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The Radar: July 1, 2015

July 1st, 2015 - by Julie Hale - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The 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 Objective.

The Great Suspender

This is a Chrome extension that automatically puts unused tabs to sleep, freeing up memory and other system resources.

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Touchable Laser Images

A Japanese company called Aerial Burton has developed a laser system that displays images in midair that you can touch. The creators expect to use the new system to build bright, interactive signage and even emergency signs that can display easily visible animated warnings in emergency situations.

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Own-Mailbox

Check out this upcoming Kickstarter campaign for a personal email server that you run in your house, with all necessary software already installed.

Own-Mailbox

New Input Form Designs

This shows some really cool form and input field designs that will help you WOW your customers.

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The 10-Minute Marketing MBA

Learn some business school basics without breaking the bank.

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Create a Content Compass

Read this excerpt from Meghan Casey’s new book, The Content Strategy Toolkit that provides some interesting ideas on how to wrangle and guide a content-heavy project.

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Atom 1.0

Atom 1.0 has been released. Atom is a desktop editor based on web-technologies.

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