Google Acquires Online Image Editing Tool Picnik

Google has just acquired Picnik, a popular web-based image editing software. The sale was announced on the Picnik blog.

Picnik, which first started in 2005, has become a popular online alternative to image editing software such as Photoshop. While not as feature rich as its desktop counterparts, its… read more

Roadie-approved iPhone case provides ultimate protection

TUAW reader Stuart tipped us off to such a case, designed and built by a friend who creates cases for bands. While this isn’t the most practical iPhone case, it certainly provides a huge amount of protection. It’ll also show a certain amount of panache to carry one of these… read more

Topaz Adjust 4 AND a New Cintiq 21UX

Hey everyone, Happy Monday! Today I am happy to hear that there are two really cool additions that I think you’d be very interested in.

Topaz Adjust 4
Topaz Adjust is one of those products that sits on the computer of many a digital artist (myself included). it takes… read more

Found Footage: SNL parodies Steve Jobs again

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has done a great job of satirizing Steve Jobs and Apple over the years, and the tradition continued last week. “Undercover Boss” is a TV show in the states that has big business CEOs perform their company’s entry-level jobs. SNL expanded the idea to Undercover Celebrity… read more

Why wait? Register for free for Macworld Expo 2011 today!

<pers of TUAW know that we all enjoyed this year's Macworld Expo a great deal, and that we were able to talk to hundreds of vendors and Apple fans during the week that our team was on site. Many of you chose to join in virtually through our frequent livecasts… read more

Will the iPad Launch Be Delayed? [RUMOR]

An analyst has been speculating that manufacturing bottlenecks may reduce the number of iPads available at launch — or delay it entirely, according to AllThingsD.

More than a month ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad to the world, with an ambiguous “late March” shipping date for the Wi-Fi… read more

Ars: Apple A4 CPU is a “feature-stripped ARM Cortex A8″

<pe much of the speculation over the iPad's Apple A4 CPU has been focused on the fact that it was a system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed by the minds acquired from P.A. Semi, Ars Technica's Jon Stokes has another take on the story.

In a Sunday post, Stokes (who claims to… read more

Google Chrome Continues to Grow at Other Browsers’ Expense

Remember how Google Chrome’s market share grew last month, but Firefox and Internet Explorer’s shares slipped downward ever-so-slightly? That trend continued in February, according to web analytics company Net Applications. This time, however, Chrome was the only browser to grow at all (Safari moved up a little bit in… read more

How to Build a Footer That Doesn’t Stink

As the first thing visitors see, home pages and headers often steal the design spotlight.

But above-the-fold thinking neglects the natural flow of vertical page layout. What happens when people reach the end of a page?

You can bet that a simple copyright statement won’t hold visitors’ attention, but many pages are… read more

Best of AppStorm in February

We’ve collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in February. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month.

Now would be a good time to explore a part of… read more

Movieclips Makes Legally Licensed Movie Clips Available Internationally

Today, video-sharing site Movieclips.com is opening itself up to the world and also offering developers access to its API.

Back in December, we covered the launch of Movieclips.com — which is kind of like Hulu, but for movie clips. The site — which was originally only available in… read more

Condé Nast reveals initial list of iPad magazines

<p GQ
Vanity Fair
Wired
Glamour
The New Yorker

Expect GQ to be the first one available, either at or directly after the iPad's launch. Vanity Fair and Wired should be available in June, while launch schedules for Glamour… read more

The Search for Better Music Streaming: Grooveshark

Music streaming apps have advanced significantly in recent years, but perhaps not to the extent they should have. However, among the many available such as Pandora, Last.fm and Slacker, you’re bound to find something that suites your needs and fits your taste.

Grooveshark is a little different from the above listed… read more

Rumor: Apple iPad to be delayed?

Over at Fortune, Philip Elmer-Dewitt relays speculation that the iPad might be delayed. Citing a Monday report by Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek, he writes that a manufacturing bottleneck may be affecting iPad production. According to the report, Apple production could be as low as 30% of its target goal… read more

Review: Viva il Re board game app asks to be crowned

Viva il Re (which means “Long live the King” in Italian) is a well-designed board game by Stefano Luperto that has been beautifully ported to the iPhone by by Pro-netics S.p.A. The object is to score points and hopefully get one of your characters to become the new king, because… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of February 2010

February was a great month full of awesome tutorials, interesting articles and interviews, and stunning showcases for inspiration.

