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Native Desktop Apps

web design New York City — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:48:17 +0000

Designing or re-creating your websites so they behave more like native applications is an older concept that is realizing some true potential lately. The ability to serve up applications that live more natively on your computer, offer your customers a much more intuitive, integrated, and effective experience — leading to a much higher amount of traffic and time-spent on your brand. Browser makers approach this concept differently — Google Chrome has opted for a marketplace where users download and install Web apps as a separate experience to their website. Microsoft Internet Explorer has Pinned Sites, a set of features that make users feel like they have a native app experience. Mozilla Firefox has been experimenting with Prism, a native app that users install to launch websites directly.

Even though IE9 is relatively new, and I work on a MAC primarily, we have been exploring Pinned Sites.
You can find out all about it at http://buildmypinnedsite.com/
There is also a jQuery plugin to help make things easier http://plugins.jquery.com/project/pinify

It is a very good execution of how integrated websites that act like native applications, can work very well. So make sure to check it out, and learn how to design and develop native applications that blur the lines between the browser and the desktop.

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Maybe Google One up’d Facebook

web design New York City — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:56:49 +0000

Maybe Google one up’d facebook, or maybe it’s +1. The ‘like’ buttons around the web from facebook proved to be a pretty good idea. The Plus One from Google seems to be similar at first look, but it’s actually much more. It looks like something we will be using to better spread our client’s work. Have a look at the video below:

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Screens, Screens, Everywhere are screens

web design New York City — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:33:19 +0000

The imagined future of the design, interaction, and availability of information on screens from TAT. TAT works with 4 of the 6 biggest mobile manufacturers designing screen interfaces for over 400 million devices.

Read about it here http://mobileuserinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/09/future-os-screens-experience-video.html
And you won’t want to miss this video… for the creative mind, it’s inspiring to say the least.

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Wallaby FLASH to HTML5 Converter

web design New York City — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:30:28 +0000

We’ve been awaiting the arrival of this new tool from Adobe, code named Wallaby…since we saw the demo video back in October of 2010. In the meantime we’ve been experimenting up on Javascript animations, and the Sencha animator that creates pure CSS3 animations from a GUI and animation time line — to see how to best create lightweight animations that will play on iOS devices and screens without the flash player runtime.

You can check out the preview video from October here.

Wallaby is an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool, with an easy drag-and-drop usage. It’s pretty amazing ! Flash and HTML5 can coexist peacefully together. Check it out and download it here. Then join the developer and designer conversation and offer feedback on the experimental tool, to help make it better.

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Electronic Paper

web design New York City — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:13:23 +0000

NoteSlate®

Sketch out your ideas, write a note, design an UI and develop ideas visually — do anything you would ordinarily do on paper with NoteSketch. A low cost different type of tablet with 180- hours of battery life. Check it out here.

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Chrome 9

web design New York City — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:40:25 +0000

If you haven’t tried the most advanced browser out there yet, it’s about time!!
Google chrome 9 shows off some WebGL Support, Chrome Web Store, and Google Instant in the address bar of the browser.

My favorite example of the WebGL is linked below (Body Browser).
And… yes, you need Chrome to view them, and you can download it here http://www.google.com/chrome/)

• http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
• View All Experiments

FYI… version 9 ?? Didn’t it take IE 15 years to get to version 9.. sorry 9 Beta ?

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Google Analytics New ActionScript 3 Library

web design New York City — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:02:14 +0000

Exporting data through the Google Analytics API, while using Flash AS3 has a new client library.
Now with a simplier way to access all your data in ActionScript 3.

You can read all about it on the Google Analytics Blog.

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Verizon will finally announce iPhone

web design New York City — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:59:31 +0000

Verizon and the iPhone has been talked about for over 2 years now, but the day is finally arriving. They will announce it Tuesday at CES.
Read full article by The Wall Street Journal here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704739504576068170230339348.html

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Android 3.0 design

web design New York City — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:55:40 +0000

Android Honeycomb, sneak peek. Specifically designed for Tablets. Looking good!

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Dreamweaver and JQuery

web design New York City — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:27:47 +0000

An exciting time for web designers and web developers alike.

Dreamweaver is working with the creators of the de facto javascript framework JQuery to integrate JQuery animations into the Dreamweaver environment on the next version release. It also plans to integrate the JQuery Mobile Project and JTouch into it’s arsenal — a powerful combination.

You can read more about this project, and the new Adobe Edge project here.
http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/january2011/articles/article4/index.html

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