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Someone snuck a retro Nintendo emulator onto Apple’s App Store

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Apple staff are probably scrambling to have it taken down right now, but Floppy Cloud, a file management app, is (not so) secretly also an emulator that runs old-school Nintendo games. If you ‘obtain’ an NES or SNES ROM and throw it into your Dropbox account, then connect that account to Floppy Cloud, you can open the ROMs and play the game right there on your iOS device. It isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of thing – arcade machine emulator MAME emerges in some form every now and then – but full marks to the developer of Floppy…

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Sony decides to screen The Interview on Christmas Day in select theaters after all

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 5:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Well this a surprise. Or maybe it’s not. It’s hard to keep up with what Sony is thinking lately. It looks like Sony will be sending out prints of The Interview to theaters for a Christmas Day showing and will reportedly put the movie on streaming services. In a statement Sony CEO Micahel Lynton said, “We have never given up on releasing The Interview, and we’re excited our movie will be in a number of theaters on Christmas Day.” One of those theaters — The Plaza in Atlanta — tweeted that it will be showing the movie until January. Breaking Plaza…

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20 creative ways to test your design

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 3:57 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's

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Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — a wireframing and prototyping app with built-in usability testing — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping platform. To learn how to conduct 20 different types of usability tests, check out The Guide to Usability Testing. Tests that incorporate elements from one or more of the previous categories (scripted, decontextualized, natural tests) fall under the label of hybrid tests. These tests tend to lean towards capturing attitudinal and conceptual feedback, but nonetheless reveal insights that have very specific impact on the usability of the final design.…

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20 creative ways to test your design

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 3:57 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's

hybridtest
Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — a wireframing and prototyping app with built-in usability testing — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping platform. To learn how to conduct 20 different types of usability tests, check out The Guide to Usability Testing. Tests that incorporate elements from one or more of the previous categories (scripted, decontextualized, natural tests) fall under the label of hybrid tests. These tests tend to lean towards capturing attitudinal and conceptual feedback, but nonetheless reveal insights that have very specific impact on the usability of the final design.…

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Giveaway: Choose your own Android smartwatch

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 3:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Offers

A smartwatch is the perfect accessory for any gadget aficionado. The latest crop of Android Wear-based devices for your wrist can deliver notifications from your favorite apps, alert you about weather, traffic and your next flight, guide you to your next destination and even send texts and set reminders with voice control. And they’re good-looking to boot. Because we’re bursting with holiday spirit, we’re giving away a premium smartwatch! Enter now to win and pick your prize: the Moto 360, the Samsung Gear 2 or the LG G Watch R. Just visit the Giveaway page and submit your email address…

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