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsSuper Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop

This tutorial, from Abduzeedo, will show you how to use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to a great… read more

Quix makes bookmarklets even easier to use

Quix has come up with a way to make them even better. It calls itself “Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids” and it’s hard to argue with that description. Imagine all of your bookmarklets together in one, and being able to come up with shortcuts to trigger each one.

The interface… read more

Encouraged by iPhone market, Nuance announces new medical apps

The first app is Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation. It is designed to allow clinicians to dictate patient notes, emails and text messages instead of typing them on a mobile device. The idea is to let medical professionals dictate and capture information in real time with a smartphone, without having to… read more

We7 Gives UK Users Another Music Streaming Option on the iPhone

Peter Gabriel-backed UK music streaming service we7 just launched an iPhone app which lets Premium+ users listen to music on their iPhone, ad-free.

We7 gives several options to users: free service is ad-supported, and works worldwide, Premium option is UK-only and lets you stream music (without ads) from your PC,… read more

The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials

By Callum Chapman

In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing… read more

The Future Of CSS Typography

There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever… read more

25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins

Keeping up with the new jQuery plugin releases and developments sometimes feels like a full-time job! Every other day something new and better crops up that catches the eye and you think yourself “Wow, that looks good, I could use that!“.

For this post I have collected 25 of the best… read more

Stellar Branding Across Various Mediums

Branding & Identity can make or break a company. If you have worked on large scale client with billboards, brochures, letterhead, envelopes, TV, web etc. you know how many details there are to work out over a various amount of mediums. You also know how consistency plays a big role… read more

TUAW Fact Check: Apple using underage labor? No.

When a headline leans towards the sensational side, or doesn’t accurately reflect the information that’s actually contained in the article, it’s easy for poorly-represented news to spread like wildfire. This article from the UK’s The Daily Telegraph, regarding Apple’s self-initiated audit of its overseas manufacturing facilities, is a perfect example,… read more

New iPhone ad: Family Travel

<pyou've been watching TV over the last few days (and who hasn't, with that USA / Canada hockey game and the tsunami coverage), you may have seen the latest in the series of iPhone ads.

The ad, titled “Family Travel,” features a voice-over by a Mom who gushes… read more

5 Best iPhone Apps For Controlling Your Mac or PC

With more than 140,000 apps in the iPhone App Store, finding task-specific apps or utilities for your iPhone or iPod touch (and soon iPad) isn’t the hard part. The hard part is finding the best app for the job. That’s why we’re launching a new series here at… read more

50 Frightening (But Inspiring) Digital Illustrations Of Dragons

This would be one of the most stunning ferocious post on our website that demonstrates the charm of imaginative and furious creature i.e. Dragon which are basically the imaginary creatures of fairy tale and fantasy books. Although they are the fabled creatures, but still have created the unexplained magic of… read more

10 Firefox Add-ons to Beautify Your Browser

You’ve clearly made an educated decision in choosing the Firefox browser, so why not make further decisions about how it looks? As you may know, Firefox can give you a totally personalized browser experience, with plenty of options to customize its look and feel.

We’ve trawled the plethora of available… read more

How to Take Photos of a TV Without the Squigglies

If you’ve ever taken a photo with a TV in it, you might notice just how hard it can be. The picture can seem squiggly or, as in this photo, not even visible. You don’t have to be a Photoshop pro to replace the screen in post production. The answer… read more

My on-again, off-again Apple relationship

The Apple IIe was the only computer I used in school through 1990. I spent most of seventh grade cooking up little text-based adventure games in BASIC, and I even learned some rudimentary drawing and audio programming, all of which I forgot long ago. In mid-1990, the school revamped our… read more

5 Must-Have Geek Collectibles

While some people may amass large numbers of porcelain figurines or miniature replica cars, we’ve got five far cooler collectibles for those of a more geeky nature.

From vinyl to plush, we bring you five social media-, online- and tech-themed items that will not only show your affiliation to all… read more

6 Free Android Apps That Will Make You Drop Your iPhone

The Android Market may still lag behind the iPhone App Store in terms of variety and quality, but there is something to be said for the Android operating system’s extremely tight integration with existing Google products, and the wide choice of devices and carriers.

