Zynga Launches Its First Arcade Game: Bubble Safari

Zynga will launch its first game in the arcade genre on Wednesday, the social game company announced.

Bubble Safari starts with a story of an adorable monkey named Bubbles (a drop-out from the space program) who is living the good life in the jungle when his lady love and monkey… read more

Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker Put a Pin on Airtime’s Launch Date

We’ve got two famous Seans (with two different spellings) but not a whole lot else to go on when it comes to the new social video chat platform, Airtime, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning are launching together.

Now, however, we have a date. Airtime launches June 5 at a somewhat… read more

Great Science Education Starts With Inspired Teachers

Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, is president and CEO of Sally Ride Science. Each summer her organization hosts the Sally Ride Science Academy Brought to you by ExxonMobil, a teacher development program to strengthen STEM education in the United States. Follow her @SallyRideSci.

Thank you,… read more

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Now Available

Yesterday, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Creative Suite 6. This means that you can now purchase Photoshop CS6, as well as all the other Adobe applications directly from Adobe’s website. For the last few months we have been talking about the new features available in Photoshop CS6 Beta…. read more

Why Web Video Doesn’t Need to Reinvent the Wheel

Broadcast journalism evolves with every new, emerging medium. Social media has certainly predicated one of those evolutionary steps, and opened the doors to new forms of content and distribution channels. Yet, in the end, it is value, consistency and engagement — as it always has been — that… read more

Yahoo Director to Quit Over CEO Vetting Scandal [REPORT]

The Yahoo director in charge of vetting CEO Scott Thompson is planning to resign from the board after questions emerged about Thompson’s resume, according to a report.

Patti Hart (pictured), whose own background was also called into question, will “not stand for reelection” at Yahoo’s next annual meeting, according to AllThingsD,… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack.

Winners of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack

Lucy Martin (Developer License)
Matiss (Personal… read more

10 Super Useful Apps For Working with PDFs

PDF has become a worldwide document type standard and you no doubt deal with these documents fairly regularly. Because the file tpye is so common there is a plethora of applications available to work with them.

It can be a bit tricky to wade through the large number of choices though,… read more

Weekly Poll: What File Sync Service Do You Use?

What file sync service do you use primarily?

There’s dozens of ways to keep your files in sync, from the old standby Dropbox to Google’s new Drive app. We recently did a roundup of the best sync services, and many of you chimed in with your other favorite sync services… read more

Atlantic Media to Launch Free Digital Business Publication, ‘Quartz’

Atlantic Media announced the name of its forthcoming digital-only business news publication, Quartz, Tuesday.

Quartz is the first publication in the business category designed to be consumed largely via tablets, smartphones and the web, competing against more established entities like The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Financial Times. Unlike those entities,… read more

T-Mobile’s Network Will Be iPhone-Ready This Fall

T-Mobile may have been dealt a setback when regulators forced AT&T to scuttle its proposed acquisition of the company, but judging from its announcements today, the company is clearly still very much in the wireless game.

The country’s fourth-largest carrier revealed a plan to upgrade its network to make it… read more

Marketing Your Mobile App

Want to make money on that app you created? You’ll have to spend money and time on marketing your app outside of app stores for success, according to a recent study conducted by App-Promo, a mobile app marketing company.

The First Annual Developer Survey was created to help understand how… read more

uSnap.us: Crowdsource Your Wedding Photography

Weddings are some of the most memorable occasions we attend, whether you’re participating or merely in attendance and, if it’s your special day, you’ll likely want to save the memories of the day forever. Lots of people hire wedding photographers to capture these moments officially but friends and family will… read more

Kitabu: An Alternative to Kindle for Mac?

Though I’m not quite ready to jettison my bookcase full of real paper books, ebooks have definitely won me over and convinced me of their worth due to both their portability and the fact that historical, classic and other copyright-free texts such as Leo Tolstoy’s complete works or Homer’s Iliad… read more

The Smashing Book #3 “Redesign The Web” Is Finally Released!

