Category: Technology

Stop writing code, start drawing it

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. Of course there are other softwares conteplated like Pixelmator, Fireworks, and web design tutorials.

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Stop writing code, start drawing it

Try the Super-Secure USB Drive OS That Edward Snowden Insists on Using

We all know that Edward Snowden insists on secure email, but he’s also very picky about his operating systems, too. In fact, he uses a free, super-secure version of Linux called Tails that fits on a USB stick and can be used on any computer without leaving a trace.Linux installs on USB sticks are nothing new, sure. But Tails is an operating system optimized for anonymity – and it’s used by the likes of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald to keep their digital lives as secure as possible. In its developers’ words:Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving …

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Try the Super-Secure USB Drive OS That Edward Snowden Insists on Using

Simplelenium, Writing Robust Tests with Selenium

I use Selenium a lot. And I hate it! I hate it and I use it. Every other browser automation tool I’ve used either has the same problems as Selenium or end up dying because nobody uses it. There are nice librairies to make writing Selenium tests more user friendly. Fluentlenium is one of those nice tools. But Selenium’s problem is not really with its syntax. It’s the complexity of writing stable tests. It’s hell! It would be great if Selenium tests didn’t fail every other day If you test modern websites with Selenium, you end up playing with waits and timers. Very often people put random Thread.sleep(s) into their test code because they are just fed up trying to understand …

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Simplelenium, writing robust tests with Selenium

Are You Getting the Basics of Analytics Right?

Posted by: Paul Boag On Tuesday, 15th April, 2014

Monitoring website analytics is an important part of evolving your site. Unfortunately many of us aren’t monitoring enough and look at the wrong things.

Content Strategy Short Audio Tips: The estimated time to read this article is 4 minutes Subscribe to these quick tips using iTunes or RSS | Download Audio I think if we are honest most of us are floundering around when it comes to website analytics. We know they are important, but are not quite sure what to do with the data we collect. After opening the default dashboards a few times we give up and don’t check our analytics for months at a time. At least many of us are like that. Others are…

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Are you getting the basics of analytics right?

How to Create Stylish CSS Buttons

Get Source View Demo Out with the old, in with the new. We’re in a day and age where we need to simplify our stylesheets and lighten our page loads to be efficient across all devices on all connections. There’s a balance between simplicity and beauty though. We of course want to be functional and progressive, but also want to be aesthetically pleasing. There was once a time when graded images with shadows, hover states, and active states were used as buttons. It added some user-friendliness to our forms and whatnot. Nowadays, with CSS3 in the fold and a more compact, minimal style taking precedence, we can achieve stylish CSS buttons. The reason for switching to pure CSS is twofold – It’s a lighter …

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How to Create Stylish CSS Buttons

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