The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №4 (April 28 - May 4, 2012)

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

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For the first time in 14 years, Nokia has lost world leadership as a supplier of mobile phones.

The flagship of the mobile industry is changing - the Finnish company gives primacy to Korean workaholics. Whether Nokia’s union with Microsoft will be successful for both companies, and whether it will allow the former champion to return to the pedestal, is quite difficult to say, but for now - welcome the new king of the market - Samsung!

Samsung GALAXY S III Premiere

The presentation of the new flagship from Samsung was expected as one of the main events of this year in the mobile world. And no wonder - the previous SGS2 model has become a real bestseller of the past year and has been recognized by many as the best smartphone on the market, and over the past few months it has become overgrown with countless rumors.

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Font rendering features

Most likely, you noticed that the same font can be displayed differently in different browsers and operating systems. And if earlier this fact could be ignored, now web fonts play an increasing role in the design of pages. The author of this article went deep into the issue of font rendering and made some interesting conclusions.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Explained in 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds

SEO acronym is probably one of the most common in the IT world. However, can you explain what is available and how it works in three and a half minutes? The authors of the video coped with this task by explaining the basics of such an extensive topic.

Draw sketches in Paper by FiftyThree - iPad app of the month

Not every developer manages to create not just a functional application, but also one that will deliver aesthetic pleasure while working with it. And if it is also free, then competitors can only nervously smoke aside.

Introduction to CSS3 Multicolumn

Quite often, layout makers have to resort to additional manipulations with styles or even connect JS in order to make a fairly simple breaking of the text or list into columns. New CSS3 properties are designed to solve this problem using native browsers.

Google introduced WebGL based Cube game for Maps advertising

Modern technologies allow to look at browser games in a new way. The developers of the Google Maps team once again proved this by offering users a small interactive game in which you need to drive a ball in 3D space along the most well-known tourist routes.

news

• Another big deal - LinkedIn made the purchase of SlideShare for $ 119 million
• Popular mobile game continues to break records - Angry Birds: Space downloaded over 50 million times and this is not the limit!
• Meet the replenishment of the shelf of cloud storage - LG Cloud and 50 GB in the cloud for free for 6 months . So far, however, only for residents of the United States and South Korea.
• Yandex has improved Tweeter support in search results - now with snippets and the ability to follow / retweet right in search results.
• Do you want to thank financially your favorite band for the next album? Yandex will help to do this right in the service "Yandex.Music" .
• Value for money decides - Kindle Fire has won more than half of the US market for Android tablets
• The winners of the annual Webby Awards online award have become known. Among them - as expected there Instagram, and unexpected Bjork.
• Skype has offered Facebook users an emoticon with portrait resemblance.
• Gmail introduced automatic translation of letters - now spam will come in a language you understand.
• Another blow to Microsoft - LG refuses Windows Phone in favor of Android

Browsers

• Mozilla stops supporting Firefox 3.6 and updates it in May to version 12 .
• Beta is available beta Firefox 13 . In it, by default, the SPDY protocol was activated , which significantly increased the speed of work with many resources.
• Mozilla on the way to unifying the Firefox interface for PCs, smartphones and tablets +
  
  some more screenshots .
• Firefox and Chrome remove fav icons from URLs for security reasons .
• Browser trends in May: IE9 continues to grow.
• Opera developers come to their senses: Unite, widgets and voice control are sent to landfill .

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• New Sony Xperia website - enjoy the dynamic curtain with effects.
• ghosthorses.co.uk is a cute site with dynamic elements.
• 25 celebrity sites using flash effects.

Design

• Four dozen creative resume designers. Some of the works are so creative that they can even alienate HR specialists from considering a candidate closer .
• With the growth of the quality of cameras and services for the processing of their products embedded in smartphones, horizons are opening up for a new type of photo amateurs .
• Trends design Saito basements .
• Outstanding music logos .
• Three dozen self-describing semantic logos .
• No less ingenious combinations of forms and typographic tricks expressed in memorable characters .
• Creative ideas of "manual" visualizations .
• What is better laconic design or photorealistic application interface? As practice shows, with a reasonable approach, the 2nd option works more efficiently!

