HP apparently offering 1.1 Million Dollar PC exclusive to Best Buy

Today while casually browsing my Facebook timeline, I stumbled along a post made by a friend of mine who had found a page on the Best Buy online store for an HP computer (cached). It looked like a run-of-the-mill desktop PC, but after a clear glance of the price tag, I immediately knew this was not like any other computer that I’d ever seen before. This one in particular was a pinnacle of technical innovation, a trophy of humanities achievements, and it was, ever so elegantly, tipping the scales at 1.1 Million dollars.

How website speed affects traffic and revenue - Infographic

When building a website, one of the hardest things is trying to squeeze as much out of it, while at the same time keeping a small footprint. Every image, script, letter, icon, video and CSS file has to travel through wires across the globe to the user in a few seconds, and less time it takes the better. As the amount of time it takes for your site to load, the amount of people that leave increases exponentially. The following infographic is a good example as to why some sites perform well, and others don’t do so hot.

Insanely awesome CSS3 Photo gallery stack

We have seen, and written about various CSS3 slideshows and photo galleries with most of them using jQuery, but when we stumbled across this piece we had to share it. We’re not in love with it because it’s incredible, fascinating or even functional — we’re excited because of how well it was made. It was supposed to serve a purpose at one time, but the creator had to place it on the shelf, which is a shame, but there’s some good news!

Google, Twitter, Facebook and others send a letter to Congress to stop PROTECT-IP & SOPA bills

As you are well aware, the US government is planning to pass a handful of bills that will enable them to execute censorship in the US and outside of the US… today. The odds are not in our favor, and as the collective, we need to stay on-top of this because if these bills (as written) are passed, it will mean disaster down the road. We could go into details, but we’ll hand you off to some people who actually know what they’re talking about after the jump!

Youtube Re-design in the works focusing on Google+ & Subscriptions

Youtube has been morphing over the past few months with numerous design itterations and most recently Cosmic Panda, but the design team has hit a sweet spot and are now testing a new site-wide re-design. The focuses looking forward is simplicity, content subscriptions, integration with other Google properties and a slick new design — but the biggest impact of it all will be a tight integration with Google+.

Who is using Geo-location apps and services? - Infographic

Geo-location can be a scary thing, I mean putting yourself out there on a map (of all places) for everyone to see sounds like an insane thing to do, but for anyone who’s up for it can enjoy the luxury of knowing where their friends are — there are upsides and downsides to Geo-based apps. Below is a pretty slick summary of who took the risk and is reaping the benifits.

End of the road: Adobe stopping Mobile Flash development, focusing on HTML5

Adobe said to it’s developers yesterday that “[They] will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations.” Instead, Adobe will be investing much more time and money in building HTML5 tools and products to help usher in a new age of development for the web and mobile devices. That said, Adobe will continue to support and provide critical updates and fixes to current deployments of Flash, but they will not be making any further development on Flash for new mobile devices and websites.