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PDFs Become Contextually Amazing With Scribd's Apture Integration The Portable Document Format, or .PDF, sometimes feels silly these days - doesn't it? Sure, they are often pretty - but they feel so static and inflexible. No more! With the new integration of contextual search tool Apture, HTML5-powered PDF viewing and sharing community Scribd now offers a radically new way to read PDFs. Above, you can see an image of my screen while reading a PDF titled The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices. I highlighted the name of a company quoted in the report and with two quick clicks I was watching a YouTube video of a product demo. "Reading has been a flat experience for thousands of years," Scribd CEO Trip Adler said about the partnership. Those are strong words, but really - the user experience is there and remarkable. Apture Highlights on Scribd from Tristan Harris on Vimeo. ReadWriteWeb uses Apture as well - try it out here by highlighting any word or phrase on any page. Most of the time right now I read PDFs on my iPad.

20 Free Social Media Icon Sets For a More Shareable Website If your blog needs a face lift, the creative types who power the web are here to help. Sometimes a few well-designed, tastefully placed icons can add a little class or creativity to an otherwise neutral theme. Social media links, which we'd argue are a priority for any blog, are a great opportunity to add some texture. You could always roll with the standard-issue glossy, rounded-edge fare, but for those who want to distinguish themselves, there are more creative options out there. To help, we've rounded up some of the most impressive works of social icon art circulating the web lately. If you use a fun icon set that didn't make our list, be sure to share the wealth in the comments section. 1. You don't need a "science" blog to take advantage of these lovely beakers. 2. These are just too cute to pass up. 3. These ice cubes are less practical, but they're so nicely rendered we had to include them. 4. 5. 6. There's something about the texture of these swatches that draws the eye. 7. 8. 9.

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Daily Artisan & 14 Awesome Google Tricks You May Not Be Using Posted by admin in News on 08 25th, 2010 | no responses If you ask your average Internet surfer what Google does, they’ll tell you that “it helps you find stuff, silly.” Some may even mention that it’s good for email, maps, and maybe a couple of other things. 1. Visiting a place and want to know what’s the weather there like? Example: Vienna Weather 2. If you want to know the time local time at anyplace worldwide all you have to do is type “What’s the time in ______”. Example: What’s the time in London? 3. Just enter the name of airline and the flight number and Google will show you the arrival and departure times. Example: American Airlines 293 4. Type in “city1+city2” to get links for booking your flight. Example: Atlanta+Chicago 5. Trust Google to know. Example: How many feet in a meter? 6. You can’t use Google as a proxy server but you can use Google’s cache to look at websites that are not available due to traffic congestion or blocked. 7. 8. Example: Paris 9. Example: stock goog 10. 11.

beginner-web-design-tutorials | blog If you want to start learning web design and development any time soon, you can start from these high quality resources. Most of the sites have been around for a while, have accumulated numerous tutorials on various topics on HTML/CSS, Photoshop, PHP/MySQL, Javascript/jQuery/AJAX and Flash. Start learning or polishing off your design skills now Add This Post to Your Delicious 1. W3Schools: Online Web Tutorials At W3Schools, you can study everything you need to learn, in an accessible and handy format. 2. Yoobee Online now offer their introduction to HTML & CSS short course online. Introduction to HTML5 & CSS3 3. Quackit teaches beginners how to create websites. 7. HTMLlite will show you how to easily create web pages with your favorite text editor. 9. Tutorials on EchoEcho are structured into three sections. 10. Sergey Gribov‘s website offers a quick start on web technologies. 11. Jessett covers such topics as usability, graphic design, html, css, dhtml and more. 19. 20. 22. 25. 27. 28.

Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Top Aligned Labels | UX Movement by anthony on 09/01/10 at 3:48 pm Imagine a user who is really excited about your product or service. They’re ready to sign up, so they go to your form page and start filling out their information. Top aligned labels are faster and easier to fill out than left or right aligned labels. The only drawback with top aligned labels is that they can make the form long. The difference is clear. Texting before bed can make teens even moodier By Daniel Bates Updated: 12:06 GMT, 8 November 2010 Children who text and email late at night may be damaging their health. Teenagers and children who send electronic messages after they have been sent to bed may have poorer quality sleep and become moody, a study found. Those who were unable to put their phones or laptops to one side were also more likely to be anxious and depressed or suffer learning difficulties. Distraction: Across both sexes, emails and texts woke them up once a night on average and a worrying 77 per cent had persistent trouble getting to sleep The U.S. researchers said that unlike watching TV, which is a largely passive activity, sending emails and texts involved more interaction so kept the brain busy at the time when it should be shutting down. The pilot research team from the JFK Sleep Centre in Edison, New Jersey, gave questionnaires to 40 people aged between eight and 22, asking about their sleep habits and use of texts and emails.

Why I'm Loving the Livefyre Comments System Regular readers of this blog will have noticed the introduction of the Livefyre comment system. While I’ve written in the past about my reasons to go back to the WordPress comments system, I saw Livefyre in use on a couple of blogs I enjoy and was intrigued enough to check the system out. While it’s not perfect (and, to be fair, it’s still in beta), having used Livefyre for a week or so now, I’m really enjoying the experience. So, what’s Livefyre comments all about then? Comments and Community On first inspection, Livefyre looks like much like the other main third-party comments systems (Disqus, IntenseDebate and Echo). But it’s when you start using Lifefyre that you can see the goal behind the company – to build a solid commenting community where everyone is “accountable” (this isn’t as Big Brother-ish as it sounds). At first, I wasn’t sure about this approach (and raised it in the comments over at the Livefyre blog). Real-Time Chat and Replies Checking in to Comments Other Features My take?

How To Create a Screencast Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed We have had more screencast submissions lately than we can even count. I know all of you are anxious and hoping to be featured in our channels. However, you’re wasting your time – and ours – if you aren’t following a few simple steps. Dylan took the time to create this screencast to help all of you have a better chance of having your work showcased. HD Quality – 1080p is not required. 780p is more than sufficient. Thanks, Dylan, for doing this screencast for us. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Podcast: Play in new window | Download (13.2MB)

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