The new Smashing Books have finally arrived—freshly printed, neatly packed and ready to be shipped to you, our dear reader. We believe this is by far the best book we’ve produced so far. We are very proud and excited, and the initial verdict has been thoroughly positive, yet in the… read more

Faded Glory: A Showcase of Low Saturation Photography

There are many photographers who aim for vibrant explosions of color in their work. Using these bright hues to connect with and move the viewer. Though there are some who take a different path for reaching their audience, however color still plays a part. They actually process the photos to… read more

Trying to Find the Best File Sync Service

When Google threw its hat into the cloud storage ring a few weeks ago with Google Drive, it added another good service to a quickly growing niche. With Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Skydrive, Amazon Could Drive, and more, it’s tough to choose which is the best. Dropbox is the long-time… read more

How Web Developers and Designers can Work Together

Within any field of application production you often find the workload split between design and development. It’s a simpler process to let the designer handle creating the user interface while the developer codes it into reality. This is the case for desktop applications, mobile apps, and especially websites.

In this article… read more

Refining Your Design In Adobe Fireworks

While certainly not as well known as Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool for creating user interfaces, website designs and mock-ups, wireframes, icons and much more. However, most designers who have been using Photoshop for years may find Fireworks a bit awkward at first. Fireworks does have a slightly… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Chronicle

Our featured sponsor this week is Chronicle, the easiest way to keep track of your bills on a Mac.

If you’re looking for a way to get more organized with your bills, Chronicle is your answer. It’s beautiful, easy to use and powerful enough to keep you on track. Set… read more

Decibel: Lossless Audio and Beyond

Like many among us, I am not accustomed to paying for a music player. I am happy with iTunes and Winamp in both Windows and Mac. Still, if you are looking forward to pushing the boundaries in playback quality and revolutionary user interfaces, there are a handful choices available in… read more

Adobe CS6 Available For Purchase, Creative Cloud Coming May 11th

Adobe has announced the immediate availability of Creative Suite 6, the next reincarnation of its popular graphic and web design software. The company’s official store has been updated with all the new products and users can either purchase the software outright ready for download or upgrade from previous versions of… read more

3D Printing Gives Amputees Custom-Designed Legs [VIDEO]

A San Francisco company called Bespoke Innovations is using 3D printing and modeling technology to give prosthetic limbs new life as custom-designed, wearable pieces of art.

Here’s how it works: First, the company 3D scans both customers’ natural and prosthetic legs. A 3D computer model is created, maintaining as… read more

What Photographers Must Know About Using Extreme Wide Angle Lenses

Many photographers dream of owning one of the super wide lenses. Not a fisheye but a lens so wide it verges on fisheye. However as well as being expensive, there are some steep learning curves to overcome when using such wide lenses. In this brief article we will discuss a… read more

Klout CEO Hints at Redesign, Local Feature, Brand Page Update

Klout has had a busy few weeks, unleashing an iPhone app, brand pages and a new API. But more changes are on deck.

Klout CEO Joe Fernandez hinted at those developments on stage and backstage at Mashable Connect in Orlando.

The San Francisco-based startup will announce this month four more partners… read more

Social Media Is No Joke at This Year’s Comedy Awards

The Comedy Awards is the baby of the awards show ceremonies — only two years old. But the show’s huge digital and social presence keeps pace with the big boys.

The event airs Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central, but it was taped last Saturday. Mashable had the… read more

Twitter Post by Sex Offender Scares Away Star Football Prospect

Players tweeting irresponsibly. Embarrassing photos. Unwanted news leaks. Now you can add a new item to the list of ways social media can be a headache for sports teams — unsavory characters scaring away potential stars.

That’s what happened at Ohio State University, where a lauded high school football recruit… read more

Why Apple Won by Betting Against the Web

Roger McNamee, the managing director and co-founder of venture capital firm Elevation Partners, has a theory about how Apple became the biggest U.S. technology growth story of all time:

“The thing that made Apple successful was betting against the web,” he said on stage at Mashable Connect Friday.

