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March 2016

GifGrabber - Simple software for animated gifs

GifGrabber is a free mac app that helps you make animated gifs.

January 2016

Smart Cropping for Video: A Tool for Displaying Video at Any Aspect Ratio | POV Films Blog | POV Blog | PBS

Since the beginning of cinema, film and video have been composed with a fixed frame — theatrical films are now often presented at 1.85:1, while television is broadcast at 16:9 for high-definition or 4:3 for standard definition. But today, video is likely to be seen on device with unusual aspect ratios or multiple aspect ratios when rotated or resized — some Android tablets are 8:5 (or 5:8), the iPhone is 3:2 (or 2:3), and desktop browser windows can be of any dimension.

Helium by JadenGeller

Helium is a floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work. Your content will never fall behind your other windows even as you switch tasks.

chroma.js

chroma.js is a tiny JavaScript library (12kB) for dealing with colors!

November 2015

September 2015

Snap.svg Animator

This is a Custom Platform Plugin for Flash CC exporting animated content to SVG using the Snap.svg javascript library to render content.

svg/svgo · GitHub

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SVG files, especially exported from various editors, usually contains a lot of redundant and useless information such as editor metadata, comments, hidden elements, default or non-optimal values and other stuff that can be safely removed or converted without affecting SVG rendering result.

July 2015

Semplice

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Semplice is the first fully responsive case study portfolio system based on WordPress. Built by designers, for designers.

Palette Gear: Hands-on Control of your Favourite Software

Build your own tactile controller — snap together sliders, dials and buttons to create a controller made to fit you.

Relay — Design Communication Synced with Slack

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Sketch Capture and share artboards with context. Send to your team without leaving the app.

June 2015

The Ultimate Guide To iPhone Resolutions

At the beginning, coordinates of all drawings are specified in Points are abstract units, they only make sense in this mathematical coordinate space

Sketch Toolbox - A super simple plugin manager for Sketch

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This is what it does for you: 1. Lets you browse the most popular plugins available for Sketch. 2. Downloads and installs new plugins with a single click. 3. Automatically keeps all those plugins up to date.

Specctr | Blueprints for the Web: extend Photoshop, and Illustrator

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Instantly annotate and measure right from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Fireworks. Now available in Creative Cloud.

May 2015

Sharelock

Sharelock.io is an OSS project that provides you with a simple and secure way to share secrets.

April 2015

SuperSlicr v2 | MightyMeta

This is an update to my Photoshop action that streamlines the process of exporting images for the web and iOS.

bbc.com web cookies report | WebCookies.info | 1317273

WebCookies.info provides free audit of web cookies used by a website. See how websites are tracking user activities using web cookies, obtain an easy to understand cookie usage summary and find out about compliance with new EU privacy law. No additional software installation is required.

March 2015

Online icon converter for png, ico, and icns - iConvertIcons

iConvert Icons converts and creates custom icons for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. More »

Build a Website — Squarespace

We believe that even the wildest ideas should come to life in a beautiful way. Find out how we collaborated with Jeff Bridges to present one of his.

Shrink Preview files without ruining image quality | Macworld

Savvy Preview users know they can do some interesting things to PDFs—convert them to black-and-white or sepia tone, increase or decrease their lightness, and more—by selecting File -> Export, then selecting one of the Quartz filters in the resulting dialog box. Reader zpjet is one of those users, but he was never satisfied with results of the Reduce File Size filter (which he'd use when trying to make PDFs small enough to send by e-mail): It made them too small and made the graphics fuzzy.

Astropad - Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

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YOUR IPAD AS A PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS TABLET Use the Mac creative tools you know & love, like Photoshop, with the touch experience of your iPad

February 2015

Ink: Responsive Email Templates

Each template is a single HTML email built using Ink. You can preview them and inspect the code to see how they were implemented, or download them and try making some changes. Each template already has Ink included in a style tag at the top of the file.

January 2015

Best practices in online captioning

In 2003–2004, I worked for the TILE project, a university research program in accessibility of “learning objects” in education that was funded by Industry Canada. My topic was “best practices in online captioning,” about which little has been written. I was hoping to have a few demonstration projects to show you, but then again, demonstration projects are pretty much all we've got in online captioning. I did write the following chapters.

Sous-titrage des vidéos: optimiser leur aspect pour améliorer l’expérience utilisateur | Qelios Expertise – Accessibilité Web

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Les référentiels d’accessibilité indiquent que les sous-titres synchronisés sont des éléments nécessaires à l’accessibilité des vidéos. Ce besoin concerne notamment les personnes en situation de déficience auditive, mais également les personnes ne maîtrisant pas la langue du contenu, ou ayant généralement une compréhension améliorée du contenu vidéo lorsqu’il est sous-titré.

December 2014

FF Subsetter - Optimize your Web FontFont

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Web FontFonts are built to serve most people’s needs, and often contain a huge number of glyphs. Yet most of the time you’ll only need a few of them! By dropping what you don’t need, you can greatly reduce the font file size to optimize bandwidth usage, make your websites faster, and reduce high-traffic costs.

| ChefSteps

There’s a reason that chefs and enthusiastic home cooks the world over are so smitten with Japanese knives. Lovingly crafted from the finest and most durable materials, these sexy, slender blades allow us to achieve perfectly sliced sashimi, delicate chiffonades, and meticulously diced vegetables. Today, even the most famous European knifemakers have mostly abandoned hand-forging, yet the Japanese continue to offer extraordinary made-from-scratch tools, along with innovative hybrids that combine sturdy, factory-created handles with remarkably slender, hand-forged blades. The upshot is an instrument of uncommon beauty and elegance that’s still relatively affordable. Here you’ll find 10 knives that we use, and love, in our own kitchens. Whether you’re looking for an efficient little utility blade to go all day in the kitchen or a long, elegant chef’s knife to up your chopping game, you can’t go wrong with this collection of superior tools.