Thursday, December 11, 2014

CSS Shapes

A cool new CSS tech to wrap text around your images called CSS Shapes.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Create Your API Instantly

Besides Import.io the new player is InstantAPI to use for building your API. Checkout the TC review.  

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

AirBrake: Track Errors on Front-End

Another service like errorException for auto-tracking client-side errors in the code. AirBrake.io

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Film Yourself Anywhere

How would you like to have your own filming camera crew follow you along everywhere for (almost) free, capturing your every move, whether you are riding, climbing, sleighing, or flying? Well, now for the cost of electrical charging, you can have the HEXO+.

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

The Revolv

Cool gadget for controlling all of your IoT (internet of things) devices at home. A single hub with a single mobile app to use on over 2,000 different IoT devices.
Recently bought by Nest.

Revolv

Friday, September 05, 2014

Thursday, September 04, 2014

API For Any Website

With this service you can create an API to any website without even being a coder. Very cool

Thursday, August 28, 2014

White-Label Marketplaces

Here are some of the latest marketplaces I've been looking at:

Friday, July 11, 2014

Angular Gesture Support

To add gesture support to your AngularJS app running within a touch-enabled device, use these:


If you only want to replace the ng-click with ng swipe left or right then use

Mobile Website Frameworks

Want to build a mobile website that feels like a native app? Here are some upcoming players that can help.


Up And Coming CSS Frameworks

Some of the latest frameworks I've been investigating:

Sprite Generators

Some developer tools for making sprites:

Breach: A Javascript Browser

Breach.cc is a browser written entirely in javascript. It uses NodeJS under the covers.

Retain Position in Infinite Scroll

An infinite scroll kicks in more data as you scroll to the bottom of a page. For example, when viewing some galleries of pictures, new pictures are appended to the bottom of the page whenever you scroll to the bottom, and this process continues every time you get to the bottom of the page. The problem is that when you click on any picture to see its details and then click on the browser's back button, your position within the infinite scroll is lost.

Here is an elegant solution to that.

Thursday, July 03, 2014

Generate Test Data

If you are a developer and need to generate some mock data for your app, here are a couple of services that can help

Tuesday, July 01, 2014

CrowdTwist Loyalty Platform

If you are looking to add a customer loyalty/rewards program to your service, CrowdTwist.com could help.
Platform

LOYALTY SOLUTIONS

Launch a new program or enhance your existing program with the only technology that aggregates data from your brands mobilesocial & transactional channels

HP_DataAnalytics

DATA & ANALYTICS PLATFORM

Analyze data from across more than 200 points of brand interaction and leverage those insights to drive all your acquisition & retention efforts



Keen.IO Analytics

Whatever analytics data you are trying to gather and query against, Keen.io should be able to help.

GATHER IT

whatever data you want, from whatever source you need

STORE IT

as much data as you'd like, forever and ever in the cloud

LEARN FROM IT

query it, visualize it, share it – transform data into knowledge


Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Backplane: DIY Social Network

Here is another DIY platform for building your own social network, similar to Ning, SocialGo, etc.


Wednesday, May 14, 2014

OwnedIt: Social Sharing Of Purchases

OwnedIt.com aims to turn your Order confirmation page as an opportunity for your customers to socially share the description of items they purchased, with the aim of getting their friends to purchase from you as well.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

ImgEmbed: Ethical Use of Images

Online images get ripped off all the time. Now with imgEmbed.com there's a solution.

Crated: End-to-End Marketplace for Photographers

Crated.com is a new marketplace for photographers to sell their photos and they take care of everything. Supposedly they have some new features that make it really stand out.

Review

Some other ones mentioned in the article are RedBubble.com and Society6.com

Thursday, May 08, 2014

Social Content From Any Source

Does your mobile app or website need to integrate social content from multiple sources, such as Instagram and Twitter, etc?

Use FeedMagnet and you'll be able to do the integration with one easy API, instead of having to learning many different APIs from each different social service.

Connect Any Cloud Storage

Are you working with any cloud-based storage such as DropBox and wish you could integrate even more data storage services?

Use Kloudless.com which provides one unified API that makes it easy to integrate a great number of cloud-based storage systems with one single API.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

HTML5 Fallbacks/Polyfills

This is the no bull-shit guide to HTML5 Fallbacks, maintained by the Github community.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Impressive Slider/Carousel

The best slider or carousel I have ever seen with the most effects. 

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

DIY Mobile App Templates

Want to build a mobile app and don't want to start from scratch? Why don't you buy the source code to what you have in mind and start modifying it.


Some source code sites:

Friday, January 03, 2014

Add Search To Your Site

It should be easy now to add searching capability to your website and make it mobile-friendly as well.