By mia, on May 22nd, 2012%
by Zoe Fox
 Using mobile phones to report malaria outbreaks in Africa has been stunningly effective — reducing the government response time to an outbreak from four weeks to three minutes, according to a new report.
“We see technology having a profound impact on disease surveillance, which has a highly antiquated process,” says Paul Ellingstad, HP’s director of global heath.
According to Ellingstad, it can take three to four weeks to send a list of sick patients to a district health clinic and then to the Ministry of Health of a respective country. Electronically automating disease surveillance speeds up the communication time to three minutes, meaning the government can immediately send bed nets and and alert citizens to take precautions.
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By mia, on May 22nd, 2012%
by Carol Francis
 Have you noticed that, for instance, when browsing the latest WordPress themes, they almost all include a slider of some sort, whether it is an image gallery or a content slider, or better still, has the capability to incorporate both?
Sliders are becoming increasingly popular because they resolve a lot of space problems. Content sliders can offer the viewer a lot of information in a small space, and both content sliders and image galleries can provide user-interaction.
Here we have rounded-up 15 jQuery content sliders and carousels, including a couple of tutorials, for your perusal.
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By mia, on May 21st, 2012%
By mia, on May 18th, 2012%
by Zoe Fox
 As Facebook becomes a public company Friday, trading at $42 per share and valued at $116.6 billion, new data suggests the company’s social media dominance may be in decline.
Twice as many Facebook members use at least one additional social networking site in 2012 as they did at this time last year. Just released comScore data obtained by Mylife.com shows that 40% of Facebook users are on another social network, compared to 20% at this time last year.
The most popular secondary social network for Facebook users is Twitter, which is used by 23.8% of Facebook account holders. LinkedIn comes in a close second, with 20.3% of Facebook users registered for the professional network. Some 16.6% of Facebook users are on Google+, 13.9% are on Tumblr and 12.% are on Pinterest.
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By mia, on May 15th, 2012%
Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.
Good website about what CSS3, HtML5, SVG can be used on which browsers
By mia, on May 15th, 2012%
By mia, on May 14th, 2012%
Smartphone owners are increasingly using their devices for shopping, from researching products and reviews, to comparing prices, finding retail locations, and redeeming coupons. And retailers are responding with mobile apps and websites designed to attract smartphone shoppers. So, who’s winning so far? Nielsen’s detailed analysis of smartphone usage reveals that retail websites are more popular than retail apps, and that Amazon’s is the most popular retail mobile website of all.
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By mia, on May 14th, 2012%
 A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.
Check it out
By mia, on May 14th, 2012%
CSS3 has got a huge potential to create very elaborate and complicated details by strictly using CSS and no images. It can carry out a lot of functions as it is based on motion techniques. Many designers all over the world believe that CSS3 is a technique which has unbelievable potentiality which will be used to create wonderful designs in the years to come. At present, it is not being used variedly all over the world due to a number of limitations – obsolete browsers being one of them.
By mia, on May 11th, 2012%
by Wes McDowell
The Problem: you just had a meeting with a new web design client. It went great. You asked all the right questions, and have a good sense of the client’s goals. Before wrapping up, you ask them where the content for the site will be coming from. “We’ll just write it ourselves and email it to you,” they say. Fantastic.
They sign the contract, which outlines a rough time estimate, including a deadline for when your client should send their site copy to you. You start designing (with dummy text,) and you’re just waiting for the copy to arrive.
The Solution
The next time you meet with a new client who needs a brand new web presence from scratch, imagine not asking who will be writing the site’s copy, but rather telling them that they can expect a call from your copywriter.
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