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1. PC vs Mac Users
1. PC vs Mac Users
An unscientific survey has shown that PC users tend to prefer fitting in with others, are less tech savvy, and prefer Hollywood films over indie films. The same survey suggests Mac users tend to throw more parties, are modern art enthusiasts, and would rather drive a Vespa than a Harley.
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2. Smartphones a la 1984
2. Smartphones a la 1984
Amid rising scrutiny of their practices, Google Inc. defended the way it collects location data from Android phones, while Apple Inc. remained silent for a third day.
The companies' smartphones regularly transmit locations back to Google and Apple servers, respectively
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703387904576279451001593760.html#ixzz1KdBP2X80
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3. Apple Lacking Green Credentials
Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on "dirty data" centres.
The list, which is compiled by Greenpeace and released in San Francisco on Thursday, shows that the company relies heavily on highly polluting coal power at the sites that house its banks of servers.
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4. PrintWhatYouLike Addon
4. PrintWhatYouLike Addon
PrintWhatYouLike lets you fully customize a page and print it directly or save it as a document. PrintWhatYouLike also offers a printer friendly button for your website.
To launch the PWYL editor, click the button or bookmarklet and wait a second. To isolate, remove, widen, resize, or save only selected items, simply click them in the website on the right and select the respective option from the little menu that opens up. You can select more than one element at once and apply the action to all of them at once.
You will also notice a sidebar on the left hand side of the website you are editing. In addition to manipulating single items, it allows you to change the default text size and font, remove the background, all images and margins, as well as undo and redo changes. A shortcut is to click Auto Format, which yields a text only version of the website.
Once you’re happy with the result, you can print the website directly or save it as PDF or HTML.
As you see in the screenshot above, clicking on an item shows up a pop-up describing that tag, which also has links for your reference. You can also inspect webpages by typing in the URL in the box at the top of the page and hitting ‘Inspect’. It’ll highlight the tags on the table that are being used on that website.
Features
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6. Cool Previews Addon
You can also turn previews on/off on specific sites anytime by clicking the icon on the status bar (or for those who have no status bar in FireFox 4, the same settings can be accessed in Tools -> Addons). CoolPreviews will memorize your settings.
The “Settings” dialog lets you customize your image previewing experience in many ways:
Additional fun features:
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To launch the PWYL editor, click the button or bookmarklet and wait a second. To isolate, remove, widen, resize, or save only selected items, simply click them in the website on the right and select the respective option from the little menu that opens up. You can select more than one element at once and apply the action to all of them at once.
You will also notice a sidebar on the left hand side of the website you are editing. In addition to manipulating single items, it allows you to change the default text size and font, remove the background, all images and margins, as well as undo and redo changes. A shortcut is to click Auto Format, which yields a text only version of the website.
Once you’re happy with the result, you can print the website directly or save it as PDF or HTML.
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5. HTML5 Element Reference Table
There’s been a lot of buzz around HTML5 lately, especially since it is touted by many as the Adobe Flash replacement. HTML5, which is currently under development, will inevitably be the new content structure and presentation standard on the web.
Periodic Table of the Elements, a project by Josh Duck, aims to act as quick html5 element reference online. It has got 104 elements and 2 proposed elements arranged in a periodic table format.
5. HTML5 Element Reference Table
Periodic Table of the Elements, a project by Josh Duck, aims to act as quick html5 element reference online. It has got 104 elements and 2 proposed elements arranged in a periodic table format.
As you see in the screenshot above, clicking on an item shows up a pop-up describing that tag, which also has links for your reference. You can also inspect webpages by typing in the URL in the box at the top of the page and hitting ‘Inspect’. It’ll highlight the tags on the table that are being used on that website.
Features
- See HTML5 elements in a periodic table format.
- Click on a tag to get more information about it.
- Includes 104 elements in HTML5 working draft and 2 proposed elements.
- Check webpages for the tags being used on them.
- Similar: HTML5games, CloudCanvas and Aloha-Editor.
What is HTML5?
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6. Cool Previews Addon
CoolPreviews is the multi-feature FireFox addon that lets you preview any linked content including images. The image preview panel enables you to:
- Zoom the image in or out;
- Open the linked image in the separate tab;
- Email the current link;
- Play all the images on the page in the slideshow (works especially well for popular image search services like Flickr, Google Images, etc)
You can also turn previews on/off on specific sites anytime by clicking the icon on the status bar (or for those who have no status bar in FireFox 4, the same settings can be accessed in Tools -> Addons). CoolPreviews will memorize your settings.
The “Settings” dialog lets you customize your image previewing experience in many ways:
- Set when you want the preview panel to appear: on mouse-over, on clicking the CoolPreviews icon, on mouse-over + CTRL key;
- Set the location of the preview panel (relative to the cursor or the link);
- Control the speed (how fast you want the preview panel to appear)
- Set the theme (dark or ice);
- Temporarily bookmark images to the right column with “stacks” feature;
- Scroll Google Image search results on an “infinite 3D Wall” (Cooliris addon required).
- Preview multiple thumbnails simultaneously without (mouse over subsequent images on a page while the preview window is open or pinned).
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7. Online Life
7. Online Life
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8. HTML 5 Games
8. HTML 5 Games
Sand Trap
Instead of taking advantage of one of the many physics engines for the Flash or Java platform, Sand Trap uses its own built-from-scratch HTML5 effort in this addictive puzzler. Each level contains a maze, and within that maze is a small amount of sand. By rotating the maze, it is your task to syphon the sand into the bucket.
VII
VII transforms your whole browser window into a monochrome platform world, with smooth animations, physics and responsive controls. Using both the mouse and keyboard you must navigate, manipulate and clear each screen before progressing.
Canvas Rider
Blatantly inspired by the classic Line Rider, Canvas Rider allows users to create, share and ride user-generated tracks. If you’ve ever played a physics-based bike game (think Trials, or the more recent Trials HD) then the concept will be very familiar.
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8. Web Fundamentals Chapters 4 & 5
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8. Web Fundamentals Chapters 4 & 5
Work through Chapters 4 & 5 on Creating Text and Managing Graphics of the Web Fundamentals course, we will do a brief quiz on these Web Fundamentals chapters on Friday.
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