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Real-time Updates Arrive In Facebook's App Dashboard

Continuing with recent performance enhancements to its Graph API, Facebook has just announced that it is bringing in real-time updates to the developer App Dashboard. Most importantly, today’s move now allows developers to…

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GitHub Redesigns Its Developer Profile Pages

GitHub, the popular collaborative coding hub for developers, has just released redesigned user profile pages, featuring larger, Retina-friendly avatars and a more personal feel overall. As you’ll see below, the Repositories…

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Amazon To Feature Apps On New Kindle Fire Tablet 'Billboards'

One of the key drivers for success for any mobile app developer is discoverability: potential customers or users actually being able to find their app(s) in one of the many…

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Stripe Kicks Off International Expansion With Canada

Stripe, the popular US-based payments startup that lets developers accept credit cards online, has announced its plans for international expansion, starting with Canada. Stripe has always made it possible for customers to…

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Treehouse Launches Android & iOS Courses

The hope and enthusiasm surrounding the “learn to code” movement exists for a very good reason: the world desperately needs more talented developers, and it needs them pretty much everywhere….

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Milwaukee May Have The Coolest Police Department Site, Ever

Created by Cramer-Krasselt Milwaukee and LISS Interactive, the Police Department of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has a website that will absolutely blow you away. Reportedly built pro bono by the above creative agencies, the official Milwaukee Police Department site features a slick,…

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TripIt Gets An Unofficial But Slick Redesign

TripIt, the trip planning and itinerary app for the Web, iOS and Android, is a great tool for travelers, but boy is it ugly. One you get past the loading screen, the…

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Nokia Confirms Amazon Is Licensing Its 'Location Platform'

It’s not that a big surprise anymore, after Reuters earlier reported that Amazon teamed up with Nokia for mapping services, but to my knowledge the Finnish smartphone and mobile software…

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30 New Typefaces You Need To Know About

Anyone who’s tried their hand at designing a typeface will know that it’s a wildly difficult process, and to actually come out at the end with something beautiful takes an…

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What You Need to Know to Pair Fonts Well

Typography is one of the elements of design that some designers tend to struggle with the most, and is often the one thing that can make or break a design….

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xScope Web Design Tool Gets Retina Update

Behind unavoidable apps like Photoshop, xScope is one of those tools that nearly every Web designer needs. But even if you haven’t come across the app before, xScope’s measuring, inspecting & testing…

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USA Today Will Soon Release a Complete Redesign

USA Today is gearing up to release a complete redesign on all fronts this Friday, reports Ad Age, featuring a bold new look for its print publication and website, as well…

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eBay Releases A Completely Redesigned Logo

After seventeen years, eBay has finally redesigned its logo. The company is moving away from its rather experimental, overlaid logotype in favor a much more straight-forward design. eBay says the…

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Apps World Europe Hits London Next Month

The incredible growth of the app economy over the past few years has seen an industry comprising coders, designers, publishers, analytics firms, marketers, operators and more develop. The Apps World…

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Instagram Updates Mobile Photo Pages to Match Web Version

After all the Apple hoopla, Instagram today announced it has revamped its mobile photo pages, both in design and function, for its 100 million users. In terms of design, they…