The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №34 (December 1 - 7, 2012)
We offer to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
New web technologies allow you to feel nostalgia for old games. Last week it was Dune 2 , and today you can touch Command & Conquer and OpenTTD , for those who remember Transport Tycoon Deluxe
iTunes is coming : Apple recently released iTunes 11, and the other day the Apple company launched a full-fledged iTunes Store in 52 countries, including Ukraine and Russia , which many have been waiting for quite a while. Not without incidents - In the Russian iTunes Store got pornography from the domain .XXX
Detailed article on how important it is to find a balance in the visual presentation of information and how to properly use symmetry in web design.
Detailed article from Paul Underwood on syntax and current state of CSS filters with examples. And here you can look at the visual effects that can be achieved with their help.
The other day, Google launched the program "Understandable Internet" for retirees , which is aimed at educating the elderly people of computer literacy.
The winter season is approaching with its tangerine-candy flavor. For designers and client-side developers, gifts are prepared, which, as you know, do not open immediately. Meet calendars with gift articles: Uxmas for UX designers , and Digitpaint HTML & CSS advent 2012 for layout designers.
Adaptive design is almost always non-trivial tasks and their solutions. Joshua Johnson decided to share the development of Adam Bradley , which allows photos and images in such sites, to remain at its best, regardless of the size of the device on which you are viewing the page. The focus is correct framing and focus on the desired image fragment.
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
Hot seven
 | Classic video games come to the web |
 | iTunes Store and iTunes Match earned in Russia and the CIS |
 | Symmetry |
 | CSS Filters |
 | We invite pensioners to the Internet |
 | New Year Season Calendars |
 | We keep everything in focus |
Development
- CSS3 Pseudo-classes and HTML5 Forms
- New in Firebug 1.11
- New tools in web design and development for November 2012
- Video : New developments in the semantic web and internationalization in the W3C
- Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player
- Where to embed this code in WordPress? The overall structure of the theme files
- Parallax effect in WordPress : we put it into practice
- Karaoke Web Standard
- Responsive Email Templates
- HTML5 Video Bumpers
- Adaptive responsive design by Tim Kadlec , or responsive websites in terms of optimization
- HTML & CSS ADVENT 2012 from Digitalpaint. Winter holiday calendar every day opening an article on HTML / CSS
- A little guide to creating sharper icons using web fonts
CSS
- GitHub's CSS Performance
- Current CSS Work at W3C
- CSS3 Image Filters
- Visual Effects with CSS3 Filters
- Font-face support test on mobile and tablets
- Nice effect thanks to: focus
- Online Assistant in Cross-browser CSS Transformation
- Animation of a sheet with sprites using steps ()
- Responsive Column Layouts
- CSS printed page
- We keep everything you need in focus : intelligent framing of responsive images
- A look at the future of CSS
- How to use the transition property in CSS3
Javascripts
- Literally “Canvas” - an interactive js widget for drawing in canvas
- Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns - New Free Book
- StackSlider - cute 3d slider
- Photobooth.js - widget / jQuery-plugin that allows users to make screenshots from a webcam directly on the site
- nanoScroller.js - another jQuery plugin to customize the scroll
- jsMovie - js-plugin for creating animation from individual images
- Performance with JavaScript String Objects
- jQuery Paypal Buy It Now Plugin
- JavaScript secrets of the Bret Victor home page
- Heyoffline.js will let users know that their internet connection has been lost.
Browsers
- Phishing Resistance Browser Comparison
- How to improve the performance of Firefox
- Internet Explorer share increased in November
- Facebook chat will appear in Mozilla Firefox
news
- Microsoft has opened a social network so.cl for everyone
- Facebook ranked the best social games of 2012
- Google launched the program "Understandable Internet" for seniors
- iTunes Store and iTunes Match earned in Russia and the CIS
- Google has updated the Gmail application for iOS to version 2.0
- Google+ launched a community , an active social network audience reached 135 million
- Google has updated the interface of YouTube
- Android version statistics for November : new version comes into play
- Russia's attempt to tighten control over the Internet has failed
- Windows 8 sales aren't that incredible - StatCounter
- Domain .UA turned twenty years old!
- The world's first newspaper for the iPad did not reach the audience and closes
- Skype has confirmed the video messaging function
- IPad shipments for the quarter can reach 26 million , of which 6-7 million will fall on the iPad Mini
- Evernote received $ 85 million investment and valued at $ 2 billion
- Mozilla joins Internet Society to support the development of Internet standards.
Services
- HTML_CodeSniffer - service and bookmarklet for checking HTML code according to WCAG standards
- character-code - special characters for every taste
Demo
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- getgoingtoday.org - fullscreen site with interesting navigation elements
- tapmates.com - portfolio with interesting 3D transformation
- builtbybuffalo - elements in the form of honeycombs
Design
- Basics of web typography
- Art of Symmetry
- SEO and web design
- A series of typographic experiments involving Chinese characters
- Color Accessibility or how to make a design accessible to users with diseases of the visual organs
- Rethinking Lockscreen
- Tool-addition to Photoshop allows you to change the radius of the rounding of the corners of the rectangle
- More than three dozen tricks with which you can improve the work on creating design for iOS in Photoshop
- Draw a logo in Photoshop
- Santa's illustrations made in a variety of styles.
- Web designs using retro photo effects
- Best Photoshop Lessons in November
- A small guide to the use in the design of photo textures
- Fifteen practical tips on using typography for web design with emotions
- UXmas - calendar of the winter holiday season with articles for UX designers
A selection of free designer cookies
- Some blurry backgrounds
- Sources in EPS, PSD, Christmas and New Year Icons, cards and graphic elements
- PSD portfolio site
- Nine new fonts , decorative and not so: from CROISSANT to Facunda and Razor
- A small, recently opened, collection of web fonts.
- Bourbon - decorative sans serif font
- Four dozen fonts that cannot be avoided in 2013
Entertaining
- Chart of viral videos
- How to connect Google Drive as a network disk on your own
- Look at this Instagram (Nickelback Parody)
- Z-Type is a time killer toy, and a good blind typing trainer.
- "Doodle" Belgorod schoolboy will appear on the main Google
- foldify is a fun application that allows you to draw a paper three-dimensional character for every taste, and then print and collect the result.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook gave the first major television interview
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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