zepto.js — the aerogel-weight javascript framework jQuery Mobile | jQuery Mobile Easily Identify That Cool Text Font with WhatFontIs So you have seen a graphic online that is using an awesome font? Maybe you want to find out what that font is ““ or at least a free alternative to that font so you can use it yourself. For Whatfontis, all you need is an image of the font or the image’s URL to identify the font. There are lots of uses for this tool and it is a great tool to have handy. We will walk you through using the web application but first we will navigate to the website using this URL. When you arrive at their homepage you will see a screen like the one below: We can either browse for a local file to use (the file size is 1.8MB maximum.) using the browse button. You can see how the file name appears after browsing to it below: But as a test I decided to go after the web logo of MakeUseOf.com. We will need to tell Whatfontis some of the letters that it sees. They will want you to type in what letter is in each box. For example the last letter in the list is a m so you can type a m in the box to its right.
HTML5 Mobile App Development Framework. Download Sencha Touch Free. | Sencha Touch Sencha Touch is the leading MVC-based JavaScript framework for building cross-platform mobile web applications. Sencha Touch leverages hardware acceleration techniques to provide high-performance UI components for mobile devices. With over 50 built-in UI components and native looking themes for all major mobile platforms, Sencha Touch provides everything you need to create impressive apps that work on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and more. A novel and adaptive layout engine, fluid animations, and smooth scrolling features allow developers to build applications that respond to user actions nearly instantaneously, much like native technologies. The framework includes a robust data package that can consume data from any backend data source. Sencha Touch is available as a free download. High-Performance, Native-Looking UI Widgets Adaptive Layouts, Animations, and Smooth Scrolling Backend Agnostic Data Package Advanced Mobile Charting Package Device Features and Native Packaging
Top 4 Mindmapping Software to Brainstorm your Ideas by Guest Author This is a guest post by Harsh Agrawal. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Mindmapping is the best way to brain storm lots of ideas at one go. 1. Mindomo is one of the best tool for mind mapping. 2. Free Mind map is my favorite mind map tool. 3. Bubblus is a web based mindmap tool. 4. Xmind is another desktop based mind-mapping tile. The number of such tools are endless and you can find n number of free mind map tools using Google. Do you take help of mind-mapping technique to brain storm your ideas? About the Author: Harsh Agrawal writes at Shoutmeloud, and recently he created a blogspot to WordPress migration service. Wanna make money with your own website?
Twitter Places: More Context For Your Tweets If you’re like everyone at the Twitter office, you’re going crazy about the World Cup. When turning to Twitter to keep up with the current game, it helps to know where a Tweet is coming from—is that person watching the game on TV or is he actually in the stadium? To help answer that question, we’re excited to announce Twitter Places on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com. Starting today, you can tag Tweets with specific places, including all World Cup stadiums in South Africa, and create new Twitter Places. Foursquare and Gowalla integration: Many Foursquare and Gowalla users publish check-ins to Twitter. Over the next week, we will roll this out to users in 65 countries around the world, so keep an eye out for the “Add your location” link below the Tweet box.
What's Happening with Twitter? From a site stability and service outage perspective, it’s been Twitter’s worst month since last October. What’s the problem? Last Friday, we detailed on our Engineering blog that this is going to be a rocky few weeks. We’re working through tweaks to our system in order to provide greater stability at a time when we’re facing record traffic. We have long-term solutions that we are working towards, but in the meantime, we are making real-time adjustments so that we can grow our capacity and avoid outages during the World Cup. As we go through this process, we have uncovered unexpected deeper issues and have even caused inadvertent downtime as a result of our attempts to make changes. Should Twitter have been ready? What’s next?
Some Reasons More People Aren’t Using Check-in Services In addition to revealing a number of bugs in Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite, a recent report by crowdsourced bug testing service uTest on social location services included some survey questions about the check-in space in general. One of the more interesting questions asked was “What most prevents you from using check-in services more frequently?” Here is what the responses were: What is most interesting about these responses (and keep in mind, they only asked 300 people, who since they are volunteering to bug test software are at least probably more technically savvy than the average user), are the top three answers. Privacy & security fears The first is a simply fear of displaying where you are and where you’ve been to other people. My friends don’t use check-in services The second response is again to a certain degree out of these services’ control. I don’t have a smartphone The third reason that respondents gave to this question is completely out of the control of these services.
Twitter Places: How It Might Challenge Google’s Local Dominance One of the big, unanswered questions in the local search space is, Who’s going to do the best job of marrying location with real-time context. Twitter is hardly the first to try, but it may have the best chance to succeed. On Monday, the company announced Twitter Places, a new feature that’s being rolled out on both twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com to users in 65 countries over the next week. Twitter Places, in a nutshell, gives every location its own Twitter page. Users can attach their tweets to a Twitter Place, be it a local business, a museum, a stadium (as shown above in the image provided by Twitter), or any other specific place. To use Twitter Places, you’ll need to enable Twitter’s “tweet with your location” feature, and then click “Add your location” under the text area on your Twitter home page. There’s also a search option at the bottom, and if you don’t find your current place, you can add it directly into Twitter’s system yourself. Long-Term Implications