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Internet blackout day: The day the internet goes dark

http://www.reddit.com/ and Wikipedia goes dark to protest web privacy, and probably the largest online protest in history as listed in http://sopastrike.com/ Protect IP / SONA breaks the internet video by fightforthefuture: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
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Apple will release new iPhone in September

The device will include the A5 processor, the more powerful chip that Apple added to the iPad 2 earlier this year, along with an 8-megapixel camera, up from the 5-megapixel model in the iPhone 4, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the details aren’t public. Apple is also testing a new [...]
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Backup your files online and sync to multiple device

Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. 2GB of online storage for free, with up to 100GB available to paying customers. Sync files of any size or type. Sync Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Automatically syncs when new files or changes are detected. What makes Dropbox great is they give you a 2GB of [...]
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Test Driven Development with QUnit

QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use, JavaScript test suite. It’s used by the jQuery project to test its code and plugins but is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code (and even capable of testing JavaScript code on the server-side). QUnit is especially useful for regression testing: Whenever a bug is reported, write a test that asserts [...]
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An excellent introduction to SCRUM

WTH is SCRUM? Scrum is an iterative, incremental methodology for project management often seen in agile software development, a type of software engineering. Although the Scrum approach was originally suggested for managing product development projects, its use has focused on the management of software development projects, and it can be used to run software maintenance teams or [...]
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jQuery for iPhone and iPad

Apple’s iPad and iPhone definitely revolutionized the web! for developers and designers it also changed the way how we make websites. While reading Six Revision’s Designing Web Apps for the iPad, I came across a powerful  jQuery Plugin: jQuery Swipe – This plugin uses Mobile Safari’s built in touch events to allow jQuery binding of swipe events [...]
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Using jQuery wysiwyg

jHtmlArea is a simple, light weight, extensible WYSIWYG HTML editor built on top of jQuery. To use this plugin you need to download the package here. The zip file contains samples on how to initialize the editor with different options and custom buttons. In this example we will create an editor with a colorpicker. 1.) Unpack the [...]
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Top 5 jQuery based menu

Navigation is one of the most essential part in a website, but sometimes we also need an “eye-candy” to add a different level of experience to our users while navigating the site. I have listed some of my favorite jQuery based menu systems: 1.) CSS Dock Menu for Mac fans 2.) Dropdown, iPod DrillDown and Flyout Menu 3.) Superfish [...]
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