There’s no question that the… read more

Thanks to the Mac.AppStorm Sponsors

We’d like to say a big thank you to this month’s AppStorm sponsors, and the great software they create! If you’re interested in advertising, you can order a slot through BuySellAds.

CleanMyMac – CleanMyMac represents a sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy.

MiniBooks – A handy… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 21-Feb 28, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Wallpaper of the Week #89 – Saad Moosajee

The wallpaper of this week is another super cool artwork from the young self taught freelance Illustrator and Art Director Saad Moosajee. We have already featured him in the past but he has some new works that are definitely worth checking them out.

Since Saadart.com was established in September 2008, Saad… read more

18 Essential Apps For Web Developers Using a Mac

18 Essential Apps For Web Developers Using a Mac

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The Reader’s View: Best of your feedback, comments and opinions

The first comment, from Ed P, was added to David Winograd’s coverage of his interview with Roland Saekow of BearExtender. It appears that Ed was actually at Macworld watching the interview being done: “Hey, I was watching this while ya’ll were broadcasting! Macworld was Haute! Really looking forward to next… read more

No Apple stock split…for now.

Thursday, Briefings.com, CNBC and a passel of other market analysts predicted that a 4 for 1 stock split would be announced at the Apple Shareholder Meeting. This rumor moved the market, but there are conflicting opinions to why. First, for the uninitiated, a stock split is a zero sum game…. read more

Android 2.1 Coming to All U.S. Android Phones? [RUMOR]

Version 2.1 of the Android operating system (which currently powers newer handsets like the Nexus One) may be coming to older Android phones in the U.S, according to a report. This corroborates some earlier rumors, and comes despite speculation that 2.1 simply wouldn’t fit on older hardware like… read more

iPhone users come in all ages but probably live near a big city

<pend of this week has brought a little flurry of information about the differences between iPhone and Android users. First up, Admob has released the results of a survey that says the iPhone is twice as popular as comparable smartphones in both young and old demographics. Unfortunately, we can only… read more

Quantcast: Apple share of OS growing while Microsoft shrinks slightly

<parch released today indicates that in North America, Apple's Mac OS X is gaining traction, while the Windows share of the OS market is shrinking ever so slightly. That's the report from Quantcast, a company that measures and analyzes web traffic. They say that the market share for Mac OS… read more

Phoenix Wright, Hexen II coming to the iPhone

Good news for fans of good games: the terrific DS courtroom simulator (which, trust me, sounds much less fun than it actually is) Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney is coming to the iPhone, and Slide to Play has posted some hands-on video. The game takes the two DS screens and stacks… read more

Apple gives Vancouver Olympic visitors a rare treasure

<psome fans of the Olympic Winter Games, it's all about the beauty and grace of figure skating. For others, it's the organized chaos of short-track speed skating, or the aerial bravado of the half-pipe. And for some, it has nothing to do with the sports of winter. Instead, they're intent… read more

Found Footage: Google’s ad, Mac style

Happy weekend! Google may have won some hearts with its Super Bowl ad a little while back, but we all know that Apple is the king of advertising when it comes to technology, so YouTuber allenmonroeiii decided to make a little parody of the Google ad and promote the Mac… read more

Be a Teacher, Not a Douchebag

I’ve been tracking trends and looking deeper into the scenarios that make my company the most money.  That’s why I wrote my previous articles regarding retainers, web cams and other such things that we do that keep our clients close to our sides.

So today I get this new customer’s mobile… read more

Best of the Week #108

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less… read more

MacTastik Weekly #56

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Photofont WebReady: A Revolutionary Font Converter

Photofont WebReady is a revolutionary technology for website typography. Fontlab’s Photofont WebReady can be called a font converter meant for Windows and Mac OS X systems, which can help you customize the fonts on a web page. Since the main technology lies in the conversion of texts into Flash objects,… read more

HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote

A few weeks ago, tensions between Adobe and Apple rose to all-time highs after Apple prominently left Flash off of the iPad. A lashing by Steve Jobs, calling Adobe lazy and Flash buggy didn’t help matters at all.

