Cable: The quickest and easiest way to explore the WikiLeaks cables

It may have slipped down the news agenda, butWikiLeaksis still pumping out diplomatic cables on a daily basis. The trouble is that WikiLeaks’ own site doesn’t display them in a particularly easy-to-consume way. With lots of potentially interesting material in each day’s releases, how do you keep up? The best site we’ve found for exploring the Cables released by Julian Assange’s controversial organisation isCable by Dazzlepod. While at the start of the Cablegate affair a number of newspapers published swish visualisations of the initial leaks, this has died down....

2 min · 376 words · Cindy Sawyer

Caesar CSS3 easing tool makes transitions easier

Caesaris a CSS3 easing animation tool that makes customizing your transitions with precision much easier. Transitions are one of the exciting new features introduced by the CSS3 specification, allowing designers to animate elements of the page–whether it’s a smoother color transition for hover events, or something more extreme like moving, scaling or rotating page elements. These transitions use easing equations to determine how they should fade in and out, but CSS offers only a few default equations with the cubic-bezier attribute available to those who want more control....

2 min · 334 words · Kenneth Dean

Cage: A beautifully simple way of sharing and collaborating on designs

If you create graphic designs for others, be they clients, friends or family, you’ll know just how frustrating it can be to get feedback on your work in a simple way.Cageis a new Web app from Oklahoma-basedBitConfusedthat aims to solve this problem in style. Cage does away with the need for sprawling group email threads discussing revisions, replacing them with a simple interface that lets anyone view the current draft and highlight any element they’d like to discuss by drawing a box around it....

2 min · 288 words · Alexandra Wright

Cairo-based accelerator Flat6 Labs launches with 5 startups

Newly established Cairo-based startup accelerator,Flat6 Labs, who we first saw atStartup Weekend Alexandria, has just announced the first startups which will be spending 3 months under the group’s mentorship. The startups will have access to facilities and guidance, as well as seed funding ranging from approximately $8,000 to $12,000. In return, Flat6 Labs will get 10-15% equity in each startup. The startup world in Egypt is beginning to thrive, at the creativity stage, but how many of them survive and become a success is another story....

4 min · 817 words · Samuel Lopez

California could net $1bn from Amazon and other e-tailers with new tax law

A new tax bill has beenpassedin California that could see more than $1bn a year in extra taxes collected from sales made online. The bill was passed by the lower house of the Legislature yesterday, and it will now progress to the state Senate for consideration. If it passes this next stage, it will close a legal loophole that has thus far enabled online companies such as Amazon.com to avoid collecting sales taxes....

3 min · 483 words · Gregory Mcdaniel
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