1 | Ben The Bodyguard

Ben the Bodyguard is a slick scrolling website that features a suave Frenchman, reminiscent of Jean Reno, hell-bent on keeping the data on your iPhone secure. As you scroll vertically down the page, Ben walks through a rather rough neighborhood; he discusses the potential pitfalls of losing your phone. Featuring some slick animation and a fancy jQuery box activated by clicking on neon rooftop signs, the site does an excellent job at promoting  Nerd Communications iPhone Security App.

Web | http://benthebodyguard.com/

2 | For The Record

Simon Foster puts a modern spin on the infographic by representing what’s left of his record collection as an HTML5 and CSS 3 infographic. For the Record is by no means as fancy as Ben the Bodyguard, but is does show very well how HTML5 and CSS3 can be used hand-in-hand to replaces images with code. Simple code with a slick look, that’s what we like!

Web | http://www.fortherecord.simonfosterdesign.com/

3 | The Wilderness Downtown

The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive music video website for the Arcade Fire’s song ‘We Used To Wait’ and it is insane. The site first asks you to type in the name of the town you grew up in. The site then starts to play the music video in a number of different pop-up windows pulling in elements from Google Earth and utilizing HTML5 to incorporate visuals over the top of the images supplied by Google Earth. You can also manipulate  the direction of the birds flying around on the homepage with your mouse, which is a nice touch.

Web | http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

4 | Agent 008 Ball

For the gamers among us, Agent 008 Ball offers the user the ability to play a rather precise game of billiards through their browser. Created by Pixel Labs, the site utilizes the canvas element, which can be used to render graphs, game graphics, and other visual element in real time. Developed alongside Microsoft, Agent 008 Ball was created to show off the advanced features in the new IE9 browser.

Web | http://agent8ball.com/

5 | 20 Things I Learned

20 things I learned is an interactive book created by the Google Chrome team to help explain to users how the web works. The site uses HTML5 effectively to display the book like as an interactive eBook with the user having the ability to scroll through the pages by clicking and dragging their mouse from one page to the next. For best results, view this site in Google Chrome.

Web | http://www.20thingsilearned.com/

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In the training we can include also quiz questions for the “students”, and MindFlash will also automate the process of creating the quiz, saving the answers and generating reports about the results. Here’s a short demo about how to use it:

The free version can invite up to 10 users, and for certain there kind of educational tools can simplify a lot of work and still provide some interesting ways to teach and share knowledge.

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Wallaby exports from an Adobe Flash project some key elements like graphics, masks and animations into a HTML file:

This tool won’t export all of the elements, but it will for sure automate a lot of the process developers can perform to achieve their animations to work with, for example, iPhones and iPads.

The interesting about this, is that Adobe posted this information in their blog. Cheers to that.

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 Both of these technology monsters share a common enemy: Apple. Microsoft never had the chance to enter the mobile world and Adobe’s is struggling for not be forgotten since Apple decided they were not going to support Flash in their iOS (iPhones and iPads operating systems). And these are two big reasons for unifying and beat the same dragon.

NY Times also gives some details about this meeting, even though there’s nothing official, here are some of the topics of the meeting that took a little more than an hour: Adobe’s possible acquisition by Microsoft and possibilities for Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash can co exist in the same operating system.

Specialists said that this acquisition could cost Microsoft 15 billion dollars.

What do you think? Can you see these two fighting against Apple?

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The game developed in flash is based on the recent news about the Lindsay: Her life in jail after a few drugs abuse.  The game is pretty simple: You are Lindsay, you need smokes and there’ll be several other prisoners trying to stop you.

My record if 14 smokes, who can top that?

And be careful of those mean prisoners!

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We’ve recently talked about a project that is coming up which can replace Flash with JavaScript/HTML5; this could be the end of Flash?

The only thing for certain is that the solution must appear for the final user, and not transform this in a fight of interests where we, as users, are the only ones giving up quality and usability with our devices and computers.

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The software in charge of getting this done has not been released, but here are some of the facts:

• Flash without the plugin: Smokescreen will be in charge of converting Flash objects into JavaScript/HTML5.
• No need to re tool: Flash is automatically regenerated without having to learn any new tools to do that.
• Open source license: Will be released as open source.
• No specific dates about the release.

Can you imagine the impact this can make into the iPad’s fresh market?

“Many people still want to use their existing Adobe tools for developing ads, and retooling to support a single platform seems silly.  As an ad network, we believe that dynamic, interactive ads are much more fun than boring static ads and thus, we were faced with two options:  live in a dark, desolate world of boring mobile ads or do something about it”, the guys say about their new vision.

Here’s a very interesting demo:

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Just one image will explain you everything you need

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Not only that, Chambers also says that they are going to focus their attention in the Android platform: “Personally, I am going to shift all of my mobile focus from iPhone to Android based devices (I am particularly interested in the Android based tablets coming out this year) and not focus on the iPhone stuff as much anymore.”

Adobe is definitely not happy regarding the treatment they’ve received from Apple, and Mike also has some comments about it:

• “However, as developers for the iPhone have learned, if you want to develop for the iPhone you have to be prepared for Apple to reject or restrict your development at any time, and for seemingly any reason. “
• “I think that the closed system that Apple is trying to create is bad for the industry, developers and ultimately consumers, and that is not something that I want to actively promote.”
• “There have already been a couple of developers who have moved their Flash based content from the iPhone to Flash on Android (couple of examples below) and I expect that this is a trend we will be seeing more and more of.”

Clear enough?

