Digest of interesting news from the world of materials and IT for last week number 39 (5 - 11 January 2013)

We bring you the next selection with links to news, interesting articles and useful resources.

Hot Seven

CES 2013

Annual Show in Las Vegas came to an end, leaving a ton of news and new electronics. You can already read the reports from the first and second days , look at the 10 pound plate , Ubuntu OS and Firefox OS , watch Pebble , foggy touch screen , flexible screens , and much more

Kickstarter in 2012

Kickstarter project showed the world that with the right approach kraudfandinga model works very well in the third year of the project, about a shortfall of $ 319 million

Overview of search algorithms that have appeared in 2012

Search technology is not standing still, every month out various updates. All of them are so hard to follow, but the changes are not always obvious. article examines the basic algorithms, which appeared in 2012

Websites optimized for mobile devices

Adaptive design or a separate mobile version of your site? The authors of this article conducted a comparison of the methods that were used to create mobile versions of popular sites and draw appropriate conclusions

Some news from Microsoft:

The network got a plan of Microsoft until 2015 . Also, you can see the pretty infographic of all Microsoft products .
In addition, Microsoft officials announced the sale of licenses of Windows 8 and application of shock Store , and in Skype 6.1 for Windows appeared integration with Microsoft Outlook . And yes, Windows Live Messenger will stop its work on March 15 .

Touch-web: Swipe

Great stuff from the developers mail.ru, which is dedicated to implement the functionality to swipe touch devices

Top 10 games on HTML5

HTML5 technology pretty far along in development in the past year. Including in the game plan - now it's not just a demo and interesting concepts, but a fully playable products. By article cites 10 games are worth paying attention.

Development

Touch-web: Swipe
Optimizing DOM animation . Prioritize optimizations.
Another "Solar System" on HTML5 Canvas
Dry process for typesetting multiple sites
SVG: Animation , Styles for SVG
Web Developer Checklist
Comparison of methods for creating websites that are optimized for mobile devices
Junior -front-end freymfork for creating mobile HTML5 apps
Useful hacks and snippets for. Htaccess
Use the form elements and CSS3 to replace JS
New tools for web design and development for December 2012
Interview with Ian Hickson , idnim of the developers in the W3C HTML5
The most popular WP plugins (infographics)
Bandwidth Media Queries? We Do not Need 'Em!
Play safe with Iframe in the "sandbox"
Introduction to Persona
The hard truth about the semantic structure html5: Part 1
Shadow DOM 101
Introduction to the creation of Atlantic Wire iPad HTML5 App
A new look for updated content in a dynamic page
Five useful visual devices , configured in Sublime Text

CSS

The concept of three-dimensional book shelf with CSS 3d transformations
We are waiting for the property «all» in a future version of CSS
CSS3 Gmail Buttons
Adaptive design in IE10 on Windows Phone 8
Cool examples of CSS3 Animations
How to automatically generate CSS sprites using Sass and Compass
Who said web-only squares?
CodePen with CSS3 gradients
The effect of separating the image with the aid of CSS

JavaScripts

jQuery inside - the attributes, properties, data
Entertaining API: Vibration API , visibilityChange , Battery JavaScript API
Isotope: - jQuery plugin for creating dynamic layouts in the style of masonry
motio: jQuery plugin to create sprite animation
Yugen Logo
Updated jQuery API documentation
ParamQuery Grid - work with tabular data and grid using jQuery
CSS Browser Selector + A Cross-browser Responsive Design Helper
PolyCrypt : WebCrypto API Polyfill written US Department of Homeland Security
Tags Input jQuery plugin

Browsers

Release Firefox 18 c new JIT-compiler IonMonkey
The new version of Firefox adds support for Retina displays
Release web-browser Chrome 24
Zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 18 and Opera 12.12

