You Name It

Home Run General web HAP-NodeJS [gitube/khaost] brings Apple’s HomeKit and Node.js together. node-webkit is now named NW.js [github/nwjs], is still an app runtime based on Chromium and Node. This is a repo with a massive list of resources for all sorts of programming languages and concepts [github/narkoz]. In the Mood Design UXcheck [uxcheck] is a Chrome plugin that checks out any site’s UX based on Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics [nngroup]. You can now use Pixate for free [blog.pixate]! Markly [marklyapp] is an app to make creating design specs simple and visual. You’ve heard of mood boards [sitepoint], but how about mood lines [zevendesign]? No Dice SitePoint First up on SitePoint, we have a great piece on how saying no to clients could be the best thing for your relationship. Then we take a look at Myth, which could be the CSS preprocessor of the future? And then we look into Paymo, project management software that can remove the pain from invoicing, time-tracking and more. News/business Here are some suggestions for naming your product [medium/tomcavill]. These will also work equally well for naming your child. Also, try dropping “The”, it’s cleaner. Google’s translation app is now stupidly powerful [googletranslate], with a “word lens” that can translate signs on the fly. Meanwhile, Facebook has come up with a way for you to avoid getting in trouble for using Facebook at work: Create a special Facebook for work [arstechnica]. They’re really thinking outside the box there. A look at why dark fibre matters so much to the future of the internet [medium/backchannel]. Also important: regular fibre, but let's not go into that. It’s worth checking out this post on Genius, which aims to annotate the internet [gigaom]. Apparently the Bitcoin blockchain could power an alternative internet [medium/backchannel]. Warning: this article features the term “blockchainiacs”. By Hand Off-topic Why not use an old Nintendo Power Glove to control stop motion animation [thisiscolossal]? Seems like a no-brainer really. This is apparently a very hard math game [piatagame], although so is any math game, really. This is an incredible story of how 3D visualization and 3D printing tech allowed a man to find and help remove a misdiagnosed tumor in his wife’s brain [makezine]. Google now has an app to enable remote desktop features via Chrome [itunes]. Finally, a Hollywood studio wanted to make sure its hacker film Blackhat was legit, so they set up a special preview for hackers [fusion]. They should really use a similar strategy for the next Star Wars film. That is all from us for today. We're available for consultation for any upcoming films about creating daily newsletters. Perhaps an overexposed genre, though.