The Verge reviews most of the styluses on the market in a very in quite some detail.
Good work, guys!
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Quick and easy way to build your product tours with Twitter Bootstrap Popovers.
HTML5 Sortable is a jQuery plugin to create sortable lists and grids using native HTML5 drag and drop API.
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Works in IE 5.5+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 3+, Safari 3+, and Opera 12+.
Great overview of the topic by JT Mudge for Six Revisions.
Obviously, it’s hard to be objective in this sort of comparison, because some strengths could quickly turn into weaknesses for your given app and vice versa.
Nonetheless, this comparison, at the very least, puts your thinking in the right frame.
“All this stuff — completely alternative funding channels for content sites, fan-directed commissioned work, crowdsourced creative VC funds! — is way more radical and frankly more interesting than the standard Kickstarter model of ‘help me finish my movie’ or ‘help me print my book.’“Maybe none of it quite works yet,” adds Robin, “but maybe we might be just at the cusp.”
Moqups is a nifty HTML5 App used to create wireframes, mockups or UI concepts, prototypes depending on how you like to call them.
I’m convinced that we are living our analogy to the Industrial revolution. Call it Information revolution or whatever, but we see the profound changes happening and I think we have seen nothing yet.
Therefore I try to learn about Industrial revolution and seek some sort of hint of what we could expect.
I found this six-part documentary The Day the World Took Off
This 6-series documentary films address the puzzle of the origins of Industrial Revolution. The central question: why did a scraggy little rainswept island off the coast of mainland Europe become the first major industrial centre, when so many other parts of the world, such as China, with its great history of inventions – looked more promising? The story starts on a single momentous day in Liverpool, a day that shows the best and worst aspects of the Industrial Revolution. We then look back 100 years, then 250, then 500, then 1000, until 10000 years – to the third millennium of the modern era.
If you have tips for other sources, let me know.
Nice set of online generators that might save you time brought to us by Ui Parade. Go play with Button Builder, Form Builder, Icon Builder, Ribbon Builder.
I did some research around the window.devicePixelRatio property that all WebKit browsers, as well as Opera, support, and for once the news is good. This property’s definition makes sense, and it is implemented almost universally.
Via @daringfireball
Despite internal turmoil, massive fiscal losses, and plummeting marketshare, RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins believes there is “nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now.”
…for new Git and GitHub users to try both the tool and the service without a single bit of software installation.
As we just passed 5 year anniversary of iPhone going on sale it’s fitting to look back.
Asymco linked to his post from 2010 which goes nicely with my article about disruption and web applications.
So the iPhone seems to be correctly classified as a sustaining innovation. Something that moves the phone market forward and which, except for a temporary misallocation of profits, will entrench the incumbents after they manage to copy it effectively.However, here is where we have to dig a little deeper.
This so cool: Valve helps you create animated movies.
Via @daringfireball
Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.
We are currently using Postmark and it works great but as the job-to-be-done here is quite well defined and the APIs are reasonably simple, I’m sure it will be race to the lower price pretty quickly for these guys.
I like the modularization of the web application infrastructure we are seeing being build. And one has to wonder: What will be the inevitable integration about?
Great tutorial by Mary Lou of Codrops.
Good article by Patrick Cox of Codrops, about these elements of pricing page:
- Separate packages
- Make your offer stand out in the crowd
- Clear, honest and attention-grabbing type
- Benefits comparison
- FAQ’s
- The left-to-right/right-to-left debate
- Trust
John Gruber (Daring Fireball) in one of his best pieces yet.
Microsoft Surface is not fundamentally about Microsoft needing to control the entire integrated product in order to compete with the iPad on design. It’s about Microsoft needing to sell the whole thing to sustain its current profitability.
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If I’m right, it’s inevitable now that Microsoft will acquire Nokia.
Trust me, just read it.
Yesterday’s reveal of Surface, Microsoft’s first personal computer, was a watershed event in the evolution of value chains around computing.
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And so we can see value chains evolving in real time before our very eyes. They have always evolved but in technology industries they evolve far more rapidly and will continue to accelerate.
Nestable is an interactive hierarchical list. You can drag and drop to rearrange the order. It even works well on touch-screens.
Via @smashingmag