40 PSD to HTML/CSS Conversion Slicing Coding Services

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PSD slicing is an art of converting a PSD document to valid XHML and CSS code that requires expertise. If you are an expert in development and coding, you can it by yourself. On the other hand, if development and coding is not your cup of tea, there are many PSD slicing websites out there to help you with your file. When you entrust your PSD resources to a PSD slicing company, they will code each and every file manually to get picture perfect results that are compatible with all web browsers. The special services offered by these PSD slicing websites help web designers and developers in increasing their productivity. Below you can find 40 PSD slicing websites that can convert your PSD resources to CSS and XHML code.

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T-Mobile may launch the first 5G LTE-Advanced network

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Rumors abound about T-Mobile “5G” LTE, with upload and download speeds already tested at 300Mbps. Currently, 4G LTE connections are tested at about a third of that, but rarely reach their full potential, usually capping off at about 50Mbps.

T-Mobile was among the last of the major carriers to make the switch to 4G LTE, but it looks like it was planning ahead for the bigger jump. Yasmin Karimli, T-Mobile’s head of Radio Network and Evolution Strategy, told VentureBeat in an interview, “I think we’ll probably be able to move faster [to LTE-Advanced than other companies] because we have the latest hardware in place … Others may have hardware that’s two years old, so they may have to rip and replace.”

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Microsoft Takes Aim at Amazon With a New Cloud Service

As president of Microsoft’s server and tools division, a $19 billion-a-year business devoted to databases, servers and other software products, Satya Nadella has a predictable cast of competitors to worry about. There is Oracle, VMware, SAP and a bunch of other makers of highly technical products that make everyday services like banking and airline reservations work, even if the software running them is invisible to most consumers.

But one of Mr. Nadella’s competitors – Amazon – is not like the others.

The Internet retailer is beloved by consumers for its seemingly infinite online selection of merchandise available for one-click purchasing, speedy delivery and Kindle e-readers. Out of view of most of the public, though, it has transformed itself into a huge player in the field of cloud computing. By renting capacity on the industrial-strength servers and beefy Internet connections in its data centers to anyone willing to pay for it, Amazon has become the virtual landlord of choice for technology start-ups, including the likes of Instagram and Foursquare.

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Twitter Tweets Hint At A Future In Music

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Is Twitter moving on to bigger and better things? Maybe louder, more musical ventures? That's what it sounds like as the seven-year-old San Francisco micro blogging site confirmed Thursday that sometime last year it had acquired We Are Hunted, a music discovery service.

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5 Services to Boost Email Productivity

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Two hours and 14 minutes. That's how long on average it takes for workers to sift through the stacks of email they get every single day. When you break down the eight-hour work day, that comes out to more than 25% of "work time" spent on digital correspondence. Despite being hailed by modern man as one of the greatest cultural innovations there is, email is the second most time consuming activity for the workforce, as reported by a 2012 study by McKinsey Global Institute and International Data Corp.

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New Vdio for TV and movies, from music-streamer Rdio

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Rdio, the music streaming service started by a co-founder of Skype, is getting into video.

It’s opening at first to users in the U.S. and Britain, where current subscribers of a $10-a-month unlimited music plan from Rdio will get $25 to spend in the new digital store for video, called Vdio.

The content will work on personal computers and Apple’s iPad for now. The latest TV episodes from shows such as The Walking Dead will sell for about $3 each and will be in high definition, while movies such as Zero Dark Thirty will cost from $3 to rent to $20 to buy.

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Google Decision To Go Into The Local Delivery Business Is Just Bizarre

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Today, Google confirmed that it is going into the same-day delivery business--at least for a 6-month test in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The new service is called Google Shopping Express.

Google has included nine retailer logos on its Shopping Express site, including Target, Walgreens, Office Depot, and Toys R Us. These are presumably some of the retailers that those who order home delivery can buy stuff from.

Judging by a picture that Google included on the page announcing the service (see above), Google Shopping Express will feature well-dressed, neatly coiffed people driving around in Google delivery vans delivering stuff.

