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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, CMS, Some awesome CSS,HTML tools, new frameworks. Some new WordPress themes and plugins and some great new fonts and icons.

Anime.js

anime

Anime (/ˈæn.ə.meɪ/) is a flexible yet lightweight JavaScript animation library. It works with CSS, Individual Transforms, SVG, DOM attributes and JS Objects.

EQCSS

EQCSS

EQCSS is a JavaScript plugin that lets you write element queries inside CSS today. With performance in mind, this plugin is written in pure JavaScript, so it doesn’t require jQuery or any other libraries on your page in order to function – add EQCSS.js to you HTML and you’re ready to get started!

Holmes

holmes

Fast and easy searching inside a page.

Real Time Users

Real-Time-Users

Add a real time user counter to your site in 60 seconds.

PixiJS v4

pixi-js

The aim of this project is to provide a fast lightweight 2D library that works across all devices. The Pixi renderer allows everyone to enjoy the power of hardware acceleration without prior knowledge of WebGL. Also, it’s fast. Really fast.

Slidebars

slidebars

Slidebars is a jQuery framework for creating app-style off-canvas menus and sidebars.

Buno – iOS & Android – Free

buno-app

Buno which is an abbreviation for BucketNotes. It’s was created with a goal to making buttons redundant. It syncs seamlessly with Android, iOS and Web making it easy to take notes on one device and continue editing on another device.

Hillo – iOS App – Free

Hillo

Hillo, or High Level Trello, lets you have a bird’s-eye view of your Trello organizations by keeping track of your Trello boards activity and more.

Prisma – iOS App – Free

prisma

Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Munk, Picasso as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art.

New File Menu – Mac App – $1.99

new-file-menu

New File Menu is simply the coolest way to create a new file on the Mac OS X platform, you can right click in any Finder window to create a new file! You can even right click on the desktop to create your files!

Paste 2 – Mac App – $9.99

Paste-2

Paste is a new way to copy and paste for your Mac. It keeps everything you’ve ever copied and lets you use your clipboard history anytime you need it.

ProtoPie – Mac App – Free

Protopie

ProtoPie is a prototyping tool for smart devices. ProtoPie makes elaborate prototypes possible without any coding, and these prototypes can be tested on actual devices.

Perma – Mac App – $19 (limited time only)

perma

Perma is abetter way to get things done. On your own, or with your team.

This app allow you to create, organise and share your to-dos and lists. You can simple tag your tasks with #hashtags and share a tag filled with tasks with a colleague, team or friend, and be productive together.

You can write notes, discuss tasks and lists and you can add files, links and notes to your tasks and lists, so you are always in sync with you and your team.

Smock – Mac App – $4.99

Smock

Say goodbye to static comps and complicated mockups. Emulate a live screenshot sized to the mobile device and high-resolution mockups showcase mobile website design.

sMedium – Mac App – Free

smedium

A free desktop app for writing Medium stories

Laps – Web App – Free While in Beta

Laps

Laps is a client, project and time management app that is in a simple, modern & beautiful way.

Where you can manage your clients by easily adding client contact info, rates, links and even group them by status.

With this app you be more productive. As you can create projects for clients, add tasks and track time for each task and once you finished the work for the client you can then  create invoices, send invoices and get paid in time with it’s flexible and easy to use invoicing system.

Userback – Web App – Free to $59

userback

Give users the right tools to collaborate and provide valuable feedback for you to manage

Flock – Web/Desktop/Mobile – Free

Flock

Flock is a free chat service for both work and business environments that speeds up and simplifies communication within teams or organisations. You will see that there is no more long and confusing email threads with multiple people, no more waiting for responses. You can just sign in, and start chatting.

KeepTabs – Web App – Free to $12 per month

KeepTabs

KeepTabs is the CRM for your network. KeepTabs has notes and reminders, which allow you to pick up every conversation exactly where the last one ended.

With KeepTabs you can toss all your spreadsheets, post-its, and hastily written notes. It’s been designed from the ground up to be as user friendly as possible.

