Don Schaefer's List: web tech

"At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our time: that the Web, with all its targeting abilities, can be a more efficient, and hence more profitable, advertising medium than traditional media. Facebook, with its 900 million users, its valuation of around $60 billion (as of early June), and a business derived primarily from fairly traditional online advertising, is now at the heart of the heart of this fallacy."

"No matter what kind of phone you use, a lot of us are pretty dependent on Google for organizing our lives. Luckily, you can actually get Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Voice, and other services working great with iOS—it just takes a little bit of setup. Here's what you need to do.
Obviously, if you're really entrenched in Google services, your other option is to just use Android—after all, Android has a lot of features you can't get on iOS. However, iOS has its own specialties, and if you have your heart set on iOS' fantastic interface and app library, there's no reason being a Gmail user should hold you back."

Everybody may be working for the weekend, but if you run a website, you already know that you’re almost always working on the weekend, as well.

In fact, most of the work of the everyday Web professional has to do with tweaking, analyzing, and generally optimizing the performance of their site(s), which can take up a lot of time.

So, if you don't want to spend your whole weekend working, here are eight quick ways to refine your website in two days, and still have time to go see the new Batman movie.

ZURB launched yet another handy design application to help anyone test Web products they're working on. This one is called Solidify. It takes care of one of the most annoying parts of building an interface: testing clickable prototypes. Solidify lets you build a working test of your design and give it to users to see if it makes sense to them. It also gives you analytics on how your testers performed.

When adapting a layout for different viewport widths (a.k.a. responsive design) or media (like print), it’s common to reset any float and width values on major layout blocks to linearise their display.

Popcorn Maker is a fun and easy way to make interactive open video pages. It's an HTML5 web app, so you can access it from any advanced browser and start creating.

Popcorn Maker is not a video editor-it's a new kind of tool that seamlessly weaves your videos into the web. With Popcorn Maker, you can make advanced, "web-native" videos without learning how to code. (Of course, if you want to be a rockstar, you should learn how to code!)

Why use Popcorn?
Popcorn.js utilizes the native HTMLMediaElement properties, methods and events, normalizes them into an easy to learn API, and provides a plugin system for community contributed interactions.
Popcorn has dozens of plugins for common services and APIs, ranging from Twitter, to Maps, to media events, and more. But if it doesn’t do what you need right now, you can write your own plugins quickly and easily.

dhtmlxSpreadsheet is an open source Ajax spreadsheet widget written in JavaScript and PHP (also available as a plugin for WP, Joomla, etc.). It allows you to quickly add an Excel-like, editable data table on a web page.

If you need to display some data in a table view and would like to put it on the web for sharing or further editing, you might consider using online spreadsheet services. However, what if you want to keep data on your own server? With dhtmlxSpreadsheet, you can store the data on your side and show it in a web-based spreadsheet in edit or readonly mode.

Max Davis themes

"SimpleViewer is a free, customizable image gallery. It allows you to display your images on any web page in a professional and intuitive way.

SimpleViewer now supports Universal Playback and can be viewed on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android."

Writing CSS can be a pain and can give you headaches. The truth is that CSS ain’t rocket science and you should just have in mind some CSS pieces of code (snippets) you can use everytime.

In the following rows I’ll try to present you some important snippets I often use in my project and I hope these will help you too.

All of the latest browsers support @font-face and many more file formats are supported, including the TrueType/OpenType TT (.ttf) and OpenType PS (.otf) formats. Unfortunately, “latest” doesn’t include Internet Explorer before version 9.

From the very beginning of @font-face, IE had only supported its proprietary Embedded OpenType (.eot) format, which helps restrict the use of copyrighted fonts. With IE 9, though, you get full TTF and OTF support, as well as WOFF and SVG.