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Fusion Radar: June 26th 2012

July 2nd, 2012 - by brittany - Salt Lake City, Utah

Mozilla Thimble

Mozilla Thimble is a simple way to become a builder of the web. Sure there are countless options for learning web development, but do any of those services offer quick hosting and sharing capabilities? Thimble does. Learn to write and edit HTML and CSS while building your own real, functional web pages.

Popcorn.js

Popcorn.js is “an HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript” that allows you to create interactive video experiences on web pages. By utilizing the native HTMLMediaElement properties, methods and events, Popcorn allows you to focus on writing code and not developing a new framework.

Dust-Me Selectors

Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox add-on that scans HTML pages to find unused CSS selectors. It does this by extracting all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzing the page to see which of those selectors are not used. The tool also stores the  data separately for each site, so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors can be crossed off the list as they are encountered. The tool allows you to test pages individually, as explained above, or spider an entire site.

Localtunnel

Localtunnel is a RubyGem that allows you to quickly expose your local web server to the Internet.

Orbital Angular Momentum

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is an operator in quantum mechanics that deals with spiral or vortex waves. It has recently become applicable to the non-quantum mechanics of the world because it is proposed that by using a spiral/vortex radio wave, higher-bandwidth Internet connections could be a real possibility.

Flipping typical

Flipping Typical is “a way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer.”

IFTTT

You can now use IFTTT to control home electronics from anywhere by using Belkin’s WeMo devices. You can turn them on or off, put them on a schedule, or trigger them with motion.