Apple’s going to focus in HTML5, that’s probably the main reason of this dispute; but in the meanwhile I guess we are going to have to get use to those blue legos.

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The new TiVo Premiere ($300) takes full advantage of the many new HDTV models and their ability to connect to the internet. By accessing the internet TiVo can now not only surf the digital channels, but also content across sites like YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, On Demand, and Blockbuster. The new standard version of the Premiere can record up to 45 hours of HD quality content. The larger version of the Premiere XL ($500) can record a whopping 150 hours of HD quality content.

The new interface for this TiVo is built on the Adobe Flash platform. You know Flash, the one Apple is so afraid of. Is this any good? Will this crash on us constantly? It’ll be interesting to see how things work out, but this TiVo is a heavy contender for in-home set top boxes.

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The Internet is full of little puzzles, games and downright impossible mazes. Windosill is a cool new game that I found which follows along the same lines.

Basically, the game window is really big and each level – or Windosill- consists of a room or scene of sorts. It’s up to you to find the small cube to place above the exiting door in order to proceed. The first couple of levels are easy but at the minute I’m stuck on the level with the big bird! (If anyone gets past this tell me how!)

You can download the full game but at a small price. Other than that, you can play half of the game on-line for free. You can also download the game whether or not you activate the full thing for ‘better performance’.

Check it out here if you fancy wasting hours…and hours…

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While on the topic of the internet, you can call the current scenario, the Web 2.0 revolution, the next dot com boom. Web apps are torrenting the internet with their numbers and new ones pop-up everyday.

Today, I will talk about the latest additions to the pool, of course; the ones you probably don’t know about.

So, without further ado…

TinyChat

With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. Chat rooms are disposable and can be created within seconds.

KeepHD

With KeepHD, you can download the high defintion version of youtube videos and also fetch the FLVs and 3GPs for your mobiles.

Prezi

With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide, it only takes 5 minutes to learn how to use Prezi.

Wix

With Wix, you can create stunning flash websites for free, all from your internet browser! It offers you a simple powerful online platform to make flash websites, MySpace layouts and more. No downloads or programming needed.

Nice Translator

NiceTranslator is a fast, easy to use online translator designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. It is ajax powered, so you get the translations on the fly!

Task Five

A to-do list with a twist. It streamlines tasks in an elegant calendar view

Pizap

Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. You get a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles and much more.

whspr!

Need to receive a message by email, but can’t (or don’t want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead.

WobZip

WobZip is an online tool which lets you uncompress compressed files online. It supports many formats including the major ones as Zip, RAR, 7Z,  Gzip, TAR, ISO etc…

Anyvite

Create an invitation in seconds, add entries from mobile, twitter, email, iCal, gCal or Outlooks. And of course, send them with ease from withing the app.

Fliggo

Fliggo is an out-of-the-box, all-in-one, solution for creating your own video website. It can be a video blog, a YouTube-like community or a private site for your company or family.

Yidio

Yidio combines over 200 million videos and offers one of the largest video search engines on the Web.

SlideRocket

SlideRocket is an online, flash based tool for creating slides and presentations. It brings together a complete package of online slide making with features such as an intuitive interface, themes, flickr integration and much more

Ziddu

Ziddu is a new free file hosting solution with features such as unlimited storage space, fast uploads and downloads, file management, a sharing community a referral program and the ability to earn money with your downloads.

Mufin

Mufin is your music discovery engine, that will let you easily discover new music among millions of tracks. With the sound that you dig!

YouTube Reloaded

YoutubeReloaded creates an embeddable playlist of YouTube videos that can be added to any website. Simply choose a playlist type to create your free youtube playlist.

FriendPaste

FriendPaste is a an online tool where you can paste code snippets of many different languages to share with friends. It sports and intuitive interface with support for syntax highlighting.

Survs

Survs is a collaborative tool that allows you to build, deploy and analyze online surveys. With a great user interface, Survs is currently in private beta, though a single request fetched us an invitation.

SendPhotos

With SendPhotos Mobile, Web and PC you can upload photos, edit them, create photos albums and share them online with whoever you want. Also available for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry.

BackupURL

BackupURL creates instant cached copies of web pages. The content of a web page  stays the same while you share the link provided. The cached page can also be used for referencing or even mirroring data. The cached page will always be online (html,css,images) no matter whether the original site is up or down.

RapidStack

Rapidstack is a realtime Rapidshare link searcher. It scans the links before they are displayed as results and only working links are displayed.

CC:Betty

CC Betty organizes your message and its contents – photos, addresses, documents, links – and create a mailspace where everyone can track replies, view and add content. You just CC your messages to her!

Sigpad

Make your emails pop with signatures that reflect your personality and change with every email you send! Create signatures with your twitter status, flickr photos, blog entries, youtube stream and much more, all realtime.

FeedWeaver

Create your own RSS feed by combiningRSS feeds from your favorite websites, and use filters to choose what you want in it!

Twe2

Twe2 is a service which sends you your twitter replies, direct messages and custom searches that you specify free to your mobile as SMS. Available in more than 230 countries.

Markkit

Markkit is a web2.0 text highlighter. Drag’n’Drop the markkit yellow pen into your browser toolbar. Whenever you want to highlight text in a web page, click on the markkit bookmarklet.

So which ones are your favorites? Discuss in the comments, and dont forget to give it a digg

(By) An avid freelance writer and technology enthusiast, Keshav Khera is young geek from India. Fanatic about the web, he also writes a blog and makes unsuccessful efforts to avoid twitter.

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