Saving images from a web page is a fairly straightforward task: right click, choose the right option, choose descriptive filename, click save and there - 5 seconds and done! Sure this process works gr
Every so often there are posts on Facebook where a person wants to share an image of their smartphone screen. However, instead of capturing an image of the screen, they are sharing a picture of a pho
When working on experimental things, you might find yourself in a situation where you are faced with raw audio or video and need to modify it. Working with these media formats requires a few extra ste
Back in 2018 Google Maps rolled out pay-as-you-go pricing plan, where in order to use the maps on a website, you must first enable the maps API in the Google Cloud Console, then obtain an API key and
Finding a logo designer can be difficult and time consuming. With today’s powerful AI technologies, why isn’t there a solution to solve this problem? We can ask Google or Siri to book our next appoint
When creating landing pages, illustrations and photography are really important components in creating the visual wow effect that helps to convey the message you are trying to deliver. At Mobile Firs
Error logging can be a challenge sometimes. Depending on what type server you are running, or if you are doing pure front-end javascript application without direct server access, your options for logg
After creating your initial product, you need to think about your strategy of how to find initial users to validate your idea. This will vary greatly based on your industry of choice and what user seg
At Mobile First we frequently purchase and configure custom domains. Now, there are times when you have successfully configured your custom domain and everything is working fine, but for whatever reas
Round images are a nice design element that add a touch of elegance to your application especially when used with feature images as a way to emphasize their content. In today’s tutorial we will show y
Web applications have multiple options for storing user information locally and these methods vary greatly in capacity and behavior. The Indexed Database API, commonly referred to as indexedDB, is a N
Using video in its various forms is a neat trick to help bring your website alive. The human eye is naturally drawn to elements that move and will focus on them over static elements. The thing to keep
In this article we will explore the Web API and its cross platform capabilities in speech synthesis. Partly out of curiosity, partly as a throwback to the time when it was fun to make the computer rea
In the past my de facto choice for building react apps has always been Facebook’s create-react-app. It makes react app development fast an easy with out-of-the-box build configuration and deployment,
Over the past few weeks we have been working with a web application utilizing Apple MapKit JS. The decision to choose MapKit JS was fairly simple since it offers high quality rendering, very liberal d
Using iOS’s wonderful Core Location libraries is easy enough but how can you track a user without launching the application? I first stumbled upon this problem while researching a simple question: giv
If we jump in a time machine and travel back about 5 years, the idea of making websites mobile friendly was simply to make them responsive. Responsive design is an approach where the design adjusts we
Looking for a quick and affordable way to launch your latest project? Look no further. We are going to do a quick comparison of various free static website hosts and the features they offer. Each one
Before publishing your website, you should perfect your site with a custom favicon. Favicon is the image that users with a web browser see in the browser’s tab, browsing history, and next to the page