Web Dump

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We invite you to the Asana beta

Asana is an effort to reimagine the way people manage information, a new kind of software product built for the Web from the ground up. With a focus on speed, collaboration, and ease of use, it radically improves the way groups of people work together.

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senchainc:

Now with the progress element, Touch events, and the return of WebSockets.

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simurai:

Tried to make a Brushed Metal style in CSS3. The texture is done by using 3 repeating-gradients with different length. That makes it look somewhat random. For the linear version, browser support is pretty ok, but for the radial one it’s not quite there yet. I think only in Safari 5.1 and Chrome Windows.

In addition I tried to add a conical gradient for the circle with just faking it with ellipse gradients. It’s ok for low contrasts and if you cover the middle part with an icon or so.. hehe.. ;-P A much more real looking technique is used in this experiment, but I believe it currently only works in Safari and Chrome Windows. Let’s hope that CSS4 will add support for real conical gradients.

See live Demo.

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An unofficial Google Plus™ inspired theme for Google Chrome™.

This is realy awesome and simple... like all G+

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FishEye provides functionality which when you hover over an item it enlarges, and the items surrounding it enlarge in smaller increments. This is my first take at this type of effect, or plugins for that matter.

Source: http://media.iansuttle.com/jQuery/plugins/fisheye/jquery.fisheye.js

Three argument values are expected: fishEyeItemName - the class decorated on the item/items you want to expose the fish eye affect to. maxScalePct - the % to expand an item on mouse over. scaleStepPct - the % to step down for items surrounding the item being hovered over. The maxScalePct will step down this % until it reaches 0% enlargement.

Example: $("#FishEyeContainer").FishEye({     fishEyeItemName: ".FishEye",     maxScalePct: 180,     scaleStepPct: 60 });

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Font Stack

.font-family-optima {     font-family: Optima, Lucida, 'MgOpen Cosmetica', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; }

.font-family-geneva {     font-family: Geneva, Tahoma, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; }

.font-family-arial_black {     font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; }

.font-family-helvetica {     font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; }

.font-family-lucida {     font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; }

.font-family-georgia {     font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; }

.font-family-trebuchet {     font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; }

.font-family-palatino {     font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; }

.font-family-times {     font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; }

.font-family-verdana {     font-family: Verdana, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; }

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senchainc:

SwarmOnline has released an excellent set of dos and do-nots for Sencha beginners. If you enjoy the article, make sure to check out the rest of their blog, it looks to be filled with lots of great learning material.

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Crossbrowser CSS Opacity

.transparent_class {     -ms-filter: 'progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)';     filter: alpha(opacity=50);     -moz-opacity: .5;     -khtml-opacity: .5;     opacity: .5; }

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PlaceKitten is A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code.

Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder like this:

http://placekitten.com/200/300 or http://placekitten.com/g/200/300

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Vim: "save file as..." in the same directory

When I work with Vim, I have a little problem. I want to save file as a copy of opened document. To do this, I must write a full path to the current directory and the new name of file, like this:

:sav /full/path/to/the/directory/new_name.file

This snippets of config helped to me (string must be written to the _vimrc file):

nnoremap <Leader>sav :sav <C-R>=expand('%:p:h') . '\'<CR>

I'm press \sav and Vim write itself what I want.

The same solution is working to create new empty file to the current directory. To do this, I wrote to the config:

nnoremap <Leader>e :e <C-R>=expand('%:p:h') . '\'<CR>

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28 More Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts

SPACEBAR (Temporary Hand Tool) — Hold down the spacebar to temporarily bring up the hand tool so you can move around while doing those zoomed-in edits. Also, use the Ctrl modifier to zoom in, and the Alt modifier to zoom out.

Essential Photoshop Shortcut Commands

F (Cycle Screen Modes) — Switch between normal screen, full screen with task bar without title bar, and full screen with black background. Works great when used in conjunction with Tab to hide toolbars — maximum working space, no distractions.

X (Switch Colors) — Swap your foreground and background colors. Very handy when working with masks.

D (Default Colors) — Reset your foreground and background colors to black and white, respectively.

Ctrl + ‘+’/'-’ (Zoom In/Out) — Quickly zoom in or out without changing your current tool.

Alt + Mouse Scroll (Zoom In/Out) — Fastest way to zoom — scroll up to zoom in, and scroll down to zoom out.

Ctrl + Alt + Z (Step Back) — Ctrl + Z is OK if you catch a mistake immediately after it happens, but this command will continue to march its way up the history tree.

Ctrl + S (Save) — You should get in the habit of just hitting this combo on impulse about every 5 to 10 minutes. Also use Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S to bring up the save for web dialog.

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N (New Layer No Dialog) — Quickly insert a new empty layer on top of the active layer. Get rid of the Alt key to bring up the new layer dialog for more options.

Useful Photoshop Shortcut Commands

Shift + Click Mask (Enable/Disable Layer Mask) — When working with masks it’s typically done in small increments. Disabling the mask allows you to check the results of your masking against the original.

