Thursday, January 15, 2015

10 experimental Gmail features you must try


 
As if Gmail wasn't powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we've narrowed down our 10 favorite Lab features to help increase your email productivity.

Here's over to 10 Gmail Labs features you should enable right now.


1.Undo Send
We've all been there: You spend half an hour writing a strongly worded letter, hit send, and realize you probably shouldn't have done that. Thankfully, Gmail's Undo Send feature — available in Gmail Labs — is there to save you from yourself. 

2.Custom keyboard shortcuts
We love keyboard shortcuts. It's no secret. The shortcuts in Gmail are some of our favorites, allowing you to ninja your way through Gmail with just your keyboard—and they even add a few every once in a while. 

3.Preview external services in messages
Gmail has quite a few labs that let you preview things like videos, documents, voicemails, and images in emails if they're sent from certain services....
 


Monday, January 12, 2015

Top 24 Best JavaScript Frameworks for Programmers


JavaScript Framework is basically a pre-written JavaScript library which is considered to be the best feature of JavaScript programming language. It enables the developers to easily develop JavaScript based web applications. The JavaScript Framework actually makes the work of developer easier and offer many features and functions, thus helping developers to enrich the website development tasks.

JavaScript Framework is also called as JavaScript libraries which are responsible for enriching the usages of this programming language in different ways. It makes the process of application development much easier for developers as it allows them to use same code written in JavaScript frameworks and hence preventing them from writing same line of code each time individually, which not only prolong the process, but also make the task difficult at times.     

Today, JavaScript Framework is available everywhere over the internet with variety of working capacities and capabilities. So, choosing the right JavaScript framework for your need may become difficult, especially if you don’t boast the knowledge about these programming languages. So, keeping this in mind, some of the best and selected JavaScript frameworks for 2014 have been listed below in this article.

 

20 Best Freebies for Web Designers of Year 2014


After spending a lot of time in a particular field, we normally get a lot of experience and we suddenly start doing things easily and in short span of time to maximize our efforts towards our goal. This same procedure also holds true in case of web designing also, Because it’s all about getting an experience in a particular field or language. Learning web designing is not an easy task, but when you hold experience in the same field, it becomes much easier for you to get most of the work done in very short span of time.

Even most of the web designers are consistently looking to get some cool ways to automate their work. One of the popular ways of doing it is to help with the freebies. Every month a lot of applications and projects are released in the market to help the web developer to do their task quickly. With the help of these freebies you can easily automate your daily work on a regular basis and these do not cost you much. Most of the applications are released as freebies and some others are released as paid ones.

But you don’t need to worry a lot about that, because we have carefully selected some of the best and useful freebies for web designers of this year. Have a look on these useful freebies and do let us know that it helps you to automate your work in a regular manner. Don’t hesitate to share your views with us in the comments section.

Friday, January 9, 2015

10 Best Android Code Editors For Mobile Developers

 
A platform, may also be defined as a code editor, and these code editors are very easily available on the internet, and are also having a market of their own. These code editors provide a lot of tools and stuff, which enables you to write your code comfortably, and improve on how smooth it will execute. Some of these code editors might be free, and some might be very expensive and costly. As a developer, it might become a complex task to manage the stuff.

We have prepared a list of some of the best code editors, which you can use, and download, and implement in your use. You can choose from the list, and use the best Android code editor easily!


 

14 Tools For Minifying Javascript


Javascript minification is a technique which condenses your script into a much smaller footprint. You lose human readability but you conserve considerable bandwidth – in the end, Javascript is meant for your browser not for your users.

Most production websites use Javascript minification but the way this is achieved varies greatly. From simple online converters to more comprehensive GUI tools to command line interfaces, our options are pretty varied. In this article we’ll take a look at how Javascript minification works, how we can build it into our workflow and what the pros and cons of minifying are.

How Minification Works

The best way to learn what happens when you minify your code is to take a look at the UglifyJS Github Repository. This script is used in many online converters as well as GUI tools and command line tools like Grunt. Here are some of the transformations it applies to make your code shorter:
  • Removes unnecessary space
  • Shortens variable names, usually to single characters
  • Joins consecutive var declarations
  • Converts arrays to objects where possible
  • Optimizes if statements
  • Calculates simple constant expressions
  • etc.
As a quick example, here’s a function that essentially writes some given text out.

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

20 New HTML5 Tools You Should Not Miss

 
HTML5 is one of the most popular language amongst developer community as it offers number of features such as modern browser support, structure specific tags, visual elements like rounded corners are now built in, drag and drop interactive, new video, audio and canvas elements, SVG animations, and many more.

For this article we have compiled a list of New HTML5 Tools released recently, following tools are helpful and let you create and optimize your web applications with much efforts. We hope you will find the list useful for your development related tasks.
 

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Top 10 Best Tools for Responsive Web Design Testing


We have already talked a lot about web design here on DevZum in which we have covered useful tools, frameworks, libraries and a lot more to help out our fellow web designers and developers. To be very honest, Web Design is the most trending topic on the internet at the present time and every single web designer is searching for latest tricks and tips to save time and increase their efficiency.

If we talk about responsive web design, then everyone wants to have responsive web sites not because it makes the website look professional, but also because of responsive means the design will have the latest techniques and trends which helps to make the website viewable on any platform like laptop, mobiles, gadgets and desktops. With this way Responsive web design gets more popularity day by day and almost every web designer tends towards it. But, When you are creating web design you don’t know how it behaves on other platforms until you have all the  devices spare to check out at the time of developing it.

The other way of ensuring the web design responsive is to test out with the help of a tool. There are already a lot of testing tools available in the market, which helps you to do this task easily. We have selected some of the best responsive web design testing tools to make the things work easily for you.