The Industry

About Got News?
Screen Shot 2012-05-18 at 22.53.55

Snipt – Long term memory for coders

Where do you store your code snippets? If the answer is "in your head," you're in major need of an overhaul. If the answer is "within an app," how do you share your knowledge with other folks? A big copy and paste mess? Want to keep some snippets private, too? I understand. Nick Sergeant created Snipt way back in 2008, to solve the problem of storing code snippets ...
By: No Comments
Icon@2x

Invy for iPhone – The easiest way to organize an event

When was the last time you tried to organise a gathering of some sort with your friends or family? Did the organisation of this event involve tons of email, phone calls, post-it notes and logistical headaches? If so, you’re not alone. The pain of organising events led small iOS app developing studio Bread and Pepper to build Invy for iPhone. Invy is the best way to ...
By: No Comments
rubymotion

RubyMotion – Unlock the power of Ruby for iOS

RubyMotion is a new way to write iOS apps completely in Ruby taking advantage of both the native Objective-C frameworks and Ruby Gems. RubyMotion apps are built via the command line with a motion command, and built with Ruby's build tool Rake. Apps can be built for testing, Ad-Hoc distribution, or the App Store. RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS. I...
By: No Comments
Screen Shot 2012-05-18 at 01.02.39

The Toolbox – all the useful utilities you need, in one place

Enjoy our post last week, CSS Arrow, please, detailing the great online tool to help create CSS arrows? Well, Sacha Greif did. In fact, he enjoyed the post so much, it compelled him to create Toolbox - a collection of the best time-saving apps, tools, and widgets from around the web. It's the place to go to browse for single-purpose utilities which will save you ...
By: No Comments
lightroominstagram-featured

Instagram Filters for Adobe Lightroom

Instagram has grown to its current level of popularity for a few reasons. Undeniably one of those is the ability to make mundane photos look really cool, really quickly. This is done through applying one of Instagram’s 17 filters to any of the photos you’ve taken. Wouldn't it be great to be able to easily use those filters on the photos you have stored on your com...
By: No Comments
paymesh-featured

Paymesh: Instant Payments with the Privacy of Cash

You go out to dinner with some friends one evening, and instead of asking the waiter to split up the check seven ways, one of your pals picks up the check and you all agree to pay him back later. I essentially avoid carrying cash and rarely have more than $20 on me at any given time so paying that person back can be a real pain. Ninut, a software engineering lab, m...
By: No Comments
Organized Wonder

Organized Wonder – discover great content

Organized Wonder is a socially-curated list of "talks, documentaries, interviews, short films and various other videos scattered across the web." Launched by design wunderkind Sawyer Hollenshead just a few days ago (right before finals week, no less), the site has already amassed links to a wide variety of videos that enlighten, edify, and inspire. Let's face i...
By: No Comments
The Medium is the Message

The Medium is the Message

"The medium is the message." The way we think about a message is influenced more by the medium through which it is delivered than it is by the message itself. Consider a passage of scripture: Read from an old Bible with a well-worn leather cover, it conveys a sense of solemnity and gravitas. Delivered by an over-the-top televangelist immediately after a commercial ...
By: No Comments
facebooklightbox-featured

Facebook Acquires Lightbox

Facebook has made a move or two recently that you may have heard about, and while this one isn’t quite to the scale of the last, it is nonetheless an interesting acquisition for the social giant. Today, Lightbox announced they will becoming part of the Facebook team. Co-founders Thai Tran and Nilesh Patel started Lightbox to focus on building Android and HTML5 pl...
By: 2 Comments
IndustryDesigningHow-Featured

Design Your How: Huddle, then Review

In my experience, the hardest part about working as a team is making sure that everybody has the information they need to do their jobs well. It's a balancing act on the part of the the designers, production artists, programmers, and project managers of any team, to ensure that everybody has the information they need — but not so much (or so little) information that...
By: 1 Comment
Next Page »