The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №39 (January 5 - 11, 2013)

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

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CES 2013

The annual exhibition in Las Vegas has come to an end, leaving behind tons of news and new electronics. Already you can read the reports from the first and second days , look at the 10-pound tablet , Ubuntu OS and Firefox OS , Pebble Watch , foggy touchscreen display , flexible screens and much more

Kickstarter in 2012

The Kickstarter project showed the whole world that, with the right approach, the crowdfunding model works very well, in the third year of its existence, it collected about $ 319 million for projects.

Overview of search algorithms that appeared in 2012

Search technology does not stand still, every month there are different updates. It is quite difficult to keep track of all of them, and the changes are not always obvious. The article considers the basic algorithms that appeared in 2012.

Mobile optimized sites

Responsive design or a separate mobile version of the site? The authors of this article compared the methods that were used to create the mobile version of popular sites and made the appropriate conclusions.

Some news from Microsoft:

The network has got a plan of Microsoft products until 2015 . Also, you can look at the cute infographics of all Microsoft products .
In addition, Microsoft officials reported sales of Windows 8 licenses and downloading applications from the Store , and in Skype 6.1 for Windows, integration with Microsoft Outlook appeared . And yes, Windows Live Messenger will stop working on March 15th .

Touch-web: Swipe

Excellent material from mail.ru developers, which is dedicated to the implementation of swipe functionality on touch devices

Top 10 HTML5 Games

HTML5 technology has advanced quite a bit in development last year. Including in the game plan - now it is not just demos and beautiful concepts, but quite playable products. The author cites the example of 10 games that are worth paying attention to.

Development

• Touch-web: Swipe
• Optimize DOM animation . The priority of optimizations.
• Another “Solar System” on HTML5 Canvas
• Dry layout method for multi-page sites
• SVG: animation , styles for SVG
• Web Developer Checklist
• Comparison of methods for creating sites optimized for mobile devices
• Junior — front-end framework for creating mobile HTML5 applications
• Useful hacks and snippets for .htaccess
• Use form elements and CSS3 to replace JS
• New tools for web design and development for December 2012
• Interview with Ian Hickson , one of the HTML5 developers at W3C
• Most Popular WP Plugins (Infographics)
• Bandwidth Media Queries? We don't need 'em!
• Play safely with the Iframe in sandbox mode.
• Introduction to using Persona
• The harsh truth about the semantic structure of html5: part 1
• Shadow DOM 101
• Introduction to the creation of the Atlantic Wire iPad HTML5 App
• New look at updating content in a dynamic page
• Five useful visual tricks customizable in Sublime Text

CSS

• The concept of a three-dimensional bookshelf using CSS 3d transformations
• Looking forward to the "all" property in a future version of CSS
• CSS3 Gmail Buttons
• Adaptive design in IE10 on Windows Phone 8
• Cool CSS3 Animations Examples
• How to automatically generate CSS sprites using Sass and Compass
• Who said that the web is only for squares?
• CodePen with CSS3 gradients
• The effect of splitting images with CSS

Javascripts

• jQuery inside - attributes, properties, data
• Entertaining API: Vibration API , visibilityChange , Battery javascript API
• Isotope: - jQuery plugin for creating masonry style dynamic layouts
• motio: jQuery plugin for creating sprite animation
• Yugen Logo
• Updated jQuery API documentation
• ParamQuery grid - working with tabular data and grids using jQuery
• CSS Browser Selector + A Cross-browser Responsive Design Helper
• PolyCrypt : WebCrypto API Polyfill written by the US Department of Homeland Security
• Tags Input jQuery plugin

Browsers

• Release of Firefox 18 with the new JIT compiler IonMonkey
• The new version of Firefox adds support for Retina displays.
• Chrome 24 web browser release
• Zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 18 and Opera 12.12

news

• CES 2013:
  
