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As designers, developers or even graphic designers we are always looking for all of those new resources, tools and apps that can help us increase our productivity & creativity while we work on client or personal work.

Right below I’ve included what are some of the latest things, below you find some great JavaScript and  jQuery plugins,  iOS, Desktop Apps, html/css awesomeness, frameworks. Some new WordPress themes and plugins and some great new fonts and icons.

Also make sure you you come back and check out our Best HandPicked Goodies of 2016 roundup set in the next coming week.

Turbo.js

turbojs

turbo.js is a small library that makes it easier to perform complex calculations that can be done in parallel. The actual calculation performed (the kernel executed) uses the GPU for execution. This enables you to work on an array of values all at once.

Labelauty

labelauty-jquery-plugin

A nice and lightweight jQuery plugin that gives beauty to checkboxes and radio buttons and allows custom labels for each status of (un)checked inputs.

Huebee

huebee

Huebee is a JavaScript library for creating user-centric color pickers. Huebee displays a limited set of colors so users view all colors at a glance, make clear decisions, and select a color with a single click.

jQuery LineChart

jquery-linechart

JQuery plugin for building a linechart. Chart ruler completely on HTML/CSS/JS. Bar chart, calendar view visualisation. Diagram, graph, pyramid visualisation of large datasets. Showreel. The source for this module is in the main repo.

Squash 2 for Mac – Mac App – $19.99

squash-2-for-mac

Squash is a simple, powerful app for compressing and converting images for the web and more.

Flinto for Mac – Mac App – $99

flinto-for-mac

Flinto for Mac is a comprehensive app prototyping tool that allows you to create anything from simple tap-through prototypes, to comprehensive prototypes with impressive interactions. Carefully designed Flinto for Mac to minimize complexity. There’s no programming or timelines. It’s the prototyping tool designers have been waiting for.

Local by FlyWheel – Mac App – Free

local-wordpress-development-mac-app

A Mac App that helps local WordPress development made simple you can stop debugging local environments and spend more time launching WordPress sites.

Volume Mixer – Mac App – $8.99 to $13.99

volume-mixer-for-mac

Application Specific Volume Control

Escape by FocusList – Mac App – Free

focuslist

Escape tracks all your unnecessary trips to distracting websites, giving you daily updates on your progress. It’s a calories counter for your mind!

Beam – Mac App – Free

beam

Instant voice calling and screen sharing from your Mac menu bar.

Spark – Mac App – Free

spark-mail-for-apple-devices

Email has taken too much time from people. Spark gives time back to all those who live by their inbox. Quickly see what’s important and clean up the rest.

Tower – Window App – $79

tower-for-windows

The best Git client that is available on Mac has finally arrived on Windows.

Tunnel Vision – Safari & Chrome Extension

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Tunnel Vision shows you what you should be working on, every time you open a new tab.

Go Fucking Work – Chrome Extensions

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Get some fucking work done. Redirect fucking unproductive sites to motivational messages.

ProtoTypo – Web App – Free to $99 year

prototypo

Prototypo Create your own font in a few clicks

NomNom – Web App – $500 p/m (Beta Pricing)

nomnom

NomNom is the easiest way to search, organize and share all your customer feedback in one place.

Mention – Web App – $29 pm to $99 pm

mention

Monitor your competitors, products, industry, customers, campaigns, brands anywhere online

Liquid Time – Web App – Free

liquidtime

This is a time management app. Only what is necessary will be stored.  However, expect some public analysis on general time spent  (everything else, including identity and plan names, is anonymised).

15Five – Web App – $5 to 15 pm

15five

15Five is a full performance management suite that allows you to hear the heartbeat of your organization in real-time.

Simple CSS Units

simple-css-units

Simple CSS Units is a free tool for Web Designers & Front End Developers to simplify all CSS units. Just enter in your primary unit into the appropriate field and watch your converted units appeat simultaneously.

Accessiblity Guidelines

accessibility-guidelines

Making work accessible creates a better experience across the board. Use this checklist to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project.

Cyclotron

cyclotron

Cyclotron is a platform for creating and hosting dashboards, independent of any single data source. It’s a batteries-included solution for loading and visualizing data without programming. It’s the CMS of dashboarding.

