Webdesignshock.com have published an awesome photo slider with a “vintage feel”
It differs from others with its principle — users are given a rotating set of photos, and have to click them to view them pop out of a polaroid camera.
The slider looks amazing. However, it’s troublesome to introduce in actual websites, not casual online games, mainly because of its out-of-the-ordinary looks.
jQuery.kinetic is a basic plugin for creating accelerated iOS-style scrolling.
The usage is pretty basic, and the most used feature will probably be velocity control — i.e., you can control how fast will the div be scrolled.
You can also call functions each time the div is scrolled. The plugin is available under the MIT license.
Google has updated their Google+ iPhone app to include iPad and iPod Touch compatibility. Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra announced the original iOS Google+ app last month, saying “Share just the right stuff, with just the right circles.” This update expands the application with a few simple tweaks for tablet and iPod Touch use.
Before this update, Apple iPad and iPod Touch users could not even install the original application. While this new version is quite simple and is mostly a simple doubling of screen resolution for the iPad, there are also some tweaks for Huddle, the group chat program, which allows users to choose who messages them based on social circles.
The Google+ home screen is exactly the same as for the original iPhone version, with the same clear interface and minimal icons. You can quickly check your streams, see recent Huddles from people in your circle, look at photos from circle members, and manage your own profile and circle data.
Google has decided not to include the Sparks feature that is on the full-fledged Web version of Google+, probably in order to provide more screen space to the mobile app. However, the Google+ app continues not to work with the developer version of Apple iOS 5, which is sure to frustrate a number of people. With this new iPad and iPod Touch compatible build however, at least Google have added a pop-up message so users of the test platform know what is going on.
While many people were confused as to why the original Google+ iPhone app was not compatible with the iPad in the first place, this update should allow the app to grow even bigger. Hitting the 25 million member mark less than a week ago, and still at invite only status, Google+ has the potential to become a major Facebook competitor.
Springy is a force directed graph layout algorithm written in Javascript.
Springy uses some real world physics to render a network graph. It doesn’t include libraries to do rendering or drag and drop, it just includes code for calculating the layout. This means that you need to write the code up to you.
The script also includes a simple helper jQuery plugin called springyui.js to help get you started.
Taazr is a service that helps you to monitor and optimize your Javascript files.
Once you have included Taazr into your web pages, it catches the Javascript exceptions and notify you over email and through a simple dashboard. Meanwhile Taazr also optimizes Javascript and CoffeeScript files.
Taazr is available in four plans:
JSManipulate is a JavaScript library for applying photo effects and filters to images.
The filters in JSManipulate are JavaScript objects, and they are used by inputting ImageData objects that have to be manipulated.
Although there isn’t much of a documentation, searching for comments in the library’s source does help.
09 August, 2011
By Lauris Veips