While Google adopted the… read more

Kickstarter Project Connects Your Mobile Device to the Real World [VIDEO]

A new Kickstarter project wants to build an even closer connection between our real lives and mobile devices.

The Rowdy Robot team has created a device called Tōd, which it hopes the Kickstarter community will be eager to fund. Tōd is a programmable Bluetooth dongle you can… read more

How Tech Is Changing College Life [INFOGRAPHIC]

College students today are more tech savvy than ever before. Just how important is technology to their academic lives?

More than 90% use email to communicate with professors and 73% say they cannot study without technology. Seven in 10 take notes on keyboards instead of paper, virtually all students who… read more

5 Socially Conscious Startups You Need to Know Right Now

In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.

By harnessing the power of the web and digital technology, these companies have offered resources to women-founded startups, funded socially conscious ideas and used… read more

Perché Pinterest fa tanto bene… al porno

Lo hanno etichettato come la rivelazione dell’anno. Poi, dopo un primo sprint iniziale, ha perso quasi tre milioni di utenti in neanche due mesi. Mentre tutti ne discutevano con il solito approccio filosofico, qualcuno un po’ più smaliziato è rimasto a guardare nell’ombra facendosene un’idea diversa. Carino questo Pinterest. Con… read more

Amazing Apps for Designers on Android

Amazing Apps for Designers on Android

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Wallpaper of the Week 202 by Timothée Mathelin

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Timothée Mathelin also known as “shift”. Timothée is a freelancer graphic designer from France and has been featured on Abduzeedo other times.

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Angry Birds Fans Can Now Play on Facebook Timeline

If you thought your productivity was low because of all the time spent on Facebook Timeline, it’s only about to get worse for Angry Birds fans.

Rovio announced on its official blog that popular mobile game Angry Birds can now be embedded and played on Facebook Timeline through Share… read more

Shapeways CEO: 3D Printing Will Fuel Creative Commerce

Although 3D printing has been around since the ’80s, it only recently moved out of specialty prototyping shops. As the technology becomes more accessible — allowing anybody to design anything they want — it could revolutionize the way products are made and distributed.

“We think it will give rise to a… read more

European Space Probe to Search for Life on Jupiter’s Icy Moons [VIDEO]

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced this week that it’s spending $1.3 billion on a 2022 mission to explore Jupiter’s largest moons. Watch the video above to see why scientists are hopeful that the Jovian system is a sweet spot for extraterrestrial life.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will… read more

10 iPhone Cases That Help Support Good Causes

1. Mophie Juice Pack Plus – (PRODUCT) RED

If you’ve got the cash to spare, this Mophie case is… read more

5 Social Media Activities for Your Next HR Training Session

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

There’s a new dilemma in today’s training world: Is it prudent to allow technology devices in the classroom? One school of thought is that there should be… read more

47 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Mashable won a Webby Award for our business coverage, so how on earth could you let yourself miss our latest digital media resources? Just kidding — for whatever reason you couldn’t keep up this week, check out our features roundup for the best social media, business and tech resources.

This week,… read more

For Lower-Profile Olympians, Social Media a Key to Branding Success

Ricky Berens is a world-class athlete, but he’s no Michael Phelps. The two teamed up to help the United States win a relay swimming gold medal at the 2008 Olympics and will probably both participate in the 2012 Games. But outside the pool their lives couldn’t be more different.

Berens… read more

6 Sizzling Must-Have Gadgets for Summer

For the Summer Gadget Series, our Mashable tech experts road-tested some of the hottest tech toys around to spice up your arsenal of vacation must-haves.

On this list is a little something for every kind of weekend warrior. Whether you’re into high-velocity white water rafting, taking in the sights of… read more

Shopping App NetPlenish Is a Win for Consumers and Sellers

NetPlenish CEO Dave Compton believes “there are two types of shoppers: convenience and price-driven.”

