The Glory of Big Data Late in the first day of this year's TED Conference, its understated curator, Chris Anderson, took the stage and made a pronouncement. "The computing power in some of the things that we're seeing is really startling," he said. "It feels to me as if things have suddenly notched up a level in an unexpected way. Back when it was just an exclusive conference for geek geniuses and venture capitalists, TED stood for Technology, Entertainment, Design. In 2011 the volume of available data is predicted to continue along its exponential growth curve to 1.8 zettabytes. But it wasn't until the next morning that we truly understood what Chris had been getting at. Roy has also shown that the methods he developed to store and analyze one child's speech lessons can be applied more broadly, and he has begun doing so. The amount of data available to us is increasingly vast.
27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets So what’s in a starter kit? In today’s article, we attempt to show you some of the best design starter kit we’ve come to know. GUI, Form Elements and Web Components From form elements like checkboxes, input fields, textareas to web design components like buttons, arrows, icons, badges and more. Yahoo’s Design Stencil Kit Probably one of the most complete kit for designers. Web Form Elements With all these tabs, buttons, dropdowns in one single PSD file, it’s sure going to give you a kick start in interface design. Browser Form Elements PSD Browser Form Elements PSD for Mac Firefox 3 and another for Vista IE7. Flex Dark Skin Sleek dark skin interface elements. Peter’s DeivantART ID Design ID cards made easy with this PSD template. Turquoise PSD Vista elements. Cursors
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40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Online generator are those tools that help us to create those popular “XHTML valid” CSS banners, micro buttons or css website templates in seconds. In such cases online generators can be of great help which do the necessary job and some tools don’t have to be downloaded also. We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. Advertisement 1. XML /SWF charts are used to create attractive graphs and charts from XML data, Create a source either manually or generate dynamically then pass it to the XML chart’s flash file. 2. The web form generator from Web Form Factory automatically generates he necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. 3. 4. 256 Pixels 5. 80 x 15 brilliant Button Maker 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. pForm
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100 Essential Web Development Tools Mar 16 2010 By Neil Skirrow As web technologies constantly advance, the skills a developer is expected to have are constantly increasing. Web users are beginning to expect Ajax interfaces, charts and graphs and a whole host of other tricks and features. When developing your applications, you simply can’t create every element yourself. In an effort to save you a few hours crawling the web in search of the perfect third-party solution, we have compiled this list of essential development resources. 1. You can find a whole array of pre-made classes and functions to help save development time. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is the term used to describe the use of images which humans can identify, in order to ensure an automated bot/computer program isn’t accessing your application. The following CAPTCHA systems can be easily integrated with your applications: Date Manipulation Image Manipulation Manipulating images is a common requirement. 2. 3.
From Bell Labs to Best Buy Image: Takeshi Murata, Homestead Grays, 2008, (Still). "PREDRIVE: After Technology" (currently on exhibition at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA November 14-April 2, 2009) features new works by six international artists including Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad, Gretchen Skogerson, Antoine Catala, and Brody Condon. The exhibition was conceived with a very specific group of artists in mind -- artists who placed both the dysfunction and arrogance of ever-changing technologies at the center of their work. Below, I speak with two of the featured artists in the show, Takeshi Murata and Jacob Ciocci (of Paper Rad) -- we cover everything from readymade software aesthetics to the dream of the perfect collector -- someone willing to take the risk of simply buying an idea. -- Melissa Ragona Melissa Ragona: Last night I was asking about how you each manipulate your work at the level of the pixel. Takeshi Murata: Yeah, but for me it has more to do with working within a different historical context.
Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers The project 'Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on this page, has a new url ( a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources. The reason for changing the basic concept of this project was a huge number of suggestions and links, which have overflooded my mailbox recently. Over the last few days, a new project was created and updated. The old version (which also will be updated in future) is still available on the page "Bookmarks: Maxi edition". You are welcome to submit your own links to the directory, filling out this form; besides, I'll be glad to receive feedbacks, comments and new ideas coming from your side. Please update your bookmarks! How did it begin? This page is actualized once a week. This list was created with the help of many web designers and enthusiasts from Germany and United States, but mostly it was created by myself. Thanks!
Techdirt. List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers Regardless of size and scope of your project, CSS development process can take quite a lot of time. Even if you are an experienced CSS developer; having good set of tools at your disposal can drastically improve your productivity. W3Avenue has compiled a list of really useful CSS tools that will help you increase both your productivity and knowledge. We have categorized these tools under various categories to help you easily find the right tools for your needs. Layouts CSS Layout Generator This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. CSS Frameworks Boks Boks is an Visual Editor for Blueprint CSS Framework; It allows you visually setup a grid and baseline rhythm, build and fill your layout and export all this to HTML and CSS. Fonts Typetester The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Colors Sprites Forms UI Components Text Wrappers Analysis & Debugging Convertors Maintenance
Top 40 best technology news websites – the definitive list Looking for tech news? The editorial team at BLORGE has compiled a list of the top 40 most important, influential and informative technology news sites, other than BLORGE, that will help you keep up to date with the latest developments in the world of technology. Also check out our 2011 top 40 best technology websites. Sites are listed in alphabetical order. AllThingsDigital – This is the Wall Street Journal’s Blog hub featuring top industry analysts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. This is your source for hard-hitting, far-reaching opinion and commentary on the tech industry. Ars Technica – The site caters to computer enthusiasts and covers a wide array of technology, science and gaming news. Boy Genius Report – BGR uses the blog model to cover gadgets, predominantly mobile phones. Business Week – This is among the Web’s top spots for the latest international business news, offering in-depth company profiles, financial advice and insight on the global technology industry.