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.
Do.com
The promise of more productive meetings is appealing, although we're not immediately sure how well Do.com delivers on that promise. And we're admittedly steering more toward the "meeting avoidance" solution here at Agency Fusion. We're impressed that they actually own "do.com", though. That couldn't have been cheap.
ComcastifyJS
Leave it to the folks at The Onion to develop a JS library that simulates slow loading times. Drop ComcastifyJS into your website to experience slow download speeds if you're feeling like your access speeds are a little faster than you'd like.
How the Internet Killed Profit
TechCrunch features an article by Tom Goodwin that is an interesting but weakly-supported post, especially from an economics point of view. Tom has some good observations but then discredits himself by making absurd claims like the Internet is "…destroying the very foundations of business." Still, it does have some redeeming value in reminding us that the trend is always toward a more efficient, cheaper solution. Differentiation becomes more and more critical as a category becomes more competitive.
Public Speaking Tips
Every other month at Agency Fusion we host a lecture series called 3Things. If you're in SLC and interested in attending, let us know. We invite 3 speakers to present for 20 minutes each. If we've invited you to present (or if you've got an upcoming presentation of your own) here are a few public speaking tips we recently came across.
Apple.com Update
Some things never eventually change. Apple.com has updated their main nav bar after at least 3-4 years. The new nav bar is flat, full-width, and anchored to the top of the viewport.
D3 Step by Step
Kent English wrote a step-by-step tutorial for getting started with D3, a great JavaScript library for creating visualizations. We're fans of D3.
App Icon Template
Use Michael Flarup's app icon template to help you create the various icon sizes you'll need for your next mobile app. People don't appreciate great app icons enough, by the way. It takes real skill to create them.
Velocity.js
jQuery's $.animate() just got one-upped. Take a look at Julian Shapiro's Velocity.js library which supports all of jQuery $.animate()'s features as well as color animations, SVGs, easing, and scrolling, all in about 9Kb.
Apple's New Font
The newly-announced Apple Watch sports a brand new font. Because of the small display size of the Apple Watch, a font designed specifically for these constraints helps to make text readable at such tiny sizes. Learn more about how and why the font was created.
Have I Been Pwned?
If you have an Adobe account, hopefully you know by now that your account was compromised last year. But what other accounts have been compromised? Enter your username or email address on this site to find out, then make sure you change those passwords.
DevDocs
DevDocs is a handy reference for web developers. Find information quickly on things like CSS pseudo-classes or HTTP status codes.