Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Craft Prototype for Sketch Out of Beta

  For quite some time, designers who relied on Sketch to map out their next app or website wanted the ability to prototype. Now there's Craft Prototype, a new tool in the suite of free Craft (and P…
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  Kotlin Now an Official Android Language

  [caption id="attachment_141714" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Android Kotlin[/caption] Kotlin is now an official language for Android. At this year's edition of its annual I/O conference, Goo…
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  Apple May Drop the iPad Mini: Report

  According to a new report, Apple may discontinue the iPad mini. The device, released before the rise of plus-size "phablet" phones, is supposedly suffering from dwindling sales numbers. As quoted…
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  GitHub Brings Electron to Desktop, Updates Atom

  [caption id="attachment_140549" align="aligncenter" width="4003"] GitHub offices in San Francisco.[/caption] GitHub is changing things up for desktop users. New betas of its popular Windows and M…
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  Microsoft Blames NSA for 'WannaCry' Ransomware

  [caption id="attachment_141656" align="aligncenter" width="3982"] WannaCry ransomware[/caption] WannaCry, ransomware that disables a PC user's file access until hackers are paid, has come back wi…
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  Android Wear is in Trouble: Study

  [caption id="attachment_141663" align="aligncenter" width="6000"] Android Wear at Google IO[/caption] Things are not looking good for Android Wear. In a recent study from Strategy Analytics, Sams…
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  Xamarin Live Lets Devs Debug Native Apps Quickly

  [caption id="attachment_141626" align="aligncenter" width="3578"] Xamarin Live[/caption] On the heels of releasing Visual Studio for Mac at this week's Build conference, Microsoft is unveiling ne…
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  Build: What 'Intelligent Cloud, Intelligent Edge' Means

  [caption id="attachment_141606" align="aligncenter" width="3305"] The Cloud at Build 2017[/caption] At this year's Build conference, Microsoft offered some interesting new tools for developers, b…
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  Azure Cosmos: New Database for the Mobile Era

  [caption id="attachment_141596" align="aligncenter" width="2549"] Azure Cosmos[/caption] In an effort to power “planet-scale cloud services and data-intensive applications,” Microsoft is releasin…
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  Build: Visual Studio for Mac Available for All

  [caption id="attachment_141586" align="aligncenter" width="2880"] Visual Studio for Mac[/caption] At Build 2017, Microsoft announced general availability for the Mac version of Visual Studio. It’…