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iStat Mini – Bjango Pty Ltd

iStat Mini Bjango Pty Ltd Genre: Utilities Price: $2.99 Release Date: October 17, 2014 A mini system monitor for your Mac. iStat Mini is a compact way to keep an eye on your CPU, memory pressure, disk usage, battery, network activity, and more. Simply slide out Notification Center to glance at the stats, then slide it back again to free up your workspace. Follow us on Twitter and let us know what…

La gestione delle pagine nei vari software grafici non è sempre stata sfruttata appieno…

https://twitter.com/energio/status/436781178515763200

… per questo mi piace molto l’approccio che sembra stiano portando avanti quelli di Skala.

Ready to rock for iOS 7.

Main changes:  + Added iPhone Icon Template.psd  + Added iPad Icon Template.psd  + Added quite a few scaling actions (xxhdpi etc)  + Improved the new iPhone/iPad document actions  + Improved names for many actions  - Removed the Bjango Tools panel  - Removed lots of iOS 6 legacy stuff

The icon grid guides are all 2px wide

Credits: Marc Edwards

Over the last few years Bjango built a set of Actions that he uses daily. They save a bit of time, but more importantly, they remove the need to remember best practices for each step.

Those actions includes:

• Enable Pixel Snapping (F15) and Disable Pixel Snapping (shift-F15)

• New iPhone and iPad document Actions

• New 114×114, 512×512 and 1024×1024 document Actions

• Don’t Colour Manage

• Set Global Light to 90°

• View Shadow Detail

• Add Colour Blindness Testing

• Copy Merged to New (F14)

• Copy Entire Canvas (shift-F14)

• Show Optimal Size (F13)

• Make Slice From Layer (shift-F13)

• Make Slice From Selection (command-F13)

• Make 9-Patch From Selection (shift-command-F13)

• Scale by 50%, 66.6%, 150% and 200%

• Scale to 29, 36, 48, 57, 58, 72, 96, 114, 144, 512 and 1024

• Dribbble Selection

• Dribbble @2x Selection

• Enlarge Canvas (command-F15)

• Trim Transparent (shift-command-F15)

• Add 88px to Bottom

• Add 176px to Bottom

• Create Grey Block

• Bjango Tools panel

Credits: Bjango

I love designing. It's my happy place. It allows me to get into a zen state and play work for hours. Lately, I've been using a few apps that make designing even better. So, I thought I would share them with y'all.

Slicy

This app will change your life —it certainly changed the way I design. Basically, Slicy takes your PSDs and automatically slices up the layers you name as filenames (e.g., "[email protected]"). You can even set it up to auto-export slices on save. This is extremely useful when designing mobile apps since it handles all the asset exporting for you and it forces you to be pixel-perfect in your PSD. I ♥ MacRabbit for this. 

Skala Preview

The awesome folks at Bjango not only write amazing articles about design, but also make really, really useful apps like Skala. I use Skala for size reference when designing mobile apps. It syncs with Photoshop to mirror your window on your phone or tablet. This app, combined with the iPhone stand of your choice makes for a great dual display workflow.

Hazel

Noodlesoft's Hazel is one of the best productivity tools out there. It basically watches over a folder(s) of your choice and it can trigger automated actions for the files in that folder. For example, at Automatic we don't support @1x assets for the iPhone app (since it's only available for iPhone 4S and later) so, after saving a PSD, Slicy exports both @1x and @2x assets automatically, then Hazel watches that folder and deletes all files without "@2x" in the name. Magic!