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CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death Back when video games were still fun (we’re talking about the 8-bit glory days here), graphics were a much simpler matter by necessity. Bitmapped 2-dimensional character data and background scenery was individually drawn, much like today’s resurgent pixel art. Hundreds and later thousands of small graphics called sprites were the building blocks for...

Eye tracking has been around for decades but has only become commercially available over the past few years. It’s been heralded as the next big thing in user research, ‘the closest thing to mind reading’! There’s also been a bit of a backlash against eye tracking recently. Jarred Spool, for example, has dismissed it as an expensive gadget that doesn’t tell a usability...

Imagine you’re driving along and due to a road closure you have to follow those conspicuous yellow detour signs. You’re now on an unfamiliar road, but because of the signs you confidently proceed, comfortable in trusting the arrows to tell you where you need to go. Then there’s a roundabout and no sign. Do you turn left? Right? You’re lost and have two choices; turn back and...

When you choose an apple from a pile, what do you look for? You’ll find a lot of reasons are aesthetic - whether it’s shiny, it’s colour, it’s shape… How we choose what to buy is a key question that should be asked when designing an ecommerce website. While we all like to think we all make rational decisions, considering the functional nature of products, aesthetics clearly...

We would like to thank Smashing Apps for this article. Today, we are listing another collection of open-source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life or did not know before. You may not find them between the top of the list projects and many of projects are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one to run their business process...

We would like to thank Smashing Apps for this article. Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes,...

We would like to thank Smashing Apps for this article. There are many software available that we can purchase and use to get our job done. But what do you think about those softwares that are cross-platform and available for free as well. In simple words, Cross-platform can be defined as any software that can work on more than one operating system and specially are available for Windows, Mac...

Bangalore: Oracle’s clearly a big shopoholic. Over the past few years, it swallowed People-Soft, Siebel Systems, JD Edwards, India’s i-flex and BEA Systems. And now Larry Ellison is all set to cut a cheque of $7.4 billion to pocket Sun Microsystems. Clearly, Ellison is trying to make his company Oracle a global software superpower. And embarking on ‘‘binge shopping” is one of...

We would like to thank Smashing Apps for this article. There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photoshop and photo manipulation. You probably have also seen many photos or images that have been photoshopped and inspire others. But our post today is something different. In this post we are listing 21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration. We listed here some...

We would like to thank Smashing Apps for this article. Downloadable Web-Based Applications WordPress As An Open Source Fastest Growing And Damanding Blogging System WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. phpBB™ As The Most Widely Used Open Source Forum Solution With a...

IE 8 is here with lots of new features and its fast, safe and easy. Accelerators Now you can get more tasks done more quickly on the web. Accelerators provide instant access to information like maps, web searches, translations, email, blogging, and more. Simply highlight a word or phrase on a page and discover a faster way to get the information you need. Web Slices Web Slices put you in control of...