaited green color, which turned out to be one of the main in the design of 30 selected sites
• Watercolor can be painted not only in albums, but also in pixel space, the authors suddenly found, finding examples of using digital watercolor effects on many sites
• It is never too late to learn - apparently the creators of the compilation of lessons on creating quite creative effects in Photoshop were guided by this

A selection of free designer cookies

• To help the creators of diptychs, triptychs and N-quiet, Swedish wedding photographer Raymond Trost, decided to create Tych Panel 2 for Photoshop , and made it free! Now creating collages with photos placed with the same indentation becomes more enjoyable.
• Offline analogues of Instagram, and simply - a selection of Actions to Photoshop for photo processing
• PSD-shki with buttons flooded with textures by Jacob Gube

Demo

• Disc Experiment - interesting experiments on canvas.
• Visual representation of the population density of the planet, implemented in canvas
• HTML5 Canvas 3D Sphere - learn to create a three-dimensional sphere.

Services

• CSS arrow please! - a service that will help you save time when creating tooltips.
• Remy Sharp's jsBin service has been updated .
• An integrated set of useful services that can make life easier for web developers - from the preloader generator to the icon search service.
• The tool from Breezi will help to get a number of tools designed for editing web pages on the fly.

Development

• Flickr front-end article by Stephen Woods on how to create lightboxes targeting mobile devices - Build a lightbox for a responsive HTML5 touch interface
• A lengthy article from Shi Chuana on building fast and responsive websites - Building fast and responsive websites
• New Home Mail.Ru portal - a detailed article on the portal redesign.
• Selection of articles and resources from Paul Irisha for those who want to delve into the nuances of web development Round-up of Web Browser Internals Resources
• One of the latest reports by Den Cederholm on CSS3 - Dan Cederholm - The CSS3 Experience (Live at An Event Apart)
• The current state of support for new HTML5 form elements in different browsers .
• 7 reasons why it is better to use SVG instead of Canvas .
• jquerythisplugin.com is a relatively new resource that collects useful jquery plugins.
• In this article, the authors analyzed the options for downloading images using different variants of media queries .
• How to add in WordPress the ability to automatically upload images of the desired size, depending on the size of the screen.
• Smashing Magazine has finally published an article on BEM . In the comments to the article you can participate in heated discussions.

CSS

• CSS optimizer is a service from Yandex developers that will help optimize your styles.
• Interesting text effects implemented using CSS Animations .
• Lea Verou proposed a new way of vertical centering using flexbox + margin fallback .
• Fun effects for the list, which appear during its scrolling .
• Virtual DJ - dynamic effects implemented with the help of CSS3 animation .
• A classic locomotive built on pure CSS3 .
• If you want to diversify your photo gallery with interesting effects, perhaps this one will suit you .
• Beercamp: fun and slightly buggy experiments with CSS 3D .

Javascripts

• Bacon is a jQuery plugin that allows you to make arbitrary text bending around any objects .
• A selection of 10 plug-ins on jQuery, which emulate the work hours countdown .
• A selection of 10 plug-ins on jQuery, implementing an analog or digital clock .

Entertaining

• Interview with Yury Artyukh: Smartme - organization of master classes
• What recruiters look at your resume during the first 6 seconds .
• Google opened the vacancy of the author of "Doodles" - do not miss your chance! :)
• Sergey Brin called Facebook and Apple the main enemies of the free Internet
• “Truth in Numbers?” Is a documentary about Wikipedia (video) and a culture change of Read Only, a culture of Read Write.
• Social networks, as always, all the fence - The future of the media according to experts (infographics) .
• Instagram's visual history: from scratch to billion .
• Infographics confirming and explaining the hegemony of WordPress in the world of CMS .

Entertainment

• Comics: the origin of the species
• What would Google look like in the 80s
• What would Twitter look like in the 80s
• What would Facebook look like in the 90s
• Video about how you feel after selling Instagram for a billion dollars .

Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin