Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Blippy Users Sharing More Than $500K In Purchases Per Day
Users on Blippy, the controversial service which lets you share purchases and purchase prices with your friends, are sharing $500,000 in purchases
per day, according a Tweet posted by co-founder Philip Kaplan.
Report: Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate
What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook? Twitter? Company blogs? Email?
How Windows 7 Phones Use Apple and RIM's Powers Against Them
At a launch event today, Microsoft showed how it's using two secret weapons to challenge Apple and RIM's smartphone dominance--ideas it co-opted from them. Business app integration inspired by the BlackBerry
, and AT&T's U-Verse to take on Apple TV.
Windows Phone 7: Solid Platform, Sorry Future
Oh Microsoft. I feel for you. Windows Phone 7
might have been a huge hit. It might have been the true iPhone killer. It might have even become the dominant mobile platform. But it won’t. It’s an iOS, Android and BlackBerry
world now and there isn’t room for anyone else.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
How to Write Great Content for the Web?
How to write for the web? Whether you’re a web designer
tasked with creating a website, a business owner trying to flesh out what content to put on your site, a blogger
writing for your many followers, or a geek with something important to share, there’s something important you should know – the average person’s retention level on the internet is much lower than when reading something printed.
HipLogic Launches *Spark, A Social Home Screen For Smartphones
Mobile application platform HipLogic is launching a new platform today at DEMO, called Spark. While many of HipLogic’s applications are designed to jazz up non-smartphone devices, *Spark aims to give smartphones the ultimate home screen experience. The free app is launching to Android and Nokia phones today.
Monday, October 4, 2010
25 Basic Styles of Blogging: When To Use Each One?
There are a more than a million blogs one can visit today and find relevant interesting articles to read almost every minute. But there aren't enough minutes in a day to spend search the most relevant articles to suit your reading tastes.
Similarly, its extremely difficult for the bloggers to find their niche and understand their readers' expectations at first and then build a relationship that could last for a long time.
Similarly, its extremely difficult for the bloggers to find their niche and understand their readers' expectations at first and then build a relationship that could last for a long time.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today?
Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook
and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision? I can’t say I did at the time. But as that deal is about to expire in 2011, Facebook’s status as a revenue juggernaut is rarely questioned any more.
Assessing the PlayBook's threat to the iPad
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet ostensibly has one sizable advantage over the iPad. That is, of course, if RIM delivers and Apple doesn't respond.
25 Cool Windows 7 Keyboard Tricks That Will Impress Your Friends
Anyone working professionally with a computer has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance and personally I often turn over my mouse in such situations. An easy solution is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.
Top 6 Google Search Secrets
If you’re a typical Internet user, you access Google several times a week, if not
several times a day. As a typical user, you also don’t use a tenth of Google’s
search power—which means you’re not searching as effectively or as efficiently
as you could.
100 Best Photoshop Tutorials of All Time that Yield Professional Results
Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane.
Top 10 iOS Jailbreak Hacks
If you've purchased an iOS device, you've also signed up for its many limitations. Jailbreaking can put you back in control. Here are ten great jailbreak hacks to help you customize and better utilize your iOS device.
Social Shopping Heats Up On Facebook
For a while now, social shopping has been heating up as the Next Big Thing on Facebook. I’ve written recently about Amazon’s implementation of Facebook Connect, the launch of two new products from FatWallet, and even the fact that social shopping apps both won and placed in the recent Facebook Hackathon in Palo Alto.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Complete Guide to Maximizing Your Android Phone’s Battery Life
You’re no doubt reading this article because you’ve got a shiny new Android phone, but there’s just one problem: you’re so addicted that the battery runs out on a daily basis. Instead of putting the phone down, let’s maximize the battery life.
75 Awesome Free and Premium Portfolio Themes for WordPress
Showcasing creative work online is very important for designers, photographers etc. to build reputation and attract new customers. It turns out that WordPress even though it initially was designed for bloggers have become the number one and most popular platform for building portfolio sites. The ease of use of WordPress, the high number of excellent portfolio style themes and plugins available for building a professional portfolio web site makes the decision easy.
Design for Mobile: The One Billion Dollar iPhone App
In her talk on Designing a billion dollar user experience at Design for Mobile in Chicago IL, Karlyn Neel talked about eBay's success in mobile e-commerce and provided a number of tips for creating great transactional mobile applications.
Read more at LukeW.com
Read more at LukeW.com
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Designing the iPhone User Experience
Any company that claims their product will change my life is greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism. Sure, several purchases have had a significant impact on my life over the years, but only a few were life-changing. My first car gave me the freedom to explore my suburban community without my parents knowing my every move.
The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes
