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BentoStack is back, and this time it’s bringing wireless charging to your workspace. Inspired by the modern Japanese lunchbox, the BentoStack Charge is a delightful storage case designed specifically to hold Apple accessories and keep them energized when you’re out and about. With a Qi-certified wireless charger and 5,000 mAh battery built into the Top Cover, you can keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and the like powered up without hunting for an outlet. Bring the whole box when you’re traveling around or just take the Top Cover for a quick jolt on the go.
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If you’re an Apple person, you’re probably saddled with all kinds of wires and chargers and when it comes time to charge all your devices, you’re stuck juggling everything. Eliminate the cable clutter with the iPM 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station, the only station that can charge your Qi-enabled iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple AirPods all at the same time. Wirelessly.
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Capable of stabilizing your phone for stunningly smooth shots, gimbals are already pretty impressive, but the MOZA Mini-MI goes one step further. Engineered with wireless charging tech, this smartphone gimbal keeps your device energized while you record. The Mini-MI sports a 5V input port for easy charging while you use it and comes with a trove of professional photo and video settings via the companion app. Using the built in buttons, you can focus, zoom, view photos, perform slow-motion time-lapses, panoramas and more to get the perfect shot.
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We all remember our old language classes from high school, filled with dry vocabulary and rehearsed sentences that make you come off about as convincing as a gas station burrito. Mondly takes a different approach to getting you fluent with the language of your choosing. Using state-of-the-art speech recognition, Mondly knows how to listen to your words and phrases and only gives positive feedback if you speak clearly and correctly. Combine this with Mondly’s roster of professional voice actors and its conversation-focused curriculum, and you’ll be well on your way to sounding like a true native after working through its fun and quick lessons.
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Access 5 new courses focused on lessons for restaurant staff, hotel receptionists, shop assistants, flight attendants and healthcare professionals.
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Learn a new language in a world of virtual creations brought straight to your room with MondlyAR. The new AR chapter is available on ARCore enabled devices: Samsung S7, S8, S9, Note 8; Google Pixel 1, 2; LG V30, V30+, ASUS Zenfone AR and OnePlus 5.
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iMazing calls itself the Swiss Army Knife of iPhone, iPad, and iPod management because it lets you truly manage your mobile data the way you want to. This all-purpose tool lets you easily browse and manage your backups, extract and print your text messages, drag and drop songs to your iPhone – all without jailbreaking your device. If you’ve ever upgraded or had to switch phones, you know the pain of leaving data behind. iMazing feels for you and wants to help!
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Everyday computer users are juggling huge amounts of data, so it makes sense that you’re taking care of that data responsibly. With Degoo you get 3TB of supremely secured cloud storage from which to manage and share files with awesome simplicity. With high speed transfers from a database that offers more storage than Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive combined, you’ll love how easy it is to keep tabs on all of your valuable data.
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Big changes are in store for the app market with iOS 12. Designed like an in-person coding bootcamp, this course can help you keep pace with the latest update and kickstart your next app adventure with more than 80 hours of training. Following a guided learning path, you’ll get your feet wet with essential development tools, like Swift 4 and Xcode 10, and even create a Slack clone.
Dip your feet into the world of WatchOS and build your own app in this course! Perfect for beginners, this course starts you off with the watchOS basics, showing you what makes it tick and how to set up a project environment. From there, you’ll get your hands dirty building an exercise app from scratch while learning about key WatchKit elements, including groups, interface pickers, and more.
User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design are two very different fields that work toward the same goal: create a functional product that’s a breeze for users to use and interact with. This course breaks down the differences between both and helps you apply this knowledge to your app-building pursuits. You’ll get hands-on training designing the home screen of an app, learn about microinteractions, and bring your project to life with InVision, a prototyping, collaboration and workflow tool designers use across the industry.
Intuitively built and packed with powerful features, Sketch is the digital design tool developers use to bring their apps to life. Jump into this Sketch 3 training, and you’ll go from design newbie to fluent mobile app designer in five hours. This course ditches the fluff you’d expect from other tutorials and gives you a concentrated dose of the Sketch fundamentals, walking you through the UI, layers, styling, typography, and more as you work through hands-on training and even design a chat app.
If you’re serious about becoming a developer, you’re going to need practice. Packed with hands-on projects and guided instruction, this course will build your macOS development skills by having you build several polished, full-stack applications. You’ll explore everything from UI design to front- and back-end development as you create a fully functional weather widget app and even a Slack clone.