Compton says his wife was faced with a common shopping problem — having to visit multiple stores to find the best deals. It was a weekly challenge for her to find a particular brand of dog… read more

Life-Size 3D Holograms Bring Us Closer to ‘Teleportation’ [VIDEO]

Will life-size holograms of your colleagues and friends be the new norm? The Human Media Lab of the Queen’s University in Canada says yes.

Researchers were inspired by Star Trek-like teleportation to create the TeleHuman cylindrical telepresence pod. A long tube is outfitted with six Microsoft Xbox Kinect… read more

Why Marketers Should Get to Know Customers’ ‘Digital Selves’

Today’s marketers are under-utilizing the large amounts of personal data their customers are sharing publicly every day, according to Adobe’s senior manager of social-media products, Chad Warren. By looking at their customers’ activity not just on social networks but all over the web, brands can potentially engage with them in… read more

Nikon Coolpix P510 Review

In this reviewing business you occasionally get waylaid: in preparing a new camera review I usually begin with the text sources and specs data to feel my way. In this case, I did so, quite carefully, but dug into the wordage of the Nikon Coolpix P5100. Wrong!

The way model numbers… read more

Why Marketing Is Broken and How to Fix It

The marketing world needs to stop being so afraid and start solving problems, according to Cindy Gallop, an entrepreneur and consultant whose prescription for growth calls for synthesizing creativity and data collection.

Gallop, who spoke at Mashable Connect Saturday morning, critiqued the current state of marketing, which she believes is driven… read more

Why the Future of Social Is in the Palm of Your Hand

When I leave the house in the morning, the first thing I check is that I have my phone with me. It’s not my keys nor my wallet, but my phone that I’m most worried about forgetting.

My mobile device has become my lifeline in a lot of ways — and… read more

3 Signs That It’s Time To Quit Your Job

Tony Morrison is the Vice President of Business Development at Cachinko. Find him on Talent Connection and connect with Cachinko on Facebook or Twitter.

In the recent years, we have heard in the news some pretty creative “Take This Job and Shove It” stories. Joey quit his job with the support… read more

Google Could Face $10 Million Fine For Tracking Safari Users

Google may see the costliest repercussion from its alleged Apple Safari privacy breach coming from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The FTC may fine Google more than $10 million for violating Internet privacy according to Bloomberg, citing “a person familiar with the matter” in its report.

“We will of course cooperate… read more

Here’s the Best Time to Share on Pinterest

If you’re doing most of your sharing on Pinterest from the office, you’re doing it wrong. The best time to share things on Pinterest is Saturday morning, according to data from Bitly, the URL shortening service.

Hilary Mason, Bitly’s chief scientist, revealed the nugget during a talk at Mashable Connect in… read more

Best of the Week #221

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

CodeBox: Manage Your Snippets Effectively and Efficiently

A snippet, in terms of coding, is a small piece of code that you can use over and over again in various projects. So as a developer (or designer for that matter), it’s useful to have your snippets readily available while you’re working on your next big project.

This is where… read more

25+ Beautiful Macro Photography

25+ Beautiful Macro Photography

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You! Be Informed! #0003

Another week has ended, and now it’s time for another roundup of design news! We spent the week poring through our RSS readers and sharing links we found interesting, and I hope you find them useful. Read on and learn a thing or two about the current goings on in… read more

Photographers: You Won’t Want to Miss This

Light Stalking just got a whole lot better for photographers

Our community has grown incredibly fast over the last few years. We are now a strong group of over 500,000 photographers (and growing daily) We know that you are extremely passionate about the art of taking beautiful photos. So, we are… read more

Want to Turn Your Brand’s Fans Into Expert Advisors? Try This Startup

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: Needle

Quick Pitch: Needle offers expert live chat service to online retailers to help customers… read more

Half of Consumers Use Smartphones While Working Out [INFOGRAPHIC]

Working out may be a time to unwind and clear your head, but more consumers are turning to smartphones to stay connected while exercising, according to a new study.

