From killer new productivity apps, to some of the most addicting games to ever land on the iPhone, you’d be forgiven for not being able to choose the best new offerings.
For designers, there’s a point early in the design process when you just need to put hand to paper and start brainstorming—fast. LayUp, a forthcoming iPad app for Adobe’s Creative Cloud, promises to let designers do just that.
A Sneak Peek at Adobe's Smart New iPad App for Designers | WIRED
The internet giants make this sort of thing look easy, but they have deep pockets and huge teams of engineers at their disposal. For the little guys, building similar interfaces can take months or even years, says Geoff Schmidt, the software developer behind the coding-tools maker, Meteor.
An Open Source Platform That Makes Building Apps Cheap and Easy | WIRED
Mobile’s momentum has not slowed down yet, as new data shows that Web traffic from mobile and tablet devices jumped 50 percent over the past year.
Mobile Web Traffic Jumps 50% – 'Net Features – Website Magazine.
Copyblogger calls this practice digital sharecropping, and it works in a similar fashion to the the feudal system, where the landlords reap the rewards, and the peasants do all the work.
We don’t know which empires will stand strong in the future. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn change their terms and conditions on a regular basis, and as tenants, we don’t know what they have in store for us.
Why you should consider investing in digital real estate – The Next Web
Is there anyone who failed to notice the colossal growth of mobile sector within the past years? Undoubtedly, smartphones and tablets have become indispensable in people’s lives. The competition between vendors has driven prices down, making mobile communication affordable to a much wider market. The swell of mobile traffic, estimated around 125 percent within the past year and the number of mobile visits, which has grown around 10 times faster, than desktop, can only be described as a worldwide “mobile triumph”!
Monetization of Mobile Traffic: How to Solve the Puzzle – Website Magazine
This stat is interesting as most apps come in two different versions nowadays – free with ads and paid with no ads. That data implies that consumers are choosing free content over premium content with no ads, and developers are launching more free apps to satisfy this demand.
Now, after releasing an iPhone app and an Android app, and starting work on a Windows 8 app, Flipboard is coming full circle by making its signature experience available as a website you can browse on your desktop.
Mobile-Only Flipboard Lands on Desktops for the First Time | Wired.com
There are two ways to create Kuler color themes on the iPhone: using the color wheel, and using the camera. The color wheel is exactly the same as the redesigned color wheel on Kuler’s website — you drag small circles around the wheel to create millions of color themes. You also have the standard rules at your disposal (analogous, monochromatic, triad, complementary, etc.) to generate a multi-color palette using your chosen color as a starting point. You also have the ability to change hex values for one or all of the colors in your theme.
Extract Colors From Your Surroundings With Adobe's Kuler App | Wired.com
For Android, iPhone and iPad to get your fingers moving…
30 top apps for making music on your mobile device | The Next Web
Website Magazine has compiled a list of some of the year’s best mobile applications to help digital professionals more efficiently complete tasks, as well as stay in touch with their business while on the move… Read more: 12 Top Mobile Apps for Web Workers – Website Magazine