Mega Boilerplate

Mega-Boilerplate

Mega Boilerplate is a starter project generator that focuses on simplicity and ease of use, while providing you with flexibility of choices. It was inspired by the Hackathon Starter, but unlike it, you can customise any part of your application stack, from web framework and database to CSS preprocessor and client-side JavaScript framework.

Currently, generators are primarily limited to Node.js web apps, but it will expand support for other platforms and languages in the near future.

Astrum

astrum

Astrum is a lightweight pattern library designed to be included with any web project.  It’s non-opinionated and doesn’t expect you to write your markup or code in any particular way.

Wing

Wing

Wing is a minimal CSS Framework that provides a base of styles, and you don’t even need to learn a gazillion class names, all of your elements will be styled automatically. Not to mention, that unlike Bootstrap or other popular Frameworks, Wing is only 4kb minified.

Tootik

Tootik

Tootik is a pure CSS Tooltip library. It looks great on all modern browsers, easy peasy to use.

CSSNano

CSSNANO

cssnano takes your nicely formatted CSS and runs it through many focused optimisations, to ensure that the final result is as small as possible for a production environment.

Checkbox CSS

checkbox

Tiny set of CSS3 animations for your checkboxes.

Ress

ress

A modern CSS reset, it uses Normalize.css under the hood with some customisations to apply a solid base to start your stylesheet.

CSShake

CSShake

Some CSS classes to move your DOM!

Palette Town

Palette-Town

Here’s a Sass Mixin for Generating Colour Palettes. It’s pretty simple, just include the mixin, pass in your colour and which type of palette you’d like to create, and voila! A whole bunch of friendly variables are at your disposal for your stylesheets.

The mixin will generate the colors by not only adjusting the hues according to the type, but it will mix the original color back in at 15% in order to create a consistent colour palette.

ThimbleCSS

Thimble-CSS

A nimble CSS framework built with Flex Box for the modern web. As this framework been built with Flex box you can use unlimited columns, center anything, stretch columns or re-order your content.

Type Anything

Type-Anything

Type Anything lets you customise the most necessary font settings for your next project. From font families and letter spacing to font weights.

Pills

Pills

Pills is a simple, responsive, and tiny CSS grid for humans. It’s 4kb, Mobile First Grid System, HTML5 Boilerplate Head, Inspired by Simplicity and Control, It’s IE8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera friendly, plus it’s free to use and abuse.

Legacy

legacy

A tool to make your design life easier. Built for Designers.

Type Terms

Type-Terms

Type Terms is the animated typographic cheat sheet. If you are new to typography or you wanting  to refresh your memory, then Type Terms is the perfect tool for you.

Refind

Refind

Refind is the home for the best links on the web.Save and discover what matters most to you.

Ghostbot

ghostbot

The Burner text-messaging bot that helps you ghost away from fleeting relationships — without the emotional baggage.

WrenchMode

wrenchmode

Maintenance Happens, this app will help make it seamless for you & your users.

Forestry

forestry

A simple CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites, it’s been built for devs who hate bloat

Twitter Cards Meta – Free Plugin

Twitter-Cards-Meta

Twitter Cards Meta for all WordPress user for free. Adding Twitter Cards meta was never this easy. 100% validate meta according to Twitter and get sure approval within minutes. Most complete Twitter Cards plugin in WordPress.

Live Vote – Free Plugin

Live-Vote

Live Vote is a global sentiment platform that gathers consumer sentiment in an agile environment while bringing your content to life.

Maintenance Mode – Free Plugin

best-Maintenance-mode

Maintenance mode is a plugin for coming soon style messages. You can still work with your website while users get the “coming soon” message. You just enable it from your dashboard and you can safely work on developing your website.

Giftable for WooCommerce – Free Plugin

Giftable-for-WooCommerce

This WooCommerce plugin enables you to offer free gifts to your customers on checkout, depending on any number of conditions you set up.

