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Essential Mobile – iPhone 5 PSD from Teehan & Lax

Topics]GUI / iOS / Mobile / News / Photoshop / ResourcesAuthor]

As you will probably know, Teehan+Lax have a history of providing highly detailed iOS GUI templates. And last week, not long after the release of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, they released an updated version of their Photoshop templates. Most importantly, these templates are free to download from their site. If you’re working with iOS apps as a designer, this tool is a priceless guide as you build new…

Firefox 16: HTML5 Awesomeness And Love For Developers

Topics]Firefox / NewsAuthor]

Mozilla Firefox 16 has just arrived at our doorsteps, and this time, it comes with plenty of love for web developers as well as HTML5.

The W3C Announces Web Platform Docs – A comprehensive source for web developer documentation

Topics]News / Web DesignAuthor]

A collaboration between major web companies and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has resulted in a new community-driven site, Web Platform Docs, providing a one stop wiki for Open Web Platform (HTML5, CSS, etc.) developers.

Are the doors closing on technological innovation and collaboration?

Topics]News / Web DesignAuthor]

It seems like everyone has been watching the Samsung vs Apple lawsuit with bated breath and I’ve been no exception. It was interesting to see the case develop and also to see the various opinions of the verdict, including a stifling of innovation, whether juries should be giving verdicts on technological patents and whether such things can be patented in the first place. Recently I was in a Microsoft 2010…

Apple Unveils the iPhone 5 — “The World’s Slimmest Smartphone”

Topics]NewsAuthor]

Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 at its media launch event in San Francisco yesterday (and the internet is already comparing and debating its pros and cons). Sounds great? Well, I know you can’t wait to jump into the details about the device — to begin with, the new iPhone is taller, leaner, shinier and lighter — however, not at all costlier! Yes, you read that right; Apple iPhone 5 comes…

DrawHistory, a design company with a conscience

Topics]NewsAuthor]

A new design company, DrawHistory, is providing web design services with a conscience. They are pledging to donate a fixed portion of their earnings to charities they preselect. The designer and developer pair behind DrawHistory, Jeff Effendi and Jordan Singer, are aiming to mix their passions of design and humanitarian work together, in their words: “DrawHistory was founded on a simple intention: to combine what we love doing with what…

Free WordPress Security E-Book Available from Code Poet: Locking Down WordPress

Topics]News / WordpressAuthor]

Code Poet, launched in May by Automattic, has this week released a new e-book on WordPress security. In the pages of “Locking Down WordPress,” three WordPress developers provide important advice on taking the right precautions. The book interviews the three seasoned WordPress pros, all of whom recommended updating all server code in the event of a security breach and requiring strong passwords. Rachel Baker is a freelance web developer who…

Is the cookie law dead?

Topics]NewsAuthor]

Is the cookie law dead? At least one company is willing to call it already. A month after the law came into effect in the UK, software company Silktide conducted research into how websites were coping. They found 95% of UK websites have made no attempt whatsoever to comply. Possibly worse, 76% of the websites that tried to comply were simply adding a cookie policy and linking to that on…

Bursting the ‘Online Privacy is extinct’ bubble – What you need to know

Topics]NewsAuthor]

Global media is rife with opinions on how online privacy is almost non-existent in today’s highly interconnected digital world. Almost everyone has something to say about the possible repercussions of a privacy breach, something on the lines of ‘no one’s safe on the Internet’. But do we really know how and why this has become so much of an issue and what can be done about it? In this post,…

WordPress 3.4 “Green” Released

Topics]News / WordpressAuthor]

Few days back, WordPress came up with its latest stable release – WordPress 3.4 – named “Green” after the guitarist Grant Green. Version 3.4 comes with several new features, both major and minor. For a start, we now have greater freedom when customizing backgrounds and headers. You can now make the header images flexible in terms of width and height, so there is more scope for innovation when customizing your…

Apple Unveils iOS 6 and Mountain Lion

Topics]NewsAuthor]

At the recently held World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC), Apple unveiled a new version of its popular mobile operating system, the iOS 6. Just in case you’re getting curious already, iOS 6 will be available as a free update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users around mid-September this year. If you are an iOS developer you can download the iOS 6 SDK now. Talking about features, iOS 6 comes…

Speed, Consistency, Harmony, Creativity & Certainty with The Golden Grid

Topics]News / Web DesignAuthor]

As most will know, grid-based systems can improve your website’s aesthetic, and Italian designer Carlo Poso has taken that sense of aesthetic even further by creating a grid system inspired by the golden ratio.

Bing & Google Recommend Responsive Web Design

Topics]NewsAuthor]

With so many conflicting views in the SEO community as to whether it is best to design a separate mobile site or make your site responsive, I thought I should take a look at what Google & Bing recommend. They are the two biggest search engines, so following their guidelines makes sense.