ArtsNet: What Is Art? Vocabulary

ArtsNet: What Is Art? Vocabulary

Digital Imaging Tutorial - Basic Terminology

Digital Imaging Tutorial - Basic Terminology

DIGITAL IMAGES are electronic snapshots taken of a scene or scanned from documents, such as photographs, manuscripts, printed texts, and artwork. The digital image is sampled and mapped as a grid of dots or picture elements (pixels). Each pixel is assigned a tonal value (black, white, shades of gray or color), which is represented in binary code (zeros and ones). The binary digits ("bits") for each pixel are stored in a sequence by a computer and often reduced to a mathematical representation (compressed). The bits are then interpreted and read by the computer to produce an analog version for display or printing.

The Droid: Is this the Smartphone Consumers are Looking For? | Nielsen Wire

The Droid: Is this the Smartphone Consumers are Looking For? | Nielsen Wire: "By mid-2011, the U.S. should be just over 300 million mobile subscribers. If we assume that we will have over 150 millions uses of smartphones (based on our projections) and that 80% of these users will access the Internet and 60% will access video (given the current data trend these assumptions may actually be low), this means that over 120 million mobile users will be on the Internet and 90 million will be watching video. What we have typically called the “third screen” is quickly becoming an extension of the first and second screens (TV and desktop viewing) especially in some key demographics. Note how Hispanics and African-Americans over-index on Mobile Video and Internet Usage."

Games Dominate America’s Growing Appetite for Mobile Apps | Nielsen Wire

Games Dominate America’s Growing Appetite for Mobile Apps | Nielsen Wire: "Americans continue to hunger for mobile phone apps. According to the latest edition of The Nielsen Company’s Apps Playbook, the average number of apps that smartphone app downloaders have on their phones is now 27, up from 22 in December 2009. Broken down by the three major operating systems (Apple’s iOS, Android and Blackberry), owners of iPhones have the most apps with an average of 40 on their phones, up from 37 last December, while Android owners report having 25 apps on their phones (up from 22 last December) and BlackBerry owners report having 14 (up from 10)."

Android Soars, but iPhone Still Most Desired as Smartphones Grab 25% of U.S. Mobile Market | Nielsen Wire

Android Soars, but iPhone Still Most Desired as Smartphones Grab 25% of U.S. Mobile Market | Nielsen Wire: "Multipurpose smartphones that allow users to access the web and email as well as run thousands of apps and share text and picture messages are now 25% of the U.S. mobile market, up from 23% in the last quarter according to recent data from The Nielsen Company. By the end of 2011, Nielsen predicts smartphones to overtake feature phones in the U.S. market."

AFP: 65,000 Android phones shipping every day: Google

AFP: 65,000 Android phones shipping every day: Google: "Google co-founder Larry Page, who also attended the meeting, said the strategy of getting more devices running Android provides benefits 'through more (Google) searches and other things that we do.

'I think you'll see that as those products mature we'll figure out how to make more money from them,' Page said.

Schmidt agreed, saying 'while it's true that we're very happy to give away Android, the applications and the services that can be provided on a very large, very broad framework can be enormously valuable over the next five or 10 years.'"

Compatibility Master Table

Compatibility Master Table: tests of css on browsers and others

The Great WebKit Comparison Table

The Great WebKit Comparison Table: "This page only contains tests of CSS and JavaScript items that work in some WebKits but not in all. Adding more items, all of which are either supported by all or by none of the WebKits, makes no sense — it’s in the items in the table below that the differences between the tested WebKits lie."

JavaScript - Browser detect

JavaScript - Browser detect: "A useful but often overrated JavaScript function is the browser detect. Sometimes you want to give specific instructions or load a new page in case the viewer uses, for instance, Safari."

W3C Mobile Web Initiative

W3C Mobile Web Initiative: "The Mobile Web Initiative’s goal is to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality, explains Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web. W3C and mobile industry leaders are working together to improve Web content production and access for mobile users and the greater Web."

There's a link on this page in the lower right corner to check to see if your site is suitable for a mobile device... try it out! bookmark it! try it in december! --> Is your site mobileOK?

