Rulers for everyone

Rulers for everyone

19 Jul. 2008

Omnidea put up a new neat little app called Rulers. An extremely helpful application for graphic and web designers. And the best it’s free. 

Shortly after you start Rulers the first time, a horizontal and vertical ruler comes up as an overlay on your desktop together with a little HUD and the current cursor turns into a hair cross. The informations update as you move the hair cross around your desktop. In the app’s preferences you can change options like rulerbackground color, opacity of the rulers and so on. 

The only downside here is the hair cross. As it changes the pointer permanently as long as the app is running, I need to get used to it.

This utility is available for Windows and Macintosh.

Source: TUAW

iPhone SDK for Web Developers

7 Mar. 2008

Yes, you read it right. The iPhone SDK ist not just for Developers who want to develop native iPhone applications. It’s also for Web Developers who want to take the capabilities of the SDK to write code for their web apps. Apple did a fine work here enhancing Dashcode, the Environment for programming Dashboard Widgets on Mac OS X, with a new feature to directly build your web apps in Dashcode. In Conjunction with the iPhone Simulator you now can, preview, debug, optimize and build your web applications all in Dashcode. Apple also put online an introduction video into iTunes (note: you must have an ADC membership account) which describes new technologies like advanced JavaScript functions, native SVG support, CSS effects, offline data support, full screen mode and gesture events.

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