[Sponsor] Procreate

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Procreate is a beautiful and stunningly responsive illustration app designed only for iPad.

The speed and responsiveness of Procreate needs to be seen to be believed. The way it blends traditional and digital mediums is a testament to how optimized Procreate’s custom OpenGL engine really is. With over 45 finely crafted brushes, an incredible smudge tool, and a gallery with artwork stacks, Procreate is the smart choice for professional illustrators.

Grab it now on the App Store for $4.99.

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Evening Edition

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New news site from my pals at Mule Design:

The perfect commute-sized way to catch up on the day?s news after a long day at work.

Smart, concise, and sharp-looking.

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Googles Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoos CEO

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Andrew Ross Sorkin and Evelyn M. Russi, reporting for the NYT’s DealBook blog:

The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Googleand was one of the few public faces of the company, is considereda surprising coup for Yahoo, which has struggled in recent yearsto attract top flight talent in its battle with competitors likeGoogle and Facebook.
Ms. Mayer, 37, had for years been responsible for the look andfeel of Google?s most popular products: the famously unadornedwhite search homepage, Gmail, Google News and Google Images.

Huge challenge for Mayer, but a nice scoop for Yahoo. I liked Google a lot better back when it seemed like Mayer was more influential there. It would be great to see her turn things around at Yahoo.

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LifeProof Adds Buoyancy and Drop Protection to
Waterproof iPhone Case

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Award-winning maker of all-protective, everyday cases for smartphones and tablets, California based LifeProof has announced the new LifeProof LifeJacket for iPhone devices. Made from high-density foam, the LifeJacket is designed for anyone that uses their iPhone in the water or is looking for increased drop protection. Now swimmers, fishermen, mountain climbers, construction workers, and parents can take their iPhone into extreme environments and still stay connected.

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MG Siegler Reviews the Nexus 7

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MG Siegler:

I like the Nexus 7. I really like it.

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Goal Defense 1.0 - A Game of Exciting Strategy,
is Available Now on iOS

post from prMac on 16 July 2012 03:08:00 PM. © prMac

Premier Russian mobile games developer Dynamic Pixels introduces its brand new comic book-like game, Goal Defense 1.0 for iOS. The app is intoxicating sprint into the world of absurd Herculean heroes who pit their wits against a macho mob of burly meat-heads by employing strategic tactics, intelligent plays and confusion campaigns to outsmart the well-built, dimwitted opponents. The game mission is to build an effective line of defense to never let the villains close to the Golden Bowl trophy.

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What the heck is iCloud again Plus 4 other Apple
stories to read today

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With so many people writing about Apple, finding the best stories and reports isn’t easy. Here’s our daily pick of stories about the company from around the Web that you shouldn’t miss:

iCloud users are reporting being prompted to buy additional storage space as they approach the 5GB limit that Apple offers free to all customers. One problem: turns out plenty of iCloud users have no idea what iCloud is, or that they’re using it. Buzzfeed FWD has the (rather amusing) story.
After the Apple/EPEAT kerfuffle last week in which Apple admitted leaving the environmental impact rankings was a mistake, its MacBook Pro with Retina display suddenly popped up with an EPEAT Gold rating — a certification it hadn’t had before. How’d that happen? Turns out, as Ars Technica writes, manufacturers basically rank themselves on EPEAT’s scale before the organization weighs in.
Steve Jobs was very concerned about Google potentially acquiring Yelp. So he called up Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman and urged him not to sell out, according to the profile of Stoppelman in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Asymco sums up the current state of inequality in the mobile industry: the iPhone has created $244 billion in value, Samsung has added $83 billion in value, while the other handset makers have “destroyed $37 billion.”
If Apple follows the same schedule for Mountain Lion’s official launch as it did for Lion’s last summer, then we’ll see it the day after Apple reports its quarterly earnings, which is scheduled for July 24. 9to5Mac seems to back up that theory with word that Apple stores have scheduled “overnight” store work for the evening of July 24, which would match up with the theory of a July 25 Mountain Lion release.

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Nokia Cuts U.S. Price of Flagship Phone in Half

John D. Stoll, reporting for the WSJ:

The price of Nokia Corp.’s flagship Lumia 900 Windows phone has beencut in half in the critical U.S. market, a little more than threemonths after the launch of the smartphone at AT&T Inc. stores.
“This move is a normal strategy that is put in place during the lifecycle of most phones,” Nokia spokesman Doug Dawson said in an email.It “allows a broader consumer base to buy this flagship device at amore accessible price.”

Totally normal. Nothing to see here. Everything is great.

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Minneapolis BBQ with the Foundation, IT for the
Creative Industry

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The Revolutionary Designed Calendar: CircleTime
1.0 for iOS

HedgeHog today introduces CircleTime 1.0 for iOS, a rotating circular calendar app with a unique interface, allowing a visual perception of time. Instead of the established linear perception of time known for over two thousand years, and in which the days keep going by, the new calendar enables a unique display of time periods in an orbit, on which users can, by turning it, travel forwards or backwards in time. CircleTime is a historic milestone in presenting time.

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