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Brandwidth uses Apple iBooks Author to create an interactive promotional iBook for clients

Apple's too has been trumpeted as the future of eBook publishing, but it's just as good at quickly creating interactive promotional materials.
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- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Photography,
- Video,
- Apple,
- Brandwidth,
- X1 Technologies,
- Inc.
Interactive Zlatan Ibrahimovic biography iPad app published using InDesign and Mag+

Swedish publisher Bonnierförlagen has created an interactive biography app about controversial AC Milan footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovi? for the iPad
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- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Video,
- Adobe,
- Bonnier R&D,
- Bonnierförlagen,
- Mag+
Opinion: Mountain Lion brings mobile UI to desktops

Apple announced OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion this week, and something was immediately noticeable: it looks just like the latest version of iOS. From the notification system to iChat, it's clear that mobile is taking the lead in Apple's headquarters.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Mobile
Apple releases printer drivers for Canon, Ricoh, others

Apple has released a slew of updated printer drivers, but chances are the only ones most of us will care about are those for Canon, Ricoh, and Samsung printers.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Apple,
- Canon,
- Ricoh
Two in three Google+ users are men

According to figures from Website-Monitoring.com, two-thirds of Google+ users are men, which stands in contrast to Facebook, where a majority of users are women, including 55% in the US.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Photography,
- Google
TfL offers congestion feeds to app and site developers ahead of London 2012 Olympic Games

Web and app developers can now get access to the 'hotspot' feed from Transport for London (TfL), which offers predictions of when the London transport network will be congested during this summer's London 2012 Olympic Games.
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- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Transport for London
First Look: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? On Thursday Apple announced that it will release a new version of OS X — Mountain Lion — this summer, just a year after the release of OS X Lion.
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Photography,
- Video,
- Apple
iBookstore gets new features for publishers

Apple has made a number of changes to the iBookstore so publishers can now use screenshots, promotional codes and offer pre-orders.
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- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Apple
Get Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 half-price

Customers in the UK, US, Canada and Mexico can get 50 per cent off Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 at the moment.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Photography,
- Printing
Origin68 releases new Si Scott t-shirt

Origin68 has released its Spring/Summer line of t-shirts, featuring artworks on themes of 'peace, love and music'.
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- Software,
- Life & Style,
- Origin68
First Look: Clear makes to-do lists clean, simple and colour-led

When it comes to the App Store, to-do list apps are littered underfoot like so many dead leaves. Each, it seems, is trying to outdo the others in how many bells and whistles they can offer, vying for their chance at a spot on your Home screen.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Mobile,
- Realmac Software
Snapseed iOS app free; Mac app going for half price

Nik Software's popular image editing app Snapseed will be available for free on iOS and half price on the Mac for one day only this Valentine's Day.
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- Software,
- Life & Style,
- Mobile
Illustrate 'secret London' for the Serco Prize and win £2,000

Entries are now being accepted for this year's Serco Prize for Illustration, which is looking for artworks on a theme of 'secret London'.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Anne Wilson,
- Association of Illustrators,
- London Transport Museum
Adobe confirms no Flash for Chrome on Android

Chrome for Android will not run Flash Player, the popular software that Apple has famously banned, Adobe confirmed.
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- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Adobe
Microsoft 'dropping Start button' from Windows 8

Microsoft will scratch the 17-year-old Start button from Windows 8, according to reports based on a purported leak of the latest beta build.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Microsoft
Apple lets authors iBooks Author users sell books outside iBooks

Some controversial provisions in the agreement governing the use of Apple's iBook authoring software has been modified after coming under intense criticism from authors and publishers.
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- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Interactive
Brand Nu shows off his West End Show

We get an exclusive look at Radim Malinic's The West End Show exhibition
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- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Photography,
- Typography
DAZ gives away Bryce 7 Pro, Daz Studio Pro 4 and Hexagon 2.5 for free

DAZ has taken the unusual step of releasing all of its major 3D applications for free.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Software,
- Motion,
- Daz 3D
Avid launches video editing iPad app, Studio for iPad

Avid has released a video-editing app for the Apple iPad, called Studio for iPad.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Software,
- Motion,
- Life & Style,
- Photography,
- Video
>> Promotion: Learn how to design a brilliant animated web banner

PROMOTION: HOW TO DESIGN A BRILLIANT ANIMATED WEB BANNER
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Video,
- Wacom

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