The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week No. 48 (March 9 - 15, 2013)

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

Hot seven

Kill Google Reader

During the spring cleanup from Google, in addition to a number of services, including Picasa Web Albums , it was announced that Google Reader would soon die. Is there life in rss without google reader? Let's try to figure out: how to replace the indispensable Google service , what to do now, and who is to blame, a petition against closure , several alternatives to Google Reader here and here , Why does Google destroy its Reader - and why is it good? .. And finally, Google Reader generates sites have much more traffic than Google+

Samsung Galaxy S IV

Meet the new plastic flagship from Samsung. Full presentation video , galactic flagship , Droider's first Galaxy S IV review , mobile-review review , Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy S3 , under the body , comparison with other flagships , and a great review from theverge.com

Adaptive design

The trend of adaptive design is dictated by the realities of the modern web and does not think to fade. In honor of this, here are 50 tools for responsive design , an adaptive layout for email newsletters , Development of adaptive design for Retina displays part 1 , part 2 , as well as a selection of Adaptive websites for inspiration . And finally, considerations of responsibility when working with responsive design

Convenience of modern interfaces

First we turn to history and read a brief history of usability . Now back to the present and discuss, Why are modern interfaces bad ? Pay special attention to the Facebook interface

Tablet PC History

Many people mistakenly believe that the first tablet computer in the history, the iPad, was invented by Apple in 2010, but in fact the “tablet” pedigree has been stretching since the 1960s. We offer to read about the history of tablets in this article . If we talk about the future, the sales of tablets on Android will overtake the iPad in 2013

We put the browser on a diet

We offer you a fun, but extremely useful site dedicated to client site optimization and including tips on how to improve its performance.

Hot in web standards for January / February 2013 by Lea Verou

We bring to your attention a news report from the W3C camp from the notorious Lea Verou , among which you can read about the W3Conf conference, the first drafts of the picture and HTML Templates elements, new pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes, changes in the status of some technologies and much more

Development

• Environment-friendly Device API Design
• 50 tools for responsive design
• How to optimize sites for mobile traffic
• Making responsive images for your WordPress site
• Putting a browser on a diet : a funny guide on front-end optimization
• antwort - Responsive Layouts for Email
• Development of adaptive design for Retina displays part 1 , (part 2)
• Hot in web standards for January / February 2013 by Lea Verou
• New tools for web design and development for February 2013
• Chrome Developer Tools : Mobile Emulation
• Accelerated Rendering in Chrome : The Layer Model
• W3Conf 2013 Short Report
• Touch and mouse
• MP3 Player with HTML5 - Lesson 2
• Shadow DOM concept visualization
• 10 Popular Metro Bootstraps
• Questions for a front-end developer interview
• Hard turn off animation in browsers
• Preview version 3 of Firefox OS Simulator
• News from the developers of WebM video format about the progress in agreements with MPEG LA
• SimCity UI Code + DRM
• Improving product quality for users by optimizing Front End
• The latest issue of digital magazine Appliness with an interview with Lea Verou
• Responsibility considerations when working with responsive design
• Bootstrap 3: new preview release

CSS

• Text Effects with CSS3
• Analysis of the use of SVG as background-image
• CSS Length
• CSS - OOCSS, SMACSS and more
• Modular CSS using Media Queries and Sass
• Interview with Eric Meyer
• Preboot - a large collection of utilities for LESS
• Finer grained control of hyphenation with CSS4 Text
• Learn CSS Layout - for beginners learning CSS
• Simple Grid - Adaptive Grid
• IOS 6 style switches on pure CSS

Javascripts

• We use advanced techniques to improve your JavaScript code.
• Abba - javascript a / b testing
• JResponsive - Super-smooth transition layout for jQuery
• Cross Browser HTML5 Form Validation.
• Exploring jQuery Queues
• jQuery Nested - for multicolumn markup
• candy - chat client on JS
• Create a script to check the password complexity
• Auto-tips on jQuery
• Launch of Node.js server-side JavaScript platform 0.10
• AngularJS for those used to jQuery
• How to use Fullscreen API

