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- 30 Best Cursive Fonts
Cursive fonts add a beautiful touch to any piece of typography works. Here is a list of top 30 cursive fonts you will surely love. Check this out!
- What Does ‘Always Listening’ Mean to Your UX?
In essence, they were two ends of the same spectrum, demonstrating how computers interact with us instead of us interacting with them, with computers being the active initiator, instead of the passive responder to our instructions.
- Publishing Consultants Want to Foster Competition Among Retailers by Making Consumers Miserable
“But then I see articles like this one in Publishers Weekly, about competing with Amazon on print and digital fronts, and I start to wonder.
Most of the article is all right, talking about the size of Amazon’s influence in the industry and what various businesses are doing to try to compete. As far as the size goes, I have to admit the figures they came up with are impressive. If those figures can be believed, Amazon is responsible for 41% of all book purchases, whether on-line or in a store, 65% of all online book units, and 67% of e‑book units.”
- Letterpress Printing at P98a
Last week Erik Spiekermann published a video about his letterpress shop at P98a in Berlin. Even though the audience at large mainly knows him as a successful and acclaimed “digital” designer (290K followers on Twitter, anyone?), creator of some very popular digital typefaces, letterpress has been a constant factor in his career. During his studies at Berlin’s Free University Erik funded himself by running a letterpress printing press in the basement of his house (which famously burned down in the seventies), and last year you could find him hard at work at the TYPO Berlin 2013 Printing Workshop in the foyer of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
- 4 Google Analytics custom variables every publisher should use
Adding a few basic custom variables to a Google Analytics setup can give publishers so many more insights. Custom variables, which Google defines as “name-value pair tags that you can insert in your tracking code in order to refine Google Analytics tracking,” are one of the most underutilized segmentation tools. (If you’re not familiar with the concept, I recommend reading Justin Cutroni’s comprehensive post on mastering custom variables.)
- Transform WordPress into a WYSIWYG with MotoPress
MotoPress is an exciting plugin that actually replaces the default WordPress editor, providing all of the same functionality, and then some.
Check out the awesome demo.
- Secure the Social Media Accounts of Your Business
Everyone on this site loves to have good long talks about what you can do to make your social media account more successful, and that’s great. But it also makes you a target. Hackers love stealing popular social media accounts as unpopular ones are no good to them, read on and I’ll help you keep that popular social media account under your control!
- Apple’s Next Reality Distorter: Jimmy Iovine
“Mr. Iovine’s irrepressible spirit — and his willingness to simply declare something to be reality regardless of the complexity of the facts — bears a marked resemblance to the “reality distortion field” that Mr. Jobs so famously emanated.” – The New York Times’ Bits blog
- For Brands, Apps Are A Big Bust
Apps are one of the biggest examples, he says. “You can see how a marketing exec would look at the stats and say, ’85% of the time consumers spend on smartphones is with apps, so we need an app – fast.’ But the reality is that three-quarters of that time is spent on gaming, Facebook, YouTube or social messaging.” No wonder almost 40% of brand apps have never even been reviewed by a user, and only 6% remain active on a featured list, he says.