A selection of free designer cookies

• National flags, using which the author asks to place a reference on his website .
• PSD with vector icons handmade Damian Watracz .
• Two dozen fresh spring fonts .
• More than 100 modern icons laid out by Martin Karásek in a puff format .
• Delicious pups of puff PSD with UI elements, components, shapes, icons ...

Development

• TutsPlus Hub is a new resource that brings together Envato’s Tuts.net sites.
• Make and navigate the bus with CSS3 key-animation and school animation knowledge .
• How to disable the default image compression in WordPress .
• Introduction to using the Sublime Text 2 editor .
• One of the options for adding tabular data in WordPress .
• Image Catalyst 2.2 - squeeze your image to the maximum!
• Chris Koyer's research into new CSS3 dimensional units — vw, vh, and vmin, which depend on v iewport . It should be noted that this already works in Chrome 20, but not without bugs.
• How to connect the Live.js script to WordPress so that the browser automatically updates the changes to your CSS / JS files, reports Michael Martin .
• A few tips to increase CSS rendering speed . Specific figures are not given, but most of the recommendations are quite relevant.
• The tools needed to compare and merge code files .
• Be sure to test the QR code before sending it to print - the main idea of ​​this message, man not opened a flash-movie on his iPhone via QR-code.
• A simple way to create a "preloader" for CSS animations from Chris Koyer .
• The advantages of using the Google Charts API when creating responsive cross browser charts .

CSS

• Lesson on creating a text mask using CSS. Unfortunately, only available in webkit-browsers.
• Add a blur effect with CSS filters. And again - only for webkit
• Check out the nice CSS3 animation for the drop-down menu , which will add a wow effect to your site.
• CSS Validator has been updated - now it understands multicolumn and several other new features.
• It turns out that CSS3 allows you to make full-fledged rubber sliders with parallax without using JS!
• Several Firefox-only hacks .
• A useful selection of geometric shapes and simple icons created in pure CSS .
• Beautiful alignment of blocks on a rubber grid .
• How to highlight the required form fields using effects CSS3 .
• Funny Spiffing script that allows you to write CSS in British English! (for example - background-color: gray! please;)

Javascripts

• CocoonJS is an HTML5 / JS development environment with thoughtful monetization options .
• iPicture - add dynamic tooltips for your images .
• AutoSuggest - jQuery plugin for adding automatically prompted tips .
• TouchTouch - plugin for creating galleries, optimized for smartphones and other touch devices .
• Another jQuery plugin that allows you to add realistic shadows to your page .
• kartograph is a fairly simple and easy framework for creating cute interactive vector maps .
• retina.js is an open source script that in a rather simple way allows you to make a fork of images for standard and retina displays .
• Kicksend Email - prompts email-domains to users who have made a mistake when entering their email address .
• html2canvas - a script that makes a "screenshot" of the site or its part directly in the browser and draws it in the canvas tag .
• A selection of tools for viewing PDF written in JavaScript .

Entertaining

• One of the founders of Apple expressed his opinion on modern smartphones - Steve Wozniak: Windows Phone is more beautiful and intuitive than Android, better than iOS .
• On all fronts Nokia has been selected as the leader of the mobile phone market .
• Even small companies follow the path of increasing free gigabytes, this time Wuala increased the volume of free storage to 5 GB .
• How fast are sites in different countries of the world?
• On the legal field of the European Union, serious passions flare up about the adoption of a law prohibiting the use of Cookies without displaying the corresponding pop-up window! STOP THE WAR ON COOKIES - Deadline May 26th!
• Google experts slightly open up the process of image indexing
• Infographics comparing the state of affairs in PHP, Ruby, Python languages

Entertainment

• Comic: If browsers were superheroes .
• On the Google-panoramas of Donetsk captured garbage and Gopnik with "seeds"
• Google turned search results into a game: Zerg Rush
• What would our world look like if the Internet had existed for thousands of years? The video was dedicated to the opening of the Big Tent forum, held by Google on April 25 in Moscow

Link to the digest from last week.

Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin