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Resources for Developers

Brand Spankin’ New Google Chrome Extensions You Should Be Trying

20 Advance Javascript Tutorials That Make Flash To Be Afraid Of

The beauty of the Google Chrome Extension gallery is that it is virtually uninhibited by any sort of approval process. This allows tons of extensions to be uploaded into the wild in real time. Every couple weeks, I go through and find the best and/or the most promising extensions that have recently been added.

The following extensions are no more than a few weeks old, and thus, it’s highly unlikely that you’ve seen them yet (unless you have no life, like me). Keep in mind that since these are brand new, some of them may have bugs here and there. The good thing, though, is that extensions from the gallery automatically update in the background without the need to restart the browser, and extension developers are usually more receptive to adding/removing/fixing features when their extension is newly released!

There are twenty-three extensions and two themes to try out. Feel free to give any of these a quick try! If you decide you don’t like it, simply right-click the extension and select “Uninstall” — Simple as that! No restarts or anything!

Ready? Here goes!

Most Wanted Business/Magazine Wordpress Premium Themes

You may have your own blog or working for someone else. What ever may be the content of the blog, the theme of the blog gives the first impression about the blog to the reader. If your theme is very interactive and user friendly, then reader will probably enjoy it. If you are serious about your blog, you should have a serious theme. If you have a design or technical related blog, you probably don’t want to miss this showcase.

In the showcase below, I tried to include some of the highest rated magazine/business WordPress themes voted on by bloggers and designers. Once you have a licence for the theme, you are (of course) free to edit it to fit for your requirements. Here are some premium themes that will get you noticed, for sure.

How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations

In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.

However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.

20 Fonts made popular by or inspired by Movies and Brands

If you’re a movie fan, I am sure you’ll enjoy this collection of 20 beautiful movie/brand fonts. All these are free and I think they should be part of every designer’s font library. Enjoy!

20+ Exceptional Online Professional Image Editors and Drawing Applications

Image editors have been around a while but we’re starting to see rapid growth of exceptional image editors which are all based online. If you haven’t used any of these yet, you’ll be surprised at the features they have and the speed they run at.

Though most of these are Flash-based, they all load really fast and work quite similarly to familiar editors like Photoshop and Illustrator. We also feature here some online applications built with Javascript which work just as well as the Flash-based apps.

More Google Buzz Tips, Resources, Extensions, and Icons to Keep You Buzzed.

Google Buzz’s launch week is about to come to a close. And with that, we’re going to start seeing just how buzzed people are about it. But just in case you’re not buzzed yet, here’s a quick round up of the best tricks, resources, and tutorials that have sprung up in the last few days.

12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz

So. Google just recently announced Google Buzz. I’m not sure about you, but I didn’t see this coming. Sure, Google was bound to start a social network of some sort at some time; but, I didn’t think it’d be this soon!

After spending a few hours on Google Buzz, we’re proud to present you with 12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz. Before you start drinking the Google juice, though, make sure you choose a designated driver! (Ya, I know. Bad joke.)

20 Fonts Ideal For The iPhone And Other Mobile Screens

When designing backgrounds or interfaces for smaller screens designers really need to pay attention to which fonts they are selecting. Fancy fonts which look awesome on large screens are often barely readable at smaller resolutions. Here is a collection of 20 free fonts which will surely work on any resolution required. Who ever said these free fonts don’t look good? Enjoy!

20 Best Twitter-likes And Useful Tutorials To Work With Twitter

Twitter is awesome and what Twitter are doing is great. Twitter is not only a necessary service for our communication, our business…, but also its design and features have a big influence to our web design and development. People are getting develop their web project more like Twitter. This post will help you find 20 best tutorials and resources that are Twitter-like and useful for your web projects.

@font-face Generator Every Web Designer Must Know

As you’ve already known, Firefox 3.5+ , Safari 3.1+, Opera 10+ and Internet Explorer 4.0+, all of them support @font-face embedding and Google’s Chrome 3.0 beta does as well. Although embedding the @font-face is easy by just few line code in CSS, create these font file for each type of web browser is not easy. Too many steps! Have you ever wished you had font-face kit that includes all of these files? Today, you’ll have it.