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Learn to code now();

Tommy — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:09:07 +0000

Promised too much this new years eve? Well, you could live up to some of ‘em… like learning JavaScript. This cool place called Codecademy, allows you to learn in a simple and natural way. You get all your exercises right in the browser, you code them there and get feedback directly from your tutor.

www.codecademy.com

impress.js

Tommy — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:51:03 +0000

Make your presentations more interresting and less yawn-ified, with impress.js! With more movement than a rollercoaster, every head should stay sharp til your punch line.

http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored

Gradient App

Tommy — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:27:44 +0000

Looks sweet, grab colors directly from your design, create gradients and get the output as CSS, paste ‘em into your stylesheet. Pretty much like that.

www.gradientapp.com

Where the fuck should I go for drinks?

Tommy — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:47:01 +0000

Geo used in the right way… go grabz yourzelfz a coldz beerz. All that remains is… where the fuck should I go for drinks?

Payments for developers

Tommy — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:46:04 +0000

Haven’t tried this service yet myself, but it sure looks promising…

OMG WTF BBQ?
Stripe let you build your own payment form on your website. All the sensitive stuff are being handled on their servers. From what I’ve read, all you need is a secure connection (SSL) on your site to get started. So ask your hosting about this if you don’t already know.

Stripe stores your cards, handles subscriptions and ca$h flow to your bank account.

Pricing
There are no setup fees, no card storage fees and no hidden fees. It costs you 2,9% + 30 cents / successful charge and you’ll have your money on your bank account in about 7 days.

You Guys Should Lunch

Tommy — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:06:17 +0000

Last week we launched a tool for all you lunch eating, busy peeps. No, not on Facebook, we launched it on Linkedin.

We made it possible for you to suggest two of your connections, that you really think should meet over a lunch.

‘Cause seriously, it all starts with a lunch.

Our Awesome Team
Jonas Larsson - project manager
Stefan Ronge, Deportivo – creative director
Hampus Högberg, Deportivo – designer
Fredrik Davidsson, Teknograd – backend developer
Tommy Skott, Teknograd – frontend developer
Per Sandström, Kollegorna – frontend developer
Per Torberger, One Man Show – copywriter
Mattias Åkerberg, Please Copy Me – copywriter
Jeanette Fors-Andrée, Krisinstitutet – communication strategist
Malin Ströman, SVT – digital strategist
Micco Grönholm, Pyramid – brand strategist
Åsa Wallenrud, writer (one of the editors of Lilla Gumman) – planner

In English
http://www.youguysshouldlunch.com/

In Swedish
http://www.lunchaihop.se/

Don’t fear the internet

Tommy — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:34:43 +0000

Ever wanted to create your own website? Well, here’s your chance.

When building a website there are some things you should know. Almost every website is built with HTML & CSS, you use HTML to markup all the elements and CSS to style them, such as text color and position.

This website explains how it works.

Assistly – Customer support made easy

Tommy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:12:16 +0000

A service for your business, to help you with customer support, through all channels. It’s all integrated in one place, Facebook, Twitter, Phone calls and e-mail. So no need to switch between multiple apps/sites. It’s all there, 24/7.

“Fifty percent of Internet users visit a social network every day, and many look for customer support there. Assistly helps you monitor the customer experience on social networks and solve problems where customers live and play.”

More here.

Those creative skaters!

Tommy — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:17:51 +0000

ALIS in Copenhagen were fed up with all the posters from this year’s election covering lamp posts, trees, bridges… But skaters don’t bother, they only want more skateparks. So they decided to do something about it, something creative………

Photos from ALIS.

Behind the scenes

Eightbit.me

Tommy — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:20:11 +0000

Cool 8bit character builder. Build and share your profile, use your new 8bit character as your Twitter avatar.

Try it.

Samuel L. Ipsum

Tommy — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:33:54 +0000

Another one of those good Lorem Ipsum generators. Here’s some options you get:

HOW MANY FUCKING PARAGRAPHS?

WANT A MOTHERFUCKING HEADER TAG?

ADD SOME FUCKING BITCHASS P TAGS?

Try it today.

LayerVault, like GitHub for designers.

Tommy — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:35:24 +0000

“Developers have CVS, SVN, Git and all kinds of other version control systems. Designers, on the other hand, have strange naming conventions. They have their own systems for storing file versions and backups. That’s now ancient history.” More here.

StickyGram – your Instagrams as magnets

Tommy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:42:08 +0000

More here.

Swagger – API Explorer

Tommy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:20:03 +0000

A tool to keep your API documentation tidy, updated and easy to explore. “Swagger happily speaks both JSON and XML, with additional formats in the works.” Here’s an example to play with.

Snipt.org

Tommy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:06:34 +0000

Useful snippet tool for sharing, storing and searching snippets. More here.
And if you like to, check out my awesome list of snippets.

Delivery status 5.5

Tommy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:51:26 +0000

This looks very cool, an desktop, ipad, ipod touch and iphone app to track down your soon-to-arrive-packages! Many delivery services are supported: DHL, Posten (swe, den, nor), UPS, TNT and many more.

“Don’t waste your time checking the site constantly, just open this all-in-one delivery tracker and enter your order number or tracking number. The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days! It also works with Growl to give you pop-up messages, email notifications, and more, whenever your package status changes. Our new all-in-one design lets you track all your packages in one place, and our greatly improved syncing service makes things easier than ever.”

More here.

Übersome!

Tommy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:47:10 +0000

Another pic from AppStore, ELLE trend App Of The Week.

Wow!!!!

Tommy — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:05:37 +0000

ELLE trend is App Of The Week! Hooray!

Good news!

Tommy — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:37:43 +0000

ELLE trend has reached the “New and Noteworthy” section in App Store.

ELLE trend

Tommy — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:30:59 +0000

Teknograd and Deportivo just launched ELLE trend in App Store. This app brings fashion right to your iPhone. You can snap pics of nice outfits and accessories, browse trends by tag (e.g. black, belt, Converse, Gucci or red) or by Geo position on a map (trends and offers near you). Follow your friends and ELLE’s Fashion Team to find out what’s hot right now.

You can like trends and share them directly to Twitter or Facebook. There’s no annoying register page to get started, just sign in with your Facebook account and your ready to roll, avatar and info will be downloaded to your profile auto-magically. Have fun, you fashionistas! Your look. Your friends. All trends.

Pssssst!
Free for a limited period…

UPDATE – 2011 08 19
ELLE trend has reached the “New and Noteworthy” section in App Store.

UPDATE – 2011 08 28
ELLE trend is App Of The Week in AppStore! Über!!!