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Ratchet
Ratchet is a UI framework designed to help you quickly and easily create mobile apps using only HTML‚ CSS‚ and JS components. It supplies its users with pre-built UI components, including box-sizing, flexbox layout, and gradients. To get started, you create a container div in your HTML, throw in a few items with preset classes, and start customizing.
GluePrint
GluePrint is an app that enables you to turn any mockup into a floating guide, which in turn lets you drag your guide across another image and visually align pixels with ease. You can also use the arrow keys to make small placement adjustments, and use scroll to adjust the transparency of your guide.
Recordit
Recordit is a free Mac app that lets you record screencasts. Before you begin, the app has you drag to select the area on your computer that you want to record. Once you’ve finished, the app generates a URL that links to a video of your screencast. You can also generate a .gif file if you want to share your screencast that way instead.
Flag
Flag is a phone and tablet app that prints and mails your photos to you for free. By placing ads on the back of the photos they print, Flag is able to offer its users 20 free prints a month; however, users can also pay a small fee to have the ads removed, or pay extra if they want more than 20 of their photos printed per month.
Atom
Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable text editor created by the owners of GitHub. Described as the “text editor [they’ve] always wanted,” Atom is an easy-to-use desktop app with a web-based core; this core includes Node.js integration, modular design, and the ability to add major features with HTML and JS.
Beta List
Beta List is a site that focuses on and showcases early-stage internet startups. The site describes and reports on these startups and offers early access to many of them. Some of its past spotlights have included sites like about.me, IFTTT, and Fab.
A Collection of Cool Unix Tools
Kristof Kovacs, a software architect and consultant, has put together a list of 28 useful but obscure tools for the command line. If you check out his article, you can see tricks like slurm, which visualizes network interface traffic over time; ttyrec & ipbt, which records and plays back terminal sessions; and tpp, a PowerPoint-style presentation tool for terminal.
A Collection of Cool Unix Tools
Cortana
The web is abuzz with rumors of Cortana, Microsoft’s upcoming personal digital assistant designed to rival Siri and Google Now. The software is slated to appear in the new Windows Phone 8.1 update, which is rumored to be released in July or August of this year. Some critics think that Microsoft is too late to the game to bring anything innovative; other, more hopeful techies think that Cortana could be the perfect combination of Siri’s personality and Google Now’s functionality.
Density
Density is built to measure the foot traffic to and from your business. The device is a small sensor that counts the number of customers, measures the length of their visits, and then syncs with the Density app to provide you with data and analytics. Density also includes a network, where you can share data with businesses nearby that also use Density.
Oscar Night Twitter Activity
Twitter’s data team created this animated map by pulling all tweets with the hashtag #Oscar2014 that were sent during the show and compiling them using Cartobd’s geospatial data mapping tool. The animation, which lasts about 50 seconds, is especially active at the 22:00 mark, which is about when Ellen DeGeneres tweeted her record-breaking celebrity selfie.