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.
Gingerice
Gingerice is a handy rubygem that checks and corrects spelling and grammar mistakes based on the context of complete sentences. It compares each sentence to billions of similar sentences from the web as you go, so it gets a fairly good idea of what you’re trying to say and offers suggestions based on that.
http://subosito.com/gingerice/
jQuery Annotated Source
This annotated source for jQuery attempts to minimize the challenge of reading through thousands of lines of code by listing comments side-by-side next to code.
https://github.com/robflaherty/jquery-annotated-source
Csscss
Csscss parses any CSS files you feed it and tells you which rulesets have duplicated declarations. It makes managing CSS files much easier by allowing you to reduce duplication and minimize code.
https://github.com/zmoazeni/csscss
Fivesecondtest
Getting market research can be expensive and time-consuming. Fivesecondtest offers a solution by allowing you to submit short questions about your brand, site, or copy, and then passing those questions on to people who have already signed up to take these short (5 second) tests. And by taking other people’s tests, you can earn credits to have them take yours.
Chrome Office Viewer
Chrome Office Viewer is a new Google Chrome Extension that is trying to make looking at MS Office docs a little easier for those who don’t have MS Office. Although it doesn’t allow you to edit those documents (yet), the Chrome Office Viewer extension is free, and lets you see Word and Excel docs, and Power Point presentations.
Qamine
Qamine is a free resource that analyzes your code and searches for other blocks of code similar to the block you just changed. Developers can push new code to their Github repository and then have Qamine analyze it and search for other, similar blocks of code in your repository and warns you when it finds any, so you know that those need to be changed as well.
Artificial Electric Skin
It seems like not a week goes by on this blog when we don’t mention robots at some point. Well, this week’s installation is about a recent invention by Georgia Tech: artificial electric skin that will allow robots (or prosthetic limbs) to actually feel the tactile sensations when they touch something.
Georgia Tech Artificial Electric Skin
Printable Food
Speaking of stuff we talk about all the time, here comes another round of 3D printer news. Cornell University has developed a way to use 3D printers to “print” (and bake) food – they expect that this sort of application could save time and money when it comes to manufacturing food, as well as in individual kitchens.
Printable Food
A little bit of something
This week, we’ll leave you with a creative, entertaining, irreverent portfolio site by web developer/designer Dan Morgan. The text is funny, the design is clean, and the overall sentiment is something we can really get behind.