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5 Rising Alternatives To PayPal For Online Transactions

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There are a few things people are concerned about online shopping, be it their credit card information being at risk, the security of their mobile transaction, or not being able to get a refund if the item they purchased is unsatisfactory.

Others may not be able to use their local credit card on a website. This is why there are online international payment services like PayPal which makes it easy to send, receive and even request for money across borders.

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eBay Experiments With A New Way To Get You To Sell Your Junk

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eBay is reinvigorating its core market with a host of new experiments—many of them aimed at bringing in more goods for sale.

The latest, a program called Sell It Forward, literally has people mailing it in. Customers sign up on a website; have a bag with postage prepaid sent to them; and mail in clothes, shoes, and handbags. eBay's partner in the program, the San Francisco Bay Area branch of nonprofit Goodwill Industries, then will attempt to sell the goods.

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To Compete With Amazon, eBay Debuts Free Listings And Simpler Fee Structures For Sellers

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eBay is debuting a new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon. For the first time, eBay is launching free listings for both non-stores and stores on the platform, as well as simpler pricing.

Non-stores previously had fixed-price listings that charged $0.50 insertion fees, and then various “tranches,” or levels, of final value fees, depending on the amount of the item. Fixed-price, non-store, final-value fee tranches didn’t have a cap, either. Now, non-store pricing has one, flat final-value fee rate of 10 percent capped at $250. So the max that any non-store seller will pay is 10 percent of the transaction. Non-store consumer sellers are also allowed 50 free listings (no insertion fees) if they list auction-only or buy-it-now items. After 50 listings, sellers will be charged $0.30 per listings.

For merchants with storefronts on eBay, listing fees were previously required in addition to the monthly subscription charge. That’s changed with today’s announcement. Sellers get a discount for yearly subscriptions, and they also get up to 2,500 free listings per month with a choice of buy it now or auction depending on store level. Previously there were no free listings available to stores.

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Vimeo On Demand launches, aims to make it easy for creators to sell content to viewers

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There's no doubt Vimeo's constantly working on various enhancements with the outlook of making it a better place for content makers and viewers alike. Today, following a relatively brief beta phase, the video-focused company's officially launching its pay-to-view service dubbed Vimeo On Demand. Essentially, this will allow Vimeo Pro members to sell their video productions directly to the public, eliminating the need for a middleman of sorts (even though technically Vimeo would be acting as such), as well as allowing them to name their own price and select preferred distribution countries.

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YouTube Co-founder Prepping Possible Rival

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YouTube has had its share of competition over the years. Companies like Vimeo and DailyMotion (plus copyright lawsuits and crushing overhead costs) led Chad Hurley and the video-sharing site's co-founders to sell YouTube to Google. More recently Hulu and others have entered the fold. Soon Hurley, who left Google/YouTube in 2010, will launch a potential new rival.
"I wish [South by Southwest] was a month later because I could unveil the new product," Hurley said during a Q&A with Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose on Saturday afternoon. Without going into too much detail, he said the product is "primarily video-based...and gives flexibility for people to work together and create content."
Souunds like Hurley is talking about taking a second crack at creating a better YouTube. Rose asked whether that's indeed his intention. "We're not setting up to [kill YouTube]—now," Hurley said. He added, "there’s always going to be a place for YouTube." His intention, instead, is to create a platform better suited for collaboration.
Beyond hinting at his latest aspirations, Hurley used the interview session to shed some light on how YouTube found its current place within Google, recalling how some of the key deal discussions took place at Denny's, just as Yahoo was looking to squeeze in on the deal.

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3D Printing Coming to Vending Machine Near You

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If vending machines can dispense beer, pizza and movies, why not 3D-printed objects?

Combining the hyper-local convenience of Redbox with cutting edge technology, Dreambox is a vending machine that aims to fuel the 3D-printing revolution from the bottom up.

Dreambox was created by co-founders David Pastewka, Ricard Berwick and Will Drevno, who all met in a mobile application development class and competition at the University of California, Berkeley. Frustrated by their lack of accessible, on-campus 3D printing options and the two- to four-week lead time for online 3D printing services, the trio came up with the idea for a more ubiquitous option.

