Links from 2012

Contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used for most touch commands 2) how to utilize these gestures to support major user actions 3) visual representations of each gesture to use in design documentation and deliverables 4) an outline of how popular software platforms support core touch gestures.

If it all gets a bit much, Visual Studio 2010 does include a pleasing beginners' mode where, instead of typing spells, they can be drawn using a convenient drag-and-drop interface. This GUI gameplay eschews much of the complexity of the full game—the compiler gatekeeper is almost always happy, and few bugs will lurk in the resulting dungeons—but works well as a way of learning how to craft spells.

"Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes". Using this to back up Gmail.

Monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.

Unofficial app showing the current BBC 6Music playlist.

I guess I might not be going for dual English/Dutch nationality after all, then.

A simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites

Easy to forget.

Useful but non-validating attributes for forms.

Peter Grundy carries on the work of Grundy & Northedge, explaining life imaginatively and individually in words and pictures, for clients who seek invention and imagination.

Properly amazing.

Convore pivots.

A simple online tool that converts static Markdown text files located in your Dropbox, into a beautiful web log.

Don't.

A very simple framework for building Perch websites

Send a link to clients, rather than writing something yourself.

Likely alternative to the rough ConceptShare.

Automated lossy JPEG optimization

Presuming the bank means around just under a grand.

Taking this tack has allowed the renaissance right to do a very remarkable thing: to pretend to be an enemy of big business, on the grounds that big business is insufficiently capitalist.

Lots of end-user PDF goodness.

I wish there was a good geographic database of wifi passwords. Oh, there is: http://t.co/3AjqUjHN

"While Americans love to talk about competition, Sahlberg points out that nothing makes Finns more uncomfortable. In his book Sahlberg quotes a line from Finnish writer named Samuli Puronen: "Real winners do not compete." It's hard to think of a more un-American idea, but when it comes to education, Finland's success shows that the Finnish attitude might have merits. There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland. The main driver of education policy is not competition between teachers and between schools, but cooperation."

.@kangax did some amazingly thorough research on CSS performance, using @operadfl’s new CSS profiler: http://t.co/ctXLRb1z /via @chriscoyier

I think we need more stories that celebrate the success of what seem like small, iterative product launches, but actually reflect triumphs in unsung disciplines such as systems operations, design process, business development and product management. There are lots of loud, pointless headlines about companies getting money from venture capitalists or angel investors. What I'd love to see more of in 2012 (and beyond!) is headlines about how a few small successes with users are a demonstration of a small company outperforming and out-innovating the biggest companies in the tech industry by being focused and disciplined in their execution.

Lossy is a scary word but when it comes to images it provides dramatic savings & minimal loss in quality via @sergeyche http://t.co/Idddi9Ac

Great overview on detecting CSS media queries (changes) via JavaScript http://t.co/QsomEmdv #css3 #html5 #javascript

Good London pictures (panoramas in particular) from Wish in Herne Hill.

Parental choice.