Alt + Click Mask (Toggle Mask Visibility) — Doing this will bring up the mask as a grayscale image so you can see what you’re working with. Useful if you have areas that need to be filled in or smoothed out.

Ctrl + Click Mask (Load Mask As Selection) — Selects the white part of the mask (grays are partially selected). Useful if you want to duplicate a mask or it’s inverse. Using Ctrl + Click on a layer without a mask will select the non-transparent pixels in that layer.

Ctrl + J (New Layer Via Copy) — Can be used to duplicate the active layer into a new layer. If a selection is made, this command will only copy the selected area into the new layer.

Caps Lock (Toggle Cross Hairs) — Switch between the standard tool icon and a set of precision cross hairs. Useful for spot-on selections.

Shift + Backspace (Fill Dialog) — Good time saver when working with masks. Also, use the Ctrl + Backspace to fill with background color and Alt + Backspace to fill with foreground color.

Ctrl + H (Hide Selection Lines) — When working with selections, use this command to hide the “marching ants” while keeping the selection.

Ctrl + I (Invert Selection) — Select the opposite of what is already selected. Also a good tool when working with mask creation.

Ctrl + D (Deselect) — After working with your selection, use this combo to discard it.

Side Note: When working with selections, they can be applied to a layer as a mask simply by adding a new layer mask using the little box-with-a-circle-inside icon at the bottom of the layer palette. This also works with adjustment layers by automatically applying the selection to the mask.

Handy Photoshop Shortcut Commands

Ctrl + G (Group Layers) — This command groups selected layers in the layer tree. Adding Shift to this combo will ungroup layers when the grouped layer is selected.

Ctrl + A (Select All) — Creates a selection around the entire canvas.

Ctrl + T (Free Transform) — Brings up the free transform tool for resizing, rotating, and skewing the image using a dragable outline.

Ctrl + E (Merge Layers) — Merges selected layer with the layer directly below it. If multiple layers are selected, only those will be merged.

Crtl + Shift + E (Merge Visible) — Merges all visible layers into one. Not recommended practice in typical photo editing because you’ll lose layer information.

Ctrl + Alt + E (Stamp Down) — Merges all selected layers into one new layer. Add the Shift modifier to this combo and you’ll get a new layer containing a merged representation of all visible layers (handy for sharpening adjustments)

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R (Rotate Arbitrary Dialog) — bring up the rotate dialog to straighten out your horizon… but it’s not typically used since we all take perfect photos, right?

Side Note: Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) has the ability to straighten photos before they ever make it into Photoshop. When straightening, you draw a line you’d like as your horizontal and ACR will take care of the rotation and crop for you.

CTRL + ALT + DEL (Kill Photoshop) — Quite useful when Photoshop takes your computer hostage. Must have used the Ctrl + S command prior to the hostile takeover in order to prevent mental breakdown.

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This is a nice jQuery script to make thumbnails wall with grid navigation effect.

There are 10 different effects. Take a look at all the examples (you can also navigate from them to all the other examples):

Default (show/hide)

Fade

Sequential fade

Move/fade

Sequential move/fade

Sequential move/fade reversed

Resize (show/hide)

Disperse

Rows move

Sequential move/fade (3 rows)

You can use the mousewheel to navigate through the thumbnails.

It is real useful script!

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Pokki. Bring your app experience to your desktop

Windows 7 Only: New service Pokki wants to be an app store for Windows, complete with painless one-click installs and real-time notifications in the taskbar.

There are only eight apps available at launch, but they're big ones: Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, a Wall Street Journal app, and a feed reader are all included, among others. Open Pokki to see available apps, and click "install" once to download and install one.

You can build your own app by using Pokki SDK and some Docs. See more here http://developers.pokki.com/

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Browser wars

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µTorrent 3.0 is a natural evolution of the classic "tiny-but-mighty" vision. While the interface has been polished and the overall size remains smaller than your average Facebook pic, µTorrent is now packed with some insanely powerful new features.

New Features

Streaming: Watch videos within seconds with progressive downloads – no need to wait. Especially great for previewing a file before committing to the full download.

Remote Access: Start, stop, and monitor torrent downloads on the go. Access your client from any Web browser, or download our Android app.

Ratings and Comments: Leverages the collective wisdom of the community to ensure the quality and security of downloaded torrents.

Drag-and-Drop Sending: Easily send massive personal files – e.g. home movies, cell phone videos and hi-res photos. Select a file on your computer, drag it into the µTorrent "Drop files to send" box and a Web link is yours to share.

Feature Hiding: Minimizing parts of the µT interface with a click.

Portable Mode: Run your µTorrent client directly from a USB key and take it with you anywhere.

Stability etc.: µTorrent 3.0 also offers under-the-hood improvements including a focus on stability as well as improved Web seeding to add speed and reliability to the process of finding the original source of a single-source file.

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A site's navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. There are many ways to design a navigation menu – and since almost all websites have some form of navigation – designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding.

In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.

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Firefox 5.0 stable release is now available for download!