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"Geckoboard is a hosted, real-time status board serving up the indicators that matter to you."

"Unify allows the programming of applications for smartphones, tablets, desktops and other web enabled devices with a single technology stack. The main claim of Unify is to allow solutions thats users can not differentiate from natively programmed applications."

"This is not an article on adaptive layouts or responsive web design. This article is specifically about pixel “density”, a relatively new concern to digital designers. In the mobile environment, screen resolution has been quickly advancing, resulting in larger and larger “pixels per inch” (ppi)."

"TripAdvisor has an established travel website and a popular Facebook app, but it's gone a step further and constructed an umbilical between these platforms. Data from the app shapes the site."

"It's time for PHP to die. And I say this as a die-hard PHP developer currently converting an existing Ruby on Rails codebase to PHP."

A readable Git reference!

“The goal with Instapaper was always the space shifting and time shifting of content.” What an awesomely simple concept.

"The Mozilla Seabird, part of the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content as devices and technology advances. Drawing on insights culled from the Mozilla community through the project’s blog, a focus quickly developed around frustrating physical interactions. While mobile CPUs, connectivity and development platforms begin approaching that of desktops, the lagging ability to efficiently input information has grown ever more pronounced."

"The new Twitter UI looks good, but how does it score when it comes to performance? I spent a few hours investigating. I always start with HTTP waterfall charts, typically generated by HttpWatch."

"The .net community operates in a non-collaborative vacuum. The community is sick, poisoned by the component vendors with closed source software “solutions” and stymied by Microsoft themselves who are so cleverly changing just fast enough to keep developers from solving problems themselves."

What an utter, utter cock. This is a prime example of a "UX" person (that's an acronym for User Experience, you know) being a total, total, delusional, incomprehensible technological cockwit. E.g. "I propose that the URL bar be modified to fulfill a significant purpose for the user other than just displaying long strings of characters mostly irrelevant to, and mostly ignored by, the user." And how could anyone forget that "…it's worth mentioning that many websites are already moving towards practically URL-free navigation in the form of Java- and Flash-based input and navigation. Web apps like Grooveshark and Picnik, for example, forgo traditional navigation by using scripts to hide or replace information usually found in the URL. These sites already recognize the uselessness of the URL bar and have abandoned it, but if it were to suddenly become useful again, they might take it back."

Amazing quake-by-quake visualization of the Christchurch, NZ earthquakes.

Photography Book Now is an international juried self-published book competition, and a celebration of the most creative, most innovative, and finest photography books – and the people behind them.

Amazing display of typography on the web using Typekit's hosted font service and the @font-face CSS rule. Lovely.

A new exhibition (at the Britush Library) traces the impact of South Asians on British life from the Raj to the early years of Indian independence. Our timeline opens a window on a little-known aspect of Britain's history

Spotibot uses the listening habits of millions of people to help you find your new favourites. Simply enter the name of a band you already like…

"…we took five of the world’s largest news websites and profiled them loading inside IE8 using the Windows Performance Tools. We do this in a controlled environment to remove external variables and we load each site multiple times to ensure high confidence with the results. We factor out networking performance from these charts because that’s user dependent. This approach allows us to see how long it takes the browser to load the web site and the breakdown of CPU time across subsystems."

"Explore London's history with old maps on your iPhone."

The game is simple. Write a poem, short story or song using just song titles in Spotify.

Shane Richmond's review of these two books. I'm already thinking about reading Infinite Jest for a second time, and Greg Carlisle's book for the first.

"So, there’s a new kind of Android device in the world. The world still isn’t sure just where it is that tablets are the right tool for the job. That granted, this is a nifty product. And I’m developing my own theory of what tablets are for."

Phil Neville has created his very own iPhone app, 'Phil Neville Football Training'.

"Fun YQL hack to display images from The Big Picture on a map."

"I figured out how to route my iPad HTTP traffic through a web debugger on my laptop…What follows is a simple step-by-step for connecting your iPad to an HTTP debugging proxy."

"If your JavaScript includes some resource-intensive calculations, you can pass this to a Web Worker to process while the main thread continues running. You can use more than one Web Worker, and a Web Worker can do more than one task."

Collection of touch gesture diagrams, explaining a common visual vocabulary for communicating available user interaction on touch-enabled devices.