Prime8 – the weekly GGA web roundup 13/10/14

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Here’s this weeks news roundup…

10 of the best current web designs
A gentle start to this weeks Prime8. Econsultancy have just listed their favourite web designs at the moment. If your site doesn’t look as good as any of these then, basically, you’re screwed. Or you could just give us a ring of course…
 
 
The fake Adobe hack
Most companies have some form of Adobe creative software on their systems (all legal of course, right?) but, lets be honest, it costs a flippin fortune. Here’s how to get get an equivalent(ish) version of Adobe Creative Suite for free.
 
 
Text messaging is SO last week
What? You still do text? Lol!
Whatsapp? Get with it you old fool!
Slack? Erm, yeah that’s still ok.
But you’re not doing messaging right until you’re using ComiXchat!
Seriously though – it is awesome fun. Read why here and then give it a go yourselves.
 
 
Go viral, step-by-step
Here’s a nice tutorial on how to dramatically grow the audience views of your marketing content from HustleCon’s Sam Parr. It’s a really good article but beware: it’s language is +10 on the Californian Hipster scale.
 
 
Don’t let your job kill you
Nowadays more and more of us are facing burnout at work (well I’m not but then I am a stone-cold machine) due to stress/boredom/wanting to brain work colleagues etc. Here’s a video that shows you how to ’survive your 9 to 5’.

 
About those smartwatches…
How the hullabaloo of the Apples smartwatch has died down and the market is ramping up for an explosion of next-gen wrist-based tech, people are starting to ask ‘why bother?’. This video/article offers up some positives of owning a smartwatch. You may as well give in. You know we’ll all be wearing them in a year.

 
GGA’s website of the week:
If you’ve got kids (or you’re just a massive child like me) then you’re probably drowning in a sea of Boxtrolls-related excitement and merchandise. This site won’t help but it’ll certainly keep you entertained!
 
 
… and finally.
You know that ‘Apple forcing the U2 album down everyone’s throats’ fiasco from a few weeks back? Seems Microsoft are jumping on the rock band/tech crossover with the launch of Windows 10

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