OpenDNS > Support > CacheCheck OpenDNS has huge caches, which is one reason OpenDNS makes your Internet experience faster. With CacheCheck, you can check what OpenDNS customers see when they request a domain. If there’s something amiss, you may refresh OpenDNS’s cache for that domain.
A programmer takes between 10-15 minutes to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption. When interrupted during an edit of a method, only 10% of times did a programmer resume work in less than a minute. A programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day (via Programmer Interrupted )
Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 19 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek (…) They call their series Exactitudes : a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity....
This tool was born from the daily toil of finding sample avatars for UI mockups (via User Inter Faces )
Visualizing CAMediaTiming To show the different timing related properties, both on their own and in combination, I’m animating a color from orange to blue. The block shows the progress of the animation from start to finish (orange to blue) and the ticks on the timeline are one second apart. (via Controlling Animation Timing )
Heap – Capture Everything Analytics for web and iOS Heap automatically captures every user action in your app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.
Intercom | Communicate personally with every single customer Activate and retain more customers. Intercom combines marketing automation, CRM, and support in one simple app, making it remarkably easy to communicate with your customers at every stage of the funnnel.
Ravi Parikh’s Website Wonderful visualisations made by Ravi Parikh.
Size Calculator Nick Sherman demo’d Size Calculator , a web application created to bring screen design a capability that print design has enjoyed for 500 years. (via Web Type, Meet Size Calculator ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post )
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