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Google is working on new search engine
It seems Google will not let Bing take “some small portion” of it’s user base, and is ready to fight back.They released a sandbox of it’s next version, and you can test it right now. It’s suppose to be loading faster, indexing faster and give better results, I can’t see the difference, but I think it’s a good thing, more information on mashable.com.
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Firefox 3.6 has some goodness coming
Firefox 3.6 is currently in alpha version and might be coming faster than you think with at least a couple of cool things. First you have the CSS3 rem font-size unit, this unit is based on your root document font size, no more fuzzy font-size because of the relative em.
This is also coming with background-size, CSS gradients and multiple background images (like this one).
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Friday video: Augmented Reality with the iPhone
If you happen to have not heard about Augmented Reality, it will enable you to use the iPhone camera video and put a layer of data on top of it, but the video explains it better.
Augmented Reality was recently delayed by Apple to September with the 3.1 OS update, which is a bummer.
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Microsoft censoring results on Bing!
When you thought that Microsoft was heading to recovery on the search market with Bing! and Yahoo! well… It seems Microsoft is actively censoring and manipulating question resulting in bad press for Microsoft
Example, looking for: why is Windows7 so expensive? Returns results like : Why macs are so expensive
Real accurate guys…More information here.
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Facebook and Twitter are down
Twitter is down in one of the longuest outage it had in months. Curiously Facebook is experiencing issues as well at the same time. Is this the foretold apocalypse?
Twitter still does not know why.
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IntoMobile interview Opera CEO
Want to hear more about where Opera is heading? Well this video is for you.
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Google to Acquire On2 Technologies, open video rejoice?
If you followed the open video saga you know that the HTML5 spec video tag has a problem with the default codec to use. Apple wants h264, others do not want their proprietary codec and Microsoft could not care less. With this acquisition, Google could open source of one of their most performing codec and be head to head with h264.
Apple would have a hard time defending that H264 has enough superiority to be considered as the default HTML5 codec. Pretty sure Apple is not happy right now, of course that can’t stop them to put their head in the sand.
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Tip#3 Animating the scrollbar with jQuery
There is a bit of shadows when animating the scrollbar with jQuery, what should you animate? Well the response is simple, the scrollTop.
So for example, if you want to slide the scrollbar to an element in particular, this is really easy, you would do:
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// the :not:animated is just a protection
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var destination = $("#ID").offset().top;
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$("html:not(:animated),body:not(:animated)").animate({ scrollTop: destination});
It will slllllliiiiiiddddeeee.
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Display your tweets in real time, a basic twitter API use.
Recently I began optimizing social networking on Position Absolute, which lead me to the Twitter API. I wanted to display tweets in the top corner of the site. However I did not want to display my last tweet, but display my tweeting in real time.
Real time ?
This way I do not alienate frequent users with tweets pop-up. When you click on the appearing tweet box, it redirects you to my Twitter account.This is only a small JavaScript plug-in, so it unfortunately resorts to intervals, after 10 seconds it does an API call, after it happens every 30 seconds. By this time if I tweet something, it will appear to everyone on the site.
This may not seem much, but over time I think it may pay…
Articles
Some Tweets
- Confoo schedule is out! my talk, jquery spaghetti, will be thursday 13:30! Right after lunch!
- The Open Web Needs You Now http://t.co/KclGKezj
- jquery validation engine 2.5.1 release is coming, some bugfixs in there, you can already grab it from github raw download
- really nice backbone patterns resource, http://t.co/FQLYcoZV
- the best news reader app for android tablet @pulsepad , a joy to read on, no need for all those websites app now..
- Interestingly enough, my fellow developers that had a looked at @weddingdeck app stayed longer than my wedding clients target userbase