Designing wireframes the right way the first time costs no more than doing it the wrong way. Creating a paper prototype adds no cost either; simply print out the wireframe diagrams for the pages a visitor will use to complete the tasks most closely related to achieving his goals and meeting the site's business objectives.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Survey: Android's Future Bright, iOS Interest Still Strong
Makers of mobile apps think that Google's Android operating system has a better long-term outlook than Apple's iOS, according to a survey conducted by Appcelerator of the developers that use its app-building tools. But the news isn't exactly grim for Apple, as developers polled by Appcelerator continue to be heavily interested in creating apps that run on the iPhone and iPad.
Sony Ericsson Preps Micro Display for Android
Sony Ericsson has unveiled a remote control with a 1.3-inch screen that will allow Android smartphone users to view Facebook and Twitter updates and control their phone's music player.
With Kindle App, Amazon Buys the Blackberry PlayBook Hype
Amazon is picking winners and losers in smartphones and tablets, and it's already deemed the Blackberry PlayBook a winner by promising a Kindle app.
Google Labs: 5 New Tools to Try Now
Google Labs--the area Google reserves for applications and tools not yet ready for primetime--is constantly dishing up new features for all of us to try.
The BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet: 10 Things You Need to Know
The BlackBerry tablet is here, and it looks astoundingly nice. Nicer than anybody expected it to be. Here's what you need to know about the PlayBook, in 10 easy steps.
BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Targets Business Users
RIM confirmed rumors of a tablet by introducing the BlackBerry PlayBook, a powerful 7-inch device that will offer a dual-core 1GHz processor, full HTML 5 browser, Flash 10.1 with video acceleration, 1 GB of RAM, 1080p playback with HDMI output and two HD cameras, all built atop the QNX operating system.
Infographic: History of classroom technology, from the writing slate to the electronic tablet
Check out an interesting infographic at NYTimes that lets you explore how classroom technology has evolved over a period of time in history.
RIM Unveils PlayBook Tablet as BlackBerry Maker Chases IPad
Research In Motion Ltd., whose BlackBerry smartphone rose to prominence on Wall Street, is now targeting business customers with a tablet computer to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad and add a fresh source of revenue.
How To: Solve A Rubik’s Cube In Under A Minutes
Rubik’s Cubes are a huge deal in my house. My son and I each have several and we work on them on and off all the time. I’ve never before been able to completely solve a Rubik’s cube and since I don’t give up when I can’t figure something out… well… let’s just say I’ve been working on my original Rubik’s Cube for years and years.
App Inventor for Android
You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.
Ready to ditch paper? Here are the 10 best e-readers
According to Amazon, ebook sales have already surpassed hardback book sales and will surpass paperbacks sometime in 2011, and then both hardback and paperback combined sometime shortly thereafter. That’s a much faster timeline than most of us expected and it speaks to how fast the e-reader market is accelerating.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Facebook, Twitter ask consumers to protect themeselves
Want to socialize and bank safely online? Be prepared to be your own best bodyguard.
With self-replicating spamming worms proliferating on popular social sites, officials at Facebook and Twitter say they've come to rely heavily on users to help them police postings. This follows a trend set by the banking industry, which now relies heavily on customers to keep themselves safe while banking online.
With self-replicating spamming worms proliferating on popular social sites, officials at Facebook and Twitter say they've come to rely heavily on users to help them police postings. This follows a trend set by the banking industry, which now relies heavily on customers to keep themselves safe while banking online.
Five Best Presentation Creation Tools
Gone are the days when presentations are limited to poster boards you can haul into the conference room, and you've also got more options than the de facto office suite provides. Here's a look five of the most popular presentation creation tools.
8 Things You Didn't Know About Mark Zuckerburg
We all know the story of the nerdy billionaire who allegedly screwed over his real friends on the way to making about 500 million new “friends.” But The New Yorker has recently published an incredibly in depth article on Mark Zuckerberg just before movie producer Kevin Spacey can tell his side of the story.
Here are 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Zuckerburg…"
Read more at Under30CEO.com
Here are 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Zuckerburg…"
Read more at Under30CEO.com
15 Reasons To Love Twitter!
When I started to use Twitter in 2008, it was not as popular as it is today. Just imagine in my country it is now no. 5 in terms of popularity. Back in 2008, no one really knew that it would grow so big. People thought that it was just a fad that would soon die down. Now, in 2010, it is still growing and at a much faster rate.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Facebook Now Worth More Than Dell, eBay, Yahoo or Starbucks... on Paper
Did you know that Facebook is worth more than Research in Motion, Starbucks, Dell, Yahoo, Adobe, Intuit or eBay? That’s according to a wide variety of investments and valuations that have shot Facebook’s stock into the stratosphere.
Facebook Gives A Post-Mortem On Worst Downtime In Four Years
Facebook’s had a rough day. In fact, it’s had its worst day performance-wise in over four years, with 2.5 hours of downtime that resulted in countless complaints from users. Perhaps more important, it also had a bevy API problems, and its Like buttons — which are embedded on over 350,000 sites across the web — were apparently busted too. When Facebook goes down, it’s a big deal.
Apple readying production of smaller, lighter 11.6-inch MacBook Airs?
Apple is destined to revamp its super-slim, but soft-selling MacBook Air as early as this fall, wrapping the new model around an LED-backlit display that's nearly two inches smaller than the model available today, according to sources in Taiwan.
5 Ways to Use Google Voice for Your Business

