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Mobile ad network StartApp partners with marketplace Fiverr to let its developers buy app graphics

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Developers on mobile advertising platform StartApp can now buy graphics for their mobile apps, including app icons and user interface designs, from Fiverr, the Task Rabbit-rivaling startup that serves as a microtask marketplace for people to buy and sell services starting from $5. This comes as the two companies inked a partnership to help developers tap on the freelance community present on Fiverr.   StartApp developers can find app-related graphics on a specific Fiverr-StartApp landing page. StartApp CEO Gil Dudkiewicz believes that Fiverr’s community will be able to provide for the demand from developers on StartApp: When developing a mobile app, the small…

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Flexibits’ Fantastical calendar app is now available on iPad

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 12:16 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Fantastical has been a perennially popular app here at TNW Towers. Kicking off as a Mac app initially, developers Flexibits launched a version of its slick calendar application for iPhone way back in 2012, before giving it a slew of new features last March and then basically overhauling it for iOS 7 six months later. Today Flexibits has finally launched a version of Fantastical for iPad, news which is sure to warm the cockles of its users’ hearts around the world. Fantastical 2 for iPad Those wishing to use Fantastical 2 on the move from their iPhone will likely have…

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Flexibits’ Fantastical calendar app is now available on iPad

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 12:16 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

20140331_165103
Fantastical has been a perennially popular app here at TNW Towers. Kicking off as a Mac app initially, developers Flexibits launched a version of its slick calendar application for iPhone way back in 2012, before giving it a slew of new features last March and then basically overhauling it for iOS 7 six months later. Today Flexibits has finally launched a version of Fantastical for iPad, news which is sure to warm the cockles of its users’ hearts around the world. Fantastical 2 for iPad Those wishing to use Fantastical 2 on the move from their iPhone will likely have…

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Adblock Plus publishes Acceptable Ads manifesto, with support from Reddit and others

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Adblock Plus today unveiled a set of guidelines for its “Acceptable Ads” initiative in the form of an online manifesto. The company’s goal is to define how a reasonable ad should look and behave so that ad blocking can only encompass annoying ads. The manifesto has five basic tenets: Acceptable Ads are not annoying. Acceptable Ads do not disrupt or distort the page content we’re trying to read. Acceptable Ads are transparent with us about being an ad. Acceptable Ads are effective without shouting at us. Acceptable Ads are appropriate to the site that we are on. The manifesto has…

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Adblock Plus publishes Acceptable Ads manifesto, with support from Reddit and others

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Adblock Plus today unveiled a set of guidelines for its “Acceptable Ads” initiative in the form of an online manifesto. The company’s goal is to define how a reasonable ad should look and behave so that ad blocking can only encompass annoying ads. The manifesto has five basic tenets: Acceptable Ads are not annoying. Acceptable Ads do not disrupt or distort the page content we’re trying to read. Acceptable Ads are transparent with us about being an ad. Acceptable Ads are effective without shouting at us. Acceptable Ads are appropriate to the site that we are on. The manifesto has…

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