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Last chance: Get lifetime access to OSTraining’s Web development video tutorials

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by on August 19, 2014 at 1:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers

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There’s never been a better opportunity to teach yourself Web development — whether you want to get up to speed with HTML, CSS and PHP, learn to work with and build projects on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla CMSes or improve search rankings with SEO. For a limited time, TNW Deals has an incredible offer on lifetime membership and access to over 1,800 in-depth web development course videos & monthly 400 page web design ebooks (each worth $40), and a new class releasing each week from the experts at OSTraining. With tutorials for beginners, experienced coders and everyone in between, OSTraining’s…

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Blurb branches out to low-cost trade books, e-books and mass distribution via Ingram

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by on August 19, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Since its launch in 2006, Blurb, the independent publishing pioneer of print-on-demand artistic tabletop tomes and illustrated magazines, has been popular with the creative community. Blurb’s platform, which hooks into apps like Adobe InDesign and Lightroom, lets artists and photographers plus a wide variety of others, create a printed showcase for their visual works. Today, Blurb has launched an initiative aimed at bringing even more diverse publications into the marketplace for mass distribution. First, Blurb is inaugurating three new trade book sizes – 5×8, 6×9 and 8×10 – complete with lower-cost, text-weight, uncoated paper. Second, it has announced a global retail distribution collaboration with Ingram Content…

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Myo integrates its gesture-tracking armband with Google Glass and other smartglasses

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by on August 19, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

Thalmic Labs has added support for smartglasses to its Myo gesture control armband. Supported headsets include Google Glass, Recon Jet and Epson Moverio. While wearing a heads-up display and an armband might seem inconvenient, the integration is intended for workplace environments like construction, healthcare, bike messengers and field service. The idea is that Myo can help in situations where you wouldn’t want a device in your hands. Initial partnerships include: Augmedix, a Google Glass app for physicians; APX Labs, an app for field workers at sites like wind mills and oil refineries; and Closeout by Bridgit, software for managing construction progress. The…

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Beautiful Open: A compendium of beautiful open source projects

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by on August 19, 2014 at 12:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Here’s a neat little online resource for you, courtesy of Chicago-based GroupOn developer Trek Glowacki. Beautiful Open is a compendium of beautifully-designed open source projects, showcasing everything from content management systems (CMS) to Javascript SVG libraries. The resource is growing all the time, and it accepts submissions from the community too, though naturally not all will make it through. ➤ Beautiful Open

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Report: India’s smartphone shipments jumped 84% in a year, still lots of room for growth

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by on August 19, 2014 at 12:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, India

Smartphones continue to grow at a fast pace in India. That’s according to the latest report from IDC, which says shipments in Q2 2014 grew 84 percent year-on-year and an impressive 11 percent quarter-on-quarter. Yet, despite those figures, there is plenty of scope for further development. IDC says feature phones accounted for a dominant 71 percent of all shipments in the last quarter, which echoes recent findings from Counterpoint Research. Like Counterpoint, IDC found that local player Micromax topped the list for smartphones and feature phones combined, but Samsung lead on smartphones. Going forward, IDC says the sub-$200 segment will be increasingly important as…

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