Ant Design

ant-design

Ant Design React is dedicated to providing a good development experience for programmers.

Formbase

formbase

Better default styles for common input elements.

CSSPIN

csspin

CSS Spinners and Loaders are Modular, Customisable and Single HTML Element Code

CSS Reference

cssreference

cssreference.io is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.

Radar

stripe-radar

Modern tools to help you beat fraud, fully integrated with your payments.

Fictoan

fictoan

Fictoan is an intuitive, minimalist, responsive HTML+CSS boilerplate.  Fictoan uses straightforward, self-explanatory and intuitive class names. No cols, spans, MDs, LGs and such.  This is mainly for newbies just starting to learn code(moi), but are put off by complex systems like Bootstrap or Foundation.

Eve

eve

Eve is a programming language and IDE based on years of research into building a human-first programming platform. From code embedded in documents to a language without order, it presents an alternative take on what programming could be – one that focuses on us instead of the machine.

Funcssion

funcssion

funcssion is a set of really simple CSS classes, with a single purpose, inspired by the philosophy behind pure functions.

Font Style Matcher

font-style-matcher

If you’re using a web font, you’re bound to see a flash of unstyled text (or FOUC), between the initial render of your websafe font and the webfont that you’ve chosen. This usually results in a jarring shift in layout, due to sizing discrepancies between the two fonts. To minimize this discrepancy, you can try to match the fallback font and the intended webfont’s x-heights and widths. This tool helps you do exactly that.

Blueprint

blueprint

Blueprint is a collection of React UI components that cover the majority of the common interface elements, patterns, and interactions on the web. Using Blueprint ensures that you’ll end up with an elegant and easy-to-use UI, freeing you to focus on building your product—not the atomic pieces that comprise it.

Gitmoji

gitmoji

An emoji guide for your commit messages

Snowflaker

snowflaker

Generate free, simple snowflakes in vector format

Div Table

html-table-generator

HTML Div Table Generator

Ain’t CMS

aint-cms

A proof of concept for a Git-based content management system that lets non-developer authors edit static website content just like developers do.

Instead of running a server and letting users edit content in a database, Ain’t CMS runs on the user’s local computer as a desktop application.  To publish content, Ain’t CMS creates a new Git branch, commits the desired changes, pushes it up to a GitHub repository, and creates a pull request asking to merge the new branch into master. Notice that this is exactly how developers publish changes to a website.

Illustrio

illustrio

A smarter icon library.

FormLinter

formlinter

Increase your form conversions by fixing common usability issues by entering a URL into FormLinter and it will find a form on the page and let you know if it can be improved.

musicForProgramming

musicforprogramming

A collaborative series of mixes designed for listening while programming (compatible with other activities)

StockJo

stockjo

StockJo is a collection of free stock Photography,Textures,Video,Mockups,Fonts ,Audio,Vectors and Graphics,Colours,Tools,Softwares,Web Resources & HTML Templates

Copio

copio

Copio is copying and pasting layers finally comes to Photoshop

Alter

alter

Turn text into an image.

Write.as

write-as

Write.as is built for productivity. It’s simple enough for you to concentrate on your thoughts, and powerful enough to support the most prolific writer.

McGriddle

mcgriddle

A Sass library designed to help you build based on a grid system.

Mention

montion-ghost-theme

Mention is clean and minimalistic theme with few nice features, scroll indicator and reading time.

Free Icon Design Guide Book

free-icon-design-guide

Want to create your first icon set, but have no idea where to start? Or maybe you just want to earn some money on the side by selling stock icons? Or do you shoot for the stars and plan to kickstart your career as an icon designer specializing in custom icons? This icon design guide that will answer all the questions you might have.

The Sketch Handbook

the-sketch-handbook

The Sketch Handbook will guide you through every aspect of Sketch in 12 jam-packed chapters

WP Offline Fallback – Free Plugin

wp-offline-fallback

This plugin can help you give your clients the necessary contact information when they lose the internet. By using the service worker to handle an offline situation. This plugin will save offline messages to the customer’s device when they do not have internet access, and this message will be displayed.

Booklet – Free Plugin

booklet-booking-system

Booklet Booking System is a very simple booking system plugin. With this plugin, you add a simple booking form for or anything to reserve for your customers. It has very nice option panel to add a title, subtitle, and email for the form.