The iOS 12 beta is here, and now is the best time to get your feet wet creating apps for it. Led by bona fide development pro Nick Walter, this no-fluff course takes you through the tools and skills required to create your own iOS 12 apps—regardless of your experience level. Using Swift 4 and Xcode 10, you’ll follow along step by step as you take on the coding fundamentals and look at building several app projects, including a Bitcoin tracker, to-do list app, and more over the course of 10 days.
Chances are you’ve heard of Adobe Photoshop, the most popular photo editing software on Earth, but do you really know the extent of its capabilities? With Photoshop, you can create almost any sort of visual art you can imagine, putting itself at the center of almost any type of creative project. In this course, you’ll learn how to create and enhance photos, web designs, mobile designs, 3D artwork, videos, and more in Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics software, used by designers the world over to create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and more complex illustrations. Whether you’re designing for print, web, video, or anything else, Illustrator is a go-to program. In this course, you’ll get step-by-step instruction on mastering this Illustrator from scratch.
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Adobe InDesign is a layout software that takes images and text and lays them out across pages. It’s great for working with multi-page documents like books, magazines, brochures, and portfolios and can even be used to create business cards, flyers, posters, and more. If you want to be a Graphic Designer, you absolutely have to know Adobe InDesign. In this course, you’ll get an introduction to this powerful program and eventually progress to more advanced techniques.
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Adobe Flash/Animate is an animation and interactive media industry standard software. You can use it to create animation projects like short films, commercials, and even longer ones like television shows. It’s best utilized, however, in conjunction with other Adobe software like Premiere and After Effects. This course will show you how to maximize these programs to create compelling animation.
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Adobe After Effects is a motion media, compositing, animation, and special effects software used for film and television post-production, editing photos, and much more. In this course, you’ll get an in-depth introduction to After Effects and all the tools and effects in the workspace. You’ll learn how to create and animate primitive shapes and move onto a simple bouncing ball before mastering advanced techniques.
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If you want to make visually stunning video, Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the best tools you can use. This editing software allows you to edit virtually any type of media in its native format and create professional-quality productions with brilliant color. No experience necessary, as this course will start you off with the basics.
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When you think of animation, movies and cartoons probably come to mind. But animation also encompasses video games, interactive media, event reconstruction, education, and so much more. It helps explain difficult concepts in a visual way, which keeps animators in demand in a wide range of fields. In this course, you’ll get a crash course in working with animation in Adobe Flash/Animate.
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C++ is one of the most important programming languages in software development but many people never learn it because it can be exceedingly difficult. In this step-by-step course, you’ll learn the basics of C++ gradually through hands-on guidance. You won’t be thrust into any complicated programming too fast and you’re free to learn at your own pace. By course’s end, you’ll have a solid foundation from which to build on.
If you’ve always wanted to build and design your own website, this course is the ideal place to start. The instructor makes it look easy, taking you through the latest Web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, and even some jQuery. By building projects alongside the video instruction, you’ll get a true hands-on feel for the basic building blocks of the web you surf daily.
JavaScript is one of the cornerstones of the web and absolutely essential to learn if you want to do any kind of web development. In this course, you’ll develop the core skills you need to apply JavaScript to your web projects. Ideal for beginners, JavaScript is relatively easy to get started with yet it’s an excellent gateway to learning other scripting languages.
C# is a multi-paradigm programming language providing support for software engineering principles such as strong type checking, array bound checking, automatic garbage collection, and more. The newest release, C# 7 has a host of new features to build powerful cross-platform apps. In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to start developing applications using C# 7’s newest features, as well as the newest version of the .NET Core.
Google Go, or Golang, has taken the world by storm due to its system-level access and a design that allows programmers to create multi-core programs. It’s the first development language designed specifically for the multi-core CPU computers that have been on the market for the last decade or so. As you may suspect, it was created by developers at Google to solve deficiencies they were facing with conventional computer languages and is an extremely valuable language to know in the 21st century.
Java is one of the most commonly used programming languages on earth, having contributed to just about every web app or website. If you’ve ever been interested in programming, then the simplicity and flexibility of Java is the perfect place to start. By the end of this course, you’ll be writing full programs like a pro.
Git is the most widely-used and supported distributed version control system used by software engineering professionals. It’s a protocol that streamlines programming by batch tracking the history of file edits, allowing developers to pinpoint the source and time of any change. Learn to handle any size project quickly and efficiently with this complete Git course.
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