Thursday, September 23, 2010
10 Best Features of iPhone
iPhone has several best features present in it that can make the users happy. iPhone is certainly not the first touch screen phone or the first smart phone in the market. But it is one of the best executed ones up to date. It has been a revolutionary phone having attracted users from all parts of the world. A lot of new features have been added in the latest version of the iPhone, which is the iPhone 4. Out of the ‘many’ features present in the iPhone, let us see about a few of them in this post.
Read more at Tech4World.net
Read more at Tech4World.net
AIType: Fixes Your English As You Type, Helps You Write Gooder
Writing is hard. Just ask anyone. Stringing words together, spelling them right, and ensuring you follow rules of grammar and propriety are the blue-collar labor of the intelligentsia. So say you want to send an email to someone who speaks a language other than the one you speak? Do you go out and spend years to learn that language and then report back, ready to splatter out idiom and tricks of usage like an old pro? Absolutely not. You use something like AIType.
Surprising Facts About Online Education
Online education is quickly becoming a prominent and important piece of the education pie in the United States. The explosive growth of this segment of education, even during a recession, is nothing short of spectacular. It is becoming clear that there is a fundamental shift in how Americans are being educated after high school. The flexibility, lower cost, and variety of choice are just some of the reasons that online education is growing at its current pace. The following infographic will give you a better idea of the scope, impact, and future of online education. Enjoy!
Read more at DegreeScout.com
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Side-by-side: Flip UltraHD vs. iPhone 4: Video
Is the iPhone 4 a Flip killer? That’s a question we’ve been asking ourselves ever since Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the latest iPhone generation with HD recoding capability in June. Well, it looks like Cisco’s line of consumer camcorders isn’t going down without a fight. The company has just released an update to its device lineup, and its top-of-the-line camcorders now feature 720p HD recording at 60 frames per second, as well as image stabilization. The iPhone 4 on the other hand allows recording of 720p at 30 fps.
Technology Review India: Why Google Went Instant
Last week, Google rolled out a major change to its search engine's interface. American users, and some users in other countries, began to see the results for their Google searches appear onscreen while they were still typing. For example, if you type 'b' into Google's search box, you might see the results of a Google search for 'bank of america' appear below the box, along with a sponsored link from Bank of America. Keep typing until you have 'bat' in the search box, and the results could suddenly change to match a search for 'batman.'
Facebook Has Quietly Implemented A De-Facto Follow Feature
A few days ago, Facebook made what seemed to be a small tweak to its Friend Requests area. As first noted by Inside Facebook, the social network changed the way friend rejections work. Previously, you could either Confirm or Ignore (deny) a request. Now, Ignore has been replaced by “Not Now”. This new option takes some of the pressure of you having to reject people as it instead moves them into a state of limbo, where they’re neither accepted nor rejected. But it actually does a lot more as well.
paper.li – read Twitter as a daily newspaper
paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.
A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7 !
Checkout my paper at http://paper.li/manojwadhwa
A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7 !
Checkout my paper at http://paper.li/manojwadhwa
Google Fights Censorship with Transparency Report
Google has launched Transparency Report, a set of tools including an interactive map that shows which governments have asked for information about users or requested Google to censor or take down content in a certain time frame.
Facebook Launches ‘Check-In’ Service to Connect People in Real Space
