Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The 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 Objective.
Is your website optimized for mobile?
The mobile revolution isn’t over. Be ahead of the curve by not only building a mobile-friendly site, but also understanding consumers’ changing behavior and expectations. In short, you have to infuse your marketing strategy with a “mobile mindset.”
Mobile-Friendly Test
Use this test to see if your webpage is mobile friendly, as judged by Google. It also provides resources to help you improve your site if it is not.
The 4 Types of Productivity Styles
Interesting read on productivity styles, how to identify them and tools that can help each type.
How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
This is a six question test to see if you can tell the difference between 128kbps, 320kbps, and uncompressed audio.
Next Version of OS X
Apple announced their next version of OS X, to be called El Capitan. The new OS includes, among other things, pinned tabs in Safari (finally).
Renewable, Clean, Cheap Energy
These giant kites use the jet stream winds up to 3,300 feet in the air to produce 3 times more power than a wind turbine.
SaaS Analytics for Stripe
Baremetrics is an analytics program that provides valuable metrics for your stripe account.
GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
GitTorrent allows you to host git repositories via BitTorrent, so there isn’t a single server that everyone downloads from. The author also proposes using the BitCoin blockchain to keep track of which user claimed a username first, so your git repository can be associated with a username without having a centralized site to keep track of everyone’s logins.