Smartphones to Overtake Feature Phones in U.S. by 2011 | Nielsen Wire

Smartphones to Overtake Feature Phones in U.S. by 2011 | Nielsen Wire: "The iPhone, Blackberry, Droid and smartphones in general dominate the buzz in the mobile market, but only 21% of American wireless subscribers are using a smartphone as of the fourth quarter 2009 compared to 19% in Q3 2009 and 14% at the end of 2008. We are just at the beginning of a new wireless era where smartphones will become the standard device consumers will use to connect to friends, the internet and the world at large. The share of smartphones as a proportion of overall device sales has increased to 29% for phone purchasers in the last six months and 45% of respondents to a Nielsen survey indicated that their next device will be a smartphone. If we combine these intentional data points with falling prices and increasing capabilities of these devices along with a explosion of applications for devices, we are seeing the beginning of a groundswell. This increase will be so rapid, that by the end of 2011, Nielsen expects more smartphones in the U.S. market than feature phones."

iPhone vs. Android | Nielsen Wire

iPhone vs. Android | Nielsen Wire

Whether it‘s checking email on the go, connecting with friends through social networks or using turn-by-turn navigation, the capabilities of smartphones are convincing more and more consumers to make the leap from a simple mobile phone to a more sophisticated device. As of Q1 ‘10, Nielsen data shows that 23% of mobile consumers now have a smartphone, up from just 16% in Q2 ‘09.

Periodic Table of the Elements - Josh Duck

Periodic Table of the Elements - by Josh Duck:

The table shows the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements (marked with an asterisk).

pattern and texture

A set of 16 pixel patterns to be used with Photoshop or Fireworks. No copyright or credit due. No strings.

Naomi Atkinson Products

KDiff3 - Homepage

KDiff3

KDiff3 is a program that

• compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
• shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
• provides an automatic merge-facility and
• an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
• supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM"
• supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
• Printing of differences,
• Manual alignment of lines,
• Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
• and has an intuitive graphical user interface.
• Windows-Explorer integration Diff-Ext-for-KDiff3 - shell extension included in installer (originally by Sergey Zorin: see also Diff Ext)
• KDE-Konqueror service menu plugin
• Simplified integration with IBM-Rational-Clearcase for Windows (Details).
• Read what else is special in a short abstract (PDF).

Supported platforms:

• GNU/Linux with KDE3, KDE4 (from 0.9.93 on),
• Any Un*x that is supported by the Qt-libs from Trolltech,
• MS-Windows.
• Apple Mac OSX binary available. (0.9.95)
• In theory any platform for which Qt-libs work.

HTML5 Makes a Great Color Picker | Webmonkey�| Wired.com

HTML5 Makes a Great Color Picker | Webmonkey�| Wired.com

Software is hard | Firecookie

Software is hard | Firecookie

Once Firecookie is successfully installed you should see a new tab within Firebug's bar called simply Cookies. This tab displays a list of all cookies associated with domain of the currently displayed page. Each entry in the list displays basic information about a cookie (name, value, domain, path, expire date, etc.).

Stanford Javascript Crypto Library

Stanford Javascript Crypto Library

The Stanford Javascript Crypto Library (hosted here on Stanford's server or here on GitHub) is a project by the Stanford Computer Security Lab to build a secure, powerful, fast, small, easy-to-use, cross-browser library for cryptography in Javascript.

some photoshop links

• www.actionfx.com 
• www.adobe.com/designcenter/
• www.phong.com 
• www.lynda.com
• www.pixel2life.com/
• www.photoshopcafe.com
• http://www.photoshopuser.com/
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Color issues in 1st assignment...

Overall assessment: everyone needs to know more on color theory.  I'll add more info on this over time.  Familiarize yourself with these terms:

Every color has three properties: Hue, Value and Intensity.

Hue: This is the quality we identify by a color name such as "red" or "purple." It corresponds to the distinctive wavelength of a color. In order to change the hue of a color we must mix another color with it. If a little green is mixed with blue, the resulting change from blue to greenish-blue is a change in hue.

Value: This is how light or dark a color appears, referring to the relation of a color to white or black, which we indicate when we say a light blue or a dark blue. This means a blue that is higher or lower in value than the normal spectrum of blue. In order to change the value of a color we need to mix it with something lighter or darker than itself. By mixing black or white with a color we change its value without changing its hue.

