The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №57 (May 11 - 18, 2013)

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

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Google I / O

This week, the Google I / O conference was held, where all the key innovations in the Google platforms were highlighted. So, we meet new maps , new design Google+ , Google Hangouts , pure Samsung Galaxy S4 , paid music service , and much more

Islands from Yandex

Big changes on Yandex are the “Islands” platform: interactive responses in the search results are also an amusing service that tells you how much Yandex knows you . In addition, a new version of Yandex. Browser with synchronization and the Tablo API was released, and a mobile Yandex. Browser will appear in early summer . Plus, an entertaining interview with Ilya Segalovich on Forbes

Virtual money

Let's talk about Bitcoin: Bitcoin electronic payment system : bits or coins ?, Bitcoin: the revolution is canceled , the US has frozen Bitcoin Mt.Gox accounts , Webmoney now supports Bitcoin wallets . Internet currency is becoming more common, but not a single bitcoin: large companies are also gradually creating their own monetary units - for example, Amazon has launched its own currency . In addition, Google has launched a feature that allows you to send money by mail via Gmail

humans.txt

Sites are made by people for people. However, the robots.txt file exists, but humans.txt does not. Is this fair? A group of developers had an idea to meet people on the other side of the site using just such a file that contains information about the people who participated in the creation of the site.

Something about Facebook

The rich also cry: Ugly failure of the first facebook phone, Failure of the restaurant on Facebook , Advertising troubles : the mobile revolution knocks the ground from under the feet of Google and Facebook. Also, an entertaining interview with our Facebook man.

Augmented Reality

The subject of augmented reality is increasingly gaining popularity, and today the attention of developers to AR technologies is growing rapidly. We offer you some research results on augmented reality technologies, their impact on marketing and the development of various markets. Also, the founder of Best.ua launches a mobile game on augmented reality X-Rift . Separately, it is worth noting Capri , which implements the ideas of Kinect and augmented reality based on the tablet Nexus 10.

Chrome Experiments

Want to know what modern browsers already know? Launch Google Chrome and try: Google Racer , freeciv , Zombie Infection , as well as a small selection

Web development

• humans.txt
• Video recording of the report "Forms on the Web" by Robert Kharitonov
• For the Dart language, an application compilation service is presented that works on the browser side.
• IntelliJ IDEA based on new Android Studio
• Demonstration of technology to implement a simple rotation of the object
• Google Web Font Optimization , Increase Web Fonts Speed
• Make the most of ARIA landmark roles
• Make a note taking application using IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js
• Migrating a WordPress site is easier than you think.
• Improving Productivity with Chrome DevTools
• 10 tips for learning new technology
• Ten bookmarklets for front-end development
• Sublime Text Resources for Front-end Developers
• Creating weather widget gallery with parallax effect
• Measuring the effectiveness of using CDN for sites downloaded over 3G
• How to avoid duplicate downloads of responsive images
• About responsive images from BBC News developers
• Ten simple tricks to improve accessibility
• Cross-browser mode (IE7 +) creating galleries with cropped images using CSS Pointer Events and SVG
• True-Color Gif Example
• HTTP Cache Headers Beginner's Guide

CSS

• CSS Magic Numbers
• CSS counters
• Device morphing with CSS Transitions
• A selection of useful Sass mixins
• Multiple Background CSS Animations
• Kinetic typography with CSS
• Fix for the height of the button in Firefox
• .FITGRD - light adaptive mesh
• Improving CSS performance on mobile devices (video)
• Replacing images when printing
• To managed style sheets with SASS
• Client-side full-text search in CSS

Javascripts

• Introduction to Node.JS
• W3C Consortium Introduces JavaScript API with Network Socket Implementation
• nouislider - range slider on jquery
• Media Query Change Detection in JavaScript Through CSS Animations
• Brain.js - A trainable JS neural network
• cesium - JS library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps without any browser plug-ins
• 3D Carousel Using TweenMax.js & jQuery
• windows - jQuery plugin for fullscreen scrolling slides
• jquery.swatches - jQuery plugin that draws a color palette
• jQuery plugin for creating accessible buttons
• Unveil.js plugin for lazy-load Retina images
• automation with Grunt for lazy developers (video)
• Interview with Addy Osmani (google)
• jQuery Markup - plugin for generating HTML-code using templates (DOM-injection HTML-code)
• Polymer - similar to the previous one another plugin for working as a Shadow DOM and HTML Imports polyfill.
• Angular.js: Understanding the News Feed

Browsers

• NSS Labs: Internet Explorer 10 is the most secure browser
• Google I / O: The number of active users of the Chrome browser has reached 750 million
• Firefox 21 release
• V8 engine and Google Chrome browser will support Asm.js!
• Chrome browser added voice search in Google , and Blink engine became easier by 8.8 million lines of code
• A new version of Yandex Browser has been released : with synchronization and Board API
• Mobile Yandex Browser will appear in early summer
• Microsoft will help with the introduction of Pointer Events in Chrome
• The initiative to replace Firefox with Chromium in the base Ubuntu distribution
• Easy trolling from Microsoft or "Don't Get 'Scroogled"
• Google is close to completing the VP9 codec and is calling for a speedy transition to this codec that is replacing VP8 and is about to launch support for the codec in Chrome and on YouTube on June 17th . Well, for comparison: JPEG Vs. Google's WebP , Google's VP9 Vs. H.264

news

• Google I / O:
  