A new infographic from market research firm Lab42 found that 51% of consumers are using smartphones during their workouts, whether for checking… read more

YP App Adds Menu Search, Makes Finding Your Favorite Dish Easier

Looking for your next burrito, slice of pizza or cupcake just got a little easier with an update to AT&T Interactive’s YP app. Now in addition to searching for types of restaurants around you, you can look up specific items on the menu.

“We believe local is evolving from ‘search’ to… read more

Meetings.io: Online Group Video Chats Without the Hassle

Scheduling meetings online is a pain, period.  If you think Skype makes your life easy, well, think twice. First of all, you need to have an account with them, then download and install their bulky software, then pester your friends to do the same if they haven’t done so already… read more

How To Use Android With Your Mac

As Mac users, we’re often expected to fit within the lines of the Apple “ecosystem” – a Mac, iPhone, and maybe even an iPad. But the fact of the matter is that for many people, using something other than an iOS device just makes sense.

With that in mind, I’m going… read more

How to Make the Most out of a Conference or Expo

An expo or a conference is a great way to network with other people who work in your industry, as well as a great place to reach a target market.

I co-own and edit a wedding magazine, so I’ve been to my fair share of bridal expos. And I’ve learned… read more

GrexIt: Turning Business Email Into an Internal Knowledge Base

Most of our business decisions, it seems, are made in our inboxes. We research the best tools for our job, contact customers, discuss plans with coworkers, and more, all via email. Many of us use old emails for references, too, and I find myself searching through Sparrow for old emails… read more

Tomahawk: A Full-Featured Open Source iTunes Alternative

Since being introduced in 2001, iTunes’ features have expanded well beyond its name. Once a simple music player, it has evolved beyond the realm of tunes and into a hub for just about all the media on our Macs. It also features an enormous digital content store, and is the… read more

Showcase: 50 High Tech Logos to Inspire You

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We live in a world where technology is all around us. How many of us spend one day without checking email, taking calls and sending text messages? The great progress in technology scientists have made in the past few decades has been unprecedented, and has given way… read more

TextDrop: An Online Text Editor for Your Dropbox Files

There’s dozens of writing apps out there, ranging from the basic plain text editors built into your OS to advanced note apps that can store all your text notes, as well as PDFs and a zillion other things. Even if you’re looking for a minimalist writing app, there’s so many… read more

Sunwayfoto Leveling Base Review

Another awesome video review from the team that brought you The Nice Clip

Want to make your tripod a million times more useful? This is the DYH-66X levelling base from Sunwayfoto. It provides +/- 16° of tilt, is fluid dampened, and has a scratch-resistant, anodised black finish. Sure, it’s built really… read more

When Will We See 4G MacBooks?

This week, the official dates for Apple’s annual WWDC were announced and most people who have been following Apple rumour sites have a fair idea of what exactly is going to be announced. We here at Mac.AppStorm have a strong inkling that the entire MacBook Pro line is going to… read more

Self-Hosted Support with Trellis Desk

Any business looking to ensure that they offer a good customer service to their consumers is going to want some way of providing help to their users online. In today’s competitive market, being the best is crucial and if your customers think that you’re going to do your best at… read more

RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10 Tools for Developers

Trying hard to recapture the market share it has lost to Apple and Google, Research in Motion Ltd, or RIM, unveiled a series of tools and apps for developers, allowing them to create and develop applications in advance of its forth coming BlackBerry 10 platform.

To put it bluntly,… read more

On Dreaming the Future

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Rewind to ten years ago.

In 2002, the iPod had just hit the market the previous year. Netflix hadn’t had their first profitable year yet. It was still 2 years until Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, GMail, or Orkut were officially introduced. The next year came… read more

Using Lens Filters to Improve Your Photography

Whenever we can find ways to shorten the amount of time we spend editing in post-production, it equates to extra time we can spend in the field taking more photographs. As photographers, we should always be striving to take photographs that are as near to the finished product as possible…. read more

16th Annual Webby Awards – The Winners

Dubbed as the Academy Awards of the internet, the 16th annual Webby Awards were announced recently.

