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Retrofitting Responsive Design Bookmarklet

This bookmarklet allows you to retrofit any site with a responsive design.

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Olympic Social Media Infographic

Four years ago in Beijing the world was well on the way to becoming “social”, however due to the fact that it was still an emerging trend and that it was also held deep inside a internet exclusion zone (not really, but you know what I mean) means that the London Olympics were the first true social games.

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CSS3 Image Filters

Everyone loves instagram, and before instagram was around everyone loved to use the image filters on their point and shoot cameras because lets face it, who doesn’t look better in Sepia or Black and White.

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HTML5 & CSS3 Darwin Workshop tomorrow

If you haven’t booked your place in tomorrows HTML5 and CSS3 Workshop with John Allsopp you still have time (albeit not much time).

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Disable preloading on HTML5 Videos

The preload attribute informs the browser whether or not the video data should begin downloading as soon as the video tag is loaded. It gets even better than that, you can chose how much preloading is done with the options auto, metadata, and none.

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Responsive Design Podcast in the UK

Two weeks ago I received an email from the British Tech Network who were looking for a guest speaker for a podcast on Responsive Design and someone suggested they get in touch with the curator of RWD Weekly. It turns out that while in London I worked with the organiser of the podcast and from there on it was all roses and raspberry cakes.

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Should You Keep Ideas To Yourself? by ZURB

If you don’t know who Zurb is then I highly recommend that you head over to their website and check out the Foundation 3.0.

Today they posted about sharing ideas…

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Exoplanet Diagram from XKCD

XKCD have come up with another awesome comic reviewing the planets that we have identified. If you take a look at the planets in our solar system you’ll notice that we have two medium/smallish planets. That’s Jupiter and Saturn. They’re freaking massing. To give you a better idea just how big they are take a […]

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ManageWP: 5 Reasons Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It

The guys over at ManageWP have released an article on 5 Reasons Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It . What a load of shit rubbish. The caveat Thankfully this wasn’t an entirely one sided article with this quote, however it wasn’t all that far off it was it. I am about to explain why […]

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The iPads have it

This is an amazing set of statistics that Luke Wrobleski has revealed after this years Apple developers conference.