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Collective #94

Inspirational Website of the Week

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The website of "Fixed Digital Agency" is a playful color explosion with some nifty effects. Our pick this week.

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Canvas - Simplify iOS Development

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With the aim to simplify iOS development for both designers and developers, Meng To and Jamz Tang developed Canvas. It will help you create animations without coding.

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The Web Needs Containment

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Paul Lewis writes about the shortcomings of HTML when it comes to basic concepts like the view and how primitives like that would help us build better web apps.

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Fast Image Filters with WebGL

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WebGLImageFilter is a small JavaScript library for applying a chain of filters to an image for browsers with WebGL support by Dominic Szablewski.

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Simple Line Icons (AI, EPS, SVG, PSD)

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A great set of simple line icons designed by Mirko Monti.

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The Design of WordPress 3.8

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Read about the new design of "Parker", the latest WordPress version, in this article by Matt Thomas.

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E-Commerce Template (PSD)

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A beautiful website PSD template by the talented designer Enzo Li Volti.

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Responsive Photosets

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Learn how to create responsive photosets with jQuery and CSS like seen on Tumblr.

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Flatastic Mobile UI Kit (PSD)

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A huge set of hundreds of mobile UI elements with a flat design for your next project.

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Creating a Film Grain Effect with CSS3

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A smart technique by Doug Avery for creating a film grain effect with CSS.

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CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly

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Very exciting news from Mozilla: Firefox Nightly (version 29) supports variables. Chris Heilmann explains what you'll be able to do.

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Bumpy Metaballs

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Jaume Sánchez Elias created this stunning three.js demo. If you don't like the blood-like look you can choose another surface material.

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Flat Christmas

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Some great flat Christmas icons by Icon8 for all platforms.

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Vim.js

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Lu Wang gives us a JavaScript port of Vim.

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Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard

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Chris Coyier explains how to use Grunt in a practical way in this 24Ways article.

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Challenges & Solutions for Your Responsive Navigation

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Allison Grayce explores some useful resources for responsive navigation over at the Treehouse blog.

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Free Font: Free Calligraphy

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An interesting, artistic font by Ibrahim Eraslan.

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404 - File not found

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A brilliant 404 page with a depressed server expressing its frustration.

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Install Flash, bitch!

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A Tumblr dedicated to documenting websites that refuse to provide HTML5 VIDEO.

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Knwl.js

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An interesting project by LoadFive that let's you scan through text for data that may be of interest to check if it's spam.

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