Facebook announced a new Places product Wednesday evening that will let users check-in from a mobile device, see who is around them, let friends or the public know where they are, and find interesting, new places.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Nokia E5 Review | Mobile Phones | CNET UK
Like the cheaper C3, the Nokia E5 is an attempt by the Finnish veteran company to encroach on BlackBerry's territory.
Apple Talk: Why Steve Jobs made a Flash U-turn | Page 2 | CIO Insights | silicon.com
COMMENT ...have been deployed to the marketplace, there have been over 6.5 billion downloads and Apple has handed out over $1bn to developers in app revenues. Apple has also shifted a fair few iOS devices.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
Microsoft today released the first beta of Internet Explorer 9. Coming after four developer-oriented preview releases, the new browser brings a streamlined user interface and a core that is more standards-compliant—and orders of magnitude faster—than any previous version of Internet Explorer.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Flowella: Easily Create Design & Interaction Prototypes
Flowella is an easy to use tool that enables designers and developers to create design and interaction prototypes — without writing a line of code.
Get Company Intelligence from Workstreamer : Business Collaboration News
We’re all being inundated with information. Tools that help us filter that mass of data can be useful, and those that filter well can become indispensable. Workstreamer, an app currently in public beta, is a “social CRM” tool that can help you keep track of significant news and social media mentions of your customers, prospects, suppliers, and vendors, as well as your own company. Unlike Gist, a tool that we’ve blogged about in the past, Workstreamer focuses on providing information about companies, not individuals.
Useful Google Bookmarklets
I've always been a fan of bookmarklets, small pieces of JavaScript code saved as bookmarks in your browser. Often they provide features only available if you install a plug-in and they're pretty easy to backup.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Apple lifts restrictions on Flash development for iPhone
Months after rewriting its iPhone developer agreement to effectively ban cross-compiler translation tools like Adobe Systems' Flash Professional CS5, Apple said it (NASDAQ:AAPL) will ease restrictions on the creation of iOS-based applications. 'We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code,'
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The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
The HTML5 test score is only an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. It does not try to test all of the new features offered by HTML5, nor does it try to test the functionality of each feature it does detect.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Dell's Atom-powered Inspiron Duo: 10-inch netbook / tablet hybrid
Boy, did Dell show just off the craziest device on stage at Intel's IDF 2010 day two keynote. What started as a tablet device converted to a netbook just by opening to the keyboard and literally swiveling the screen from within the frame.
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Embedr: Create Video Playlists and Embed Them Anywhere
Embedr is a free service that lets anyone create a custom playlist of videos from the top video sites on the web. Now start building that playlist of gameplay videos from the IGN top 100 games that are spread throughout YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more.
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Entertainment,
MySpace,
online,
tools,
video,
Vimeo,
YouTube
Friday, September 3, 2010
Top 5 OSes to Leverage Cloud Computing
Due to cloud computing, anyone can perform routine computer tasks anywhere, at any time, without installing applications. All users need a computer with operating system installed, connection to the internet and a compatible web browser; available at just about any coffee shop, library or other public places.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Resources: Excellent Visual Cheat Sheets for Web Developers