Multiple Location Google Map – Free Plugin

Multiple-Location-Google-Map

Multiple Location Google Map is a user friendly plugin that doesn’t require any coding skills or customisation. It allows you to create a custom post type for location markers on a Google Map along with title and description.

This map can be easily embedded into pages using a shortcode or you can also select pages where you want this plugin to be displayed. Location markers can be created with an option to set icons using featured image or choose from different set of icons.

WP Coupons – Premium Plugin from $34 to $175

wpcoupons

WP Coupons was developed by affiliate marketers for affiliate marketers to help increase your CTR and conversions!

LoftBuilder

LoftBuilder is a drag & drop WordPress page builder. Where you can build responsive layouts, add text and media, and create engaging animations and interactions. Build your site page in minutes. Without coding.

Massive-Addons-for-Visual-Composer-Page-Builder-Plugin-for-WordPress

Massive Addons for Visual Composer – Collections Pack is the most complete extensions package. Over 480 presets, more then 18 shortcodes & additions, easy to use.

Smartr – Free Theme

smartr

Smartr is a sleek and modern theme that provides an instant professional look to your site. The theme is perfect for agencies, businesses, corporate type or even personal websites.

Fluida – Free Theme

fluida

Fluida is a modern, crystal clear and squeaky clean theme. It shines bright with a fluid and responsive layout and carries under its hood a light and powerful framework.

Fluida also provides over 100 customizer theme settings that enable you to take full control of your site.

Alpha Store – Free Theme

alpha-store

Alpha Store is a modern WooCommerce theme designed for shops and eCommerce sites. All types of eCommerce stores, such as Fashion, Shoes, Jewelry, Watch, Sport, Technology, Mobile can use this theme.

black-shop

Blackshop is a multipurpose WooCommerce Theme, it been designed with a simple, clean and clear style. It’s a responsive theme crafted for selling digital, technology, computer, technology, accessories, hi-tech products or any other products.

mikos

Mikos is a clean and modern one page theme for landing, personal, or product pages. Automatically resizes to accommodate a variety of devices. In this theme you will find three versions of the onepage pages, it compatible with Contact form 7 , it has custom shortcodes, been built using bootstrap, it’s retina ready also.

Dawn

Dawn is a clean theme that is suited for bloggers and creatives, it comes with 5 home page templates that suits many types of blogs and websites including photography , traveling, fashion etc.

Dawn has Redux’s advanced settings panel added so you can personalise your website by changing typography, backgrounds, fonts and colours.

moroko

Moroko is a creative Bootstrap built WordPress Theme. It’s modern, clean, contains multiple functions and is professionally.

It suits any type of portfolio, creatives, corporations, design agencies, fashions.

finanbox

Finanbox is one of the lastest Multipurpose Business & Corporate Business theme. The theme is modern, clean, professionally crafted got the latest design, super flexible, minimalist, fast loading, responsive theme and easily customisation options.

Space Mono – Free Font

Space-Mono

Akrobat – Free Font

akrobat

Beyno – Free Font

beyno

Kalashnkov – Free Font

Kalashnikov

Umbra – Free Font

Umbra

Fredoka – Free Font

Fredoka

BigCity Grotesque Pro – Fonts from $50

bigcity-grotesque-pro

Gilroy – Fonts from $25

Gilroy

Lupulus – Fonts from $25

lupulus

Latina – Fonts from $49

latina

Drop Dead Gorgeous – Font $20

drop-dead-gorgeous

Fair UI Kit Freebie – Free

Fair-UI-Kit-Freebie

48Pixl Icon set – Free

48Pixl

90’s Free Icons Set

90's-free-icons-set

Messaging Design Kit for Sketch

Messaging-Design-Kit-for-Sketch

Hi there, if you think that I’ve missed something that you think should have been on this list, please let me know down in the comments or if you know of a new app or resource that should be featured next month post it there.

Thanks.

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New Handpicked Goodies for Designers & Developers for July 2016