Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Sanebox: Tame Your Inbox

Sanebox.com connects to your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts to prioritize your emails at Gmail, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, etc.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Icon Fonts

Icon Fonts are awesome. They are especially made for Retina Displays and look fantastic regardless of the zoom level. 

Monday, August 20, 2012

CSS Animations Done Right

Animations are not just done with javascript and jQuery any more. CSS3 is very good at it as well. This is the code you need to use for that.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Mobile Fixed Menus

On mobile devices it's difficult to implement fixed tabs or menus that do not scroll with the rest of the content, and to make it compatible across devices.

The elegant solution is to use iScroll 4

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Best Mac Editor

Best all around text editor IMHO, Coda 2

Mobile App Wireframing

Here are some cool services for doing wireframes for mobile apps.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Make Your Own Cartoons & Memes

Free tools for making your own comic strips and memes

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Responsinator

A ncie way to check how your website will look on tablets or phones.

Thursday, June 07, 2012

Web Tools

From time to time I've posted some tools for web developers that I've read about. Here is another list.

on{X} Microsoft Loves Android

Microsoft invented a service that can create notifications on your Android phone based on some triggers you set. It's all a bit blurry still but it could have significant impact.

Tango Card

Easy gift card rewards....I'm not sure how it all works yet, but definitely one service to keep an eye on. 

Friday, May 18, 2012

Fun E-Learning

There are lots of different approaches to the amorphous market of 'e-learning' but only a handful ever feel much like fun. I think amongst the best of these are sites like MangaHigh which teaches Math, or Moshi Monsters which has subtle learning tasks for kids.

Another which works well is Quipper

Monday, May 07, 2012

Steps For Learning a Foreign Language

Some useful steps for learning to be fluent in a foreign language

Steps for Making a Mobile App

Some useful steps for making your own mobile app.

How To Build An App Empire

UPDATE: Consider using Tiggzi.com from start to finish with cloud hosting and AppStore submission.

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Auto-Crop Your Photos

With Croppola.com you can upload your photos and have them intelligently cropped to some presets, like 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratios.

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Why Go Away To College?

With so many online initiatives to bring more college courses to the internet, is it really necessary to be physically present at a university? For some subject matter and degrees, perhaps not. Here is an initiative from Harvard and MIT to offer free online courses.


Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Real-time Neighborhood Trends

Want to know what's going on in your part of the world that's popular? It would be neat to gather this information from all the nearby Foursquare check-ins. Well that's what Livehoods.org is doing.

Review by The Verge

Monday, April 30, 2012

Marvia: Like Adsense For Print

Marvia.ads is like Adsense for all types of print publications. Read the review by TheNextWeb.

Marvia.ads provides a platform with which advertisers can create and place ads in all types of publications, removing the human cost of sales, design and traffic. All the publisher needs to do is add a button to its website and it can then receive submissions, without any technical integrations or setup.