DevUtils 1.14 – Color Converter, Random String, PHP tools, +4 new features!

Welcome back to another update of DevUtils! DevUtils now has 40 developer tools! 🥳

In the latest release, DevUtils added 3 new tools, 4 new features, and a lot of improvements and fixes for the existing tools.

Let's dive right into it with these GIFs!

🎨 Color Converter

Parse and convert color codes to popular formats: Hex, RGB, HSL, HSB, CMYK, etc.

Generate code for popular programming languages: CSS, Swift, Java, .NET, etc.

🎞️ PHP → JSON and PHP Serializer/Unserializer

A lot of new PHP tools are added! These PHP tools run on a brand new Scripts Runtime engine added to DevUtils in version 1.14, which will allow you to write custom scripts soon!

🎲 Random String Generator

Generate a secure password or random string easily! Some built-in presets are:

• Strong Password

• Passphrase

• PIN Code

• Random String

• Random Hex

• etc.

📁 Tool Groups

Now that the tool list is getting long, you can organize them into groups!

🕑 Frequently Used Tools

Save more time by showing the most frequently used tools on the top!

Simply Right-click → Frequently Used → Show top 5/10/20.

⌨️ More shortcuts!

Save even more time with these keyboard shortcuts:

• ⇧⌘C Copy Output

• ⇧⌘R Instant Replace Clipboard

🔤 String Case Converter: more cases!

Added UPPER CASE, lower case, Capitalized Case, Sentence case, Title Case (APA Convention), slug-case.

🎁 Other changes

Improvements

• JSON Formatter now supports input in JavaScript expression.

• Added an option to JSON Formatter to disable continuous mode.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where pressing ⌘/ does not focus on the search bar.

• Fixed Cron Job Parser outputs inaccurate human-friendly text in some cases.

• Fixed SQL Formatter outputs wrong spacing for some PostgreSQL queries.

• Fixed Alfred integration does not automatically open the selected tool when DevUtils is first launched.

Small Changes

• Some UI components are refined to make it look better.

• The search box is now keyboard friendly.

• Added self-help tooltips in various places around the app.

• Hit Escape button will now hide the DevUtils window.

• DevUtils will no longer support macOS 10.12 and below.

• Base64 String Encode/Decode tool now automatically switches to the Base64 Image Encode/Decode tool if the input string is an encoded image.

• Introducing "Scripting" panel in the Preferences... window. At the current version, it allows a new set of tools that use PHP runtime as the backend. More customizability and scripting will be added soon in the future versions.

See full change log: https://devutils.app/changelog/

👋 That's all for now!

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See you in the next update.

Happy coding!

– Tony Dinh