Leap Motion, creators of a motion-control device that allows interaction with a computer interface through hand movements, has announced a partnership with Hewlett Packard that will embed gesture control directly within HP hardware and get this technology out to more mainstream consumers.
The Leap Motion device was already scheduled for a standalone launch on May 13, and the announcement calls for it to be bundled with HP products beginning this summer.
It’s pretty safe to say at this point, that this “computer thing” is a bit more than just a fad. Programming, designing and running your own website have become full-time careers across every single industry imaginable. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or a complete amateur, there’s still plenty of ways to learn the ropes.
Taking hands-on classes has always been the best approach, and with a Train Simple membership, you can quickly and easily master Web Design including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and WordPress, as well as powerful, professional Adobe programs including Photoshop,Illustrator, Dreamweaver and InDesign. Still need some incentive to take that first step? How does 50% off your training sound?
Charging it will offer a "superior value for Sprint shareholders," Dish Network on Monday announced it was making a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel.
Dish is offering Sprint shareholders $17.3 billion in cash plus $8.2 billion in stock. Dish's bid of $7 a share is a 12.5% premium over Sprint's closing price on Friday. However, Monday morning Sprint's shares were up about 15% to $7.18 on the news. Dish's bid comes as Japan's SoftBank in October agreed to buy a 70% stake in Sprint.
One of the most common struggles in freelancing is making sure that you get paid enough for your time and effort for every project. Determining the right price for the job can be a difficult assessment to make. As a result, we freelancers have to be stingy in offering discount prices.
In fact, you may be wondering why you would ever want to offer discount pricing, and you may be right.
If you are backed up for months on projects to complete, then you probably do not need to offer a price discount. And sometimes being too quick to take up a project for a lower price can hurt the perceived quality of your work. Some clients would rather go with a higher priced freelancer than a lower priced one simply because they believe the quality of work to be better.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the industry-standard image editing software. It's a verb. For some projects — say, making unbelievable hi-res versions of scenes from Metroid — there's no substitute. But like most professional software, it's crazy expensive.
If you're a bona fide student, you can pick up a student version of Photoshop CS6 for $320. But for the rest of us, if you want a legal copy, you're looking at software that could very well cost more than your laptop. It makes sense to buy CS6 on sale. Right now, Officemax has a 20% off code that — surprise! — even works on expensive software, including Photoshop CS6. The code SAVE20 knocks the price of a retail copy down to $560, which is a historically notable price. Pick it up, and get shoopin'.
The new Solomon type family includes 12 very unique design styles. These twelve designs are divided into two main style groups, text family and display (or decorative) family. The Solomon text pack is characterized by excellent legibility, well-finished geometric designs, optimized kerning etc. Solomon is most suitable for headlines of all sizes, as well as for text blocks that come in both maximum and minimum variations.
Shopping is easier now more than ever and we’re not just talking about being able to shop from the comforts of home. You can now check for the latest prices in multiple catalogs, availability of products, comparison of prices, special promotions, discounts, reviews and lowest prices on your smartphone.
Save time, trips and money by going through your grocery list quick and easy. Some of these apps even reward you for being an avid shopper and lets you join forces with other savvy shoppers to find the best prices for anything you can find under the sun.
Deals of the Week is a weekly curation of products and services for creative professionals.. Don’t expect to see the same deal a month or even a week from now. Act quick and get your money’s worth. We have no interest in providing you with dull deal. It’s quite simple really, we ask ourselves if we would by the product. If the answer is yes, then it’s on the list. Happy Shopping!
Small businesses have limited resources and every decision is crucial. You need to know when to jump on an opportunity and when it’s too good to be true. And no one knows how to do this better than uber businessman Warren Buffett.
In the book “How To Close A Deal Like Warren Buffett,” authors Tom Searcy and Henry Devries examine Buffett’s decision-making traits to see what he looks for when closing deals.
“Warren is famous for doing enormous deals with as little information as a few pages of business plans and the standard financials that a company would submit to a bank in order to qualify for a loan,” Searcy and Devries write, adding that business leaders can use this set of principles and effective strategies to gain “explosive, major growth” for their own businesses. Here are four ways to follow Buffett’s lead when it comes to closing deals for your own company.
Well Black Friday is over. Maybe you scored some deals, maybe you stayed in this year. Either way, Cyber Monday is here to drag you back for another round of insanely discounted shopping. We found, ranked, and sorted all the Cyber Monday deals (and non-deals) for you. Here's your definitive guide for Digital Shopping D-Day.
The most important external variable to the success of your business is whether or not you had great parents. But you can’t do anything about that. The next most important? Having the right deals in place, at the right times. No one has the team, the resources and the reach to succeed by themselves. Well-constructed partnerships, carefully-structured joint ventures, and timely endorsements help a start-up build its brand, credibility, momentum and customer base.
Web and graphic designers are in the fortunate position of having a lot of quality free resources at their disposal. The huge number of blogs and websites in the industry and the massive audience of designers has led to a number of websites and blogs that distribute valuable resources for free.
Designers can often get things like textures, Photoshop brushes, icons, vectors, and even website templates for free. The difficult part can be finding the freebies and finding the right blogs to follow in order to know when new freebies are released. To save some of your time I have compiled a list of the best blogs to follow if you want to get your hands on these free resources.
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Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed.
Working in the creative field means you are an open target for criticism. Someone doesn’t like your photography work, they think you’re a bad writer, or your prices are unfair. And as freelancers, it can be hard not to take criticism—no matter how well meaning—personally.
Life and relationships aren't always perfect. Take a minute to think of some difficult people you have to deal with in your life? These may be people you work with, the in-laws that come to town throughout the year, or your neighbor who can’t seem to take a hint. For whatever reason, you're just not jiving with these people.
Google was close to a deal to get Facebook user data into its search engine back in 2009, but talks broke down over privacy concerns and fear that Google would use Facebook's data to help build a competing social network.
That's according to a bombshell of an update at the end of this excellent post by John Battelle on the current Google+ search controversy.
As you may have heard, flooding in Thailand last year damaged factories involved in hard-drive production, creating shortages and sending drive prices skyrocketing in the last couple months.
Indeed, back in October, today's deal wouldn't have been much of a deal at all. Today, it's downright stellar.
Like many other billionaires, Philip Anschutz engages in sophisticated financial transactions. Controversially, he used complex financial instruments known as variable prepaid forward contracts hoping to avoid a whopping $144 million in capital gains taxes. The Tax Court disallowed the deals saying the taxes were due and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed. See Anschutz Co. v. Commissioner.
Comcast has re-upped its distribution deal with Disney, which means the country’s largest cable company will continue to pipe programming from ABC, ESPN and other channels into its subscribers’ homes for another 10 years.
