All buttons are fully scalable and customizable, and they degrade gracefully on older browsers, although the aesthetics in IE 6 and 7 are admittedly inferior to image-based alternatives.

No raster images or sprites were used. Instead, vector icons were inserted using a custom font file, an @font-face rule and pseudo elements. For more information, John Hicks has an informative write-up on this technique.

Features

• 100%-vector CSS3 buttons
• @font-face icons and custom font files
• 72 services supported
• Button and icon versions supported
• Em sizing for full scalability
• Generic primary and secondary action buttons for consistency
• Graceful degradation on older browsers

Download the button set for Free

• Demo
• Download the Package [zip,147KB]
• GitHub repository
• Sass Framework [six buttons] [by @adamstac]

Source – [smashingmagazine], [zocial]

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The library is lightweight (2kb minified-gzipped), standalone and helps the social widgets to load when you want them or only when needed/requested to speed up web pages.

Features and Benefits

• No dependencies to use.
• Loads external resources only when requested.
• Less than 2kb when minified and compressed.
• More accessible and styleable defaults/fallbacks.
• Support for Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Spotify (new!)
• Extensible with other social networks.
• Mimics native implementation when activated.
• Supported in all browsers (providing the buttons are).
  

Demo :

Below are a few more proof of concept demos, make sure to test them thoroughly and consider all use cases before putting them into production!

• Hover Demo
• Scroll Demo

Compatibility: All Major Browsers

Download:  at github
Source [socialite],[webresdept]

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Sony’s fiscal 2012 results: $820 million loss due to floods, earthquakes and exchange rates.  Sony’s financial results for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2012 are in, with the Japanese giant reporting year-over-year losses in revenue and operating losses that it attributes to “the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange rates, the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the floods in Thailand, and deterioration in market conditions in developed countries.”

Sony’s fiscal 2012 ran from April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012, with the company reporting net revenue of ¥6.49 trillion ($79.1 billion), down 9.6 percent year-over-year from the ¥7.18 trillion (approx. $89 billion) reported at the end of fiscal 2010. After expenses, Sony reports an operating loss of ¥67.3 billion ($820 million), which is actually a smaller loss than that reported at the end of fiscal 2011 (¥199.8 billion/approx $2 billion).

Year-over-year sales decreases were primarily due to Sony’s Consumer Products & Services (CPS) and Professional, Device & Solutions (PDS) divisions, with CPS sales down 18.5 percent at ¥3.13 trillion ($38.2 billion) in 2012 vs. ¥3.84 trillion (approx. $48 billion) in 2011, resulting in an operating loss of ¥229.8 billion ($2.8 billion) – more than a 2,000 percent decrease from 2011′s operating income of ¥10.8 billion (approx. $135 million). CPS encompasses Sony’s consumer electronics sectors, including LCD TVs, PCs, photography solutions and, of course, gaming.

Sony partially attributes CPS’ decline in sales to “lower sales of PlayStation®3 hardware due to a strategic price reduction and lower sales of PlayStation®2 due to platform migration,” among other reasons like deteriorating conditions in North American and European TV markets.

Source: [joystiq]

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KeKu is a VoIP telephony startup that has quietly build a global platform during its beta phase. Now, the company is ready to come out of beta. At its core, KeKu is pretty similar to services like Rebtel and even Skype, as it focuses on letting you make cheap international phone calls and also offers free calls between its own users. KeKu, however, puts a stronger emphasis on what it likes to call “any-to-any” calling than most of its competitors. This means that you can use it to make calls from your landline, mobile phone or the company’s free Android or iOS apps to call any phone number in the world (a BlackBerry app is also in the works).

One of the service’s most interesting features is that it allows you to set up local numbers in over 40 countries that you can then assign them to your international contacts (the company actually has a patent for this technology). Thanks to this, you can use your landline or mobile phone to call a local number you have assigned to a given contact and then have KeKu automatically connect this call to the international number. It’s worth noting that Skype, which offers a similar service under the name “Skype To Go,” only provides this service in 23 countries.

Overall, the service’s prices for paid calls are comparable and often somewhat cheaper than its competitors’. KeKu also lets you send free international text messages.

