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It would have referred to a device where you usually have to use a stylus otherwise known as a digital pen to draw or better yet select something on screen to act as a click.

Today however things have changed drastically.

With the new push for everyone to be mouse free and more hands on. The tablet with it’s unique experience and fast speeds and easy portability is beginning to make much more sense than it ever had before.

I’ve tried the Motorola Zoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and the Apple iPad 1 and 2.

From my perspective the Apple iPad does seem to be very slick with some neat video features and the list of apps to try is incredible. It is very fast and for the most part never seemed to crash or experience any lag over wifi. I had not tried the 3g or 4g iPad. I would assume the speed would be fast.

The Galaxy Tab was my favorite for the Android because of the tiny size yet large print. I also thought it’s weight didn’t seem to much to cary and was easy to use one or two hands. Two hands was easier and it didn’t seem like I needed to rest it on anything. The typing far surpassed the iPad it was super fast typing by sliding you finger over different keys. It was fun and unique compared to many other tablets. I did happen to try the 4g connection and was pretty blown away at the speed and service that Verizon was able to provide the Samsung Tab. I was a bit bummed I couldn’t call anyone on it. It has a 4g card and the ability to be on the web from anywhere. It did look like you can possible upgrade to a Verizon phone app or service but I was just using it as a trial for my company.

One of the major differences between Android and iPad was the free applications. It appeared to me that there were tons or more interesting free apps for the Android. I wanted to try out a bunch of iPad apps, but I wan’t sure what I was buying it would be great it there was a trial period for these apps kinda like the Chrome Web Store where you have 30 mins to try out your apps before getting charged.

I plan on building out my first iPad app in the near future, and possible releasing a Android app after that.

The tablet future is bright, and I think it’s better than the laptops that so many people own.

a jQuery 1.6.1 plugin used for moving text from input’s to textarea.

To use: define the element you want to duplicate while your typing.

Example: $(‘input’).doublevision(‘textarea’);

Click here for the Demo.

Click here to download the library.

Today with cloud computing your site can radically change in size based on how much usage you pay for. So if your site has 200,000 visitors or just 20,000 you can pay for usage as opposed to the old way of paying for each server which can be expensive and often not so useful based on traffic.

Servers like MAMP, LAMP, and WAMP are an industry standard.

Based in different languages for different Operating Systems.

The new model for Operating Systems could be cloud based browser as released in late 2010 with Jolicloud and Chrome OS.

These new laptop’s essentially connect to the internet and save files online instead of two your desktop. The internet powers these computers and allows the user the ability to access their files anywhere from any computer because the files are saved online.

What does that mean?

It means you can spill coffee on your laptop destroying the computer and have the ability to recover all your files instantly by logging into a new machine because all your settings and files are saved online.

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While most word processing programs are confusing and take a long time to load and start up, Chrome Writer lets you skip most of the waiting time and lets you get started writing down your draft.

Whether you’re composing a simple word document, or are you just jotting down some simple notes that you want to email to some co-workers, Chrome Writer is simple and easy and lets you focus mostly on the important stuff, which is writing your documents.

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Versions 0.8
- Templates adjusted to match other Chrome Services
- Font Family and Font Size Options added

Versions 0.7
- Stronger UI integration
- Development into the Chrome App Store framework
- Template Specs, Dashboard, and Options

Versions 0.6.5
- Auto saving all three doc files and their names.
- Growing text box adjusts to the size of your page.
- View your draft in a full screen no distraction view.
- Save out your draft as (.doc, .txt, .docx) other programs to open.
- Email your friends what you’ve been working while your still writing it.
- Print out your document to see it on paper.

• Flash Video was probably one of the most widely used features in Flash. It loaded pretty fast as long as you have the right version of the plugin. The downside was the hardware on your computer would heat up and the only way to create a Flash video player would be to buy Adobe’s Flash.




• HTML5 however is free opensource and easy to implement. It requires a place to host your video file, and multiple video files due to browser standards being different currently. In the next year or two everything may use it. The downside is there is no security to your video files, and there isn’t a way to make it all work with one file type the way Flash works.




• The Winner is Flash- Do to standards being different and the way the web is currently set up right now it is hard to implement HTML5 video. I think in a year or two it may become the default standard for web video for a number of reasons, but right now Flash is the better option.

Round #2 Canvas

• Flash has the ability to let you draw using drawing API’s and classes.




• HTML5 has about the same functionality as Flash on this one except it uses the canvas tag exporting to .SVG which is opensource and stretchable as it scales nicely in a window.