The problem: Apple believes that Flash shouldn’t be part of the… read more

New U.S. Military Policy Opens Up Social Media to the Troops

A new policy released today by the Pentagon has reversed multiple bans on social media websites and tools, effective immediately. This policy includes YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Google Apps, and other social tools.

Certain branches of the military, such as the U.S. Marines, ban the use of social media… read more

TUAW redux: The future of iPhone OS and Mac OS

This is a familiar viewpoint to us here on TUAW. Last year, I asked whether the future of the Mac OS would turn out to be the iPhone. In my write-up, I pointed out that the iPhone OS was built from scratch to work with Objective C 2.0 with its… read more

FastMall Is Foursquare for Malls

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: FastMall

Quick Pitch: Think Foursquare-meets-Yelp for… read more

Facebook to Say Goodbye to App Notifications on March 1st

Last month, we reported that Facebook was transitioning from application notifications to e-mail notices. Today, the Facebook Developer blog has added further information about this new method and announced that as of March 1, 2010, app notifications will be discontinued.

For users who hate being bombarded by app… read more

Apple files for ‘Magic Trackpad’ trademark

No one knows exactly what this thing is for, or where it might be used. It could be for the new iPad, or something for the upcoming laptop refresh. It could well be an extension of the work Apple has done on multitouch, or something completely different. Apple has filed… read more

Interview with the creator of the Apple startup sound

We met them while they were shooting on the Apple Campus, and now the creators of the Dutch site onemorething.nl have posted their interview with Apple sound designer Jim Reekes (who also appears in Welcome To Macintosh). They met up with Reekes while at Macworld in San Francisco a little… read more

Yelp CEO Denies Extortion Scheme

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman has just released a passionate statement denying all wrongdoing on Yelp’s part, addressing a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday that purports that Yelp is running an “extortion scheme.”

In the statement, Stoppleman begins by addressing “the long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around… read more

New Seesmic for BlackBerry App First to Support Ping.fm

In January Twitter application maker Seesmic acquired Ping.fm. Today the updated Seesmic for BlackBerry application is the first to integrate the Ping.fm service into the fold, which means Twitter users can now use the BlackBerry app to simultaneously update 50 different social sites.

The fresh-faced BlackBerry app also includes multi-account… read more

Associated Press sources report Associated Press working on iPad app

Business Insider’s The Wire is reporting, rather humorously, that AP sources have the scoop that the Associated Press is working on its own iPad app. It will reportedly be a paid subscription news app that generates content from the AP and more than 1,000 member newspapers and broadcasters.

The… read more

myYearbook Revenue at $20 Million Annually and Growing

Somewhat quietly, myYearbook remains one of the most popular social networking sites, with 20 million members and a place in the top 30 most trafficked websites in the US. Now, the site is publicly disclosing some of its financials.

According to CEO Geoff Cook, the company ended 2009 with… read more

Minutes from Apple’s shareholder meeting

One highlight is that Steve Jobs sounds like he’s got the magic back — apparently he was “feisty” during the Q&A session, and he sounds like he’s back to work, saying that Apple is holding onto their piles of cash for some “big, bold moves.” There was news that… read more

TigerText Makes the Poor Decision Texts Go Away

Do you frequently make bad-decision texts — the kind of texts that likely show up on Texts From Last Night? Well, then, you should probably download TigerText, a new iPhone app that will let you delete those digital mistakes from another person’s phone.

TigerText [iTunes link], which was… read more

Social Media Analysis: The 2010 Winter Olympics

Teresa Basich is the Content Marketing Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She blogs at Writing On Purpose and is @TransitionalTee on Twitter.

The Olympics. They’ve been talked about, reported on, blogged about, tweeted, YouTubed, Facebooked, Flickred, and then some. A sporting event of this magnitude… read more

Directly connecting and syncing content between your Mac and Apple TV

<pfter many years together, my Linksys WRT54G and I have parted ways. In its place, I'm now using an 802.11g-based Apple AirPort Express with AirTunes that was passed along to me. Besides not wanting to fork out the extra beans (c'mon, who here isn't saving up money for an iPad)… read more

Ask TUAW: Shopping for new Macs, iPhone home screens, home folder on external disk, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

10 Tips for Successful Twitter Fundraising

Twitter fundraising has steadily been on the rise in the last two years. Twitter has been used to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charities and charitable causes, and has been used to spread awareness about social issues.

