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VideoBlocks, a fresh website offering professional footage, is giving away "3 Accounts with unlimited downloads for 1 month" to WRD readers.
Joining the giveaway is a very easy process, just check the details at the bottom of this post.
What is VideoBlocks
Using videos when presenting a product, web app or almost any other content in the web is becoming more and more common each day.
Although a production-from-scratch to make such videos attractive can be pricey, using VideoBlocks can help minimizing these costs.
It is a website providing unlimited downloads of 30,000+ stock videos, motion backgrounds, sound effects, production music, etc. to its members for a good price. And, these resources can be used in any type of projects (TV, web, radio..)
VideoBlocks regularly adds new clips to their database and the ones presented are very well-categorized/tagged which makes searching pretty easy.
There are videos/sounds on almost anything from explosions to nature, locations/places to animations or door sounds to dog barking ones that will help adding a twist to the footage being worked on.
Also there are other categories like looping videos, slow motion, time-lapse or nature and animals with each having their own sub-categories.
The footage presented is being used by well known companies like ABC, The History Channel, Discovery Channel and much more.
P.S. VideoBlocks offers a free 7-day unlimited downloads for any sign-up.
How to join the giveaway?
Just comment to this post and the winners will be selected on 28 September 2011 (1 week later) with the query below:
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2474 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3
Good luck.
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BluCSS is a simplistic CSS framework which focuses on creating responsive layouts and has 4 built-in stages for these layouts: desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile.
By default, it comes with a 1000px main container (which can be updated to any size) and has a 10 column grid (with each having a width specified in percentages for auto-resizing).
The framework also has a solution for responsive images which works by applying _blu class to any images.
And, BluCSS includes basic styling for typography + tables.
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KeyBoarder is a JavaScript library for displaying keyboard shortcuts in a user-friendly way.
It automatically looks for the textual references of keyboard shortcuts inside a web page and converts them into graphical representations.
The library is standalone, has various styles for displaying the keys and the output is interactive (upon pressing a key which is part of a rendered shortcut, key-shortcut will will be highlighted and focused).
KeyBoarder is a time-saver for anyone who wants to display keyboard shortcuts with "more than standard text".
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rlightbox is a lightbox plugin that is built on top of jQuery + jQuery UI and comes with some fresh features that doesn't exist in its alternatives.
It can display any type of content from images to videos (YouTube and Vimeo), Flash files and HTML.
The plugin has a unique "panorama" feature for showing only part of an image but allowing users to view the rest with panning.
And, "live re-size" auto-scales the images in accordance with the browser size (which is great for responsive designs).
rlightbox can be set to display a single item or a set with th ehelp of pre-next buttons (there is support for keyboard navigation as well).
It is look and feel can be completely customized as the plugin is fully compatible with jQuery UI ThemeRoller.
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The giveaway for BaseKit, a web-based and easy-to-use website builder, which was announced last week has ended today.
Winners are selected and announced below. In case this is the 1st time you are hearing about this application, here is a short re-introduction:
What is BaseKit?
It is a web-based website builder and CMS application that eases creating a website for users on every level.
With a slick interface, drag 'n' drops and a true WYSIWYG editor (that allows viewing the actual output while editing), working with BaseKit is pretty straightforward with an almost "no" learning curve.
100+ templates (personal and business websites) are already ready-to-use with each having lots of ready-to-use color variations. Simply, start with th eone that best suits the needs and customize it completely if needed.
There are several widgets provided including easily placing a Google Maps map, in-site search, sitemap, image carousel or commenting into any page with a click.
Also, a form builder exists for creating custom forms and collecting information. And, social widgets make sure the website is connected with your social profiles with the ability to display Twitter timeline, Flickr photos or RSS feeds (there are "Tweet This" and Facebook "Like" buttons too).
The winners
Thanks so much to everyone joining the giveaway. Here are the winners of 3 Business Packages with 1 year term:
- Dennis (comment #395234)
- mai (comment #395444)
- Deniz (comment #395686)
Congratulations.
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Mobiscroll is a "wheel scroller user control" optimized for touchscreens to easily enter date and/or time which comes as a jQuery plugin.
It is highly customizable where values can be anything (including images) and can even be used as an alternative to the default select control (dropdown list).
The plugin's look can be changed easily with theming support and has ready-to-use good-looking skins (default, Android, Sense UI and iOS).
And, it integrates well with other JS frameworks including jQuery Mobile.
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The number of iPad-specific magazines/content is increasing with a huge speed these days and you may be involved in such a project too.
If so, Magazine Grid will help a lot as it is a modern CSS framework, built specifically for iPad, which comes with common magazine design elements like pagination, gutters and a basic grid.
The framework uses HTML5 elements for structuring the magazine pages. Simply, an <article> element wraps up your page and <section>s define the portions of content.
Magazine Grid weights only 4kb and has a fallback style for devices with smaller screens.