  • The most interesting news of the zero and first day
  • Overview of the second day: one , two
  • CES 2013. Exhibition award for the best products - a brief description of innovation
  • Anything that may be of interest to iDevice users
  • And also about some interesting things in more detail:
  • New tablets: PaperTab - a tablet with e-paper technology and a 10 kg tablet from Lenovo
  • New Mobile OS: Ubuntu Phone OS and Firefox OS
  • Technologies of the future: IGZO from Sharp , Xbox IllumiRoom from Microsoft and the touchscreen foggy display from the Russians
  • Microsoft at CES: 60 million Windows 8 licenses sold, 100 million applications downloaded from the Store
  • Samsung presentation report. New processor, Ex-president and flexible screen
  • Pebble Watch - one of the most successful projects in the history of Kickstarter crowdfunding service
  • Gorilla Glass 3: strength tests
  • Valve's Steam Box
  • YotaPhone at CES: the most innovative gadget
  
  
• Windows Live Messenger will stop its work on March 15
• Skype 6.1 for Windows introduces Microsoft Outlook integration
• Microsoft plan to 2015
• Facebook is testing a new chronicle design.
• Appeared atmoji - a social network of cat lovers
• Microsoft's share in the smartphone market fell to 3%
• The total amount of payments to App Store developers exceeded $ 7 billion

Services

• holify.it - add Christmas mood to your site
• excssive - - online service for CSS compression on the fly

Demo

• HTML5 Canvas Lightning
• Dream of the Tree
• Doom3 gangnamstyle using canvas
• Top 10 HTML5 Games
• Infinitely growing flower in canvas

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• degetel.com - a fun site with full-screen video on the background
• badrfood.com/ - a site where masks and parallax are combined
• voeux.extralagence.com - a site with non-standard use of the timeline
• rei1440project.com - every minute in the photo, on the full-screen gallery site
• madwellnyc.com - an interesting portfolio site with a parallax- and tiled presentation of sections and other nice little things
• kyron.me - interesting scroll effects
• dim.hr - full-screen portfolio of a Croatian studio, made with European charm
• silktricky.com - a mixture of tiled interface with video and photo gallery

Design

• Interview with a brilliant designer
• How to make PSD files more flexible
• Devil's dozen of trends for 2013
• Examples of using textures in web design
• Two dozen examples of web design , with the successful use of large images
• A selection of cool web designs with photographic backgrounds
• Retouching techniques in Photoshop, part 1
• Business Card Design Psychology
• Wonderful packaging designs
• Ten resources where it is possible to look at the best patterns of mobile UI
• Video tutorials about drawing cartoon characters
• Logos made in retro and vintage styles
• On the importance of creating designs for "empty" windows or pages
• Hot trend: infographics on your site!
• The iOS Design Cheat Sheet v2
• Conditional Lightbox : about alternatives to pop-up windows on mobile devices

A selection of free designer cookies

• game-icons.net - Hundreds of vector icons for connecting to your games
• Gemicon - pack of six hundred icons in PNG format + source in PSD
• Icons of social networks in PNG / PSD formats
• 13 sets of UI in PSD
• Source PSD of the presentation folder , the design of which can be changed using the advantages of using Smart Object
• Two and a half dozen photo textures
• For subscription to the mailing list , the source code of the site based on Bootstrap is offered in PSD
• Logo with a tourist theme in Korelovsky format
• RIDGE - decorative sans serif font with pseudo-3D effect
• Gutenberg A - a decorative retro font , a free version of the famous B42 , thus used by Johannes Gutenberg in the same 42-line Bible
• VDS - nice, updated with new outlines, sans serif font
• Typicons - compact icon font

Entertaining

• Overview of search algorithms that appeared in 2012
• The upcoming business wars of 2013
• IT leaders in 2013 : Facebook earns, Apple weakens, Google progresses
• W3Techs 2012 Most Popular Web Technologies
• Kickstarter summed up the year : $ 319 million attracted to projects
• TIOBE Software summed up the popularity of programming languages ​​in 2012
• What are the most commonly used smartphones
• Infographics all Microsoft products
• Team Building Lessons by Mark Zuckerberg
• Most owners of smartphones and tablets are not important operating system
• Microsoft R & D office robbed, only iPad tablets stolen
• Instagram blind man
• Song "Damn the day I bought an iPhone"
• Computer science demotivators for the second class
• American dialectologists have called "hashtag" the word of the year
• Regulars for Twitter search

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