News

CES 2013:
- The most interesting news of the zero and the first day
- Review of the second day: time , two
- CES 2013. The award for the best products of the exhibition - a brief description of the innovation
- All that can be good for people iDevaysov
- And also some more interesting stuff:
- New Tablet: PaperTab - tablet with e-paper technology , and 10 pound plate from Lenovo
- New Mobile OS: Ubuntu Phone OS and Firefox OS
- Technologies of the future: from Sharp IGZO , IllumiRoom Xbox from Microsoft and the misty touch display from the Russians
- Microsoft at CES: sold 60 million licenses of Windows 8, downloaded 100 million apps from the Store
- Report presentation Samsung. The new processor, the former president and flexible screen
- Pebble hours - one of the most successful in the history of the service kraudfandinga Kickstarter
- Gorilla Glass 3: test of strength
- «Steam Box» by Valve
- YotaPhone at CES: the most innovative gadget
Windows Live Messenger will cease operation on March 15
In Skype 6.1 for Windows appeared integration with Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft's plan to 2015
Facebook is testing a new design Chronicle
There Satmoji - a social network of cat lovers
Microsoft's share of the smartphone market fell to 3%
The total amount of payments to developers App Store exceeded $ 7 billion

Services

holify.it - add your website Christmas spirit
excssive - an online service to compress CSS on the fly

Demo

HTML5 Canvas Lightning
Dream of the Tree
Doom3 gangnamstyle with canvas
Top 10 games on HTML5
Infinitely growing in flower canvas

Sites with interesting design and functionality

degetel.com - fun site with full-screen video on the background
badrfood.com / - site, where combined mask and parallax
voeux.extralagence.com - site with the use of non-standard timeline
rei1440project.com - every minute in the photo on the full-page gallery
madwellnyc.com - interesting portfolio site with pereklyuchalkoy parallax view sections and tile and other pleasant trifles
kyron.me - interesting scrolling effects
dim.hr - fullscreen portfolio Croatian Studios, built with European charm
silktricky.com - a mixture of tile interface with video and photo gallery

Design

Interview with the genius designer
How do PSD-files are more flexible
A baker's dozen of trends for the 2013th
Examples of the use of textures in web design
Two dozen examples of web design , with a successful use of large images
A selection of cool web design photographic backgrounds
Retouching techniques in Photoshop, Part 1
Psychology design business cards
Wonderful packaging design
Ten of resources where you can watch the best mobile UI Paterna
Video tutorials about how to draw cartoon characters
Logos done in retro and vintage style
The importance of a design for a "blank" windows or pages
Hot Trend: infographics on your site!
The iOS Design Cheat Sheet v2
Conditional Lightbox : alternatives to the pop-up windows on a mobile device

Selection of free designer cookies

game-icons.net - Hundreds of vector icons to connect to your games
Gemicon - pack of six hundred icons in PNG format + source in PSD
Icons of social networks in PNG / PSD formats
13 sets of UI in PSD
Source PSD presentation folders , the design of which can be changed by using the advantages of using Smart Object
Two dozen photo-textures
For subscribing to the mailing offers source site, based on Bootstrap, in PSD
Logo with the tourism theme in korelovskom format
RIDGE - decorative sans serif font with a pseudo-3D effect
Gutenberg A - decorative retro font , free version of the famous B42 use automatically pick thus Johannes Gutenberg in that same 42-line-Bible
VDS - a nice, updated with new style, a sans serif font
Typicons - Barbie-type compact

Entertaining

Overview of search algorithms that have appeared in 2012
Succeeding business functions of war in 2013
IT-leaders in 2013 : Facebook makes, Apple diminished, Google progresses
The most popular web technology in 2012 according to W3Techs
Kickstarter summed up the year : the projects have attracted $ 319 million
TIOBE Software summed up the popular programming language in 2012
What is most often used smartphones
Infographics all Microsoft products
Team-building lessons from Mark Zuckerberg
The majority of smartphone and tablet operating system is not important
Burgled office Microsoft R & D, only plates stolen iPad
Instagram blind man
Song "Damn the day that I bought iPhone»
Demotivators on Informatics for the second class
American dialects called "hashtag" word of the year
Regex to search the Twitter-e