For users in the U.S. (and those who make many calls to the U.S.), KeKu also offers an unlimited plan for calls inside the U.S. for $19.99 per year.

As KeKu’s CEO Manilo Carrelli told me earlier this week, his team, which includes a number of telecom veterans, the company is especially proud of its proprietary routing system. The team’s focus, he said, is on providing the highest possible call quality and its systems ensure that calls are always routed based on network quality. He also stressed that he wants the company to be something akin to a “Swiss Army Knife of calling,” which explains KeKu’s focus on a global market and support for good old landlines.

During its beta phase, the company signed up over 400,000 subscribers worldwide. While the company wouldn’t reveal any precise numbers, Carrelli told me that the “majority” are paying users.

Source: [techcrunch], [keku]

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Already upgraded to CS6? Then maybe Adobe can entice you to take the “radical” next step of signing up to its subscription-based cloud service, which starts today in 36 countries priced at $50 per month on an annual contract, or $75 per month for the non-committal. Will it be worth the potatoes? That depends on whether you can make use of features like online access to CS6 application install files, HTML5 apps like Adobe Muse 1.0 (for code-free HTML design) and Adobe Edge preview (for animations and interactive content), plus integration with Adobe’s Touch Apps for iOS and Android tablets.

You also get that other big cloudy offering: 20GB of online storage for easy sharing, viewing and syncing of all your hard work. Finally, if you’re still using an older version of Creative Suite, then Adobe’s offering you a pretty hefty introductory discount to entice you onto the slippery upgrade slope. Check out the press release for further price info, or just look up in the sky.

Source – [adobe], [endgadget]

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Developed at Twitter to support our internal styleguide, RECESS is a simple, attractive code quality tool for CSS built on top of LESS.

Incorporate it into your development process as a linter, or integrate it directly into your build system as a compiler, RECESS will keep your source looking clean and super managable.

Reading the source is essential for developers to become good at what they do viewing this source in readable style is essential too. RECESS is a tool which helps you developing good-looking CSS with LESS. It is developed at Twitter and has now been open-sourced.

RECESS is a Node.js module and is maintained by @fat. You can find out more about it by viewing the source at GitHub.

Source [drublic]

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Then all you have to do is log into Hojoki anytime you want to see a stream of activities that are going in your various cloud domains. You can also create projects that filter streams based on specific tags and share them with other users.

The number of cloud services Hojoki supports is pretty small right now, but the functionality and awesome UI makes it worth it. You can also search through your feed and share any item with any created project with a single click.

Integrated Apps

• Bean Stalk
• Cloud App
• Delicious
• Dropbox
• Evernote
• Github
• Google Calendar
• Google Contacts
• Google Drive & Docs
• Google Reader
• Highrise
• Mendeley
• Pivotal tracker
• Ta-Da List
• Twitter
• Zendesk

Features:

• Create a news feed for all your cloud based services.
• Includes Twitter, Dropbox and more.
• Create projects to share selected feeds.
• Similar toolos: Cloudability and Primadesk.

It’s all for Free!

During the Public Beta, Hojoki will be free for all. After the end of the Beta there will always be a free plan. There will be premium accounts for individuals and for teams. Free accounts might be restricted in terms of project memberships, etc.,

Source [makeusof], [hojoki]

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In order to get inspired on colors and color-oriented design resources, there are several popular websites that are focused totally on colors, like Kuler from Adobe.

Colrd is another one where you can find high quality color palettes, gradients or patterns and also share your creativity with others.

With a simplistic interface that highlights the resources, it is possible to filter items by colors, popularity and even hue, luminance, etc.

P.S. Colrd has also created and sharing several open source color pickers.

Source: Colrd

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Currently, it is focused on providing a iOS-like experience on WebKit browsers and comes with many controls like bar, button, image, list, activity indicator, slider and more.

It also has support for transitions like fade, slide, cubic or cover and can display native-like alerts.

Interfaces created with Moobile are fluid, they will work well both in iPhone + iPad and look good when orientation changes.

View the Demo here

Refer Documentation

Download here

Source – [webresourcedept], [moobile]

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