The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №35 (December 8 - 14, 2012)

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

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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.

Meet the WordPress 3.5 "Elvin"

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.

Google punch cards

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).

Parallax Tools and Techniques

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.

The smashing conference

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 .

Development

• Post-processing of images and videos from WebGL
• Parallax Tools and Techniques
• Taste bam
• A modern web developer, or 6 things you need to know to survive
• Free books "Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript" and "HTML5. Developer's Guide »
• Chrome extensions to optimize the front-end
• Meet Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 , and here you can see a minimalist template to familiarize yourself with the platform.
• Redesign with media queries
• PAGEFLIP full-screen prototype (page turning emulation)
• Canvas-driven background images
• SVGO: SVG Optimizer - Video from Web Standards Days in Moscow
• Behind the scenes - Media Query Mario
• Improving the performance of web applications with Chrome DevTools and profiles (Improving Web Performance with the Chrome DevTools Timeline and Profiles), as well as similar measurements on mobile devices from Addy Osmani
• input [type = "datetime-local"] added to Chrome Canary
• WebRTC is embedded in Firefox and enters Android and iOS using the Ericsson Bowser browser
• Selected videos by Paul Irish front end
• How about responsive URLs?
• Creating a mobile application in HTML5 / JS "Where I parked my car", part one
• Interesting interview about Three.js
• Love Bootstrap - a gallery of sites that use Bootstrap

CSS

• Stick to short CSS selectors
• Should prefixes be used for box-shadow and border-radius?
• CSS Animations with only one keyframe
• pointer media query
• Cute indentation effect for CSS buttons
• Improving site performance with Hardware-Accelerated CSS
• CSS Regions Auto-size
• The difference between CSS2.1 and CSS3 +
• Adaptive images : what we think we need now

Javascripts

• jQRangeSlider - adaptive range slider on jQuery
• JavaScript Patterns - Video from Web Standards Days in Moscow
• DataMaps - interactive maps for data visualization
• Are your mixins ECMAScript 5 compatible?
• Vegas Background jQuery Plugin
• Collie - a productive library for creating animation

Browsers

• Maxthon browser goes to the clouds
• IE allows you to track mouse coordinates (even in another window)
• We are waiting for Australis tabs in future versions of FF
• Google will implement the main page of search service in Chrome as the default page
• What's new in Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone

news

• Google Zeitgeist 2012
• 2012 year on Twitter
• 2012 year according to Facebook
• Annual statistics from Yandex
• 2012 for Mozilla
• Last.fm announces termination of radio service for most countries
• New Yandex Search Platform with Personal Results: “Kaliningrad”
• Meet the WordPress 3.5 "Elvin"
• Google officially launches YouTube in Ukraine
• Mobile OS rating : Android is coming
• Android services Google Now will appear in Chrome
• Angry Birds Star Wars has reached the Windows Phone platform
• The number of Facebook users via Windows Phone has increased 4 times
• Google, Facebook, Red Hat and other IT companies are joining forces in the fight against software patents.
• All for the sake of knowledge: Google launches "Knowledge Network"
• Twitter launched a rival Instagram

Services

• css3generator - an updated online CSS3 property generator
• fakeimg.pl - placeholder image generator
• cssload.net - customizable CSS3 preloader generator

Demo

• Google punch cards
• Christmas story on CSS
• Google Droid-gangnam on pure CSS

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• thisislumia.ru is an advanced site dedicated to the new Lumia
• tapmates.com/ - site with non-standard geometry
• bakeagency.it - a site with unusual navigation based on reveal-js
• woodwork.nl - a site with another navigation option
• esetatsnordiques.tv5.ca - a video-stuffed video game with a teacher’s story about a village in Canada
• conocevalenciadeunaformadiferente.com - a small full-screen adaptive video site
• vasonanetworks.com is a one-page site with CSS3 animation and easy parallax
• beta.skype.com - adaptive version of the famous site
• Top 20 Best CSS Sites 2012 by NetMagazine

Design

• A selection of web designs and steampunk resources
• Sharing faces with Photoshop
• Adobe has announced new features Creative Cloud
• Four dozen excellent icons for mobile applications for iOS
• The most successful examples of using photorealism in the design of applications for iPad
• Sites using full-screen photos as background
• Funny pages with the 404th error
• The best gift to the designer;)
• Atypical holiday trees
• Christmas social network icons in PNG format

A selection of free designer cookies

• The best fonts of 2012 from Villa Didot to Barkentina
• Whole hundred cool fonts of 2012, from Venera to Barkentina from Teléfono
• Ten popular handwritten fonts
• Christmas card vector elements
• Bit of vector snowflakes
• A bag with wood textures
• Six dozen sets of Web UI and Mobile UI with PSD
• Collection of a huge number of brushes for Photoshop, dedicated to Christmas
• Christmas set for the designer : brushes, textures, patterns and vector images

Entertaining

• Infographics: HTML5 history
• Exclusive videos and interviews from the first conference of The Smashing Conference
• How much did PSY earn on his Gangnam Style
• Using the Apple Maps service in Australia is risky.
• British scientists are going to replace pixel graphics with vector graphics over the next five years using VPI (vectorized photographic images)

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