The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №10 (June 9 - 15, 2012)

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

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WWDC 2012

One of the main events of the past week is the long-awaited conference from Apple, where a decent amount of new products was presented. We offer those who missed it to familiarize themselves with the detailed pressing of the last event , as well as with text and video broadcasting .

Meet new application centers

Many giants of the IT industry have long acquired a cozy place for their own applications - iTunes Store, Google Play , Chrome Web Store , Windows Store and many others. This week, they were joined by the Mozilla Marketplace and the Facebook App Center .

Practical acquaintance with Photoshop CS6

I didn’t have time for Photoshop CS6 to go into the open spaces of design jobs, as whole collections appeared with lessons describing the capabilities of the latest version of the Adobe editor using specific examples.

Everything you wanted to know about Unicode, UTF8 and character sets

Smashingmagazine presented its readers with a wonderful article that looks at various sets of fonts and codings, affecting both the history and the technical part.

Modern pixel reality

Let's talk about the crisis of the identity of the pixel , and also consider this question in a little more detail in the article “Microview: a comparison of displays of modern smartphones under the microscope” .

Responsive Web Design Testing Tools

Due to the rapid development of mobile Internet and smartphones, responsive design is increasingly entering our lives. Therefore, such collections of tools that will help test and debug your responsive layout, are becoming increasingly relevant.

The original way to convince users to abandon IE7

The online store Kogan has shown the world a unique way of dealing with obsolete client browsers, which hits their wallets and is respected by web developers around the world.

Development

• Everything you wanted to know about Unicode, UTF8 and character sets .
• Pixel identity crisis .
• Microview: a comparison of modern smartphones under a microscope .
• Microdata. Acquaintance. .
• Facebook integration in wordpress .
• Nu Markup is a set of bookmarklets for different types of page validation.
• Create puzzle functionality with jQuery and PHP .
• Demonstration of working with blending modes and filters on canvas .
• Everything or almost everything about the CSS classes embedded in the WordPress theme .
• How to make the effect of turning pages in webkit-browsers .

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CSS

• Cris Coyer on CSS Tricks Big Plans
• The first variants of CSS variables appear in the Chrome developer branch.
• SASS or LESS? .
• The results of the survey by Chris Koyera about the popularity of CSS-preprocessors .
• HTML5 Adaptive Images: End of Round One
• Studying transformation matrices in CSS
• W3C gives blessing on CSS animations without prefixes
• Adaptive design: from structuring information to development
• CSS filters in action .
• An excellent collection of effects and use cases of the new generation of cascading style sheets, clearly demonstrating the capabilities of CSS3 .

Javascripts

• In jQuery since version 1.8, you can exclude some modules .
• Adaptive sliders and image galleries .
• Percentage Loader is a small jQuery plugin that perfectly visualizes the process of loading something.
• jQuery Picture - while in w3c they conjure up future standards for responsive images, you can use this solution on jQuery
• A selection of jQuery countdown scripts .
• Flash Cards - js-effects that emulate card animation.

Browsers

• Start of beta testing of Firefox 14 and creation of aurora-branch Firefox 15
• Mozilla programmers will rewrite the Flash player in JavaScript
• Google has released the first version of the Chrome Metro style browser for Windows 8 , and you can download it here.
• Browsing websites in Windows 8 Release Preview using Internet Explorer 10
• Firefox 13 extends the functionality of the canvas tag for greater data availability .
• 38 keyboard shortcuts that work in any browser
• Customize the "new tab" in Firefox 13
• The original way to convince users to switch from IE7 to normal browsers is Internet Explorer 7 Tax, which is 6.8% of the added value for any product you buy!
• Meet the new Opera at number 12

Services

• Find out all you can about the character you are interested in using these three services: unicodinator , unicode.martinleopold.com and graphemica
• A selection of tools, for the most part already known to us, for testing the responsiveness of web design .
• QRHacker helps to draw, embellish and generate a QR code .

news

• Text and video broadcast WWDC 2012 - how it was
• WWDC 2012 - detailed squeeze about everything
• Facebook has opened the App Center application directory
• Web application store Mozilla Marketplace earned
• Google Maps - coming soon in 3D and offline
• By the end of the month, Apple App Store will work in Ukraine
• It is said that Apple’s Ping social network didn’t take off and would soon give up.
• LG and Megogo launch free online movie access service on Smart TVs
• Flash Player 11.3 implements sandbox mode
• Yandex has launched a free online translation service.
• Skype will advertise during audio calls . And here you can download any old version of Skype

Demo

• Shiny Demos - a large set of demos made by the developers of the Opera, including hixie keyboard - a favorite demo of Vadim Makeyev

Design

• Infographics: everything you wanted to know about web designers .
• Graphic visualization of mobile devices .
• Creative use of typography in advertising posters .
• I didn’t have time for Photoshop CS6 to enter the open spaces of design jobs, as there appeared whole collections with lessons describing with concrete examples the capabilities of the latest version of the editor from Adobe .
• Rules that will help the designer to make the main page of the site more attractive .
• Fresh creative business cards .
• Fifty logos in which design uses stylized images of living beings .
• Examples of superstated and photorealistic icons of iOS applications .
• A huge set of vector icons at affordable prices .
• Recommendations for building a visual hierarchy in the design of mobile sites .
• Examples of eco-friendly web designs .
• Retro-style web designs are still popular .

A selection of free designer cookies

• A large set of sources of modern business cards .
• Keynotopia Mockup Bundle - templates for creating presentations of mobile sites and applications in Apple Keynote .
• More than two thousand bright icons in sizes 16x16 and 32x32 .
• For one tweet here you can become the owner of a cute gastronomic puff of 35 MB PSD-shki .
• A large pack of four dozen fresh textures .

Entertaining

• The Swiss newspaper printed the number in binary code .
• The 30 most popular passwords stolen from LinkedIn .
• Civilization 2: ten years without restarting .
• Sketch e63 - 100 seconds about Youtube .
• Ya.Subbotnik in Kiev
• Introduction to the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 as a gradual change of IP addresses .
• Yevgeny Kaspersky warned the world against cyber catastrophe .
• Intel: Android 2-core support is so weak that the second core is just there to the detriment .
• Scanbox is a portable scanner from iPhone and a folding design .
• Live projection, responsive to light. Webcam + Projector + Flashlight .
• 11 winners of the Apple Design Award 2012 .

Entertainment

• Toilet yoga now on iPad and iPhone!
• Stylized images of animals depicted using the routes on the map of the London Underground
• Medal defender of the Internet .
• Finding pointer - you can not hide your cursor from the pointing finger
• An example of what happens when a developer forgets to remove test data .

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