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Saving Time and Reducing Distractions with Instapaper

March 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Working on the Internet can become burdensome as you find yourself becoming distracted more frequently. There have been apps created to help organize your time and planning, but these aren’t always too great. With news becoming more prevalent than ever before it’s not a surprise to find our society addicted to information. A new launch titled Instapaper is changing the way we work. The genius of this tool is within simplicity. Instapaper started off as a mobile app for iOS and has grown … [Read more...]

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Aptana acquired by Appcelerator

January 18, 2011 By 4 Comments
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Aptana, the company behind the popular programming Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Aptana Studio, announced today that they have been acquired by Appcelerator. Aptana has been the choice for many web development professionals for quite some time. It is an advanced open source programming environment built on the very well established Eclipse platform that has advanced greatly in recent years. Their IDE provides advanced functionality for developing HTML, CSS and Javascript … [Read more...]

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New Joomla 1.6 Pushes Enterprise Level Features

January 18, 2011 By 2 Comments
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The new version of the popular Joomla Content Management System (CMS) was released early last week and has already reached over 115k in downloads. 1.6 has been in the making for some time and earlier beta versions have been tested over the last few month. The first release candidate (RC1) was made available for download on December 14th, 2010. Among the many new features that have arrived in this new version come finer access controls, improvements in content categories and removal of the … [Read more...]

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Twitterrific Rocks the iPhone App Market with Dynamic RT Functionality

July 23, 2010 By 6 Comments
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As Twitter is growing in popularity each and every month, more people are looking to the mobile web for entertainment. Whether it be waiting online at the bank or supermarket, or even relaxing at a relatives house with some time to kill, mobile phones are making it easier for us to connect with the entire web. With iPhone sales launching through the roof, we can only see how mobile Twitter clients will become more and more useful. As Twitter has officially purchased Tweetie to be their … [Read more...]

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Exclusive Interview with Relations Manager of DesignFloat

July 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
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At this point most web designers & developers ingrained in the field know about DesignFloat. It's a very popular social news submission service where blog authors or content readers can submit their favorite or most interesting news articles, and the published stories with the most votes hit the front page. It has spurred many similar sites, but DesignFloat has always reigned king. I recently had a fantastic interview with the site's Relations Manager Mortimer. He revealed some … [Read more...]

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New Web Design/Development Community Forrst Blows up Across the Web

July 5, 2010 By 6 Comments
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Since the major success of Dribbble designers and developers have been looking for such amazing communities to share resources. Because of this, Forrst.com isn't really a totally new idea in and of itself. However the implementation and UI features are so unique, the community has exploded over the past few months since launch. Forrst allows you to register an account and run your own profile, similar to a Twitter or Foursquare profile. You can follow other designers/developers in the … [Read more...]

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Grooveshark Hands out 1 Month Free VIP for Former Lala Users

June 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
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It was announced on a page through Grooveshark's VIP Area that all previous members of Lala will be getting a free 1 month pass into Grooveshark's VIP program. You simple go to the address above and enter the special VIP code given to you by Grooveshark. A few months ago it was announced that huge music site Lala was closing down. It appeared to be heading on a great track, as many search results would pop up in Google through Lala when somebody would search for a song name or artist. … [Read more...]

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