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The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of IT for the last week №42 (January 26 - February 1, 2013)

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



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RIM is dead, long live the BlackBerry

At the last presentation of BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion presented not only the new operating system and devices , but also the rebranding of the company itself . Here you can take a closer look at the BlackBerry Z10, and here to read about music and video in BlackBerry World . And yes, the most popular games from Gameloft will be optimized for the Blackberry 10 platform.

modern.IE

Microsoft has taken another step towards meeting web developers by introducing a new resource for testing sites in old and new versions of Internet Explorer . In addition to various recommendations from experts , you can scan your site and use various tools for IE virtualization . Nice try, MSIE!

Why is Helvetica still popular?

Interesting article in which the author is trying to figure out why Helvetica topped the rating of " 100 best fonts of all time ." We also offer a look at a series of posters “World font heritage” from a design studio Kalyaki, where visualized classic fonts from Garamond to Helvetica. Well, and for those who missed, the video history of creating and using the font “Helvetica”

Image Compression Tools

The speed of sites is still an urgent issue, and images play a significant role in it. Here is an excellent selection of services for image compression with a description and screenshots of each of them. Unfortunately, the compilation does not include Image Catalyst , so we correct this annoying misunderstanding :)

Overview of services for quick file sharing

Dropbox, Google Drive, or SkyDrive is nice, but what if you don’t want files being distributed to take up space in your account? In this case, you should look to specialized services for quick data exchange. And this review will help you choose the most suitable for you.

Flight - a new js-framework from Twitter

The Twitter team decided not to be limited to Bootstrap and presented to the public its own lightweight javascript component Flight framework, in which each component describes the behavior of elements on the page.

Social networks and search engines

Many have probably already noticed that the recent social networks and search engines have been striving for a common knowledge maker: personalization in the search results, and a full search in the social sphere. Therefore, useful information about them in one thread:
Consider the search results of Google in terms of ethics and commerce and get acquainted with the SEO-results of the past year and forecasts for the future . Let's look at the TOP-10 of the fastest growing social networks in the world and the second social network in the world by the number of active users . You can not ignore Facebook, which added the function of recording video and voice messages to the iPhone application, started selling gift cards , and also finally blocked Wonder , because of which Yandex froze the project

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