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Ideal Forms is a lightweight framework, built on the top of jQuery, for creating good looking and user-friendly forms.
It converts standard <input> elements into ones with rounded corners having an attractive focus effect. And, radio + checkbox elements are completely customized.
No images are used, they requires minimal HTML syntax and can be completely styled with CSS (comes with 3 themes).
The framework is unobtrusive and degrades gracefully with JavaScript disabled.
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SQLyog, a powerful MySQL admin software, is giving away 5 Single Developer Licenses with premium support ($179/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers.
Detailed information on "how to join the giveaway" is provided at the bottom of this post.
What is SQLyog?
It is a MySQL GUI application with a user-friendly interface that offers many features for easily managing a MySQL database.
The application can control any number of databases in any number of hosts (can also connect to firewalled MySQL servers via HTTP(s) or SSH tunneling).
SQLyog does everything we can expect from a MySQL admin software like: CRUD operations on databases/tables/records, running custom queries, backup-restore and import-export (CSV/XML/HTML/Excel).
Also, it has many other advanced capabilities like:
- index analyzer
- schema optimizer
- query profiler
- SQL formatter
- visual query builder and schema designer
- and more..
There is a scheduling engine that can run any of the tasks at a given time for once or regularly. A very handy feature for regularly optimizing a database or taking backups.
It can also work as an interface for data-entry, thanks to the form-view support. And small-but-useful stuff like auto-complete or 100% keyboard support makes such usage much easier.
SQLyog is available for Windows and can be used on Linux or Mac OS X devices with the help of Wine.
How to join the giveaway?
SQLyog – MySQL admin tool is giving away 5 Single Developer Licenses with premium support. In order to join the giveaway:
- Share this giveaway with a tweet: "Just joined the @webyog SQLyog – MySQL Admin giveaway at WebResourcesDepot – http://goo.gl/igJKg" (click to tweet easily)
- Follow @webyog Twitter user
- Share your tweet URL within the comments
The winners will be selected with the query below on 22 September 2011 (1 week later):
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2464 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5
Luck is believing you're lucky (by Tennessee Williams).
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Saturday, September 17 is Software Freedom Day. To that end, a few announcements about this weekend’s hackathon and WordCamp Portland.
3.3 Hackathon
WordPress 3.3 is about to hit feature freeze. This means it’s the last chance to squeeze in features that haven’t quite been finished, and enhancements and fixes that no one has had time to address yet. Around this time, there are often dozens of tickets that have patches, but the patches have not been tested enough to be committed to core. Then the contributors who worked hard on the patches are disappointed that their code doesn’t make it into the current release. You can help us prevent this!
This weekend, we’ll be running a has-patch needs-testing marathon for the 3.3 milestone. Basically, we’re looking for people who can help test patches and/or refresh patches that need updating. Lead developers and core contributors will be hanging around in the #wordpress-dev channel on irc.freenode.net to answer questions as needed, and will be committing patches as they get enough verification. As you test the patches, report your findings on the trac tickets in question. If all developers who make a living working with WordPress helped out for even an hour or two this weekend, we could clear the 200 tickets or so that are in this situation. To make it fun, why not get together with other WordPress devs and have an in-person hackathon meetup?
WordCamp Portland
At WordCamp Portland this weekend, some of the WordPress core team will be in attendance, including me, Nacin, and Koop. In addition to giving presentations and participating in the unconference sessions, we’ll be involved with a couple of other cool things at WCPDX:
- Hacker Room. There will be room set aside for people to work on core bugs and features slated for the 3.3 release. Hopefully PDX developers will hang out in here some of the time helping with the marathon.
- Welcome Free Software Projects! Normally WordCamps are 100% focused on WordPress, but in light of Software Freedom Day, the WC PDX organizers, in conjunction with the WordPress Foundation, would like to extend an invitation to all free software projects to participate in WordCamp Portland. There are a couple of rooms set aside that can be used for unconference sessions and/or hacker rooms for other projects. It would be great to have local representatives from a bunch of projects there — almost a micro version of OS Bridge or OSCON — to maximize the free software love and cross-pollinate ideas. Developers from other projects are also welcome in the WP hackathon room if they’d like to pitch in. Saturday will also feature the Software Freedom Day Happy Hour at the end of sessions. For more information or to get your project involved, contact the event organizers via the WordCamp Portland website or email support at wordcamp dot org.
- Usability Testing of 3.3 Alpha. As mentioned, we’re about to hit freeze, so we’ll be giving WordCamp Portland attendees a sneak peek at 3.3, seeing how they adjust to the new features, and getting feedback to help us with our last round of fixes before we get to Beta. There will be a signup sheet to participate.
So, if you live it the Portland/Seattle area and haven’t already bought a ticket to attend WordCamp Portland, hurry up, as it’s going to be a great celebration of Software Freedom Day and WordPress.