“Having an item 3D printed with a Dreambox is as simple as uploading or choosing a design online, clicking the ‘Print’ button and retrieving the item once it’s ready,” the group states in its press kit.

Users can also upload designs via a USB stick at the machine. If they don’t have their own 3D models, customers can select one from a catalog of designs or use one of the many apps that help customize a model. Once an item is selected for printing, it’s sent to the nearest Dreambox and added to the queue.

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YouTube to launch music streaming service, take on Spotify

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YouTube, the world's largest digital repository of streaming media, will launch a subscription music service later this year. The service has its own negotiating team and operating unit but will likely have some overlap with new features also rumored to be coming to Google's Android music platform, Google Play.

The two new services are defined by their respective places in the Google (GOOG) empire: Google Play for Android is a digital locker for music -- users buy, store, and sort a collection of tracks; but on YouTube's coming service, anyone can listen to tracks for free. Both services are said to be adding a subscription fee that will unlock additional features. For the YouTube-based service, this will likely mean ad-free access.

Fortune was briefed on the service by sources in the record industry and at Google who declined to be named. Through a spokesperson, YouTube issued the following statement: "While we don't comment on rumor or speculation, there are some content creators that think they would benefit from a subscription revenue stream in addition to ads, so we're looking at that."

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Google in talks with labels over streaming music service

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When your market cap is north of $263 billion and the company's stock price is hovering around the $800 level, the prevailing question du jour becomes "well, why not?"

So it is that we learn, courtesy of the Financial Times, that Google has been talking with the major music labels about a possible streaming music service. The Times report said that "it is expected that the streaming service will offer a subscription model as well as free unlimited access to songs, supported by advertising, mirroring models adopted by Spotify and Deezer."

What with everyone seemingly talking with the labels these days, this is hardly a surprise. And as the Times correctly notes, Google has operated a music download store in the U.S. which started in 2011. It has since expanded the service to five European countries.

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Paypal Here Mobile Payment Service is Coming to Europe

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Paypal’s mobile small business payment service, Paypal Here, is on its way to the Europe. It’ll be introduced in the UK first, with excursions into the continent coming at a later date.

Paypal Here launched last year in the US and several other countries, but they’ve had to overcome the gap between simpler magnetic strip system and the Chip and Pin system that is standard in the Eurozone. Magnetic strip are much easier to manage but are also considered less secure, according to Reuters.

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How to Recognize a Font from an Image Fast and Accurate

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Have you ever stumbled upon an illustration with a gorgeous font and you just can’t find its name? I did and it took me weeks to finally spot it on a font showcase posted on a website. This is really frustrating especially when that font is the missing piece from your project, and without it you just can finish it.

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YouTube Considers Subscription Services for Premium Channels

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According to unnamed sources from AdAge, YouTube may be looking to get into a paid channel service as early as this spring. Starting with approximately 25 channels, the website will offer them from anywhere between $1 to $5 per month.

And unlike other online video services, such as Netflix and Hulu Plus, which offer already existing TV shows, YouTube is looking to incorporate premium (paid) services into already existing, online-only channels the likes of Machinima and Maker Studios; these channels already bring in millions of views.

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Vine Just Made Twitter A Stronger Social Network

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Vine, in case you missed it, is a standalone iOS app from Twitter that lets users create short, 6-second videos that run on a loop.

Users record by holding their thumb against the screen, and stop by releasing. The short clips can then be threaded together and shared on Vine itself, Twitter or even Facebook.

Here’s how a silly video-sharing app (which has been done before, by the way) makes Twitter a stronger social network.

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35+ New Tools and Services for Web Developers

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Web developers should always be abreast of the latest news. And to make their work easier and to help in saving their time a lot of talented web developers from all around the world always try to bring some new decisions and tools. To your attention, we would like to showcase some fresh timesaving tools among which you’ll find useful services, resources, generators and frameworks that you might find very interesting.

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