• The Winner is HTML5- Making things opensource and render quickly is what HTML5 does well. I’ve seen some amazing drawing apps using the canvas. It is easy and amazing what you can do and the future looks to be very bright. However with Flash you can make Adobe Air offline apps as well, but I still like the load time of HTML5 over Flash on this one.

Round #3 Web Apps

• Flash has a platform called Adobe Air which is the offline desktop version of flash. It was revolutionary at the time but I think it’s usefulness has gone down, and it has to be updated constantly to meet the new requirement in the flash player plugin. Flash also has the Android platform and mobile Flashlite platform which is very cool to see mobile websites that use Flash.




• HTML5 however has a lot of built in features that doesn’t require a lot of updates because it’s built into the browser. It utilizes javascript speed and local storage as well as geolocation for devices and is very simple to learn and is open source. Apple has been adopting these standards as well as Microsoft. It appears to be the future of the web browser.




• The Winner is HTML5- It really seems to be trending right now and I’m kind of blown away by the development projects based on HTML5. It’s free and easy to learn there should be more websites that use these new features. I think it will trend higher over time. Plus I haven’t seen any cool Android Flash things that really top any of the HTML5 things. Although I probably wouldn’t know it was flash on a mobile phone anyway.

Round #4 Adoption

• Flash has been around a long time. It’s more popular than Windows Media Player, Silverlight, and Quicktime. Flash is on around 96% of all desktop computers. It was the largest interactive platform online. It compresses images nicely and loads fast. It makes up pretty much all the online video and interactive banner ads online today.




• HTML5 is the new kid on the block. The long road ahead looks to be very bright and interesting. Knowing more about the future and adoption rate is an unknown at this point. Maybe by the time HTML5 is used widely among all websites we will have HTML6 which might have even more browser capabilities like drag and drop and save to desktop.




• The Winner is Flash- It really isn’t even close at this point. Mostly because the world still uses Internet Explorer exclusively and it doesn’t support HTML5 standards yet. Flash is the older competitor and has more sites backing it. For what you can do with Flash there really wasn’t much of any competitor to it for a long time. It probably has Adobe shaking in it’s boots.

So Basically those were my list of positive and negative aspects of HTML5 vs. Flash. I hope you enjoyed some of the things you may not have known. Please leave a comment below.

I am going to attempt to explain this in more detail for the beginners.

HTML has been around since the early 1990′s and has come a long way. I do tend to be a more visual learner, and enjoy studying code and programming techniques.

I’ve been teaching interns and co-workers the basics of HTML 4 and how the <tags> open and close I go back and fourth between the code view and the visual view a lot trying to show how to grasp the concept of where things are laid out in code and visually show on the screen.

Hopefully you enjoyed the visual example above. Please leave your comments below.

You may find a dollar on the street, then get a free lunch the next day by accident at your favorite lunch eatery, and the following day you might be walking home and get the walk sign along your whole trip and just make the train right when you were hoping to.

Is this all by coincidence?

Well I don’t think so. I just think that my streaks happen in three’s. After the streak is over it may take awhile for another one to come back.

I think the internet has some similarities to “my rule of 3′s” if there are more than three links my eyes tend to blur them out. If there are more than three related posts I blur them out, if there are more than three comments I tend not to read and further.

Well just think about it we get we trained ourselves to read when is relevant to our topic of interest. It is more than likely you won’t even read this much of my post here.

If your website has more content than a header, body, and nav it can be difficult to find what the purpose of being here might be.

Trends I see online is that it can be very hard arranging content in a readable fashion that can feature advertisements and related posts in such limited space on one page. I’ve seen sites I visit daily play around with their sub page layout constantly for social media features and related links. It kind of makes me sick because I can’t stand the layouts at times.

With all these sub page redesigns I think there should be a theme among good designs, but I think they change so frequently that it really is hard to judge what is good and bad when it changes to often.

A good sub design utilizes it’s space and links for the spot on the page, and doesn’t clutter images or advertisements. You want to think of related content almost like the content it’s self because it can get you more page time and higher click through rates, and might attract returning traffic.

