Category: Internet

Outlook.com Introduces the Most Sophisticated Rules in Webmail

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

When it comes to getting organized, Outlook.com has you covered. Starting today, we are releasing Advanced Rules and three other features, all to help you keep your inbox in top shape and make it even easier to see the email that matters to you. The average person has 184 emails in their inbox, and receives 28 emails each day.* This can be a lot to handle, so helping you get to the email you care about is one of our top priorities. Outlook.com already has a number of features to help you do this. For example, Sweep (one of our most popular) helps you quickly delete multiple unwanted emails. The following new features, which are rolling out today, build on our commitment to give your inbox …

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Outlook.com introduces the most sophisticated rules in webmail

The Designer’s Guide to Working with SVG

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

By Gwen Vanhee

What’s the big deal about SVG, anyway? Don’t you just hit “Save as SVG” in Illustrator, and you’ve got yourself an SVG? Yes and no. While it’s technically true, by the same logic, every MS Word user is technically a web developer. Perhaps the question to ask is: Is that SVG file any more useful than an equivalent PNG or JPG? Often the generated SVG files we get from graphics apps are not actually very much use outside the application that made it. The real power of SVG becomes clearer when you’ve got a readable, manipulable document and not a dense, arcane document ejected from a graphics app. Today, I want to give you a speed guide…

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The Designer’s Guide to Working with SVG

Popcorn Time 0.3 Released With TV Series Support, New User Interface, Other Major New Features

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Popcorn Time, an open source Netflix-style torrent streaming application for Linux, Windows and Mac which is quite popular these days, was updated to version 0.3 beta recently, bringing some major improvements such as TV series support, new user interface, user settings, bookmarks and more.The application allows users to stream movies (with subtitles) and TV series starting with the new 0.3 version, at no cost, and that may be illegal in your country so make sure you read the disclaimer before using Popcorn Time!The most interesting new features in Popcorn Time 0.3 beta:TV Series support; brand new interface; user settings: set language, enable/disable subtitles for a language by default (along with the subtitle size), change the TV Show API, etc.; bookmarks; more codecs are supported; new …

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Popcorn Time 0.3 Released With TV Series Support, New User Interface, Other Major New Features

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Is Your News Site Too Slow? Probably, Though, The Guardian’s Trying To Speed Theirs Up

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Web publishers face a quandary in 2014: User expectations for how quickly a website will load are getting faster and faster. But web pages keep getting fatter and fatter, adding custom fonts, bigger art, more video, and more complex JavaScript into the mix. Our 3G reality often falls short of our broadband dreams. Patrick Hamman at The Guardian gave an interesting talk last week at the FrontTrends conference in Warsaw about how they’re trying to make theguardian.com load a lot faster in its new, responsive design, and there are a lot of ideas in here ready to be stolen by other news site developers. One remarkable fact: A Guardian audience survey found that, of 17 key product drivers, the speed of the site ranked No. 2, behind only …

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Is your news site too slow? Probably, though The Guardianâ€™s trying to speed theirs up