350 million units: A story about Windows 8 on tablets

Windows 8 on tablets shows off the worst and the best of what Microsoft represents. A slavish amount of attention to backwards compatibility lives right alongside a bold, and most importantly unique, vision for the future of Windows on tablet computers. Honestly, it’s not that difficult to determine why so much of Windows 8 looks like, well, Windows. Ballmer gave the reasonshimselfin an appearance at a BUILD conference. “There is no phone, there is nothing on the tablet, there is no operating system on the planet that will ship 350 million units of anything other than Windows....

8 min · 1682 words · Maria Keller

365psd Bundle Raises Money for Japan

365psd, the site thatgives away a PSD file every day, has put together abundle to raise money for relief in Japanfollowing the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The bundle costs $5 and includes 28 premium resources for designers, from UI kits to icons and backgrounds. Customers who purchase 365Bundle will also be entered in a giveaway draw, which includes memberships atUpThemes, thePictosicon set, and several other prizes. 100% of the proceeds from365Bundlewill be given to theRed Crossfor use in Japan....

1 min · 179 words · Misty Anderson

365psd gives away free Photoshop files every day

365psdis a site that gives away a free Photoshop file every day of the year. Submitted by a variety of designers, the service offers other designers an easy way to beef up their collection of resources for use in both commercial and non-commercial projects. 365psd was founded byJonno Riekwel, a designer who was fed up with the growing pile of unused designs, discarded from projects that he’d poured hours into, sitting on his hard drive....

2 min · 289 words · Anna Bean

37signals launches Basecamp Mobile, a powerful new web app

37signals hasjust announcedthe launch of its newBasecamp Mobileweb app, allowing users of its popular collaboration tool to access the service from any device that features a WebKit browser. Instead of developing applications for each mobile platform, the 37signals team simply asks you to visithttp://basecamphq.com. Utilising powerful web technologies, Basecamp Mobile will work on any device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, or BlackBerry 6. All Basecamp projects will be available via the web interface, giving users the opportunity to post messages, read and add comments to project notices and milestones and create and complete project items....

2 min · 345 words · Steven Johnson

37signals: 321 of the Fortune 500 use Basecamp

For a company that has always talked about selling software toa neglected market, 37signals appears to be doing well for itself with popular names as well. In anew blog post, the company touts the statistic that 321 of the Fortune 500 useBasecamp, while 127 of them useHighrise. Breaking that down even further, there are some other interesting statistics when it comes to the Fortune 100 and Fortune 50: Basecamp is being used at…...

2 min · 277 words · Caitlin Hall
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