Monthly Mentions: April 2014

Poster League: Boston design meetup to remake modern movie posters in a vintage style. Hosted by DockYard.

Hired: Marketplace for recruiting startup & tech talent.

Firefox Release History: Detailed history of all Firefox releases since inception.

statusIE: The development status of Internet Explorer browser features.

tco: Simple framework for colouring terminal output in Ruby.

Authful: An open-source Ruby API for two-factor authentication. By MongoHQ.

UnCSS: A tool to remove unused CSS from your stylesheets.

A Game of Social Thrones: The opening sequence of HBO's Game of Thrones using social media symbolism. By Hootsuite.

Tales & Tours: Mobile app acts as personal tour guide. Hundreds of guides available.

Dose Juice: Raw & organic cold-pressed juices with local delivery service. Montreal-based.

Marked: A full-featured Markdown parser and compiler, written in JavaScript.

Bluenose: Platform that empowers SaaS businesses to proactively manage customers.

Retained: SaaS to increase customer retention by reducing the churn rate.

Bootstrap Love: Marketing services for bootstrap startups. By Brendan & Brendan.

The Short Cutts: The short answers to Google’s Matt Cutts SEO videos.

Hound: SaaS that comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. By Thoughtbot.

Code Guide: Standards for developing flexible, durable, and sustainable HTML and CSS. By @mdo.

Deckset: OS X app that turns Markdown notes into slides for presentations.

Tools of the Trade: Free icon packs by DockYard.

stripe-ruby-mock: A mocking library for testing Stripe in Ruby.

Shrine of Apple: Photos and videos of (almost) every Apple product.

Roar: A Ruby framework for parsing and rendering REST documents.

Stump Stand: Smartphone and tablet stand made of silicone with a weighted base.

GitBook: A command line tool for building books using Git and Markdown.

District 3 Innovation Center: Startup ecosystem hosted by Concordia University.

Kenauk Nature: Private fish and game reserve, with more than 60 lakes. Montebello, QC.

SlickNav: Responsive mobile menus built using jQuery.

Typekit Practice: Reference and lessons in the practice of typography.

Glui: OS X app to capture, annotate and share screenshots.

Street Food Montreal: Directory of Montreal street food trucks and their schedules and locations.

Picturefill: A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more.

SimpleTax: SaaS tax return software for Canadians. Quebec not available yet.

Casper: A mattress manufacturer acting like a tech startup.

Tuft & Needle: Another mattress manufacturer trying to re-invent the business model.

Budget Bytes: Food blog about eating great on a budget.

Thermodo: Tiny electrical thermometer that connects through the audio jack.

Tokaido.app: OS X app bundle to install a Ruby + Rails development environment.

Qualys SSL Server Test: Free service that does a deep analysis of an SSL web server.

The Ideal Length of Everything Online: Research-backed article about the ideal length of tweets, blog posts, paragraphs, etc.

Copify: SaaS for professionnal copywriting services.

Turboboost: Extends Turbolinks to provide AJAX handlers for forms and links.

Yasu: OS X system utility. A Mavericks version has been released.

CSSmatic: CSS generators for gradients, border radius, noise texture and box shadow.

Adobe Project Parfait: SaaS that extract everything you need from PSD comps.

Tuyaux & Co.: Makers of objects using plubming pipes. Montreal-based.

MTL Startup Jobs: Directory of startup jobs for the Montreal area. By Brendan & Brendan.

JavaScript Event KeyCodes: Small app that reports event key codes for pressed keys.

IcebergFinder.com: Geolocation of icebergs in Newfoundland and Labrador.