Learning to become a failure

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Robyn Morris:

Being a good designer means having a spirit of exploration and being OK with the reality that things may not always end up how you planned.

That can be applied to many professions.

The Name Your Own Price Adventure Gamer Bundle

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StackSocial, the web’s leading digital commerce platform, has partnered with six gaming publishers to launch the Name Your Own Price Adventure Gamer Bundle. Get 6 top adventure games for Mac. Donate to charity. Name Your Own Price. Purchase and enter … Continued

Amplified: Dan Seacrest

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Jim and Dan talk about CocoaConf Alt, the status of Apple Displays and Macs at WWDC, spider bites, laptop bags, Spock vs. Spock, 100 million copies of Windows 8, and Megadeth.

Sponsored by Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off), Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME5 for 30% off), and Squarespace (use code DANSENTME5 for 10% off).

About those 100 million Windows 8 sales

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Gene Steinberg:

Microsoft earns most of its keep selling software licenses to OEMs, who bundle Windows with a new PC, any PC. So, yes, I suppose it’s possible that Microsoft has booked 100 million sales into its ledgers. But that doesn’t mean that 100 million copies of Windows 8, or anything close to that number, are in the hands of end users. It may also be true that there are tens of millions of unsold PCs in the channel. But that doesn’t matter to Microsoft, since a sale is a sale even if nobody is actually using the product.

That puts a whole different spin on things.

CocoaConf Alt canceled for WWDC

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CocoaConf Alt was a conference that was organized for the week of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for all of the attendees that couldn’t get tickets for Apple’s event. However, organizers of CocoaConf Alt contacted attendees this morning and said the event has been canceled. […]

Apps are too cheap

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Dave Addey wrote a great piece about the state of app pricing and what can be done about it. Definitely worth a read.

The future of Adobe Fireworks

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While we are not planning further feature development for Fireworks, we will continue to sell Fireworks CS6 as well as make it available as part of the Creative Cloud. We will provide security updates as necessary and may provide bug fixes. We plan to update Fireworks to support the next major releases of both Mac OS X and Windows.

iOS 7 wish list

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Federico Viticci has a long list of features and improvements that he would like to see in the next version of iOS. Some will never make to the operating system, but there are others that I would never of even thought of, like separate language support for Maps.

The Name Your Own Price Mac Bundle 2.0

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Many thanks to StackSocial for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week. StackSocial proudly presents the Name Your Own Price Mac Bundle 2.0. Get 10 essential Mac Apps. Donate to charity. Name Your Own Price. Take the top spot on … Continued