September 3rd, 2010
In less than two days, Apple’s Ping music social network has surpassed the 1 million user milestone.
Apple introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10 at its music event earlier this week. It is a music-centric social network where users can follow updates from both their friends and their… read more
September 3rd, 2010
WordPress: Frameworks And Blank Themes
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September 3rd, 2010
Google has agreed to pay a hefty sum to make a class action lawsuit concerning Google Buzz disappear — $8.5 million, to be exact.
The lawsuit dates back to February, when lawyers filed a class action complaint against Google on behalf of Eva Hibnick, a 24-year-old Florida resident and Harvard Law… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Why Your Website is More Valuable Than Facebook
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September 3rd, 2010
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: Sprout Social
Quick Pitch: Sprout Social delivers comprehensive tools that… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Typography is one of the most—if not the most—important aspects of Web design. Some would argue that it takes up to 95% of web design . . . so why do we often neglect its importance? The readers that come to your site will often decide whether or not to… read more
September 3rd, 2010
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Luis Suarez has a dream, and it’s one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to — a world without e-mail.
In fact, it could be argued that Suarez is living the dream. In less than three years, he’s been able to reduce 90% of… read more
September 3rd, 2010
In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook and web content — based on “Likes” and shares.
Facebook appears to have… read more
September 3rd, 2010
A Showcase of Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs
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September 3rd, 2010
Happy Labor Day weekend, folks! I’m guessing that many of you are heading home this fine Friday to dine and drink with friends and merry relations. Well, you know what happens when you get scads of loved ones together in one room? Dark truths are revealed (that and Aunt Marge’s… read more
September 3rd, 2010
FAQs of Logo Designing – a Designer’s Perspective
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September 3rd, 2010
Japanese Poster Art: Creative and Inspiring Collection
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September 3rd, 2010
Today, NVIDIA announced the GeForce 400M Series, a major addition to its lineup of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs).
The 400M series features seven new processors, including the GTX 470M and GTX 460M monsters aimed at “enthusiast users,” as well as the GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Over the past few months, I’ve been finding all types of new and exciting clients, with new and exciting projects. One of the things that I’ve noticed is the variety of projects that are out there. From quick projects – “The easiest $50 you’ll ever make” – to longer term… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.
Just because the economy is still depressed… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Image by Romain Guy
Getting started
Once you have the intention and the funds (see Part 1 of Becoming a Pro Photographer) in place it’s time to consider the legality, rules and regulations and all the red tape of what you need to do. In the UK the government provide a range… read more
September 3rd, 2010
NASA has just released an iPad version of its official NASA app for iPhone.
NASA HD is a free app that lets users view thousands of NASA images, information about current NASA images and videos, as well as live stream NASA TV.
The app also includes access to curated topic… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Design An Angry Vector Turtle Character In Illustrator
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September 3rd, 2010
Image by GiselaGiardino
Your challenge this weekend is to take and share a photo of you with your camera.
Yep – it’s self portrait time – but we want to not only see you (or part of you – you can have some anonymity if you prefer) but also your prize and… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Apple this week launched Ping, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software.
Ping takes the “activity stream” format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are “talking about, listening to, and downloading”.
In theory, this should take us beyond mainstream hits and further… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Alanna Francis is a SEO Specialist and Grammar Enthusiast at the website design company Blue Fountain Media, where she specializes in e-commerce marketing. She writes for the company’s web design and SEO trends blog and you can follow her on Twitter @AlannaFrancis.
We’re thrilled that the Associated Press has recently released… read more
September 3rd, 2010
30 Nice Email Newsletter Designs for your Inspiration
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September 3rd, 2010
Inspired By Creativity – Logos & Logotypes
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September 3rd, 2010
iTunes Ping is apparently full of spam, yet another hiccup in Apple’s road to establishing a legitimate social network.
As Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed social network. Many of these links are to offers promising free iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices.
Apple… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Another extremely talented designer by the name of Jennifer Cirpici has volunteered to create two exclusive wallpapers for the readers of PsdTuts+. This months exclusive wallpapers feature something for everyone, on one hand we have a beautiful scenery shot with lots of bright colors, and on the other we have… read more
September 3rd, 2010
If you’re anything like me (too impatient to boil water), you hate waiting to be seated at restaurants — those blinking, vibrating beeper things really are instruments of the devil, no? Well, The Onion’s A.V. Club has come up with a solution for you: a crowdsourced iPhone app that lets… read more
September 3rd, 2010
A Collection of PSD to HTML Conversion Tutorials
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September 3rd, 2010
Assemble a photograph contact sheet in InDesign.
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September 3rd, 2010
Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage, Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million registered users.
The last time Twitter went on the record with member registrations, it was touting 105 million registered users. That stat came just four months ago, which… read more
September 3rd, 2010
*The Visible Measures Top 10 Webisodes Chart focuses on digital studio-driven Web series that appear on Internet video-sharing destinations and publisher microsites. Each Web series is measured on a True Reach™ basis, which includes viewership of both studio-syndicated video clips and viewer-driven social video placements. The data are compiled using… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Another extremely talented designer by the name of Ee Venn Soh has volunteered to create an exclusive wallpaper for the readers of PsdTuts+. This month’s exclusive wallpaper features an awesome combination of colorful and exotic images that form "The Beautiful Peephole". We also catch up with Ee Venn Soh and… read more
September 3rd, 2010
We’ve partnered with SANYO to give away 20 newly released SANYO Dual HD PD2 cameras. From today until next Friday, we’ll be giving two readers a camera each day, with six winners on the final day.
