By: Jeremy White
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 31, 2016
New Skinny Tile tracker fits in your wallet, helps you find everything else
Tile Slim is the same thickness as 2 credit cards. Like Tiles of the last 2 years, it uses Bluetooth and the battery runs for about a year. Cost is $25-$30 per Tile.
AGC Employment Report Identifies Factors Slowing Industry Growth
While overall trends indicate a national growth in construction employment, in certain areas of the country, there is still cause for concern. According to findings by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), this is heavily tied to the health of the local economy.
Between July 2015 and July 2016, 39 states and Washington, D.C., added construction jobs. However, upon closer inspection, only 23 states and Washington, D.C., added jobs between June 2016 and July 2016. While overall growth is undeniable, the AGC identified some reasons for the hiccups some states are experiencing.
Star Media Group's chief revenue officer departs
Kirk MacDonald had joined the company last October to oversee integrated sales
ET deals: ThinkPad T460s 14-inch 1080p laptop for $763
Need a small laptop that you can bring with you on coast-to-coast flights? Looking for something lightweight and durable that still has plenty of horsepower? Check out the 14-inch ThinkPad T460s from Lenovo. With a tiny footprint, a Skylake CPU, and all-day battery life, this laptop is a bargain when you use today's coupon code to save a total of 30%.
Lenovo's £449 Yoga Book has a virtual keyboard you can draw on and learns your typing style
When is a keyboard not a keyboard? When it's also a notepad and a graphics tablet
By: James Temperton
Continue reading...Corby adds to its liquor cabinet
Canadian marketer of spirits and imported wines pays $12-million cash for new brands
AMD may delay next-gen Vega, confirms Zen on track for Q1 2017
AMD's Vega looks to have slipped backwards into 2017 and a later launch date than originally thought.
Proposed Anthropocene epoch rustles jimmies of dissenting geologists
Scientists say we've left an indelible mark on the history of our planet. But is it a deep enough footprint to mark the beginning of a new epoch?
The Real Low-Carbon Economy 'Disruptor'
When people think of the low-carbon economy and the multiple technologies in place that are fueling the growth of green, it is likely that most of them would point to wind and solar as the two most significant and influential drivers of the trend.
Not so, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs, "The New Energy Landscape: The Future of Clean Energy." Their pick: LEDs, which they identify as "one of the fastest technology shifts in human history."
Microsoft Tickler File Alert: Intel's New 'Kaby Lake' Chip Will Only Support Windows 10
As Intel's Kaby Lake processor rolls out in the coming months, it's helpful to remember it comes with a big asterisk.
Visa tops list of Olympic sponsors (Report)
Nearly one third of Canadian viewers noticed the brand on an unaided basis
Tim Hortons expanding to England, Scotland and Wales
Canadian coffee shop chain seeks to be a leader in the U.K. market
Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: September 2016
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We all love a good wallpaper to polish up our desktops. So to provide you with fresh artwork on a regular basis, we embarked on our desktop wallpapers mission eight years ago. Each month we challenge you, the design community, to get your creative juices flowing and produce some inspirational and unique desktop wallpapers.
And, well, also this time designers and artists from across the globe challenged their artistic abilities and contributed their designs for September. The result is a collection of desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. All of them come in versions with and without a calendar and are free to download. A big thank-you to everyone who shared their artwork! Now, which one will make it to your desktop?
The post Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: September 2016 appeared first on Smashing Magazine.
Patrick Jutras joining La Presse as sales VP
Longtime sales executive praises company's 'high-calibre' executive team
Breaking down millennial viewing audiences
Numeris spotlights viewing habits for three distinct millennial sub-groups
How We Use Prototyping, And How It Made Us More Efficient
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Prototyping is essential to help your team create the best product possible. It's a chance to experiment with ideas and turn them into something tangible that you can test and build upon. When you fail with your prototype, you land softly - there's always the chance to iterate and improve.
The team behind Adobe's new prototyping tool Experience Design (Adobe XD) uses prototyping as a method to test new features before they make it into the program. Being a product manager on the Adobe XD team, I'll share some insights into how the team uses prototyping to build and improve Adobe XD, and make prototyping more efficient for designers.
