Mobile navigation design and tutorial

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One of the common challenges when designing responsive design for mobile is the navigation menu. If the site has many sections or pages, it gets challenging to squeeze all the items into a small mobile resolution. The navigation most likely ends up running into multiple lines or the buttons stacking on top each other.

Fender Pawnshop Amps

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New Pawn Shop Special amplifiers present a cool, unconventional take on amp design by evoking the enjoyably esoteric finds you might discover in a pawnshop or second-hand store.

These look really cool. I’d definitely like to try one of these.

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MarsEdit 3.5

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MarsEdit is the best blog editing tool for the Mac and I’ve had it on my computer for years. It was updated to version 3.5 today adding all kinds of new features.

Drum Werks XXII Ska Grooves

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Drum Werks XXII is our exclusive collection of Ska beats played by one of the top session players in L.A., versatile enough for traditional as well as modern interpretations of the ska genre.

Scoople

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Many thanks to Scoople for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop. It’s an app I’ve been using for some time.

Cast your vote on the most relevant Apple stories of the day. Predict how others in the community will vote. Win when you’re right. Get the free Scoople app.

The quietest place on Earth

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They say silence is golden – but there’s a room in the U.S that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time.The longest that anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes.

As the newspaper industry falls

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Bryan Larrick: The downfall of newspaper publishing is not something to shrug one’s shoulders at, like with Blockbuster falling apart. It is a genuine tragedy.

Apple’s sustainability

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John Gruber:

I agree with one thing: sustaining high profit margins is difficult. But where Denninger goes wrong is in assuming that competitors can easily or quickly copy what Apple is doing.

Copying the look of a piece of hardware is one thing, but copying the experience that Apple delivers is almost impossible.

Autism awareness, iPads and developers

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April is Autism Awareness Month and while more children than ever are being diagnosed with Autism, many are finding a bit of relief by using some form of modern technology like Apple’s iPad. […]

Fake Instagram app infects Android

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Tempted to try out the much talked about Instagram app? Well, be careful where you get it from – as malware authors are distributing malware disguised as the popular app.

It’s great to be open.

RIM says YouMail missed its opportunity to be relevant

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Alec Saunders, Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry, talking to YouMail CEO, Alex Quilici:

Alex, one (former) CEO to another, one entrepreneur to another – I think it’s time to hang up the spurs cowboy. From where I sit, it looks like YouMail needed to pivot five years ago to remain relevant, and you missed the window.

Nobody at RIM can ever talk to any company about missing the opportunity to be relevant.

[Via Curious Rat]

Bullshit

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Nathan Brookwood:

Android and iOS tablets do a yeoman’s job when it comes to consuming content, but lack the software tools and hardware features needed to create content. Windows-based tablets, which have been around since 2002, have always included the features needed for content creation, but lacked the easy to use interfaces needed for content consumption. The Metro User Interface in Windows 8 supplies these missing elements, and thus positions Win 8-based tablets as the only ones suitable for those who want to both create and consume content on a single device.

Bullshit.

Apple’s Flashback lesson

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Because it’s Apple, I think a lot of security companies tried to make the most of it, but users and Apple certainly have to be more aware in the future. This day has been coming for many, many years.

DropKey makes file encryption easy on the Mac

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Public-Key Cryptography, created in the 1970s, is a matched-pair encryption/decryption standard. Using this method, the sender and recipient share public encryption keys, thereby establishing a relationship of trust. After that occurs, files can be encrypted by one and decrypted by the other without using passwords. While Public-Key Cryptography can use a variety of levels of security, DropKey uses the 256-bit method, a well-established industry standard.

I talked to DropKey’s CEO Ian Schray, and what impresses me about the app is that it only takes one extra click to encrypt a file and send it in an email, then it does if you didn’t encrypt the file. I’ve tried file encryption software in the past and it was a real pain, but this looks really good.

Dolly Drive bills itself as Time Machine in the cloud

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Time Machine in the cloud and so much more. Extra space, file sharing, & all-in-one backup for people who love their Mac.

This looks really cool. Syncing, backup, cloning capabilities for a few dollars a month. It’ll be interesting to see how this does.

Apple wants a trial on e-Book pricing allegations

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Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations that it conspired with publishers to raise prices of electronic books, a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant said in court on Wednesday.

Blogsy for iPad adds Tumblr, Vimeo support

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I’ve been using this app for a little while now and the changes in this version make it even more useful. Support for featured images and custom fields are especially nice for me.

Apple vs Greenpeace

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Josh Ong for AppleInsider:

In the report, the organization dismissed Apple’s renewable energy efforts for its Maiden, N.C., server farm as providing just 10 percent of “their total generation.”The Cupertino, Calif., company quickly responded in a statement, according to NPR.“Our data center in North Carolina will draw about 20 megawatts at full capacity, and we are on track to supply more than 60 percent of that power on-site from renewable sources including a solar farm and fuel cell installation which will each be the largest of their kind in the country,” said spokeswoman Kristin Huguet. “We believe this industry-leading project will make Maiden the greenest data center ever built, and it will be joined next year by our new facility in Oregon running on 100 percent renewable energy.”

And then Greenpeace responded. I’d like to see Greenpeace actually do something about the companies that are making no or little effort at all.