The Webby Awards honor online performers in four different categories: Websites, interactive advertising, online film & video and mobile apps. Again, each category is split into two prizes – The Webby Awards themselves… read more

Over 46 Powerful Geeklets and Scripts for the Geek Within You

GeekTool is a small, yet remarkably powerful application that some neglect because of it’s steep learning curve. Thankfully for uniquely useful apps like GeekTool, there is always a community of users that make the app even better — and in this case simpler.

From basic to exceedingly complex, the following is… read more

World’s Longest Invoice: Dealing With Clients Who Don’t Pay Up

Have you ever been stiffed by a client? Many freelancers have—and it sucks. More often than not, the cost to take the client to court is frequently much more expensive than the unpaid invoice. So what’s a freelancer to do?

One thing they can do is join forces in a… read more

Applying Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page

Any application of typography can be divided into two arenas: micro and macro. Understanding the difference between the two is especially useful when crafting a reading experience, because it allows the designer to know when to focus on legibility and when to focus on readability.

This article focuses mostly on a… read more

Nimble: CRM for Social Salespeople

Way back in 1989, when the idea of using computers to manage customer relationships was still in its infancy, a guy by the name of John Ferrara founded Goldmine Software which would spend the next decade pioneering CRM software solutions. In 1999 he sold Goldmine to a South African firm…. read more

Is Brainstorming Getting A Bad Rap?

I love brainstorming! I think it’s a way of getting the best for a project. It puts all heads together and brings out the best ideas, without bruising egos and involves the team equally. I’ve seen great things come out of brainstorms.

Lately, I’ve seen people stating that brainstorming isn’t the… read more

PrivacyScan: Protecting Your Privacy Both Online and Off

As more of our lives are shared online, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of the things we want to keep private. You may be surprised how much of a trail you leave behind just from browsing the Internet. From saved cookies to form history, your personal information is… read more

Turn It Up: Musically Inspired Logo Design

Many artists, whether digital or traditional find much inspiration in music. It often serves as a great mind opener for large amounts of creativity and style to be ushered in. Some artists believe music helps them to see shapes and colors, and often offers up feelings and emotions to help… read more

Inspiration: 30 Symbolically Descriptive Logos

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Most people don’t often stop to think about the meaning of a logo, generally just taking them at face value and letting those meanings do their work subconsciously. Every now and then, usually after enough repetitions, it becomes obvious: there’s an arrow in the FedEx logo, or… read more

How One Actor Used an iPhone to Land a Role in the ‘Star Trek’ Sequel [VIDEO]

Now here’s something straight out of the future: A British actor used his iPhone to land a role in the J.J. Abrams-directed sequel to Star Trek.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a 35-year-old actor who has appeared in a number of films including War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Atonement… read more

Access Your Thumb Drive Using Your Voice [VIDEO]

USB thumb drives are so convenient because of their tiny, portable size — also making them easier to lose. A new voice recognition thumb drive keeps your data safe, even if it makes its way into someone else’s hands.

Made by Hammacher-Schlemmer, the 8GB thumb drive uses a built-in… read more

These Tactics Will Give You Great Video With a DSLR

With news DSLRs becoming better and better, more photographers are taking the leap to using their gear to shoot video. Let’s take a look at some of the strategies you can use to make sure your video turns out as well as your still shots.

Perhaps the biggest difference is that… read more

Get Financially Efficient with Budgetable

Any time you watch the news, you will find that most of the time, the main topics are related somehow to money. It has been around for centuries, but yet we still can’t seem to figure it out. Money can be a great thing, but yet so destructive as well.

One… read more

Instagram and its Impact on the World of Photography

A Guest Post by Guy Prives.

If you were not on a hot-air balloon for a journey around the world or in a Tibetan monastery on a pilgrimage yet have experienced these images on Facebook then it’s likely you’ve already been exposed to Instagram.

“Instagram” the photo-sharing application, recently bought by Facebook,… read more

Weekly Poll: Will Apple Merge Both App Stores Into a Single App?

