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Here’s a quick catchup on some of the hottest jQuery demo’s and plugin’s at the moment. For more information about each one simply click on the image under each heading to link to the demo site. If you have any others you wish to share please do in the comments belooow.
Reorder and filter items with a nice shuffling animation.
Here’s a really useful tool in our ‘really useful tools to share’ series of posts… you like that? Good, I’ll continue… If you’ve just finished collecting the Dr Who 2010 Merlin sticker collection and you’re frantically looking for another random collection to occupy your time then why not start a social usernames collection? Just imagine, owning your chosen username account on every social site on the web! Am I selling it to you yet? No? That’s good, you’ve passed the ‘I’ve got a life’ test. On the other hand if you have a legitimate reason for owning or checking the availability of a username on social sites, domain names and trademarks then this online tool is exactly what you’re after. Do it all in one search, type in a query and see which ones are available and which ones you can secure. They’re quite literally up for grabs.
Successful websites require a series of important pre-launch stages to ensure they have the best chance of succeeding. Client liason, technical specs, design briefs, accessibility, standards compliance and SEO are all important factors in the DNA of the top performing sites. Through years of commercial experience we have found the final quality assurance stage to be one of the most important. This vital stage ensures both platform stability and quality is at it’s optimum pre-launch.
We recently launched a competition aimed at photographers with a passion for HDR, with a prize fund of $500. We’re glad to announce the competition has closed and our friends at HDR Darkroom have picked the winners. The winning three HDR photos entered into our Flickr photo competition group will each win a copy of HDR Darkroom Pro. Two other licences will be awarded to 2 lucky people who have either Retweeted the competition on Twitter or who have commented on the competition post page. The winners are announced below.
Picked by the guys at HDR Darkroom from a total number of 119 entries by 53 photographers.
Shot at the barbican centre in london, 5 frames HDR
Pornography has been traded online since the 1980′s, even in the form of ASCII art, and then, with the rise of the world wide web in the 1990s, adult websites began springing up everywhere. Here are the figures for the enormous world of internet pornography.
Via: Online MBA
Rickrolling originally began as an internet prank where one person would be provided a link to something allegedly awesome. When they clicked the link, they would be taken to Rick Astley’s video “Never Gonna Give You Up”… something decidedly not awesome… well maybe slightly awesome. Here’s an infographic detailing the act.
Oh yes and then the video itself…
Via: Online Schools
Today Google has released something very interesting, a Font API and directory that offers high quality open source web fonts for web developers. At first glance these fonts are extremely easy to integrate with just a few lines of code needed.
The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers.
The interesting part of the subject of baking fonts into images and using font replacement scripts is actually how ‘searchable’ they are. Now with Google Font API you should be more comfortable in the fact that if Google have developed this, they ‘must’ be search engine friendly… right?
Getting started using the Google Font API is easy. Just add a couple lines of HTML:
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine'
rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
body { font-family: 'Tangerine', serif; }
We’re proud to announce we have partnered up with HDR Darkroom to bring you the chance of winning 1 of 5 pro copies of their fantastic HDR Darkroom software in our first ever photography competition. This photography competition is open to anybody interested in HDR photography or has a passion to start learning. The rules and guidelines are detailed below along with a competition closing date.
You can enter in 3 different ways.
HDR Darkroom will pick the 3 best HDR photos from the flickr group who will win a pro copy of HDR Darkroom. 2 winners will be picked by random draw from the Twitter and comment entries. All entries should have a clear contact method in case of winning and will be contacted direct via email after the competition end date.
The end date for all entries is 1st June.
If you tweet, comment and enter your best HDR photography into our Flickr group you will have 3 chances of winning. Up to 3 photos are allowed to be entered, 1 comment and 1 tweet. Any abuse of the rules may mean you are eliminated from the competition.
The copyright of all photo entries remain with the original owners of the photo. We may use your photos on this website when showcasing the winners and other worthy entrants. The photos will not be used in any other promotional campaign without the originators consent. The photos will remain in the HDR Flickr group until at least the end of the competition.
It seems the domain Google.com has been UNLOCKED for transfer. I wonder where it’s going? Maybe if nobody else wants it it can come and pay my account a visit. Hmmm, to request transfer or not to request transfer, that is the question.
Today all of the UK’s major airports grounded flights in and out due to a volcanic ash cloud from the Icelandic erupting volcano Eyjafjallajökull. The impact of this can be seen visually on the Live Air Traffic website flightradar24.com. What would have been frenzied airway activity over England and Scotland has now been replaced my an eerie silence and clearance of planes. The yellow plane icons represent planes currently in flight, the blue crosses represent closed airports.
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