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(via The Apollo Planner – The Planner ) Introducing the Apollo Planner, a beautifully simple daily planner that delivers powerful productivity and real results.

iosdevtips : There are a lot of Xcode plugins to augment the IDE with additional features, conveniences etc., but it is a pain to discover and install such plugins. Alcatraz is a really great package manager that makes it a breeze to install Xcode plugins. Here’s how it looks: In Alcatraz, you’ll find plugins, color schemes and templates for code fragments. You can install it by visiting alcatraz.io. Here are some of the best Xcode plugins available in Alcatraz to boost your productivity:...

Cloud services for developers, hosted developer tools, software development tools and services | Leanstack The software development landscape is shifting rapidly, and Leanstack is helping developers make sense of it all. Hundreds of thousands of developers have already discovered new tools to improve their products and workflows through Leanstack.

Compare and contrast different design artefacts (sketch, wireframe, mockup, and prototype) in terms of their fidelity, speed, cost and use cases.

Spritz : First, your eyes do not have to move from word to word or around the page that you’re reading. In fact, there’s no longer a page – with Spritz you only need 13 total characters to show all of your content. Fast streaming of text is easier and more comfortable for the reader, especially when reading areas become smaller. (via This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily )

Favicon Generator – Generate favicon pictures and HTML Generate the favicon pictures and HTML code that work on all major browsers and platforms.

Convert Photoshop Drop Shadows to CSS3 Box and Text Shadows This tool creates CSS3 Box Shadows based off of Photoshop Drop Shadow settings. After stumbling upon the Recreating Photoshop Drop Shadows in CSS3 and Compass article by Grady Kuhnline, I wanted to build a tool that would allow the rest of us not using Compass to have the same ability to convert for CSS3.

Starter’s Guide to iOS Design In this guide I’ll describe the deliverables you’ll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of the medium and introduce fundamental iOS and UI design concepts .

The ultimate analytics platform. Send your data to any service with the flick of a switch. (via Segment.io – The ultimate analytics platform ) “It is basically the adapter pattern for analytics services.” (thoughtbot’s playbook )

Spirit for Twitter Set your Tweets to disappear with a simple hashtag. “pic.twitter.com/69wl #30m " “In town all day today. #8h " “Code SPRT1 valid for next #7d " Snapchat-style messages for Twitter 🙂