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.

Viaduct

Viaduct is an application hosting platform which claims that it offers everything developers need from a hosting platform. Although the beta hasn’t launched yet, if Viaduct works the way its creators claim, it will have the ability to mount shared directories across all deployments, deploy any applications from any platform, and configure “enterprise-ready” databases using MySQL, Redis, and other database systems. Viaduct

Cut&Slice Me

Cut&Slice Me is a free Photoshop plugin designers can use to export assets to different devices quickly and painlessly. Adobe Photoshop hasn’t really changed the way it exports for web since sites were table-based, so Cut&Slice Me aims to help users improve their workflow by speeding up the modern slicing process. Users name their layers appropriately, and Cut&Slice Me exports retina-display quality assets. Cut&Slice Me

Doing

Doing is a basic CLI tool that helps users keep track of what they’re working on and what they still have left to do for a project. Users add and list “doing” and “doing later” notes in a TaskPaper-formatted text file, then can type commands like “doing last” to see what they were last working on, or “doing today” to see everything they’ve been working on since midnight of the current day.
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Hopscotch

Hopscotch is an iOS app designed to help kids learn how to code using simple, intuitive building blocks. The app enables kids to create games, animations, and other programs in a colorful interface. Kids can also program their characters to move, draw, or collide by using shaking, tilting, or verbal commands to control them. Hopscotch

Brackets

Brackets is a slick-looking open source code editor designed specifically for web designers and front-end developers. This free code editor offers a number of useful features, including live HTML development, JS debugging with Theseus, and the ability to edit external styles and code without leaving the main document. Brackets

Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow

Time Magazine recently published the first in-depth interview ever conducted with Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive. Although the interview doesn’t reveal much about Apple’s future plans, it does offer interesting insights on Apple’s view of the world, its policies, and Ive’s personal memories of Steve Jobs. Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow

Android Wear

Google recently announced that it was developing Android Wear, a version of its OS designed specifically for wearable tech. The interface looks crisp and intuitive, and Android Wear will enable users to ask Google questions, view information and notifications, and synchronize with wearable sensors like accelerometers and heart rate monitors. Android Wear