• Introducing ‘Graph Search’: A New Search Engine By Facebook

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    Facebook Unveils Graph Search

    Facebook Unveils Graph Search

    In a press conference at its California headquarters, Facebook has unveiled “Graph Search,” a search engine allowing users to search for content on Facebook such as news posts, status updates, photos, locations and more. The service does make sense for the network massive base of 1 billion users, 240 billion photos, and 1 trillion connections. Graph Search is currently in closed beta.

    “Graph Search will appear as a bigger search bar at the top of each page, when you search for something, that search not only determines the set of results you get, but also serves as a title for the page. You can edit the title – and in doing so create your own custom view of the content you and your friends have shared on Facebook.”

    “Graph Search and web search are very different. Web search is designed to take a set of keywords (for example: ‘hip hop’) and provide the best possible results that match those keywords. With Graph Search you combine phrases (for example: ‘my friends in New York who like Jay-Z’) to get that set of people, places, photos or other content that’s been shared on Facebook. We believe they have very different uses.”

    Users can sign up for the Graph Search beta on Facebook’s website.

  • Apple Launches Beta iCloud Website with Notes, Reminders and Improved Find my iPhone

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    beta.icloud.com Website

    beta.icloud.com Website

    Apple has launched a new iCloud.com beta website for iOS developers. The website was leaked prior to WWDC before Apple pulled it off, however, the site displays “Beta” tags on Calendar, Find My iPhone, Notes, and Reminders where the last two being new additions to iCloud. You can access it at beta.icloud.com

    Apple is hardly working to unify the experience across multiple platforms, iOS, OS X, and the web.

    Notes:

    iCloud Beta Website: Notes

    iCloud Beta Website: Notes

    Reminders:

    iCloud Beta Website: Reminders

    iCloud Beta Website: Reminders

    Find my iPhone:

    iCloud Beta Website: Find my iPhone

    iCloud Beta Website: Find my iPhone

  • Apple’s iCloud Beta Goes Live on The Web

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    Apple has unleashed the iCloud.com web interface for developers. The website features Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Find My iPhone and iWork documents. the interface for the website is iOS-like. Check the screenshots of all apps available.

    Not to mention the login page was leaked 2 months ago

  • Adobe Edge: New Interactive HTML5 Design Tool Goes Into Beta

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    Adobe has released its “HTML5″ web design tool Edge. The tool is currently in beta.

    Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.

    This version of Edge focuses primarily on adding rich motion design to new or existing HTML projects, that runs beautifully on devices and desktops.

    • Create new compositions with Edge’s drawing and text tools.
    • Import popular web graphics such as SVG, PNG, JPG or GIF files.
    • Easily choreograph animation with the timeline editor. Animate position, size, color, shape, rotation and more at the property level.
    • Energize existing HTML files with motion, while preserving the integrity of CSS-based HTML layouts.
    • Copy and paste transitions, invert them, and choose from over 25 built-in easing effects for added creativity.

    Feature Description
    Intuitive user Interface The user interface is based on a stage, timeline, and panels for elements and properties. It’s influenced by our customers’ favorite features and functionality in class-leading tools like After Effects and Flash Professional, but innovates in its ease of use. Animations and timing can be controlled on a WebKit-based stage, or via precise property adjustments directly on the timeline. You can also make quick edits on individual or multiple objects.
    Visually author animated content Create new compositions from scratch using basic HTML building blocks, text, and imported web graphics. Manipulate objects with an array of transformation and styling options which Edge natively applies to our jQuery-based animation framework.
    Add motion to existing HTML content Add motion elements to existing HTML web documents. Edge stores all of its animation in a separate JavaScript file that cleanly distinguishes the original HTML from Edge’s animation code. Edge makes minimal, non-intrusive changes to the HTML code to reference the JavaScript and CSS files it creates.
    Import web graphics files Import existing web graphics such as SVG, JPG, PNG, and GIF files.
    Standards-based output Edge reads and writes HTML, CSS and JavaScript files natively. Animated content produced in Edge  is expressed in a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data structure that preserves the CSS-based layout. JSON is a formatting style for JavaScript that is easily readable, and allows more flexibility to work with the document and animated content independently.
    Reliable content on desktops and devices Animated content created with Edge is designed and tested to work reliably on the iOS and Android platforms, WebKit-enabled devices, and popular desktop browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer 9.