But it takes more than posting multiple tweets a day… read more

Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch… read more

Line2 adds a second line to your iPhone for $15 a month

Would you like to add a second line to your iPhone? Perhaps you’d like to add a business number to the phone, but your existing phone is currently tied to your personal mobile number. You could always carry a second phone, but that’s an expensive proposition, particularly if you’re an… read more

AT&T rolling out MicroCell to five more markets

WMExperts is reporting that AT&T is adding five more markets to the short list of trial areas. If you live in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Las Vegas, or San Diego, you can have the opportunity to spend an additional US$19.99 per month on top of your existing iPhone service… read more

Details: Twitter’s Impending Ad Platform

The guessing game surrounding Twitter’s imminent launch of an ad platform just got a little bit more focused. The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog reports that Twitter’s ad plan is tied to Twitter search (and third-parties that use the API), uses Twitter’s 140 character limit, and… read more

Clearing the air on iPhone terminology: 4th generation vs. “4G”

It made sense to call the second-generation iPhone the iPhone 3G, as the addition of a faster 3G wireless chipset and antenna was in many ways the defining feature of the device. The next iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, once again has its distinctive feature spelled out right in the name:… read more

Wildfire’s Hot Campaign Winners

We recently reviewed Wildfire, an amazing web application for creating branded interactive promotions like sweepstakes, contests and giveaways with the viral features of the social web. Wildfire was kind enough to give three Premium campaigns away to our readers, each valued at more than $250. Thanks Wildfire team!

Congrats to our… read more

Google Buzz: 5 Opportunities for Small Businesses

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

Just when you thought you had social media figured out, Google has shaken things up with a new entrant into the market: Google Buzz. It’s… read more

Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.1 available

<pe has released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.1 via Software Update. The update can also be downloaded here. The 6.77 MB (web) or 7.2 MB (Software Update) update requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.2, and extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 3 and iPhoto '09 for the following… read more

“Badges Like Us” Is Foursquare’s First Rap Anthem [VIDEO]

For some reason, every time an Internet phenom gets big, someone feels the need to pen a rap about it. Well, with location-based services of the verifiable rise, it was only a matter of time before Foursquare got the autotune treatment. Allow me to present: “Badges Like Us.”

… read more

Mac 101: Navigating OS X with your keyboard

Enter the world of keyboard shortcuts. A keyboard shortcut is exactly what the name implies: a way of using the keys on your keyboard to quickly perform tasks that typically would require multiple steps using a mouse. Before we dive in to the magic keystrokes, let’s take a quick look… read more

First Glimpse of Nokia’s Symbian 4 Operating System [VIDEO]

Besides being the most awkwardly named mobile operating system ever, Symbian^4 (that’s the official name) is also a very important step for Nokia, who (although Symbian still dominates the worldwide smartphone market) has been struggling to make Symbian competitive with touch-friendly Android and iPhone OS.

Now, Fierce Wireless has managed… read more

How To Make Your Own Postcards: Cheap!

I’m Benjamin and am a hitchhiking photographer. In my travels I quickly realized a need to make my own postcards for my friends and family.  

I wanted unique and personal postcards at a cheap price. Here is the result of that quest. This is a post for those whom aren’t familiar… read more

Rumor: Steam coming to the Mac?

<ptale Games recently held a Mac revolution, and that was a nice piece of news for Mac gamers, but this would be a "game-changer": Valve may be considering bringing their Steam platform over to the Mac. They released the beta version of the new UI for their digital game delivery… read more

New patent hints at iPhone camera gesture control

An interesting patent application came to light via PatentlyApple yesterday. The patent, titled “Camera as Input Interface,” was filed by Apple in August 2008 and details a means of controlling an iPhone by swiping a finger across the device’s camera lens. The patent proposes using the iPhone’s camera, which is… read more

Yet another Mac OS X 10.6.3 seed released to developers

10.6.2 arrived on November 9, 2009, and, like the forthcoming 10.6.3, was primarily a bug fix update for Snow Leopard. 10.6.3 should be out any day now in Software Update complete with those always-informative release notes, including my favorite: “increases reliability and improves compatibility and security.”

