In Norse mythology, Sleipnir is the gray, eight-legged steed that Odin rides to Hel. In the world of technology, it’s an amazing web browser that you just have to try.
Though you may have never heard of it, Sleipnir has been around in various forms for years (it’s also on… read more
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A gathering of entrepreneurs in the Bay Area on Thursday offered a window into how ambitious techies’ visions become reality. It started with a presentation from a go-getter named Adam Ghetti.
Dressed casually in a dark tee-shirt, Ghetti stepped to the front a conference room at the Silicon Valley venture… read more
Jason Keath is the CEO of Social Fresh, the leading social media education company for marketers. He works with industry leading brands, agencies and vendors to produce social media conferences and online social media training programs. Follow him on Twitter @jasonkeath.
Human beings are social by nature, and not surprisingly, we… read more
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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
Social media is lauded for its ability to foster unlikely connections. This week, Twitter helped join two of the most unlikely public figures in conversation: outspoken (and Super Bowl-bound) NFL wide receiver with the New England Patriots Chad Ochocinco and Speaker of the House John Boehner.
While watching President Barack… read more
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: Tumblecloud
Quick Pitch: Tumblecloud is a collaborative space for creating multimedia slideshows.
Genius Idea: Drag-and-drop collaboration.
The audio, video… read more
Mind Blowing Illustrations by Alexis Marcou
Mark Gilbreath is the co-founder and CEO of LiquidSpace, the mobile application that helps anyone find a great space to work now.
Approaching SXSW for the first time last year, we were not quite sure what to expect. I offered advice on what I know best — staying productive amidst the… read more
GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator
The New York Public Library wants you to turn its archive of 40,000 historic stereographs into 3D images and animated GIF files.
The NYPL launched a feature Thursday called the Stereogranimator, which allows users creative access to its collection of stereographs, a popular photo… read more
9 Free Cut Out Kitchen Appliances in Photoshop format
If you’re smartphone fanatic like I am, you want to know the precise size of each one of these phones. Sure, that latest model may be super slim, but will it be too large for your pocket?
We found a site that answers those questions in the best way possible:… read more
iNoobs: How to Write a Blog – Organization
Having discussed the very basics and some of the apps which come bundled with OS X Lion in part one of Mac 101, let’s now delve in a little deeper with the aim of getting a better idea of how to properly tweak and organise the latest and arguably greatest… read more
Forget about presidential politics for a moment. Forget left and right, Republican and Democrat. Forget the GOP primaries and the same tired old debates that have filled the opinion pages for the last four years.
Instead, to determine the next occupant of the White House, try this question on for size:… read more
As the mid-TV season continues to roll out, cable networks like FX and USA are doubling down on social TV campaigns and show integrations.
Using mobile apps and tablet apps, social networks such as Facebook and check-in services like GetGlue and Miso, cablers are focusing on connecting fans with show… read more
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SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Internet freedoms on the way, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. At least that’s how… read more
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The latest political parody — Sh*t Politicians Say — just hit YouTube, keeping the unstoppable Sh*t [Insert Stereotype] Say meme alive for yet another day.
Go ahead and bemoan the meme all you want; you’re still going to watch the clip. And you should because it has multiple purposes. Other… read more
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Twitter is giving itself the right to withhold content in specific countries, while keeping that content available for the rest of the world, the company announced Thursday.
Until now, the only way for Twitter to censor content was to universally eliminate it from the site. This change means content deemed inappropriate… read more
It could be the most direct evidence so far that Apple is developing a television set: the company filed for a patent on a new kind of touchscreen remote control last September, according to a report.
The patent, made public Thursday and… read more
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
Building off its homepage redesign in December, YouTube is rolling out design updates to other aspects of its site.
The changes include updates to the Browse page, Video Editor and Video Manager and align with the overall rebranding that Google has pushed out to the majority of its sites and products.
The… read more
You’ll be amazed at what Google has just done with Google Earth. Overnight, the earth-mapping application was upgraded to Google Earth 6.2, with vastly improved imagery that changes the choppy patchwork quilt of past versions into a smooth globe that rivals the most detailed satellite shots.
Beyond the realistic-looking… read more
The artist formerly known as Curtis Jackson may soon pull a Weiner and flash his johnson for all his followers to see.
Rapper 50 Cent has broadcast some reckless NFL bets on Twitter this week and is upping the ante for Super Bowl XLVI.
He claims to have won $500,000… read more
Magento is the best platform for any e-commerce store or website because it comes with large numbers of terrific features that make it the preferred choice of many e-commerce website owners. On the other hand, finding out elegant or helpful Magento resources is rather difficult. Nearly all Magento extension and… read more
How to Create Your Own UI Planner in Photoshop
The Neo Geo is said to be making a comeback with a flashy hand-held gaming device resembling an iPhone.
Neo Geo who? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of the over-priced hand-held gaming device that flashed through the late-’90s — many haven’t…. read more
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The 2012 Republican primary‘s first vote was not cast in New Hampshire, as most Americans would assume. An Okaloosa County, Fla., resident living in Thailand got that privilege in December, thanks to a new technology called LiveBallot.
LiveBallot, a new platform for accessing ballots built on the Windows Azure operating… read more
If you’ve hung around Web.AppStorm long enough, you’ve surely come across a few web apps you’ve thought looked nice. Hopefully you found some you kept using, but odds are, you quit using most of them right after you tried them out.
There’s the web apps we use all the time, like… read more
1. Capitol Couture
The newly launched Capitol Couture blog is dedicated to the styles featured in the upcoming film…. read more
The reinvention of Nokia is going slowly, if the last financial quarter is any indication. The Finnish cellphone giant lost nearly a billion euros in Q4 2011, or $1.3 billion. On top of that, Nokia sold 31% fewer smartphones than over the same period last year.
Despite those troubles, the company’s… read more
One of the nicer things about developing on the Ruby platform is the sheer amount of meticulously categorized, highly reusable code wrapped up in the form of aptly named ‘gems’. I’m sure you’ve heard of popular frameworks like Sinatra or the super popular Rails that ship as gems but you’re… read more
The nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday, and fans quickly hopped to social media to share their approval or distaste for those selected.
Our friends at NM Incite analyzed 120,000 messages across several social media platforms to reveal the most buzzed-about films and actors.
The study showed… read more
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
Randall, the elusive narrator of the mega sassy “Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger” viral video was recently caught on footage during a promotional tour for his book, Honey Badger Don’t Care: Ewwww! What the Hell is That?!
“This… read more
Alexis Marcou is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more
When you die, your social media presence lives on. But should it? Lawmakers and lawyers are tackling the question of what should happen to your digital life after death.
The Uniform Law Commission recently approved a study committee on fiduciary power and authority to access digital property and online accounts during… read more
Dan Kimball is the Chief Marketing Officer of Kontagent, and an advisory board member for AppNation. Follow Dan on Twitter at @dmkimball05.
One of my company’s clients, the CEO of a top social and mobile game publisher, recently commented: “When you’re learning how to ski, you learn pretty quickly that… read more
After graduating from the famed Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve Ellis spent the next decade trying to make it in the music business, while tending bar on the side. According to Ellis, he was one of the… read more
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All of Apple’s iDevices — iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches — are a ton of fun, but for the most part that fun happens on a tiny screen (iPad excepted, we know).
Now one gaming app is expanding the view with some fancy Bluetooth technology that allows a shared-screen experience across… read more
The FBI is looking to develop a web application that can monitor social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, in order to gain better real-time intelligence about current or potential future security threats or situations.
This plan was inadvertently revealed by the FBI’s Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) in a market… read more
20 Outstanding Poster Design For Inspiration
By now, you may have already checked to see what kind of person Google thinks you are (if you’re a female Mashable reporter, Google apparently assumes you’re a middle-aged man). Google’s new, unified privacy policy can show you that, as well… read more
We haven’t heard much from Ferris Bueller since 1986, but apparently he’s taken some time off to do a Super Bowl ad.
This 10-second teaser shows Bueller star Matthew Broderick asking “How can I handle work on a day like today?” and then cues a snippet of “Oh Yeah,” the… read more
MailTab Pro for Gmail is an awesome app that allows you to enjoy the complete Gmail experience right from your menu bar. With MailTab Pro you can check your email, send and receive messages, and anything else that you would do from your browser. You can also choose between the… read more
Some useful scripts for Photoshop Layer Manipulation
More often than not I find myself meeting with a prospective client and telling them one of the biggest keys to designing a stunning website are the images that you use. You can have the most elaborate interface, with parallax scrolling, fluid and responsive resizing capabilities, and the best color… read more
In questo video vi illustro quali sono alcuni requisiti tecnici per realizzare un video blog dal look professionale, rispondendo ad alcune delle domande più frequenti che ho ricevuto da molti di voi, nelle ultime settimane, da quando ho aperto il canale su YouTube.
Il video è volutamente ironico e scherzoso per… read more
It seemed like 2011 was the year of lawsuits both for and against Apple however 2012 is looking to be no different. In a fresh wave of legal attacks against Apple from its restless competitors, it’s now Motorola that is suing the Cupertino-based company on 6 counts of patent infringement… read more
We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with butterflies, and today it’s all about game logos!
Every week we search through… read more
Outstanding Funny Digital Paintings To Make You Laugh
It’s the beginning of the year and things are slow. You are hustling to get work and the work that comes your way you don’t feel you can turn down. By the time summer rolls around, you have been working your butt off and let things—like life outside of… read more
Creative and Inspiring Colored Pencil Sculptures by Jennifer Maestre
UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. To make sure product managers, developers, marketers and executives (let’s call them stakeholders) act on UX research results, planning must be crystal clear, collaborative, fast and… read more
50 Superb Real Life Examples of Retro Typography
Most of you probably know those awesome letters that were generated with 3D programs. But what about when you don’t have any particular program and you need to make 3D typography? This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal… read more
So, you want to be a freelance web designer? Ah, the glamor of it all.
Your own boss, answering only to the call of your creative muse… get up, feel inspired, do some work, go for a walk, laugh knowingly with other freelancers who have also discovered The Secret… read more
In this tutorial you will learn how to quickly create a series of recycled paper textures. You can use these to apply the effect of old paper over illustrations. The goal of this tutorial is to show you some shortcuts for aligning objects on the Artboard by using the Align… read more
Accounting is one of those frustrating things that we all have to deal with in business. Recently, I looked at two web-based accounting systems, Crunch and Kashflow, both designed for small businesses with limited IT funds. These systems, along with having low maintenance costs (which usually come in the form… read more
One question I receive in my workshops for beginners is about flashes. Particularly “What the heck is this for?”
And, “Does it actually do anything?”
Not all flashes have these two items that cover the flash head and pull straight out, but if yours does and you’ve always wondered, here is your… read more
In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a golden shield illustration and an ivy text effect. We’ll use vector shape building techniques to construct the main structure of our work and then Illustrator’s 3D tools to add depth. Then discover how to add polish to the… read more
Online job marketplaces are billion dollar businesses today, ducking the recent recession and expanding at a tremendous rate. No wonder then that more and more sites open up every day catering to a small niche of freelancers.
The two biggest general online job marketplaces are Elance and oDesk, but… read more
In this day and age any small business owner should be aware that the greater their online presence, the more likely they are to attract business. On the most basic level this should involve having a commercial website, through which customers can transact. However, there are many things business owners… read more
Nowadays we look around and all over the places see QR codes embedded into the ads, buildings, billboards, newspapers, cups, clothes and even into the roads.
The usage of QR (Quick Response) codes in promotional marketing is a great idea and just one more awesome way to engage people… read more
While it’s no secret that iBooks hasn’t been a runaway success as Apple had hoped, the company is trying their hand at revolutionizing the book industry once more -but this time they’ve shifted their efforts towards the education market. Along with the new iBooks 2, Apple introduced iBooks Author, their… read more
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Photo manipulations are quite popular among all generations of designers and digital artists. It is also a genre often used in the advertising industry because of the effect these manipulations have on people. This sort of artwork are usually shocking and unrealistic and they are demanding… read more
Sure, on YouTube, you’ve got your IGN and G4 videos that keep you updated with the latest in gaming news and technological eye candy. But what about the deep cuts lurking within the rest of the gaming section? The platform is full of speed runs, time trials, reviews and play-throughs… read more
Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Tijuana, Mexico.
For the next week we’re going to feature Hobart,… read more
The annual Macworld exposition begins on Thursday in San Francisco, and for the twenty-eighth consecutive year will bring together Apple fans, users and developers. But this installment adds a new twist — and a new name.
It’s now billed as Macworld | iWorld, which better captures “the essence of what… read more
Today’s Google Doodle – Chinese Dragon New Year and Wallpapers
Backing up your files on the road can be a massive headache for many photographers. When you’re travelling, you have the compounded problem that you are probably shooting a lot, but you don’t want to take massive amounts of kit that will weigh you down.
Well, his is a response… read more
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: Contactually
Quick Pitch: Contactually is a proactive personal assistant for your email contacts.
Genius Idea: Contactually automatically prompts… read more
Hewlett-Packard just announced it would fulfill its promise to make the code of its dormant mobile operating system, webOS, open-source … by September.
The company, which effectively stopped the webOS platform in its tracks when it killed the HP TouchPad tablet and Palm line of phones last summer, said in a… read more
Time for another poll (on a topic we’ve not run for a few years) – Do you have a photoblog?
We’re not talking here about a Flickr account or some other photosharing site – do you have your own blog where you share photos?
Note: There is a poll embedded within this… read more
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Protection granted by the U.S. Copyright Office for people who modify their iPhones and other iOS devices so they can install apps not authorized by Apple (known as “jailbreaking”) is set to expire soon. That’s why the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)… read more
Are you looking for a good way to have fun on your Mac but don’t really consider yourself a gamer? Perhaps you’re nostalgic for the days when playing a game involved a couple of dice, a colorful board and some interestingly shaped pieces to move around that board.
Well you’re… read more
Last year, we saw the rise of a startup company that began with the simple idea that everyone needs a way to remember, organize, and prioritize what they want to get done. They took that idea, and built an app called Wunderlist that was both beautiful and functional. However, the… read more
European Internet users may be getting better control over information posted online, thanks to some proposed sweeping reforms lawmakers proposed Wednesday designed to protect digital privacy.
The suggested law calls for a “right to be forgotten” and a “right to data portability.” The former would require Internet companies such as Facebook… read more