Be it a reference to some syntax, markup, APIs or even keyboard shortcuts, visual cheat sheets are definitely productivity enhancers.
Whether you are a newbie or an advanced programmer, cheat sheets will help you simplify your tasks alike. Though there are tons of cheat sheets available online, I have listed below the most useful ones.
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CSS,
HTML,
HTML5,
Javascript,
JQuery,
resources,
Web Development
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Interesting Video: Demonstration - Chinese Multiplication Technique

Checkout the video below to see a few examples.
Friday, August 6, 2010
10 Reasons Why You Should Jailbreak Your iOS Device Today
The cat and mouse game between Apple and the iOS hacker community took
an interesting turn this week, with the return of a simple, one-click
jailbreak that hasn’t been seen since the early days of the iPhone’s
existence (iPhone OS 1.1.1, to be exact). Now that it’s so easy to
do--and so easy to undo with a simple restore--we have a list
of the top ten reasons you should go jailbreak your device, right now.
Or, you know, right after you read this article first.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Google will soon stop Wave(ing)

Tuesday, August 3, 2010
A wireframe can be used to sell a future app
Along with the growing market of mobile devices such as Apple´s iPhone or the iPad, web and mobile applications are booming. In such a competitive environment, a well-planned app is most definitely key to success ....
Read more at Wireframes.org
Read more at Wireframes.org
5 Google Labs Projects That Should Be On Your Radar
Have you checked out Google Labs
lately? If not, it's worth a peek. The area, reserved for application
and tool prototypes not yet ready for primetime, houses some cool (and
crazy) ideas. Past alumni include Google Alerts, the Google Docs suite
and Google Reader. Check out these five Google Labs experiments that
we'd like to see go mainstream in 2010. Which ones are already on your
radar?
Read more at CIO.com
Read more at CIO.com
First Web-based Jailbreak for iPhone 4 arrives; here's how to do it
A scant 17 days after Apple released the iOS 4.0.1 update, a Web-based
jailbreak is available for the iPhone 4. The problem is that the server
— at JailbreakMe.com is slammed as of this writing and it’s difficult to get through.
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Monday, August 2, 2010
iPad, iPhone 4, Flip MinoHD & more at your finger tips now
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Easily test, build and share Regular Expressions with RegExr

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Adobe Flash,
Cross-platform,
Flex,
online,
tools,
WYSIWYG
Friday, July 30, 2010
Awesome Infographic: Facebook Facts & Figures (history & statistics)
Facebook history, milestones, user activity statistics, top 10 countries, top 10 Facebook pages at Facebook Facts & Figures (history & statistics) by Website Monitoring.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Apple did it again, introduced Magic TrackPad
To read more, please read this article at Gizmodo.

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Magic TrackPad,
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How to restore keyboard shortcuts in MS Word 2007?

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
65 Beautiful Free Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers
Web browsers that support HTML5 video
ToThePC has shared a short and nice article about the web browsers that support HTML5 video. Though some of these are still in their beta version, you can still give it a try. Hit this link below to read more.

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IE,
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Opera,
Safari,
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
How to display related posts in your Blogger blog?

Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wanna 'Rock Your Firefox'?

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Facebook,
Firefox,
Google Chrome,
Mozilla,
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Now access Facebook from MS Outlook

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Enjoy the ride with ‘Lal Dabba’
Timeline of Web Browsers
It's absolutely interesting to see some of the late entrants like Google Chrome, which has made a bigger impact on the browser share, along with some veterans like Opera which has a decent user base but is not in the top slot yet. Though Opera Mobile is a fantastic browser which has a wide presence and a huge fan following I would say. But it's sad that Lunascape isn't there in the list.
It would have been even more interesting to see other related information like browser-wise market share, platform support, HTML/CSS/JS version support, etc.
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Google Chrome,
Internet Explorer,
Opera,
Web browser,
Wikipedia
Lunascape: Combination of Safari, Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera
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chrome,
Firefox,
Google Chrome,
Lunascape,
productivity,
Safari,
Testing,
tools
Dive Into HTML 5 with Mark Pilgrim

Mark, thanks for such a wonderful book and wish you a great success!!
Friday, July 16, 2010
HTML5 in a nutshell

This neatly designed graphic (see the link below) will introduce you to —
- new features of HTML5
- readiness of the top internet browsers
- comparison vis-a-vis Adobe Flash
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Tips & Tricks: How to clean Word generated HTML?
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
LMS vs CMS vs LCMS
Friday, July 9, 2010
HTML5: A Quick Introduction

Is your content readable?

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
In Agile, development & testing is a collaborative effort

Friday, January 22, 2010
Prototype vs Wireframe | Factors to consider

Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Touch Magic

Friday, January 8, 2010
Sketchpad - A Google Chrome Experiment

Comparison | Internet Speed (Source: Digg)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Designing Wireframes | Using Axure RP Pro

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HTML,
productivity,
prototyping,
rapid development,
tools,
usability,
wireframing
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Google Search: Interesting Bites (Part I)
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