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Today, Dell is discounting the 15.6-inch Latitude 15 3000 laptop by a whopping 52% off the sticker price. With a full HD display, a Core i7 CPU, and a six-cell 65WHr battery, this solid machine is a real bargain at just $679.
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New month, new wallpapers! To get you in the right mood for December, designers and artists from across the globe got their ideas bubbling and created unique and inspiring Christmas wallpaper calendars to deck your desktop. This monthly wallpapers mission has been going on for eight years now, and we are very thankful to everyone who challenges their artistic skills and contributes to it each month anew.
This post features desktop artwork for December 2016. Each wallpaper comes in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. Now you only need to decide on your favorite!
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a SpriteKit game from beginning to beta? Does developing a physics-based game seem daunting? Game-making has never been easier on iOS since the introduction of SpriteKit.
In this three-part series, we will explore the basics of SpriteKit. We will touch on SKPhysics, collisions, texture management, interactions, sound effects, music, buttons and SKScene
s. What might seem difficult is actually pretty easy to grasp. Stick with us while we make RainCat.
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Still searching for discounts after Black Friday? Retailers aren't finished rolling out the deals just yet! You can save big on tablets, laptops, consoles, and even electric toothbrushes during the Cyber Week blow-out, so let's jump into the bargains!
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The SD Association has updated its guidelines for SD card performance, with a new "App Class" for SD cards that can use Android Marshmallow and Nougat's "Adoptable Storage" option effectively.
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Retailers have unleashed some of their biggest discounts, and this is a perfect opportunity to get some great bargains as you relax at home, and eat some pie. Why fight the crowds?
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Spark a kid's interest in science and put a little more wonder in their winter wonderland this year with one of these science gifts, chosen by a perennial kid at heart.
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We have great new technology available to enhance our websites. But while theoretical articles explain well what the technologies do, we often struggle to find real use cases or details on how things worked out in actual projects.
This week I stumbled across a couple of great posts that share exactly these precious real-life insights: stories about HTTP/2 implementation, experiences from using the Cascade of CSS in large-scale projects, and insights into employing Service Worker and BackgroundSync to build solid forms.
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Retailers aren't waiting around for Friday to unleash some of their biggest discounts, and this is a perfect opportunity to get some great bargains as you relax at home, and eat some pie.
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The resurgence of hand lettering, calligraphy, signage, penmanship, or really anything that is graphic and handmade is increasingly difficult to ignore. Along with letters drawn in any of the categories just mentioned, drawing, sketching, sketchnoting, and any hybrid style (combinations of the above) have also been gaining attention among designers, illustrators, and other professionals.
A quick look around social media or simply googling lettering will quickly show impressive and notable work. Last year I deliberately started practicing brush lettering, meaning I had a dedicated time to practice exercises, write out words and practice letterforms.
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Qualcomm expects to be the first major Samsung customer with 10nm hardware shipping out the door in 2017. Will beating Apple and other vendors to the new node give the company a leg up in overall performance?
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I'm big on modular design. I've long been sold on dividing websites into components, not pages, and amalgamating those components dynamically into interfaces. Flexibility, efficiency and maintainability abound.
But I don't want my design to look like it's made out of unrelated things. I'm making an interface, not a surrealist photomontage. As luck would have it, there is already a technology, called CSS, which is designed specifically to solve this problem. Using CSS, I can propagate styles that cross the borders of my HTML components, ensuring a consistent design with minimal effort.
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