Monday, June 18, 2012

Microsoft announces surface tablets

Microsoft surface tablets, with keyboard cover and a back built in kick stand.
Credit - Microsoft
 

 Has 16:9 screen , they have two models check more at Surface by Microsoft

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Draw something tv?!

Yup, draw something will be a tv show on CBS produced by Ryan seacrest, uhhhh ok!

“Each week, teams of celebrities and everyday users will test their skills in front of a studio audience to earn money and big laughs. Viewers can also play along at home for a chance to win prizes and compete with the celebrities.”

Vizio coming out with clean & sleek PCs

New retina displays vs the web

The new apple products that use retina on the mac book pro & iPad 3rd have such high resolutions that images on the web look horrible so web designers may have redesign the web. Below is some of the info about looking into changing or detecting this from brandbuildercompany.com.....

Presently, the CSS media queries that are useful in responsive web design make it very simple to target background images that you would like to optimize. That’s all well and good, but what about images that are part of your content such as your logo? There is no good solution. What can you do:
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Use JavaScript to detect retina:
Pro: Easy to automate.
Con: Modern web browsers will have already started to download the first image before you can detect if it is a retina quality device and replaced it.
Server side detection:
Pro: Only load one image.
Con: Many large websites serve their static content through Content Delivery Networks (CDN). A CDN is a network of servers located across the globe that will serve the file from the closest server to a user.  These servers are dumb and do not do server-side processing. Additionally, if a user saves the website on one device and transfers it to another they may see the wrong type of image.
Just serve retina:
Pro: No fuss
Con: Wasted bandwidth, higher load time, and the higher quality images will actually seem worse on low DPI devices.
Empty src element and CSS generated content:
Pro: Only loads one image, works in WebKit browsers (Chrome, Safari, iOS browsers, most Android browsers, BlackBerry browsers), and Opera. This covers most mobile users
Con: Does not work in Firefox nor IE, desktop or mobile versions (this is actually by design in Firefox). It fundamentally goes against everything web designers have advocated for years, and cannot be done inline so it requires extra configuration that is very clumsy.        

Big secret Microsoft announcement monday

Seems Microsoft may announce a Xbox / entertainment tablet Monday

Alot of free public domain & indie movies to watch from open culture

500 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir at  Open Culture

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