Watch the Throne

 

Raise the Bar General web AnyBar [github/tonsky] is a customizable button you can put on your Mac’s menubar and make change color in response to some activity (which is up to you). GitSavvy [github/divmain] is a Sublime Text 3 plugin offering a bunch of advanced Git features. And gg [github/qw3rtman] has a bunch of shortcuts for commonly-used Git commands. Your Move Design UX Archive is a great place to look at examples of great UX in the wild, and now it’s animated [uxarchive]. ai2html [ai2html] is an Adobe Illustrator script to convert its documents to HTML and CSS. Major Drag SitePoint Today we had a great article from Ruby editor Glenn Goodrich about at making a leaderboard in Rails. Then we have a look at using Revisr to bring Git to WordPress. And then there’s this piece on how to extend HTML5’s drag and drop API to handle multiple items and add accessibility features. Watch the Throne News/business No prizes for guessing what the tech world has been buzzing about for the last day. Of course, it was the big news from Apple’s big Spring event, where the company shocked the world with the crazy, insane, revolutionary announcement that it would be dropping the price of an Apple TV to US $69 [arstechnica]. There was also mention of some watch thing and a tiny, nearly portless Macbook [theverge], but we’re pretty sure the Apple TV price drop is what everyone will be talking about for weeks to come. Exhilarating stuff. Apple really care about this whole watch thing, so much so that, once updated to the latest version of iOS, your iPhone will remind you that it’s time to buy one [arstechnica]. Once you’ve finished listening to that U2 album they plonked on your phone last year, of course. If you’re a rich person who is thinking about buying a $10,000 Apple Watch, you could do better, according to this article on the Verge [theverge]. Could do better in terms of watches, that is. If you have 10 grand to blow on a watch, it sounds like you’re doing just fine, in general. (Cheers Jude!) Today in sad news: Gigaom is shutting down due to a lack of funds [thenextweb]. The Room Off-topic Unindexed was a social network that only lasted as long as it took for Google to index it [motherboard] — 22 days, as it happens. It’s refreshing to see a product die quickly on purpose. Roomchat [roomchat] lets you create chatrooms on the fly. And finally, Facemoji [facemoji] puts emoji on your face so you no longer need to emote on your own. That's it for us, we'll be spending the rest of the day looking at which Apple Watch we'll buy second-hand next year when the newer ones arrive.