It can be used in your sites post and pages with very simple WordPress shortcode. Hotel reservation confirm by user e-mail address.

DevMatic – Free Plugin

devmatic

DevMatic plugin provides a live preview of the page you are working with onto your device without losing the touch and feel of a mobile phone

Font Organizer – Free Plugin

hive-font-organizer

Font Organizer is the complete solution for font implementation including uploading custom fonts and using google fonts in WordPress websites.

Agree/Disagree Interactive Voting – Premium Plugin $20

agreedisagree-interactive-voting-social-plugin

Sometimes our blog posts can stir up interest in our readers and there are sides to take. With this agree/disagree wordpress plugin it will allow your readers to either agree/disagree with the blog post and prompt them to enter their email address and a comment if they would like to add one.

WordPress Broken Image Verifier  – Premium Plugin $20

wordpress-broken-image-verifier

Scans all WordPress Posts and Pages for broken images

WooCommerce Product Selfie Review- Premium Plugin $19

woocommerce-product-selfie-review

The Woocommerce Product Selfie Review plugin allows customers to add selfie in product review and admin can display carousel slider of uploaded selfie on any page using shortcode and widget.

Scrapes – Premium Plugin $25

scrapes

Scraps is a plugin that scrape content from websites into your WordPress site automatically, visually and easily.

V12 – Free Theme

v12

V12 is a simple responsive theme built on top of Bootstrap 3.0. The colors and fonts merge together to produce a high quality sleek theme.

Beryl – Free Theme

beryl

Enhance your story experience, by leveraging the power of Beryl WordPress Theme, built especially for telling great stories. It is the only free WordPress theme fully compatible with the Aesop Story Engine.

Magnum Opus – Free Theme

magnum-opus

A free portfolio theme powered by Isotope. Designed to be used with Jetpack’s Featured Posts and Portfolio Posts items.

Brando – Premium Theme $49

brando

Brando is a completely modern, feature-rich, professionally designed, fully responsive and multi-purpose onepage WordPress theme.

GoWash – Premium Theme $59

gowash

GoWash is a responsive WordPress theme with modern and functional design created for Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service Business. With lots of customizable features you can create a powerful website for representing your services: laundry, dry cleaning, leather cleaning, ironing, repairs, pick-up and delivery. The theme can be a perfect solution for service sector business.

Builder – Premium Theme $29

builder

Builder is a business WordPress theme designed specifically for construction, building companies and those that offer building services. The layout looks beautiful at any size, be it a laptop screen, iPad, iPhone, Android Mobile or tablets.

DiveIt – Premium Theme $59

diveit

DiveIt theme has modern and functional design and created especially for Scuba Diving School and Center. With lot of customisable features, the theme will be an ideal solution for any outdoors activities related website. The theme can be interesting for sea adventure agency, providing diving, snorkeling, surfing or hiking activities.

DiveIt is fully compatible with the latest version of WooCommerce to allow you create online store for scuba diving equipment or establish rental service.

Better – Premium Theme $29

better

A simple, fast and reliable eCommerce WordPress Theme. Packed with everything you need to set up a beautiful online store but nothing more, the theme was built to be minimalistic in terms of design, fast in terms of performance and reliable in terms of maintenance, the opposite of what people call over-bloated.

Boxley – Fonts from $45

boxley

Mairy – Fonts from $39

mairy

Neuzeit Grotesk – Fonts from $19

neuzeit-grotesk

Choplin – Fonts from $25

choplin

Campton – Fonts from $30

campton

Kingsland – Free Font

kingsland

Clubber – Free Font

clubber

Reach – Free Font

reach

Ferpal Sans – Free Font

ferpal-sans

Milford Icons

milford-icons

Work Icon Set

work-icon-set

50 Free Flat Christmas Icons Vector Ai File

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Christmas icons

christmas-icons

Credit Cards Icons

credit-cards-icons

Square Round corner Social Media icons

square-round-corner-social-media-icons

Car Interface UI Sketch File

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Customize Product UI Sketch File

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Calendar UI

calendar-ui

Free Set of Micro Wireframes

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New Handpicked Goodies for Designers & Developers for December 2016