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The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0
Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Manager Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give ...
Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing
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The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
There's a wonderfully powerful and subtle technique in Google Mail that can be used to enhance every reply you make to a mail: if you selec...
Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files
Posted by Phil Sharp, Product Manager Since Google Drive launched in April, millions of people have started using Drive to keep, create an...
Twitter Boostrap Goodies
Twitter Bootstrap is a simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions. In this post, I have found many useful tools, plugins and themes created specifically for Twitter Bootstrap. If you love using Twitter Bootstrap, I'm sure you will love all these resources.
A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript
I believe the day-to-day practice of writing JavaScript is going to change dramatically for the better when ECMAScript.next arrives. The coming year is going...
Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
Hidden features, reduced discoverability, cognitive overhead from dual environments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low information density. Too bad.
NVD3 Erased From Existence
I was incredibly surprised to find out today that the popular graphing library NVD3 has been erased from the web, due to what what looks like a copyright dispute.
Regexp-based RFC822 email address validation
Mail::RFC822::Address is a Perl module to validate email addresses according to the RFC 822 grammar. It provides the same functionality as RFC::RFC822::Address, but uses Perl regular expressions rather that the Parse::RecDescent parser. This means that the module is much faster to load as it does not need to compile…
Making MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math with Three.js and WebGL
Presentation-quality math with Three.js and WebGL.
Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript
Today, Mozilla Research publicly announced the Shumway project . Shumway is JS/HTML library which displays SWF (Flash) content entirely using open web technologies.
How to generate more revenue from your web application today
There are ways that your software as a service web application can make more money today. They aren’t complicated or revolutionary, but instead are practical ideas that you should consider implementing right now. Before we jump in you should take a moment to check out my latest book on designing web applications. It…
Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For All Developers
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Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.