Browsers

• New from Firefox developers - Font Inspector and time / data elements
• Web Browser Grand Prix: Chrome 25, Firefox 19, And IE10
• The release of the free web browser QupZilla 1.4.0, built on the basis of Qt and WebKit
• Firefox added the ability to change the speed of video playback in HTML5 player
• Microsoft includes Flash in IE10
• Mozilla organization does not intend to develop version of Firefox for iOS
• The danger of cross-browser testing in IE9′s Browser Modes

news

• Sales of tablets on Android will overtake the iPad in 2013
• Google's Spring Cleanup , including Picasa Web Albums and Google Reader
• Killing Google Reader: Without Google Reader: what to replace the irreplaceable Google service, what to do now, and who is to blame , a petition against closure , several alternatives to Google Reader here , here and here , Why does Google destroy its Reader - and why is it good? . And finally - Google Reader generates much more traffic for sites than Google+
• Samsung Galaxy S IV: Full presentation video , new flagship of galactic scale , First Galaxy S IV review from Droider , review from mobile-review , Comparison of Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy S3 , which is under the case , comparison with other flagships , and also a great review from theverge.com
• Google Now is going to add to Chrome
• Mozilla officially released Open Badges 1.0 - an open standard for online training certificates
• Find the app just got easier
• Google has presented a detailed guide to protecting sites from hacking
• Fujitsu and NEC join Samsung with Tizen OS
• Another 12 winners announced , who will receive $ 25,000 each from Milner / Durov
• Work on Windows 9 and Windows Phone 9 is in full swing
• Big update from Dropbox
• LinkedIn buys the popular Pulse news aggregator
• Pinterest introduced a web analytics service
• "Yandex" has learned to show the chords in the issue
• Seagate hard drive shipments exceed 2 billion
• Facebook is preparing to launch hashtags

Services

• HSL Color Picker
• genericons - static vector icon generator
• voke.fm - Instant Search Reference for CSS and PHP
• Social Media Image Maker - To resize and retouch your social media images

Demo

• The 'root element' parallax technique
• Experiment with WebRTC - response to phrases

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• missrussia.ru - a new site from the Studio Lebedev
• ultraagency.pl - site with non-standard geometry
• spacemilkshake.com - an interactive site with parallax and animation
• mydream - a site with non-standard navigation and author's illustrations
• thomasfersen.fr - one-page site with non-standard elements
• hexaedro.eu - an unusual site built on hexagons
• czk.fr - site with timeline navigation
• nouvelleoctavia.fr - a new generation car site with scrolling in depth
• Adaptive sites for inspiration

Design

• The main features of Chinese web design and their origins
• Why modern interfaces are bad
• Thoughts on the Facebook interface
• Brief usability history
• First look at the redesign of the New York Times
• The future of minimal web design
• Sample redesign landing page
• Useful additions to Photoshop
• Photorealistic icons and infographics by Anton Egorov
• Examples of responsive website designs
• Sites advertising applications for the iPhone
• The best February lessons on Photoshop and Illustrator + an alternative version of the best lessons on photoshop for February
• Once again about the trends of web design 2013 by Vladimir Kudinov
• Updated version of honest logos
• Fifty logos with funny animals

A selection of free designer cookies

• Simple Icons hundreds of PNG icons in sizes from 16 to 4096 px , about this set from Smashing Magazine
• PSD templates FLAT UI - with flat bootstrap design
• PSD with switches , as well as with search forms
• Quite a big template with iOS 6 elements for creating application sketches
• Corporate Identity PSD Template for Tweet and Subscription
• A whole collection of PSD website templates + a simple home page PSD template
• A dozen business card PSD templates
• Map Markers (PSD) - icons for maps
• Spot Design Template UI Source Template
• Textures: abstract backgrounds , concrete
• vector spots with paints
• Handy Icons Vol2 icon font
• Supergrass sans serif decorative font

Entertaining

• How do social networks die : a chain reaction that will one day kill Facebook and a similar article: Autopsy Friendster or how social networks die
• Google has developed smart interactive sneakers
• The history of tablet computers : 45 years of concept creation
• Closing Megaupload increased sales of legal content
• HTC and Facebook are ready to release HTC Myst
• Augmented Reality as a way to learn billiards
• Google introduced the first applications for glasses Glass : Gmail, Evernote, Path and The New York Times
• Microsoft Office 365 Review
• Interesting features of Google's spreadsheet
• Amit Singhal told about the future of search and the role of search engine optimization in promoting a resource, Google will soon force search to “think like human beings”
• Facebook calls for lifestyle apps
• Goodbye Harlem Shake. Screaming goats epidemic swept YouTube
• Image Toaster - toasts with 6x6 pixel images

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin