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Are Social Networks Strangling Themselves?

21May

Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. Reddit. Digg. Del.i.cious... The list of social networking sites goes on and on and more pop up every day. We're reaching a point of saturation and it would seem that soon there will come a reckoning. Indeed, Social networking's own ...

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Sourcebits Secures $10 Million Investment from Sequoia and IDG

11May

Today, just a couple weeks removed from our 5th birthday celebration, Sourcebits is proud to announce that we have received a venture capital investment of $5 million each from Sequoia Capital and IDG. This marks Sourcebits' first ever large-scale investment from outside firms, ...

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Getting Into WebGL

5Apr

The interwebs is currently buzzing with WebGL! Hence, we also decided to get our feet wet with it. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you must have heard a few things about WebGL. However, I would still like to begin with a brief introduction about WebGL.

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Happy April Fools Day!

1Apr

Even though we had a lot of fun with the announcement of The Hipster's Companion, it's time for us to come clean. Though we think the app would be pretty amazing, it's just an April Fool's joke. Our apologies ...

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Sourcebits Proudly Presents The Hipster’s Companion

1Apr

You've suffered under the thumb of non-enlightened sheeple long enough, it's time to finally strike out on your own and declare yourself a true independent. To that end Sourcebits offers The Hipster's Companion, the only app you'll ever need in your ...

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Tomorrow…

31Mar

The wait's almost over. The time is nearly here. Tomorrow, Sourcebits unveils its most incredible project yet. Mark our words, this is going to be THE featured app of the season, and you can fully expect to see it in the Apple Staff picks, New ...

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Two More Days…

31Mar

In two days the biggest project Sourcebits has ever embarked upon will be unleashed on the masses. We've heard from a couple reviewers that this is absolutely one of the best apps they've ever seen and will be heralded as a must-have. Don't be late to the party, don't be…

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Something Awesome This Way Comes

29Mar

We're just a few days away from announcing something amazing, life-changing and utterly cool. We can't give you all the details yet, just know that we're going to forever change the way you look at apps. Stay tuned to this space for details...

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Bookmark-worthy Sites for Coders

15Nov

Coding is fun! But if you’re reading this article then you already know that. As passionate coders, we’re always on the lookout for handy tips and tools to give our productivity a goose; today we’ll take a look at a few websites that do just that.

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Next Gen Trends in Web UX/UI

25May

Breezing into summer we’ve seen some pretty thorough roundups of the latest Web and UI design trends.  Horizontal scrolling enjoys it’s day in the sun, while Web fonts and online typography have gotten huge this year.  Unabashed design geeks ourselves, we’re always in the thick of what’s new, ...

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Skyfire 2 Opens Big on Android

7May

Skyfire, the award-winning smartphone browser for Symbian and WinMobile came out for Android last week like a herd of stampeding wildebeests, commandeering the front page of nearly every popular tech blog with incredible reviews and cruising to the heights of the Android App Marketplace. Like another of our…

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m.sourcebits.com

19Mar

Check out our streamlined new mobile page, live at http://m.sourcebits.com. 100% iPhone-optimized, and rocks the house on Android and WebOS. Dig the barely there animations and intuitive touch-friendly UI controls. Sticking to a…

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AF Striper – Navy Quiz Web Portal

22Nov

AF Striper Web portal is developed by Sourcebits. This portal helps Air Force personnel prepare for promotions by taking online quizzes, studying flashcards, etc. The Web portal is developed using object oriented PHP Zend Framework, MySQL Database, HTML and CSS.

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“The Plateau Game” for Facebook Reviews

30Sep

Some of the popular gaming sites like Inside Social Games and Gamers Intuition reviewed the Plateau game for Facebook. Few quotes from those reviews: ," Suffice to say, this game is fantastic. It’s simple, it’s beautiful, it’s challenging, and above all, it’s fun. Whether you play ...

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iTrip – Trip Planning Facebook Application

25Aug

iTrip is a Facebook application that helps you plan, manage and share trips on facebook; perfect for people who like to go on trips with their friends frequently. The application maintains a list of trips you have planned with their details like map location, duration, destination and many more.

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The Plateau – New Game for Facebook!

18Aug

The Plateau is an engaging and exciting new game for Facebook. Set in the outer space with a soundtrack to match, The Plateau challenges you to untangle space orbs connected by energy lines on four sides. There are 55 levels in the game, with each level introducing more and more…

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Adobe Air Application GeeMail v1.0 Released

14Jul

We are proud to announce the next version of Geemail application, that is now completely recoded from scratch. The new feature list includes + Brand New User Interface Design: Dare we say its better then Gmail itself? + Localization supprt for Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese +…

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GeeMail and LiveQuotes on Adobe Marketplace

11Feb

The Adobe AIR applications developed by Sourcebits are now approved and available on Adobe Marketplace. Check them out.

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Sourcebits GeeMail – Adobe AIR Rich Internet Desktop Application for Gmail

6Feb

GeeMail is a cross-platform desktop client for gmail developed in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). Ready to be used out of the box, requiring no configuration of any kind, GeeMail supports the familiar gmail user interface and supports working offline. GeeMail is developed for the AIR runtime using the…

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Sourcebits releases Live Quotes

30Jan

We are pleased to announce the release of a stock data tracking and analysis tool – Live Quotes. Live Quotes is a feature-rich tool for those interested in the stock market. Live Quotes features an intuitive user interface for adding stock symbols of your interest and displaying the relevant…

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Beautiful and Creative

19Jan

Six revision posted an article titled Beautiful and Creative Examples of Vibrant Web Designs and Sourcebits TangledDecals made it to the list. As per the author, In this collection, you’ll find 30 brilliant web designs from all over the internet with vivid and colorful themes that evoke feelings…

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WebDevelopmentBits – Web Development Blog

27Oct

Sourcebits have opened a new web development blog, WebDevelopmentBits. With a strong team of over 35 web developers contributing to this blog, it will carry original posts on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, ActionScript, Flash, Flex, PHP, Zend Framework, WordPress, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python!.

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TangledDecals on Smashing Magazine

11Oct

TangledDecals, a Rich internet application developed by Sourcebits in Adobe Flex is featured on Smashing Magazine,.

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A moment to be proud and have a beer !

8Aug

The music store developed by Sourcebits, Nerve Music Store got featured on Smashing Magazine.
Comments by the authors on our store, “Nerve is an Ajax-based music store with vibrant colors, nifty JavaScript-effects and beuatiful hover effects. Nice and memorable design.”

Thank you Smashing Mazagine

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Seperation of Web

13Jun

It’s cool that mark-up based web is going to receive two humble gifts from great thinkers of web standards. Not to mention one is HTML-5 (Web Application 1.0) and other is XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2 is effort towards making web more robust, so web can be utilized…

Posted by staff in Code,Web. 1 Comment
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MilkyDomain – iPhone / iPod Web Application

30May

MilkyDomain is an innovative application that will let you find the domain you been looking for so long. As per research the most memorable domain names on the net are the ones that are combination of meaningful words like Facebook (Face + Book), Basecamp (Base+Camp), Campfire (Camp+Fire), iPhone (i +…

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Nerve Music Store

24Apr

Nerve Music Store is a demo shop for showcasing the finest of User Interface design and Programming using HTML, CSS & JavaScript. We hope you will enjoy this site.

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Creating Objects from JSON – without using eval()

2Nov

Ever wanted to create a JavaScript object from JSON, but was afraid to do so cos you might execute a potentially dangerous code? Fear not, for the Code Ninja from Bangalore has come to your rescue!

This function will taken in a JSON string and return you…

Posted by staff in Code,Web. 0 Comments
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ActionScript 3 Tips – part I

2Oct

This will be an updated post on ActionScript 3 tips.

1. How do I remove all the children from a DisplayObject (MovieClip etc)?

while (my_mc.numChildren) { my_mc.removeChildAt(0);
}

2. How do I instantiate a class dynamicall?

import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;

var cs:String = ‘Part_’+i;
var DynamicClass:Class = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName(cs) as…

Posted by staff in Code,Web. 0 Comments
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Universal fix for Safari jQuery bugs?

27Sep

Details: Safari 2.0.4 on Mac, JQuery 1.2.1 I had a good time breaking my head over jQuery rendering bugs in Safari. Somehow I managed to find the fixes for the bugs I encountered. I hope this post will come handy to those who WILL come across the bugs. The…

Posted by staff in Web. 0 Comments
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Sourcebits is a Macintosh, iPhone, Android and Web development company. Our efforts on the Mac are focused on researching and developing innovative and engaging applications that are new in the market or something we believe can be done in a better way. On iPhone and Android we are among the industry front runners and are among the first to develop applications for the platform. On the Web front, we develop world class quality web sites and web applications by considering the latest development trends and techniques, ensuring nothing is outdated.

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Sourcebits develops outstanding services and applications for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android, Mac and the Web. Our 200+ strong team of dedicated programmers and graphics designers spend their days building intelligent, easy to use applications leaving you free to focus on your next project. Contact Sourcebits today.