1. Staying Organized and on top of daily work and projects.
   Don’t let your work load overwhelm you. I’ve been using minitask for a month and was able to finish more work and keep track of projects and day to day things a lot easier. It runs on your desktop using Adobe Air which is a free application framework by Adobe. Check it out. minitask.org
2. Keep your desktop clean, and bookmarks organized.
   I created multiple folders based on the types of projects I have to work on. Inside the project type folder I have three folders based on the status the projects are in. This system works for me. It might not be for everyone. I recently switched over to Google Chrome and the new bookmark syncing feature is great because I don’t have to import/export bookmarks. They are all there right on my computer and download from the Googleplex. Try out. Google Chrome
3. Writing Code
   So I prefer to write code using Notepad++ on a PC and Espresso on a Mac. I find that both are useful, but very different. They both have some unique features that make them interesting. I like notepads color coding, search and replace, ease of use, and how fast it loads up on all windows machines. It is also pretty easy to change the font and size of the code for the coder who can’t see too well. Espresso on the other hand has color coding a unique visual look on how your html is formatted inside of each other. Preview button and I’m sure much more. I’m still learning how to use it. The one Mac program that seemed almost identical to Notepad++ for the Mac was BBedit which has almost the same functionality and similar look and feel, but however I have not figured out how to get any of these editors to work with simple shortcuts so I have been playing with my own simple Chrome extension called “Chrome Editor” which runs on the Google Chrome platform it works well with the dev version of Google Chrome. I have tons of simple and easy shortcuts that help prompt a user to code a webpage in probably under 5 minutes after they know what they are doing.
4. Editing Photo’s Fast and Painless.
   I’ve been using this really quick editor that is online called pixlr it allows layers and most of the same standard tools as Adobe’s Photoshop. I like how fast it is and it doesn’t take up a lot of resources. There also is a plugin for Mozilla’s Firefox
5. Code References
   Sometimes the best ways to write code is by seeing how others have made things work in their samples online. I also like to check valid resources and live working examples on w3c.org and stackoverflow.com
6. Debug Debug Debug
   Well not all developers realize the small intrigue details in an application or web page. I test out a website very different than my friends and family members. Different people notice different things. It’s always good to have the human element in testing, but you can also test out the computer advantage with Xenu link sleuth and google webmaster tools. Link sleuth helps you find broken, missing, or redirected links on pages. The google webmaster tools helps find the same, but in the visual representation for search and the way the googlebot sees the page. Both of these tools have different advantages.
7. Building a Library or (Snippet Gallery)
   So back when I heard about the 960 css grid system I attempted to learn it, but out of confusion I started building my own blueprint system to easily make websites for myself which isn’t confusing at all to me, because I made it myself by hand. I’ve used it on countless forms and pages now and even updated it to support HTML 5 and JQuery out of box examples. I pretty much went the whole 9 yards with this one. I do think in an overall perspective that building things and reusing them is a great practice. Well first off it saves you time, it allows you to make the application or page to be more complex the second time around because you already wrote the code to start, It’s also great because as coders we can get lazy building boring HTML forms and websites and want to spend more time on the design.
8. Adapt to your Surroundings
   I tend to be interested in a lot of things before they catch on in the sense of being used widely among users online. I signed up for Twitter in 2007 and tried it for about 3 weeks after realizing nobody used the site I kind of stopped using it. Today I can tell you all about Twitter and how it has changed it’s look and the way we communicate with others. I’m just saying when the opportunity comes around to learn something new or try something out to stay on the edge of technology it has helped me with my work.
9. Team Building
   I’ve learned a lot from observing others and seeing how they observe a page on the internet. If you see or learn something cool share the link with your co-workers. It allows your team to think outside the cube, test out some new skills, and try something new.
10. The Finisher
    I’ve worked on a lot of projects that cover all different forms of media that work together. I’ve done the learning while working thing and it helps. I also encourage consulting others for help if your not sure about something. As you complete more projects in a timely order and fashion you can get much more confident to take on much more challenging tasks and projects. I suggest to move in baby steps and you’ll get better as you go.

I’ll be brief saying that back in the 90′s there were only two or maybe three browsers. Which Internet Explorer would become the most popular really only because of it’s ease of use factor which mostly meant because I’m on a Microsoft computer why not trust them and use there web browser.

Today things have really changed if you’re surfing on your desktop you might use 1 of the 8 or so Web browsers out there freely distributed online to navigate the web.

With the real launch of mobile phones browser in 2009. There are now browsers on our phones that support smaller screen resolutions for quick view and less imagry.

So basically Internet Explorer is not the standard anymore. It’s funny to see that Microsoft won’t even support there own OS with the adaption of Internet Explorer 9 this week in a bizare move to migrate customers to Window 7.

I’m really just wondering what these handheld device makers want from the web developers. I mean developing a device for each new device seems to be the pattern even with the announce of touch tablets.

I would like to see on interchangable format for mobile, web, tv, and tablet.

I even tried to develop this website to be friendly with most platforms, OS’s and format.

I can’t wait till HD websites are all over the web.