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New Skinny Tile tracker fits in your wallet, helps you find everything else
Tile Slim is the same thickness as 2 credit cards. Like Tiles of the last 2 years, it uses Bluetooth and the battery runs for about a year. Cost is $25-$30 per Tile.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Renewables Generation Growth Continues to Skyrocket
According to the latest "Electric Power Monthly" report, released late August 2016 by the US Energy Information Administration, renewable electricity generation has surpassed levels of previous years in every month so far this year, with both hydroelectric and non-hydroelectric (wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass) renewables contributing to this trend.
Pixel-Perfect Specifications Without The Headaches
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Designers, developers and managers often work with compressed timeframes and multiple projects simultaneously. A team must be able to respond quickly to feedback on their product from clients, project managers and developers. Each minor revision in the UI or UX needs to be reflected in the documentation, so that designers and developers always have the latest information.
A style guide ensures that your project doesn't encounter serious problems when you implement the initial design. Making sure that all specifications are accurate to their designs is critical, because an inaccurate specification means that developers will have to either rely on guesswork when building the app or go to the design source to get answers to their questions.
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New evidence strengthens the case for 'Planet 9' in the outer solar system
There could be a giant planet lurking in the frozen depths of the outer solar system, and more evidence suggests it's out there.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Ways To Reduce Content Shifting On Page Load
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Have you ever opened a website, started reading and, after some time had passed and all assets had finished loading, you found that you've lost your scroll position? I undergo this every day, especially when surfing on my mobile device on a slow connection - a frustrating and distracting experience.
Every time the browser has to recalculate the positions and geometries of elements in the document, a reflow happens. This happens when new DOM elements are added to the page, images load or dimensions of elements change. In this article, we will share techniques to minimize this content shifting.
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Zulu pitches U.S. presidential candidates
Toronto agency creates mock-campaign aimed at potential American clients
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Web Development Reading List #151: Microinteraction UX, Feature Policy, And Passport.js
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In the last few years, I've seen a lot of code. As a freelancer working on multiple big projects with a lot of people, you'll inevitably see all varieties of code styles. But I also realized how much writing JavaScript changed over the past years.
Having learned JavaScript before ES6 was there, a great mentor (Hans Christian Reinl) taught me the most important lesson: Always write clean, understandable code. Avoid ternary operators, declare variables in one place, make functions as simple as possible. Basically things that so many JavaScript style guides also advise. But with the growing adoption of ES6/ES2015, I also saw an increase of code where most of these principles (except for keeping functions small) are ignored.
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How to stop WhatsApp sharing your phone number with Facebook
The WhatsApp update is designed to improve user experience across the app and Facebook.
By: Sarah Griffiths
Continue reading...This exoskeleton glove could let you feel the 'shape' of virtual reality
You can see VR, but you can't feel VR. Maybe one day, you will with Dexmo.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Saatchi and the CCGSD tackle homophobia in sports reporting
The campaign follows two similar initiatives about gender equality in sports
Meet Dragonfly 44, the galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter
The galaxy is roughly the same mass as the Milky Way, but our galaxy has a hundred times more stars
By: Sarah Griffiths
Continue reading...Kindle ebook readers are crashing Windows 10 PCs post-Anniversary Update
Microsoft's new Anniversary Update has mostly rolled out without problems, but Kindle owners are reporting significant issues with the Paperwhite and Voyage. Plugging these devices into Windows 10 AU systems can BSOD the OS.
Upgrading CSS Animation With Motion Curves
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There is UI animation, and then there is good UI animation. Good animation makes you go “Wow!” - it's smooth, beautiful and, most of all, natural, not blocky, rigid or robotic. If you frequent Dribbble or UpLabs, you'll know what I am talking about.
With so many amazing designers creating such beautiful animations, any developer would naturally want to recreate them in their own projects. Now, CSS does provide some presets for transition-timing-function, such as ease-in, ease-out and ease-in-out, which add some level of smoothness and realism, but they are very generic, aren't they? How boring would it be if every animation on the web followed the same three timing functions?
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Astronomers discover Earth-like planet orbiting nearest star Proxima Centauri
Proxima b is the closest exoplanet ever discovered, and it may even have the potential to harbor life.
Diverse Test-Automation Frameworks For React Native Apps
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The bar is set high for today's mobile apps. First, apps must meet the standard of quality that app markets expect. Secondly, mobile app users are very demanding. Plenty of alternatives are available to download, so users will not tolerate a buggy app.
Because mobile apps have become such a crucial part of people's lives, users won't be shy about sharing their love or hate for an app - and that feedback gets in front of millions of users in seconds.
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