Will Apple Merge Both App Stores Into a Single App?

Long ago Apple had what seemed like a simple idea: iTunes should be the hub to sync all of your i-devices to your Mac. It made sense at the time, when the decision really only encompassed the iPod line. Then… read more

Twitter Is Exploring a Premium Version, CEO Suggests

Twitter might be developing a premium version of its service, CEO Dick Costolo indicated on stage at Wired‘s business conference in New York City Tuesday afternoon.

An audience member asked Costolo whether Twitter would ever introduced a “pro” version for individual users. Costolo refused to confirm that Twitter was working to… read more

Spam Texts: 4.5 Billion Messages a Year and Counting [VIDEO]

Text message spam promising free iPads or cash rewards may be obnoxious and unwanted, but they also carry a greater danger: clicking on texts can install malware that collects personal data from your phone.

They’re also booming faster than any other sector of the tech industry. Spam text… read more

Satirical iPad Magazine Makes Amazing Use of HTML5

What can a tablet magazine do that a real magazine can’t? One new publication launched on the iPad Tuesday is one of the best examples yet — and its staff of hilarious, talented writers is just the icing on the cake.

The magazine, Blackline, is an extension of a comedy podcast,… read more

Oprah Facebook Game Wants You to Thank the World

Oprah launched a Facebook app Monday — as part of an effort to thank every person in the world, no less, for contributing something to someone’s life.

The premise is simple: Thank just one person you know, then click the “I Said Thank You” button at Oprah.com or via Oprah’s Facebook… read more

Twitter Announces Improved ‘Discover’ Tab

Just days after releasing significant updates to its iPhone and Android apps, Twitter announced Tuesday its plan to upgrade its ‘Discover’ tab on both Twitter.com and its mobile apps.

Twitter introduced Discover in December as part of an overhaul to its website and mobile apps. The tab displays trending topics and… read more

Weekly Poll: Will You Subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud?

Will You Subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud?

The latest version of Adobe’s venerable set of creative applications will be released next week, but this launch is unlike any launch in Creative Suite’s history. Adobe is best known for creating native apps, including Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator, and more. These apps… read more

Half of Tween Girls Are Online Gamers

Online gaming among tween girls is on the rise, as more are turning to the web to take quizzes and participate in social role-playing challenges, a new study suggests.

A new report by tween gaming platform GirlsgoGames.com found that about 50% of tween girls between the ages of 8 and 12… read more

7 Apps For Getting The Most Out Of Your Mouse

Whether you love them or hate them, you can’t deny that Apple’s family of mouses (mice?) have come a long way since the dreaded Hockey Puck, and provide a dramatically different experience than almost any other mouse on the market. The entire line up of peripherals feature multi-touch gesture support, which… read more

6 Serious Movie Scenes Recut With Corny Laugh Tracks

1. Pulp Fiction With a Laugh Track

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Why Musicians Need More Than Viral Videos to Succeed

As guitarist and co-founder of the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan was at the forefront of one of the most important music movements in recent history. And he’s not finished. The Pumpkins have a new album coming out in June, and Corgan is splitting time between music and helping… read more

Kickstarter Has Raised $200 Million From More Than 2 Million Backers

Kickstarter has raised more than $200 million from 2 million backers, cofounder Yancey Strickler said on stage at Wired‘s business conference in Manhattan Tuesday morning. That money has funded more than 22,000 projects in the three years the crowdfunding platform has been in business, he added.

Less positively, Strickler said that… read more

Will Facebook’s Efforts Drive Up Organ Donor Registrations? [POLL]

Facebook is using its 901-million-strong following for good, offering organ donors and transplant recipients a way to link up.

That’s one way to look at it. Another is that Facebook needs to do all it can to deflect concerns about privacy and users’ uneasy feelings about using their information for… read more

Meet the First Round of BlackBerry 10 Apps

NOVA 3

The trailer for Nova 3 just went up, and is getting widespread attention. Gameloft said it was… read more