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Fundraising gives you a flexible WordPress-based system for organizing fundraisers and donations. No need to rely on a third party web app to manage your fundraising. - Albert Willis

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. - Albert Willis

President Obama signed the JumpstartOur Business Startups Act (known as theJOBS Act) into law on April 5, 2012. Onehighly anticipated provision of the JOBSAct, Title III, is entitled ‘‘Capital Rais-ing Online While Deterring Fraud andUnethical Non-Disclosure Act of 2012’’or the ‘‘CROWDFUND Act.” Title IIIenables “crowdfunding,” or the ability tosell securities in small amounts to a largenumber of investors - Albert Willis

"You know Jim, you really have to stop these logical, common sense posts. I mean, you're making way too much sense here. I often say the same thing when I'm at user group meetings and someone starts saying that Apple has to respond to something a competitor is doing." - Albert Willis

Steve Jobs at the 1997 WWDC. This is the question that contains an insult based on a question asked by someone else about 45 minutes earlier. See the first video of this series. Copyright Fair Use provisions invoked as this is for an educational blog posting at http://mikecanex.wordpress.com - Albert Willis

Blank co-founded the CRM software company E.piphany and the video game business Rocket Science. His current gigs as an entrepreneurship professor at Stanford, UC Berkeley and Columbia give him a unique insight that combines a historical perspective with a look at the next generation of entrepreneurs. I sat down with Blank at his ranch in Pescadero, where we talked about his book and his take on the state of startups and entrepreneurship. - Albert Willis

In the recent years, we saw both a rise of mobile devices such as the iPhone and wide monitors. Responsive websites are website that can adapt to lots of different screen resolution and always look good. In this article, I have compiled tips and best practices to create responsive websites. - Albert Willis

The grammar of Vim - Albert Willis

Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. This website is for 'Anyone and Everyone' who wants to share their hackerspace with international hacker's'paces. - Albert Willis

Shim is a node.js app that enables simultaneous, synced web surfing across a variety of devices and browsers. Shim was developed by the Boston Globe Media Lab (twitter: @GlobeLab) as a timesaving way to see how its web sites render on a variety of gadgets & browsers. It works by tweaking Wifi to enable the easy synchronization of browsing sessions across several devices, with no client configuration needed. This makes cross-browser and cross-device testing much easier. With one click, it's possible to see a page rendered on devices of varying screen size, input technology, etc. - Albert Willis

The beauty of implementing Sass/Compass is that the learning barrier is low and only requires general knowledge of CSS. It can be utilized in existing popular CSS frameworks because it actually compiles to CSS. Sass stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets and it will create mixins, set variables, do math when necessary and much more. Compass is the open-source CSS authoring framework where you can write Sass. - Albert Willis

RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS. It lets you quickly develop and test native iOS applications for iPhone or iPad, all using the awesome Ruby language you know and love. - Albert Willis

And as such, we felt that we should compile a new list with more detail and covering all areas of design including web pages, mobile apps and application dev. As well as showcasing a variety of free apps (11 in total), at the bottom of the post, we have also highlighted some premium wireframing services that do offer free, yet limited, options. You may like to try them. - Albert Willis

The Apache Mahout™ machine learning library's goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. - Albert Willis

Self-publish your book as you write it, and earn great royalties! - Albert Willis

Bones is designed to make the life of developers easier. It's built using HTML5 & has a strong semantic foundation. It was updated recently using some of the HTML5 Boilerplate's recommended markup and setup. There are also a ton of bonus features such as page navi, breadcrumbs, related posts, and html5 video with fallback. It's constantly growing so be sure to check back often if you are a frequent user. - Albert Willis

weinre is WEb INspector REmote. Pronounced like the word "winery". Or maybe like the word "weiner". Who knows, really. weinre is a debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it's designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone. - Albert Willis

weinre resources - Albert Willis

Mojito is a sweet (and minty!) MVC application framework built on YUI 3 that enables agile development of Web applications. Mojito allows developers to write client and server components in the same language (JavaScript), using the same framework. Because Mojito applications are written in JavaScript, they can run on the client (in the browser) and on the server (with Node.js). In addition, Mojito has built-in support for internationalization, testing, and building documentation. - Albert Willis

There’s a new set of baseline skills required in order to be successful as a front-end developer, and developers who don’t meet this baseline are going to start feeling more and more left behind as those who are sharing their knowledge start to assume that certain things go without saying. Here are a few things that I want to start expecting people to be familiar with, along with some resources you can use if you feel like you need to get up to speed. - Albert Willis

real-time visualization of the entities that track you across the web - Albert Willis

The goal of Watchdog is to make it easier for you to make wise decisions about your privacy and security. However, even if you’ve taken care to avoid password reuse, we often forget to regularly change our passwords. - Albert Willis

Visual hashing allows your computer to display something about the password you've entered without actually displaying your password on the screen. The idea is to map the set of all possible passwords to a (smaller) set of visual cues. - Albert Willis

A plugin that creates a visualization of your password reuse - Albert Willis

css pixels vs. physical pixels and dealing with high density displays - Albert Willis

File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag support, progress bars and preview images for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads and client-side image resizing. Works with any server-side platform (PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, Node.js, Go etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads. - Albert Willis

Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started. - Albert Willis

GIT IMMERSION IS A GUIDED TOUR THAT WALKS THROUGH THE FUNDAMENTALS OF GIT, INSPIRED BY THE PREMISE THAT TO KNOW A THING IS TO DO IT. - Albert Willis

This is a Sublime Text 2 plugin and build system allowing you to format your HTML, CSS and JavaScript code. It uses a set of nice beautifier libs made by Einar Lielmanis and Noah Kantrowitz. The formatters are written in JavaScript, so you'll need something (node.js) to interpret JavaScript code outside the browser. - Albert Willis

template chooser - Albert Willis