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03-09-10 |
Six Apart Shuts Down Vox |
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Six Apart is shutting down its Vox blogging service. Users have until Sept. 30 to export their data to other services, including Six Apart’s TypePad blogging service. After that, Vox will be gone.
If you’ve got a Vox blog, there are several export options — Six Apart has instructions for moving to TypePad, Posterous and WordPress. [...] |
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02-09-10 |
Chrome 6 Arrives, Just in Time for Cake |
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Google is celebrating the second birthday of its Chrome web browser with the release of a new, improved version.
Chrome 6 arrives with an updated user interface, better syncing tools that include support for web form data and extensions, and — as should be expected with every new browser release these days — increased speed and [...] |
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01-09-10 |
Using Microformats in HTML5 |
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With all the attention being paid to HTML5’s <video> tag, few have clued in to what is perhaps the most useful magical pixie dust hidden inside the web’s next markup language: the new semantic tags.
Rather than using <div> tags to wrap your page sections, HTML5 offers much more sensible elements like <header>, <nav>, <section>, <article>, [...] |
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01-09-10 |
How to Speed Up Your Site With YSlow and Page Speed |
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We all want our websites to load faster, but speeding things up can be tricky. There are numerous tried and true tricks we all use to keep page load times down, but once you’ve done a few rounds of optimization, you tend to hit a plateau where it’s tough to squeeze any more speed out [...] |
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31-08-10 |
Browsers Turn Their Backs on Old Macs |
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Word is out that Firefox 4, when it ships at the end of October or thereabouts, will probably not include support for older, non-Intel Macs.
Mozilla’s director of Firefox Mike Beltzner hinted at the change on a Mozilla developer mailing list last week: “I am gathering data on the number of PPC users we have, but [...] |
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30-08-10 |
Twitter Moves to OAuth: The OAuthcalypse Is Nigh |
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Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning, the company says. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authentication.
This is a planned move Twitter first announced in December, and the company has posted a help page on its developer site with some [...] |
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30-08-10 |
Google and Arcade Fire Get All HTML5y |
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The good folks at Google have published a very cool multimedia showcase for what’s possible in HTML5. Using music by Arcade Fire (the 21st century hipster equivalent of ELO), filmmaker Chris Milk has made an interactive video of sorts that spans multiple browser windows.
Eliot Van Buskirk has a full write-up, including an interview with Milk, [...] |
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30-08-10 |
Ruby on Rails Steams Ahead With 3.0 Release |
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It’s been two years in the making, but Ruby on Rails 3.0 is finally here. You can grab the third generation of the popular web framework from the official website, or update via the command line with: gem install rails --version 3.0.0
Rails 3 is a major overhaul for the framework and merges the Rails and [...] |
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30-08-10 |
Chrome 7 Shows Off Hardware Acceleration, ‘Tabpose’ |
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Google’s Chrome web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphics — the latest trend for web browsers that has already shown up in early builds of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4.
Hardware acceleration allows the browser to offload intensive tasks like image scaling, rendering complex text or displaying scripted animations to your PC’s graphics card. [...] |
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27-08-10 |
Firefox Mobile Alpha Lands on Android |
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The first official pre-release version of Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser for Android devices has arrived, the company announced Friday.
Curious users with phones running Android 2.0 and above, or with Nokia N900 devices, can download and install it right now.
Codenamed Fennec, Firefox mobile is based on the same code as the big daddy desktop version of [...] |
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