#tools (841 links)
- High Performance Web Sites :: SpriteMe makes spriting easy stevesouders.com
The bigger challenges when creating sprites are finding the background images and knowing how to group them into sprites. Once the sprite image is created, testing the sprite, including changing all the CSS, is time consuming. SpriteMe addresses all of these challenges.
- Visor for OSX visor.binaryage.com
A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key
- Kin Blog: Getting started with Bluetooth kin-design.com
A quick bit of documentation on making a Bluetooth device that can respond to your computer. In this example a Processing sketch will blink the LED of the Arduino. It requires basic knowledge of soldering, Arduino and Processing.
- Moodstream™ by Getty Images moodstream.gettyimages.com
Interactive event calendar and personal agenda builder for conferences and festivals.
- s4ve.as "file sharing made easy" s4ve.as
Upload any file of any size for free and get back a link good for 24 hours
- Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool google.com
Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results.
- NEVERFEAR - Simpletons guide to git neverfear.org
"This is simply a "click these buttons" guide to git."
- fivesecondtest fivesecondtest.com
A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.
- Image Spark imgspark.com
Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work
- Make Photoshop Faster makephotoshopfaster.com
- Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator ajaxload.info
But does it do clockwise *and* anti-clockwise loaders? Clients can be funny.
- Online javascript beautifier jsbeautifier.org
"This beautifier can process your messy or compacted javascript, making it all neatly and consistently formatted and readable." Handy for making sense of minified scripts.
- Treejack optimalworkshop.com
A Treejack survey will show you the parts of your IA that work well, and the bits that need more work. Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.
Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.
- Bitten bitten.edgewall.org
Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Optimize your crawling & indexing googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Some handy tips, not all 100% obvious. Like the phrase "infinite crawl space".
- Buildbot buildbot.net
A system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. The guilty developer can be identified and harassed without human intervention.
Under 5 minutes? WOW!
"Well, they suck." Yes, they do.
- jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web flowplayer.org
"What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, high usability, striking visual effects and all those "web 2.0" goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites." Or perhaps, "what you always get asked to provide, whether you like it or not".
- Free Online Barcode Generator terryburton.co.uk
Probably the world's most sophisticated free web-based online barcode generator, based on Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript.
- Django in the Real World jacobian.org
There’s plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that’ll help you write a site using Django… but then what? You’ve still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught. This tutorial examines how best to cope when the Real World intrudes on your carefully designed website.
- Festival cstr.ed.ac.uk
Offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced.
- feedly: a magazine-like start page feedly.com
feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page. based on Google Reader and Twitter.
- jQuery slideViewer 1.1 gcmingati.net
Nicely done. "slideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin wich allows to instantly create an image gallery by writing just few lines of HTML such as an unordered list of images".
- Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects) - UCSB English Department Knowledge Base wiki.english.ucsb.edu
""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."
- Hack Day tools for non-developers simonwillison.net
For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite. Here’s the list so far.
- CSS Prism by Ryan Berg cssprism.com
Enter the URL of any CSS file to view and modify its color spectrum
- Fabric — Fabric v0.9 beta 1 documentation docs.fabfile.org
A Python library and command-line tool designed to streamline deploying applications or performing system administration tasks via the SSH protocol. It provides tools for running arbitrary shell commands (either as a normal login user, or via sudo), uploading and downloading files, and so forth.
- web-optimizator - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
Does about a billion things to optimize sites. Tempting but not sure how much I'd trust this; feels like a sledgehammer option.
- Flexibits | Cameras flexibits.com
In addition to launching a specific application when you connect a camera, you can also have your images download automatically. Never again spend time launching the right app or quitting apps that you didn't want to launch.
- WebHome < Main < Reprap reprap.org
"Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself." Want.
#design #tools #hacks #technology #hardware #prototyping #diy #electronics #engineering#fabrication#reprap Twitter is becoming an ever present backchannel at conferences and events. However sometimes it needs curating and moderating, especially if it's to be displayed large as a part of the event. Here we talk about an app built in a few hours and open sourced today which we used for this purpose for The Guardian's Activate Summit.
- CoRD: Remote Desktop for Mac OS X cord.sourceforge.net
A Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.
- Meeting Ticker tobytripp.github.com
Beautiful. Need an iPhone version.
- The Typography Manual - For the iPhone and iPod Touch typographyapp.com
The Typography Manual has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60 page book. It has all the essentials of a desk reference in a regularly updated pocket resource.
- Timeline - Version control for designers - PixelNovel pixelnovel.com
Allows you to always see the file's history and save file versions and get file versions without switching from the main Photoshop window.
- qlcolorcode - Google Code code.google.com
The Quick Look plugin that handles source code in Leopard is, well, boring. We developers expect syntax highlighting these days! Thanks to WebKit, Highlight, and the foresight of the Quick Look API designers, however, this is easy to achieve. Just drop this plugin into /Library/QuickLook or ~/Library/QuickLook and bask in the glow of the beautiful syntax highlighting!
- NETLab Toolkit - NETLab newecologyofthings.wik.is
"Free set of software tools that enable designers to easily "sketch in hardware". With no programming at all and working in the familiar environment of Flash, designers can hook up a physical sensor (e.g. a knob) and immediately get that knob to control a motor or a video projection. The toolkit works with a wide range of sensors, wireless sensors, input from the Wii Remote, controls motors and LEDs, communicates with MIDI devices, controls sound, graphics, and video in Flash, and communicates with DMX computer controlled lighting equipment, all with a simple drag-and-drop interface (of course, programming hooks are provided as well)."
- rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn't hurt the internet revcanonical.appspot.com
RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative.
- ShiftSpace | An open source layer above any webpage shiftspace.org
An open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.
- Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions marinetraffic.com
Hubba-hubba.
- iPhone application - Summer Exhibition - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts royalacademy.org.uk
"Gain a unique insight into the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition this year with the Academy’s first official iPhone Application." £2.99, mind.