  • General reviews: one , two , three , four
  • Google announced a new version of maps , Preview of new Google Maps (you can request an invite)
  • Google+ design has changed. Again.
  • Google Hangouts overview , Skype first, then Viber and now Google Hangouts with hitman chips
  • Google has improved work with photos on Google+
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 will come with the stock version of Android
  • You can now attach money to Gmail letters
  • Google launches paid music service
  • Google Voice Search
  • Google Play Game - Better than Game Center
  • Why does Larry Page have such a voice
  • Each user of Google services is promised 15 GB , the user of Google Apps - 30 GB
  • For developers: Day 1 Chrome Sessions and New AdMob
  • Just numbers
  • Aftepati Google I / O serves the robot barman
  
  
• Now all developers will be able to respond to user comments on Google Play
• New Yandex:
  
  • Would you like your island?
  • Big changes on Yandex - “Islands” platform: interactive answers in search results
  • Interview with Ilya Segalovich
  • YaC / m 2013: Trends, Analytics and Decision Making in Marketing
  
  
• Bitcoin:
  Bitcoin electronic payment system: bits or coins ?, Bitcoin: the revolution is canceled , the US froze Bitcoin Mt.Gox accounts , Webmoney now supports Bitcoin wallets
  
• Windows 8.1 will be available for free from the Windows Store , and the first Windows 8.1 devices should be released at the end of October.
• SkyDrive Improves Photo Work
• Officially: PayPal received a license to operate in Russia
• By 2020, Samsung will establish a 5G network with data transfer rates of tens of gigabytes per second
• Smartphones:
  
  • Canalys: Android is installed on 75% of smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2013
  • 95% of revenue from the market of Android-smartphones went in the first quarter of 2013 to Samsung
  • Nokia introduced the Lumia 925 in a metal case
  • Samsung sold 4 million Galaxy S4 smartphones in the first four days
  • Microsoft is back - sales of WP-smartphones have doubled
  
  
• TechCrunch launched its own educational project CrunchU
• Amazon: Amazon launched its own currency , Amazon launches Cloud Drive Photos application for iOS
• AMD: tablets will be completely ousted from the market by hybrids in 2-3 years

Services

• Picozu - browser editor for creating and processing images
• There was an online map where you can see how users edit Wikipedia
• Check how Yandex knows you
• hoverboard.io - creating a portfolio with a trend design
• redpen.io - service for loading the layout and the ability to leave comments to it without registration
• to-round - visual task manager

Demo

• 5 Awesome Chrome Experiments
• CSS3 Pong - with scoring
• Play the mandolin
• Play Civilization right in the browser
• Google racer
• Google Image Search lets you play classic Breakout
• Zombie infection
• Flying in 3D MacBook Air on pure CSS
• GeoGuessr - an entertaining game that allows you to explore the geography of the whole world

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Daft Punk website with various effects, plus a little about the technical side
• designembraced.com - a site with creative vertical and horizontal navigation
• colored lines.com.au is another site with non-standard navigation.
• c-roots.com - and one more
• consumerbarometer.com - and more
• www.ifc.com/back-to-portlandia - well, where do without parallax
• 15 sites that tell you a story
• herrlich-media.de/team/ - a funny animated effect that adds a mustache in the photo, as well as a drawable panel with social. buttons
• xoan.in - nice effects and non-standard geometry
• weareapartments.org - interactive infographics with js animation
• playgroundinc.com - fun animation using SVG

Design

• Inspiring examples of business cards and corporate identity
• Effective design of advertising banners
• goodui - A Good User Interface
• Background video as a trend in web design
• New design patterns for the web with many mobile devices
• SuperPNG - Photoshop plugin for saving files in a more optimized way.
• Examples of flat design
• How to make your Custom Shape in Photoshop
• Estimated design concept iOS 7
• guifff.com - animated gifs featuring design work or interactivity
• sketchmine.co - sketching files from the design community
• Windows 8 Design Handbook - Windows 8 Design Guide

A selection of free designer cookies

• Updated Font Awesome
• PSD templates for mobile devices and not only, as well as actions
• PSD sources: subscription forms
• Vector avatars
• Textures: walls in the style of grunge graffiti , walls of various textures , blurred backgrounds
• Fonts: two dozen comic fonts , Valkyrie - a stylish serif font, before breakfast - a “handwritten” decorative serif font , Idealist sans - a nice font in two styles
• Icons: a set of flat icons in PSD format , several sets of attractive flat icons , a growing collection of flat icons of platforms and CMS
• A set of technical brushes for photoshop

Entertaining

• Google Glass: Google Glass in action (video) , Dozens of useful applications of glasses , videos about what Google Glass glasses can expect in the future , a review from tomshardware , OK Glass - concepts of where and how Google Glass can be used
• Why is Steve Jobs cool and Bill Gates is not very
• Facebook: Ugly failure of the first Facebookbook , Restaurant failure on Facebook , Advertising troubles : the mobile revolution knocks the ground out from under Google and Facebook. Also, an entertaining interview with our Facebook man.
• Augmented Reality: Augmented Reality Study : Evolution Stages , and the founder of Best.ua launches a mobile game on augmented reality X-Rift
• Capri's futuristic technology that can explode the tablet market
• BBC Click Program on Smart City and the Future of Modern Urban Transport
• Music: Robbie Williams "advertised" the Megaupload file hosting service in a new video, the video clip for David Bowie's song , shot onboard the ISS, became a YouTube hit
• Firefox OS operating system overview
• Fortune named 10 technologies that will change the world
• Amazon Kindle's bendable colored book readers are around the corner
• "Tape.ru" found out what can not be found using Google
• The beauty and speed of Windows 8 (caution, Asian advertising inside)
• Private space transportation: to whom the ticket?
• The agency Irony Production launches a service for maintaining the pages of deceased users in social networks , the reasoning on the topic will all die, and I'll shut up (how to manage social networks from the next world)
• The Germans ordered Google to edit auto-complete search queries
• Skype with user care - Microsoft reads everything you write?

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin