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Fusion Radar: January 26, 2015

January 26th, 2015 - by Danielle - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Agency Fusion.

The Mom Test

A great read on how to talk to customers and know if your business is a good idea.

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9 Principles of Web Design

Even if you’re not a designer or a developer, it’s good to understand these 9 basic principles of responsive web design.

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Shaking up the Garbage Industry

Rubicon uses a software program and incentives to businesses to keep recyclable garbage out of landfills.

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Updates for Google Translate

The updated Google Translate App will allow users to speak, type, or photograph words they wish to translate.

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Kimono Labs

Kimono is a service that lets you turn a website into a structured API using an interface.

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Non-Skier Guide to Ski Towns

A guide to ski towns for non-skiers. Utah destinations dominate 1/3 of the article.

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Connect. Compute. It’s That Simple

The compute stick transforms any HDMI display into a fully functional computer.

Intel Compute Stick

Cheetyr

A handy collection of cheatsheets and shortcuts to speed up the work of designers and developers.

Cheetyr

Unleash Your Inner Musician

Your smartphone can now do everything from tune your guitar to store music sheets.

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100 Years of Computer Science

See how computer science has evolved and progressed over the past 100 years.

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Fusion Radar: January 15, 2015

January 15th, 2015 - by Danielle - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Agency Fusion.

If You’re Not Failing, You’re Not Growing

Good read on the paradoxical relationship between failure and growth. 

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Caniuse.com

This site shows browser support for tons of newer browser features, including JS API features, HTML5, and CSS.

Can I Use

How Learning to Code Kept Me Sane

A good example of someone with very little skill in programming making their job less tedious through automating some of it.

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3 Common Misconceptions About the Conversion Rate

Conversion is tricky. If you’re selling online, there are many things you should be doing before you start creating A/B tests.

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The Reactive Manifesto

A manifesto of creating software that is responsive, resilient, elastic, and message driven.

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Jank Free

Tools and resources for making jank-free sites and applications.

Jank Free

Instant Terminal Sharing

Tmate.io is a fork of tmux and tmate that can coexist in the same system without conflicting with each other.

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An Opinionated Style Guide for Writing Sass

A good list of coding style rules for Sass. Most are specific to Sass (not regular CSS).

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Design Meltdown

A lovingly-curated gallery of interactive design.

Design Meltdown

Timeetc.com

Outsource your task list to a virtual assistant with timeetc.com

Time Etc