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 | Summing up the 2012th year: |
“2012 is coming to an end and it is time to sum it up.” Probably, this is exactly what the leading search companies thought and provided the world with their annual statistics:
Google with Zeitgeist 2012 and
Yandex with pictures and numbers about the Internet . The most popular social networks are not far behind:
2012, according to Twitter and
Facebook version of the year.
 | Search customization |
Yandex presented a
new search platform "Kaliningrad" , which will make the search results more personalized. Also, quite recently
Google launched the Knowledge Graph for Russian users.
The new version of one of the most popular free CMS in the world will please users with updated functionality and design of the admin part, the new adaptive theme “Twenty Twelve” and some other nice improvements.
Remember, what are punched cards and tape recorders with reels? How did computers look like a few decades ago? For lovers of nostalgia, a retro version of Google’s emulator from the 1960s was created (if it had been created then).
The parallax effect has firmly taken its place in this year’s web design trends. The authors of
this collection offer a whole set of tools and techniques with recommendations for creating such effects.
Exclusive videos and interviews from The Smashing Conference. The first conference of the most famous web magazine became a landmark event that attracted world-class specialists to the topics discussed.
 | Free books |
The season of winter gift rush continues! We offer you two excellent digital books: English book
“Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” and
“HTML5. Developer's Guide .
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