So how do you win? Simple. All you have to do is answer the question:… read more
September 3rd, 2010
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#64 and make sure to comeback… read more
September 3rd, 2010
According to the latest numbers from Net Applications, iOS is the third most popular platform on the Internet, surpassing Linux and Android combined.
In August 2010, Android had a 0.20% market share, Linux was at 0.85%, while iOS devices – the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad – had a 1.13% market… read more
September 3rd, 2010
31 Superb New Websites That You Need To See
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September 3rd, 2010
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy.
You have created a Facebook Fan Page. Now what? I bet these questions come to mind: “Is my… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Photoshop and Illustrator compliment each other in many ways. Today we will demonstrate how you can use them in tandem to draw and color a graffiti-inspired illustration. Let’s get started! Before You Begin Before you begin, it’s always good to do a bit of planning. For graffiti art, do some… read more
September 3rd, 2010
36 Really Cool & Creative Website Headers
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September 3rd, 2010
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE apps for your android that you probably never used of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge…. read more
September 3rd, 2010
In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at estimating and how to start charging for your work.
Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered,… read more
September 3rd, 2010
As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more
September 3rd, 2010
For this Sites of the Week, we’re announcing the winners for the Ronin giveaway, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as Quipsologies and Relogik. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more
September 3rd, 2010
This tutorial will provide you with an overview of the basic tools and ways of creating images in Corel DRAW. Using a hand drawn sketch as the basis of the illustration, you will create objects using some special tools and learn different ways to work with color.
Step 1
Launch CorelDraw. Import… read more
September 3rd, 2010
50 Beautiful and Mysterious Underwater Photos You Have to See to Believe
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September 3rd, 2010
By Tim Mercer
Paper is a humble medium. It’s often cheap and you probably have some within 20 feet of you right now. Most of us just use it for jotting down ideas, writing notes or doodling but some resourceful artists out there use it to create stunning works of art.
Often… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Google Wave was once one of Google’s hottest projects, promising a new way of communication that might even replace email. Alas, it was not to be, and Google shut it down soon after public launch due to lack of user adoption – but not completely.
Wave still draws interest from users,… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Flickr Groups for Logo and Web Design Inspiration
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September 3rd, 2010
Tumblr. If you’re a savvy tech maven, you may have heard of, or had the chance to use, this powerful microblogging platform.
No wonder; millions of people have chosen Tumblr as their blogging service, and the average Tumblr user creates 14 original posts every month. Half of … read more
September 3rd, 2010
The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more
September 3rd, 2010
3D Artworks That Create Unbelievable Optical Illusion On Streets
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September 3rd, 2010
A Fun CSS3 Animation and Twitter Feed Experiment read more
September 3rd, 2010
Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website’s Effectiveness
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September 3rd, 2010
Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant… read more
September 3rd, 2010
The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a… read more
September 3rd, 2010
If you’ve seen Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s Sun won’t include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun’s atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus,… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Ultimate List Of Web Design Checklists
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September 3rd, 2010
One of the most important thing when developing websites is page loading speed, to load as quickly as possible, especially in the case of large websites. read more
September 3rd, 2010
Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.
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This is our fifth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.
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This is our fifth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting… read more
September 3rd, 2010
The Power of Fake Ad Campaigns
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September 3rd, 2010
We’ve just gotten an email from Twitter stating that staffers are testing push notifications amongst themselves and the company will be rolling this feature out to all users soon.
Push notifications would enable users to get instant, real-time updates for certain types of tweets — probably DMs and @replies and perhaps… read more
September 3rd, 2010
Robot Posters Inspiration: 18 Mighty Fine Designs
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September 2nd, 2010
It’s something you’d expect to hear from your mother, not your government, but New York’s newest laws are all about exercising common sense when looking for love online.
Sounding like something between a schoolteacher and a public service announcement, the Internet safety act will require online dating websites to warn their… read more
September 2nd, 2010
A Retro-Futuristic Design that combines vector elements with Photoshop blending techniques. This design was featured on Design Instruct and PSD Tuts.
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September 2nd, 2010
Watercolor is definitely one of the most awesome techniques of illustration. I find truly amazing of how much control and precision artists have over their watered inks to form precise art.
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And I’m probably overwhelmed by it because I have no idea how to do it… but yet, I know something… read more
September 2nd, 2010
This is an homage to a very cool Flickr group that we stumbled across recently. Our own cow mascot at Light Stalking gets quite a few comments. Here are a few more cows to lighten up your day.
Photo by Ecatoncheiras
Photo by Stephi
Photo by Christian… read more
September 2nd, 2010
How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App
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September 2nd, 2010
Combining HTML with the all new <canvas> feature, you can make some pretty awesome web apps! In this Premium exclusive tutorial, we will create a neat interactive drawing application using HTML and JavaScript. Along the way, we’ll also learn the basic concepts of the all new <canvas> feature. Become a… read more
