Useful JQuery plugins overview

•December 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

JQuery is gaining speed. Make it work for you with these cool plugins.

10 Really Interesting jQuery Plugins

I handpicked these plugins from jQuery website. I found them really cool and some of them simply a good stuff to enhance website frontend user interface, usability and capability. Awesome plugins I must say.

Google Voice tips

•December 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Make the most out of your Google Voice — if you’ve been invited, that is.

Get the Most Out of Google Voice – Wired How-To Wiki

If you’re lucky enough to have received an invitation, Google Voice is a fantastic way to manage your phone life. The service offers the ability to route any incoming call to any phone or straight to voicemail, if you prefer, and you can create rules based on the caller. Other standout features include SMS, voicemail via e-mail, call recording, call screening and the ability to switch phones mid-call.

In addition to the easy-to-use, Gmail-like interface, Google Voice can be used to search for past messages, keep a backup of all your text messages and otherwise organize your life.

There are also some things your can do with Google Voice that might not be apparent at first glance, but can make the service even more powerful.

Bing is trying to catch up to Google search on iPhone

•December 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

If you’re an iPhone and Bing fan, you get a free app as a prize. Enjoy! (It’s free!)

Bing Comes to the iPhone

Since launching six months ago, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has made strides to try to differentiate itself from the competition — namely Google. Mobile is vitally important to the next phase of search, and Bing has aggressively targeted smartphone users with its enhanced mobile search page.

Google (Google) has had an iPhone app for quite some time and now Bing (Bing) has followed suit. The new free Bing app is available for download from the App Store right now.

Using Diggstr, a social media tool, to find desirable content

•December 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Two heads are better than one…

Digg Plus StumbleUpon Equals Diggstr

Love Digg’s content, but hate navigating through the site, searching for good stories? If you’re more keen on the StumbleUpon way of finding good stuff — i.e. having stories (semi)randomly appear with the click of a button — Diggstr might be a great service for you.

GMail tip – how to get rid of duplicate contacts

•December 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Not all of us have the time to organize our contacts, weeding out duplicates. GMail’s here to help — with one click!

SWEET: Merge All of Your Duplicate Gmail Contacts With One Click

Gmail has an array of useful and unique features that have really made e-mail a slightly more pleasurable experience (or more aptly, a less painful one). We love the fact that you can undo sent messages, stop yourself from e-mailing the wrong person, and customize your navigation bar.

While those are great features, a new feature Google (Google) released today solves a problem that I and many, many others have: the ability to merge all of your duplicate contacts.

McDonalds makes their WiFi free to customers

•December 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Finally! Who needs Starbucks, Panera Bread, or any other higher-priced snack shops, if you can do all your browsing from within McD? (I apologize for sarcasm not translating well in print.)

McDonald’s to lift fee for Internet access – Yahoo! News

The world’s largest burger chain says that beginning in January it will lift the fee it has charged customers for Wi-Fi access.

WebGL developers wanted!

•December 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

It’s not enough to come up with a great idea, one must also sell it to the masses. WebGL is on it’s way to doing just that.

WebGL draft published, Khronos seeks community involvement

Mozilla and the Khronos Group have announced the availability of the first public WebGL draft, which would enable developers to integrate 3D graphics into conventional Web content. The emerging standard already has strong support from browser vendors, including Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Opera.
By Ryan Paul | Last updated December 15, 2009 9:48 AM

Mobile app development for the web developer

•December 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Now we can use familiar programming language and markup (JS and HTML) to develop full-featured mobile apps for a variety of platforms. This may be the beginning of migration from formatting a mobile version of your website to actually transforming it into a complete mobile app. Needless to say, I’m excited!

Using PhoneGap and the Sony Ericsson WebSDK to develop Android apps – Android and Me

The WebSDK enables web developers to produce mobile apps that work across different mobile phone platforms. It’s a tool created in collaboration with the PhoneGap open source community. PhoneGap allows web developers to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript that have access to the core features of the Android, Blackberry, and iPhone SDKs.

Organize, prepare and follow-up your meetings online with eCommunities

•December 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Check out these great online tools to make your time-consuming management of annual meetings, etc. a more streamlined effort.

Midcourse Corrections » Blog Archive » 14 Online eCommunity Options For Your Next Annual Meeting

Online conference eCommunities were the rage in 2009

Did you offer one for your annual meeting attendees? I did.

So what are they? Online eCommunities are virtual communities of people that primarily interact via the Internet for social, professional, educational or other purposes.

Online Conference eCommunities have become a supplemental form of communication between people who are attending the same conference. The registrants of the face-to-face event use special online social software to connect with each other.

2009 CSS Design Trends overview

•December 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Read this article to see examples of 2009’s web design trends.

Best of CSS Design 2009

Since 2007, every year I do a round up of best of CSS from Best Web Gallery (check out 07 and 08 collection). Well, it is the time of the year again — Best of CSS Design 2009. This year I’ve selected another 50 nicely designed web sites. Among the list, I notice a lot of them are minimalistic design with beautiful serif fonts. The grungy and sketchy styles are still strong. However, the large background is no longer as hot as in 2008, instead, texturized background is popular in 2009.