Google vs. Facebook on Places
The launch of Facebook’s location service ratchets up the competition with Google Places, as both compete for local advertising.
The launch of Facebook’s location service ratchets up the competition with Google Places, as both compete for local advertising.
Apple will shut down the Quattro Wireless advertising network it acquired this year and will support its new iAd network exclusively as of Sept. 30, according to a letter Apple sent to Quattro clients.
This latest version of PhotoPlus may not reach Photoshop levels, but that’s definitely where it wants to be – and it’s not far off. Unlike many competitors, it offers help without patronising you, it doesn’t force you to use wizard-based interfaces instead of getting things done, and it doesn’t have to pull back for fear of cutting into the sales of a more expensive edition. As well as doing much of Photoshop’s job, PhotoPlus X4 looks very much like it – the layout is similar and many of the tools work in exactly the same way. The left-hand toolbox contains a range of Photoshop-equivalent tools with similar icons. There’s a Paintbrush tool that offers different brush shapes and sizes, and a Text tool with all the options you’d expect.
Although it’s only been out for a matter of months, the iPad already has dozens of great apps available for it. Some are universal, optimising themselves accordingly for your iPad or iPhone. Some are ‘upgrades’ of iPhone apps, reworked for iPad. And some are entirely new apps, designed specifically for Apple’s table.
Voting has opened in .net magazine’s annual Awards – a celebration of the very best in web design and development. The .net Awards website ( http://www.thenetawards.com ), in association with Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, is open now for voting across 16 wide-ranging categories. These include Web App of the Year, Best API Use and Design Agency, with nominees ranging from Instapaper to Modernizr; Wikileaks to the Muppets. Jeff, Paul and Molly Held annually since 1998, the long-running .net Awards combine the votes of the public with those of a leading panel of over 100 industry judges, including the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Paul Boag and Molly Holzschlag, who will deliberate on the final shortlist
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