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Jetstrap
Jetstrap is an online tool that developers and designers can use to rapidly build and launch prototype webpages. The interface is fairly lightweight, but it’s completely web-based, and allows you to drag and drop large sets of site components to customize your prototype.
Text-align: Justify and RWD
This is a handy trick that can save developers from having to calculate margins on sites they’re developing. Instead of measuring the size of the images, text, or menu items, then creating margins that will spread them all out equally, you can simply use “text-align:justify” to do that automatically. The site linked below has a demo and a more in-depth explanation.
Damn You Art School
This tongue-in-cheek site lists apps, tools, and other resources for creative professionals. It first divides the tools by occupation or interest (e.g. Architecture, Illustration, Fashion, etc.), and then further sorts them into categories like “color,” “time management,” “accounting,” “client communication,” and others.
ToS;DR
ToS;DR stands for “Terms of Service; Didn’t Read.” The people who run this site are trying to fix what’s been dubbed as the biggest lie on the Internet: “I have read and agree to the terms.” Legal professionals and other volunteers go through the terms of service of various popular websites, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Instagram, and point out the favorable or dangerous conditions in their user agreements.
Moolta
Moolta is a site that helps users raise money for a charity of their choice. First, users create a challenge – something silly like singing their fast food order, visiting a library in a Speedo, or eating a jar of mayonnaise. Then other site visitors can see their challenge and donate to their campaign. If they reach their monetary goal, they have to record themselves doing their challenge, and the money gets donated to charity.
Moolta
Project Dialect
We’ve previously showcased a map of American English Dialects, and Joshua Katz’s maps of dialect variations are equally interesting. He takes the minor differences in pronunciation (think the word ‘pecan’, or ‘aunt’) and word usage (soda, pop, or coke) and maps them all out.
Elevatr
Elevatr is an iOS app that helps users take ideas and turn them into viable businesses and products. It asks specific questions about your idea (e.g. who are your customers, what’s the market size, what’s your business model, etc.) and helps you organize all your thoughts so you end up with a marketable idea.
StereoMood
StereoMood is a site that takes user-generated tags and creates mood-based playlists. Anyone can tag any song, and the tags can be simple, like “happy,” or more complex, like “sunday morning” or “beach party.” Then when you go on the site, you can type in your mood and the site pulls up all the songs with that mood tag.
Melon
Melon is a headband and app combo that tracks and quantifies your focus. The headband itself has an EEG sensor that measures brain waves while you wear it. The app has users record the activity they’re engaged in, and then measures their focus as they go. It offers tips for increasing focus, and even has games you can play, just by focusing your mind on a task.
What Android has that iOS doesn’t
By some metrics, Apple is the dominant player in the phone market, but Android does have a few features that Apple’s OS either doesn’t do well or doesn’t have at all. Things like keyboard replacements, widgets, and cross-app functionality all offer a customizable experience for Android users. The article linked below goes into detail about the benefits of Android, and what we’ll probably see happening in iOS in the near future.