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Google Destinations: Your One-Stop Holiday Planning Tool on Your Phone

Google Destination

 

Google wants to make it easier for you to plan a trip with its new Destinations on Google tool. You’ll find flight and hotel prices for flexible dates, itineraries and attractions, and more in one spot just by adding one word to your mobile search.

 

There are a ridiculous number of apps and websites that will help you plan and book a vacation. There are so many, in fact, that choosing which to use can be overwhelming. Search behemoth Google would like to change that.

 

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Google’s AMP Vs Facebook’s Instant Articles for Faster Loading on Mobile Devices

Google AMP & FB Instant Article

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), launched to the world this week, and it’s got a big partner announcing support for the format today: WordPress.com. Google released AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) to making the web quicker on your smartphone. The company just added AMP – enabled pages in its mobile search results. From Yesterday, any site on WordPress.com now automatically supports AMP.

 

The idea behind AMP was to create an open-source framework that publishers could contribute to that would help speed up the mobile Web.

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Now Shopify Stores Will Have SSL Encryption Everywhere

ssl encryption

Shopify has recently announced that its going to make all its stores fully SSL encrypted. SSL encryption is a trusted way to make secure a user’s personal information during the payment transaction. Traditionally, SSL encryption has been going on for 20 years in online stores as common practice. But, now web standards are changing and it is recommended that each page, content and data in your website should be secured under SSL.

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Google Released iOS App Testing Tools has been Open Source

iOS testing app

Google reported today that it has publicly released EarlGrey, a bit of programming that developers can use to all the more effortlessly build and run user interface tests on source code for iOS applications. Written in Objective-C, EarlGrey is available now on GitHub under an open-source Apache license.

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To Clean up Your Code – CSS Variables Finally Landing in Chrome

CSS Variables

 

 

Designers who have developed any size Website have had this issue: when you have to change one of your image’s hues it’s no simple accomplishment, requiring a hazardous pursuit and replace or hunting down every instance of its use.

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