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The Public Laboratory. If the A5 makes mobile gaming awesome, why isn't it in the iPod touch? When Apple introduced the iPhone 4S on Tuesday, the company took great pains to show off the A5 processors' ability to make games "really scream," claiming twice the computing performance and seven times the graphics performance of the iPhone 4's A4 processor.

But Apple did virtually nothing to the iPod touch, arguably one of the most popular mobile gaming devices on the market, except slap on a coat of white paint and knock $30 off the entry level price. If the A5 is so awesome for gaming, why then didn't Apple upgrade the iPod touch's A4 processor? In previous years, Apple really pushed the gaming abilities of the iPod touch. When it introduced the third-generation touch in 2009, it didn't have a camera, but then-CEO Steve Jobs explained that the touch was really more of a low-cost mobile gaming device: Originally, we weren't exactly sure how to market the Touch. That didn't stop Apple from bumping the price up $30 one year later when it introduced the fourth-generation iPod touch. Codecademy is web development education for the rest of us. Web development and basic coding skills shouldn’t be the mysterious domain of a handful of overpaid engineers, and if the Codecademy founders have anything to say about it, the boundaries of that domain will soon be rapidly expanding.

This small group of young hackers entered the most recent class of Y Combinator startups and built a company that aims to teach anyone how to code. Their interface is simple and even fun to use. Their traction is through the roof; Codecademy.com has seen more than 250,000 visitors in the first four days since launching. Those visitors spend around an hour each on the site, and together, they’ve completed more than 2.75 million coding exercises. The site is free to use. “Codecademy leverages the best of the web and brings it to online learning,” said co-founder Zach Sims to VentureBeat. “This is the first time programming has been truly democratized.

Sims said he struggled with learning how to code. Part of those new demographics is an expanded age range. Create Sticky Notes and Speech Bubbles with Text using Google Charts. Learn how to create yellow sticky notes, speech bubbles, taped notes, callouts and more using the popular Google Image Charts tool. Google Charts is a perfect web-based tool for converting your data tables into colorful and attractive charts in few easy steps.

It supports a wide variety of charts – from pie charts to sparklines to Venn diagrams – and there’s a helpful wizard to guide you through the process. There’s one more reason why I prefer Google Image Charts over other online solutions – you can embed a chart in your website using a data URL with an <img> tag while the actual image is rendered live on Google Servers. If the data changes later, you just have modify the chart URL and the chart will update itself. Other than data visualization charts, the online Google Charts tool can also be used for creating images that can bring attention like the popular yellow sticky notes, callouts, thought bubbles, pinned notes and more. Here are some examples: See Web Pages in 3D with Tilt, a Firefox Extension. 21 Jul 2011 While you are on a web page, activate the 3D navigation controls by pressing Ctrl + Shift + M and then use your mouse or the arrow keys on the keyboard to pan, zoom or rotate that page in any direction couch mode print story Tilt is an experimental add-on for Firefox that lets you see any web page in 3D.

Download this xpi file to your desktop and then drag it to your Firefox window to complete the installation. While you are on a web page, activate the 3D navigation controls by pressing Ctrl + Shift + M and then use your mouse or the arrow keys on the keyboard to pan, zoom or rotate that page in any direction. Tilt reads the HTML structure of a page and turns all the DIV layers, ULs and other tags into 3D stacks that add virtual depth to the page. The source code for Tilt is available for download on github. Also see: Bookmarklet Adds a 3D Effect to Webpages.

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