Web designers spend most of their time working from mainstay apps like Photoshop and TextMate, but the small utilities used to make various tasks quicker are an essential part of their daily workflow. Here are 11 of them that are worth checking out. Paparazzi! Paparazzi!is a tool that makes screenshots of webpages. You can set the size of the browser window, making it the perfect tool for grabbing shots for comparison of sites that use media queries....

We’ve collected 11 of the best and most helpful Twitter apps, sites and tips that you might not know, compiling what we think are some of the best tools available to help you get the most out of your Twitter activity. 1. Find out when you were unfollowed and why This is an excellent tool both for business and personal use on Twitter:Tweeteffect. By searching for any Twitter username, you can see a summary of how many follows/unfollows that account gained over the past 30 days....

11 quick and simple productivity tips for entrepreneurs Productivity tips for entrepreneurs to achieve more First, write it down Every task and commitment should be written down, getting every engagement out of your head and into a trusted system. You can use a fancy app (think Evernote, Asana, or your Microsoft Outlook) to capture these commitments, but you can start with a simple pen and paper. [Read:Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debunked]...

Social media is on target to be a $30bn industry (per year) by 2015. It’s an industry that every smart brand is engaging with and therefore pouring its resources into. Today,Buddy Media, an incredibly successful SaaS platform for social media management, announced its latest research, which examined the digital footprint of 64 speciality retail brands via 350 data points across four dimensions: Site, Digital Marketing, Social Media, and Mobile. For the study, Buddy Media partnered with NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway, who developed the ranking system and L2 Think Tank, who assigned each brand a Digital IQ and a corresponding class of Genius, Gifted, Average, Challenged, or Feeble....

Everything seems to be moving so much more quickly nowadays. Why throw a grilled cheese sandwich on an actual grill when you can just toss it into anautomatic sandwich maker? Why have mom over to show off your new apartment when you can just pop into FaceTime for a quick video chat? Why drive over to the library when you can pull up Wikipedia or do a Google search? In fact, why open a window when we can check the weather on our phones?...