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I have been using this new MacBook Pro for over a month now and here's my quick review. I love the overall experience of using this new MacBook Pro. It’s definitely a good upgrade compared to its previous version. It’s thin and super light, making it easy to carry around. The touch bar, although not that useful yet, looks well designed and adds a nice touch to the overall look. The Force Touch trackpad is twice as its previous model, and the keyboard is improved and upgraded for better typing experience. Battery life and performance are few things that could have been improved even further. And the major downside I see is that it’s seriously overpriced! You will surely love the new MacBook Pro, but if it's worth the price is another story.

A former Stanford Professor has published his complete Digital Photography course and made it available to everyone. Currently a research engineer at Google, Marc Levoy has published a site containing his complete course materials for a class that he taught 5 times at Stanford and recently at Google. The videos, slides and other course materials are from his recent 2016 training class at Google. All the lectures included in the course were recorded from his live class delivered at the Google's Mountain View campus. The digital photography course consists of 18 lecture and here's what the course schedule looks like with the topics covered in the course. The course is based on his CS 178 (Digital Photography) class at Stanford, which he taught from 2009 through 2014. The course is suitable for digital photography enthusiasts of all level and requires no prior knowledge of photography. Head over to this class on Google sites and start learning Digital Photogr...

Find the browser experience distracting and want to publish Medium stories from your desktop? A new desktop app called sMedium makes it possible to publish on Medium directly from your desktop. The app is built by @gavindinubilo and is available to download for free. The app is only available for MacOS users. Few of the outstanding features of the APP include; Blazingly Fast Speed :  The App is written in electron and react making it super fast. Open Source : sMedium is open source and the code is available to explore on Github. Writing Experience: The app has almost similar writing experience to the Medium's web editor. Download sMedium | Checkout Github code

Google Developers has launched a certification program for software development agencies. Agencies can now apply to get certified and listed under Google developers’ certified Agencies. Google recommends an agency should have expertise in Google technologies and experience in building high-quality apps to be certified for the program. You can watch the introduction to Google developers agency program below. Google has already listed more than 15 Agencies in its directory and is inviting for more applications from the interested agencies. Google Developer Agency program helps agencies to receive dedicated training and access to their latest products and APIs. The certification can be really useful to agencies to gain recognition and validity to their high-quality work. Apart from being helpful to Agencies, the certification can also be helpful to others that are looking to hire agencies for their development works. Google had previously published Outsourcing Pl...

Design platform webflow has released a free ebook teaching the basics of design - Wed Design 101. The book published online has twelve chapters that go in details about the Visual design, Web Design, and Design Process. The book is mostly a beginner's guide suitable to refer to the basics of web design. To give you an idea, here's what the chapters look like; CHAPTER 1- Essential visual design principles for web designers  CHAPTER 2 - Color theory  CHAPTER 3 - Web typography 101  CHAPTER 4 - How element spacing works  CHAPTER 5 - UI design essentials  CHAPTER 6 - Designing for mobile  CHAPTER 7 - How to design interactions effectively  CHAPTER 8 - Building high-performing websites  CHAPTER 9 - How to design landing pages that convert  CHAPTER 10 - Why your design process should start with content  CHAPTER 11 - Always choose prototypes over mockups  CHAPTER 12 - The essential pre-launch checklist ...

What does the global internet community look like? Apart from top-level domain names such as .com that has 123 million registrations, what other domain names mark the global chart? An interesting study from Nominet reveals some surprising data on the global internet use. The result is a map visualising the online world based on the number of registrations within each country’s internet domain* —Example, .uk for the UK, .de for Germany, .cn for China, and so on. Here's what the online map and list of the countries look like. Don't forget to check out the full report that has some surprising results for countries like the USA and Tokelau??