The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №28 (October 20 - 26, 2012)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.

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Microsoft conference

Report from the official launch of Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface: at the dawn of a new era
Windows 8: what is the difference between different OS versions
Microsoft website updated
Welcome to Skype for Windows 8: fast, simple and beautiful.
New Evernote for Windows 8

Apple Conference

Report from the Apple presentation on October 23
IPad Mini presentation in 5 minutes
Apple announced new iMac and Mac mini
Apple Announcement: Hi, iPad mini
Compare iPad mini with closest competitors

Video recordings from the 2012 Fronteers conference

Finally, video recordings from the Fronteers conference , one of the most significant front-end conferences, which took place in early October of this year, became available. Among the 18 videos available are recordings of such extraordinary personalities as Roman Komarov and Simurai.

Let's talk about robots

Not a single Japan. Meet Alice - android , who was born in the bowels of the Moscow laboratory "Neurobotics".
Do not sleep and the American company DARPA - their new robot has learned to jump and climb .

Responsive Design

The trend of adaptive design continues to gain momentum. To help developers we offer a selection of 25 jQuery plug-ins that will facilitate the work with adaptive layouts. Also, you should pay attention to an interesting method of debugging CSS Media Queries , as well as to the bookmarklet Viewport resizer , which allows you to quickly view the changes associated with the change of the viewport.

10 myths about QR codes

QR codes recently have firmly entered our life. Now more and more they can be found both on goods and on posters, signs, and even on garments. This article has gathered some of the popular myths associated with them.

The current state of the development of games on HTML5

Boring slides with text? Forget about it and meet the game presentation on the theme “State of HTML5 Game Development” from Pascal Retting, which clearly shows how HTML5 can add interactive to the web.