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Fusion Radar: February 25, 2015

February 25th, 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.

Marketing with Ron Swanson

A guide to content marketing in the words of Ron Swanson from the TV show Parks and Recreation.

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Vim for Beginners

Learn how to use Vim, the popular and powerful text editor.

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Transit Routes Tackled

Transitmix is finally building a business out of helping city planners make smarter choices when configuring bus routes.

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When Exponential Progress Becomes Reality

It’s amazing to see how exponential growth is created just by the doubling of things.

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Easiest Database Ever

Gun DB is a NoDB (not a database), or a persisted distributed cache. Everything is cached in memory, and data is synced using any S3-like file store.

gundb.io

Brain Socket

BrainSocket is a Laravel package that makes it easy to set up real time apps with WebSockets.

brainsocket

An Introduction to Flux

An introduction to Facebook’s Flux architecture.

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Method Draw

A free vector drawing tool.

Method

A $3M Reward from the FBI

Help catch the man suspected of being the mastermind behind the GameOver Zeus botnet, which was used by cybercriminals to steal more than $100 million.

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Fusion Radar: February 18, 2015

February 18th, 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.

Dart

Dart is a new approach to making email more efficient.

Dart

Term Boy

Term Boy is a Game Boy emulator built for the Linux console.

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Amazon One Hour Delivery

Amazon is now offering one hour delivery service in Manhattan.

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Astropad

Use your iPad as a professional graphics tablet.

Astropad

RegExpBuilder

RegExpBuilder allows you to create regular expressions in a programming language by chaining methods together.

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Hamburger Menus

Some research suggests hamburger menus may have undesirable side effects.

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Our Creative Thinking

Most creative thinking is done in the car, shower and bed.  When we do manual repetitive tasks our minds go into autopilot mode, freeing our unconscious mind.

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Fusion Radar: February 12, 2015

February 12th, 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.

HelloBond

Cool printing service that creates hand written notes.

hellobond

Tesla’s New Battery

A new Tesla battery, coming out in 2 months, will have the ability to power your home using solar power.

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Flipboard for the Web

An article about Flipboard using canvas instead of the DOM for performance reasons.

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An Opinionated Git Prompt for Bash and Zsh

Adds a lot of useful information to your terminal when you’re inside a git repository.

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Kickoff Meeting Before Design

The kickoff phase sets the stage for the success of your product.

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How Not to Do Layoffs

A gaming company VP invites everyone to bowling and pizza and then, mid-party, thanks them for their hard work and hands out termination papers.

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Fusion Radar: February 4, 2015

February 5th, 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.

Telling Your Children How Much You Make

A very compelling article about being open about your finances with your kids so they get a better understanding about how it works before they become adults.

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Puma on Heroku

Using Puma rather than Unicorn on Heroku can help you avoid issues with slow client attacks.

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Laravel 5 is Released

It’s an exciting week for Laravel! Some of the new additions include Elixir and Scheduler.

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Scroll Slow. Have Fun.

Scroll slowly on this page to see some visual fun.

ScrollSlowHaveFun

Well-Behaved Sites

A bandwidth-conscious API that lets developers deactivate content on open tabs that aren’t being viewed.

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Drones Deliver Tea in China

Drones will begin a real world product delivery test beginning February 4. The drones will deliver tea to 450 people in less than hour.

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Fusion Radar: February 1, 2015

February 4th, 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.

Getting Started With Gulp

Gulp is a build tool (similar to Grunt or Brunch) for automating common tasks that we all dislike doing over and over again.

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Turbocharged Raspberry

A new iteration of Raspberry Pi just got released. It has 4 cores with 1GB of RAM and is supposed to be 6x faster than the previous version.

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Open Source More Code

5 more reasons your company should open more source code.

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Aha!

Aha! is road mapping software.

Aha!

Rbkit

Rbkit is a profiler for Ruby that currently supports memory profiling for Ruby applications.

Rbkit

How Much to Make an App

Get a rough idea of the cost of a mobile application using this handy tool.

App Price Estimator

FireFox Hello

Firefox Hello is a way to connect over video with anyone. It’s built into Firefox now and uses WebRTC to manage the video/voice call.

Mozilla

Movies for Designers

22 movies for designers in search of inspiration.

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Paper Proto

Paper prototyping is a quick, efficient way to quickly mock up your ideas.

PaperProto

My Fonts

View the My Fonts list of most popular typefaces of 2014.

MyFonts