Intensity: Refers to how bright or dull a color appears; also called saturation and/or chromaticity. Basically, how much of the hue is identifiable. Grays are achromatic, meaning they have no hue or color and are therefore low in intensity. A primary red, on the other hand, would be completely saturated and therefore extremely intense and high in chromaticity. Hues reach their full intensity at different values; for example, yellow would reach its full intensity higher on a scale of grays than red or blue.

Web Project: Weighing Cost vs Speed vs Quality | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

Web Project: Weighing Cost vs Speed vs Quality | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

One of the most common issues that web professionals regularly encounter is the age old question of how best to meet your clients ever increasing requirements. While the technologies we use may change like the class of client we attract, the need to balance the three fundamental features of any project whether design, development or relative to something else must be answered. It is therefore necessary that we highlight the compromise between cost, speed and quality of service.

emazekraker - Web Wireframe Kit

emazekraker - Web Wireframe Kit

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Not wanting Mac or PC? try this...

We believe in fast, effective computing for everyone. Created by the open-source community and Canonical, Ubuntu is free to use and share, at home and in business.

gedit

gedit

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
Currently it features:

• Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
• Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
• Undo/Redo
• Editing files from remote locations
• File reverting
• Print and print preview support
• Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
• Search and replace
• Go to specific line
• Auto indentation
• Text wrapping
• Line numbers
• Right margin
• Current line highlighting
• Bracket matching
• Backup files
• Configurable fonts and colors

Customizing gedit as a Web Developer's IDE

Customizing gedit as a Web Developer's IDE: "This article is written to illustrate how you can configure gedit for use as a powerful, stable web developer's text editor."

Web Technologies Course starts today!!!

Course Description

Full advantage of the opportunities afforded by the web will be introduced. User interface, design principles and project management will be associated with hands on applications for the entire process of front-end web development. Languages include HTML, XHTML, CSS and Javascript.

Course Outcomes

Will be able to:

• Hand code HTML and CSS from scratch
• Confidently design and execute a web site

Will be familiar with:

• The broad picture of the web and how it works
• Client-side coding practices and web standards
• The fundamentals of organizing and developing a web site
• What it takes to design usable, transparent navigation

Will display the following professional attitudes/behaviors:

• The fundamentals of organizing and developing a web site
• Proper file organization and management

View Program Learning Outcome

Books and Materials

Required Books

Web Design in a Nutshell
ISBN: 0596009879 Author(s): Niederst, Jennifer Publisher: O'Reilly; 3rd edition (February 21, 2006)

Recommended Books

Head First JavaScript
ISBN: 0596527748 Author(s): Morrison, Michael

Web Technologies Course starts today!!!

Attendance is taken automatically by logging in and entering your "Class Home" via the blue class link on the left side of your Home page. You must click the class link to be marked "Present." You are required to enter your "Class Home" at least once per week as designated in the breakdown below and on the "Outline" page. Should you choose to work ahead, you must still enter the "Class Home" at least once per week, or you will be marked "Absent." Students are required to log in each week to every class in which they are enrolled.

Week 1 -- September 2, 2010 – September 13, 2010 (Th-M)
Week 2 -- September 14, 2010 – September 20, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 3 -- September 21, 2010 – September 27, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 4 -- September 28, 2010 – October 4, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 5 -- October 5, 2010 – October 11, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 6 -- October 12, 2010 – October 18, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 7 -- October 19, 2010 – October 25, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 8 -- October 26, 2010 – November 1, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 9 -- November 2, 2010 – November 8, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 10 -- November 9, 2010 – November 15, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 11 -- November 16, 2010 – November 22, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 12 -- November 23, 2010 – November 29, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 13 -- November 30, 2010 – December 6, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 14 -- December 7, 2010 – December 13, 2010 (Tu-M)
Week 15 -- December 12, 2010 – December 18, 2010 (Su-Sa) 



Academy of Art Policy Regarding Attendance:

• Three (3) consecutive absences will result in a student being automatically dropped from the class. For example, if you do not log in for Week 4, Week 5, and Week 6, you will be automatically dropped in Week 7 for non-attendance.
• Students withdrawing from courses they have attended after October 20, 2010--the published Drop without "W/F" penalty deadline (see Academic Calendar)--will receive a "W/F" (Withdrawal/Fail) mark for the course.