[Via MacRumors]

TUAWYet… read more

Found Footage: The Powerbook snowboard

Ok, we’ll admit it — the recent snowpocalypse may have driven some people nuts. But probably not this nuts — these two German guys wanted to go snowboarding, but didn’t actually have a snowboard around, so they did what most of us would naturally do in this situation: take two… read more

Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Most designers, when lacking ideas, turn to design galleries to find ideas. But there are a few problems with that approach. The most obvious is that when taking inspiration from similar mediums, there’s a fine line between “inspired by” and “copied”. To some extent,… read more

Breathtaking Masterpieces Of Creative Photography

Today, we are showing you another great collection of Breathtaking Masterpieces Of Creative Photography. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not… read more

Music Streaming Service MOG Raises $9.5 Million

MOG, an on-demand music streaming service with backing from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music, has raised $9.5 million in a new round of funding.

MOG, which has already raised over $10 million in angel and Series A rounds, launched in December with the goal of muscling into the… read more

Almost Everything You Want to Know About the Bloom Energy Box [VIDEOS]

By now, you have probably heard of the Bloom Box, the green fuel cell device that promises to soon power our homes. After appearing on CBS’ 60 Minutes last week, its sand-based fuel cells generated a ton of buzz and media attention.

Yesterday, Bloom Energy launched the Bloom Box… read more

Adafruit shows off the Square dongle for credit card payments on the iPhone

<pruit is one of a few companies that has been chosen to test the Square dongle that automagically takes credit card payments on any iPhone. Even though we got to see it in action at Macworld, I think every look we can get at this thing is worth it, considering… read more

Facebook to Take 30% Cut of Developers’ Facebook Credits Revenues

Facebook will soon roll Facebook Credits out to even more application developers, so it has publicly announced that it will take 30% of the revenues earned for goods sold via Facebook Credits.

Facebook Credits make up Facebook’s virtual currency; the currency became available to some users last Spring. Those users… read more

HUGE: Facebook Secures Patent for News Feed

A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world’s largest social network now own the patent for the news feed.

Patent #7,669,123, first unearthed by All Facebook, credits Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and seven other current and… read more

Parallels gets down to bare metal with new server software

Parallels has announced a new version of Parallels Server for Mac called the Mac Bare Metal Edition. It’s optimized to provide better performance for virtual machines running on an Xserve, and allows multiple, isolated virtual machines to run simultaneously on the same server. Using “hypervisor” server virtualization, system administrators… read more

Facebook Friending Made Simple: Just Shake Your iPhone

Ever wanted to Facebook friend someone you just met right on the spot? Until today, that wasn’t easy. But now, if you have an iPhone, all it takes is a single shake, courtesy of the Bump iPhone app.

For those of you unfamiliar with the app, Bump allows… read more

Plants vs. Zombies breaks records on the iPhone

<pap has released some sales information on their latest iPhone game, Plants vs. Zombies, and it's a runaway hit: the game has sold over 300,000 copies in just the nine days it's been out on the App Store, which means the company has garnered over $1 million in sales already…. read more

iPhones you’ll want to sink your teeth into

Now, via Cult of Mac comes word of iPhone cookies from several bakeries around the globe. The first, as seen in the photo at right, is from the Green Gables Bakery in Japan. It has a “camera” indent on the back, a nicely framed display on the front side, and… read more

Quicken Comes Back to Mac

When you think personal finance software, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Quicken. While Quicken has been a mainstay on Windows desktops for years, its Mac presence has been less than stellar. That changes today, with the release of Quicken Essentials for Mac. Re-built from the… read more

The Future of the Non-Profit Internet

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.

Earlier this month, Pew Internet released its annual Future of the Internet report. The survey of 900 leaders forecasts the future direction of online media. In turn… read more

Boxee back on Apple TV

That’s some very impressive and quick work by a bunch of people who aren’t obligated to do this at all (there are a few XBMC devs on the team as well, and the patchstick will allow you to install XBMC also, if you’d like).

TUAWBoxee back on… read more

Found Footage: One designer’s vision of an iPhone 4G

<pore the original iPhone and iPad appeared, TUAW and other blogs were inundated with mockups of what the devices could look like. Some of them were hastily thrown-together Photoshop mashups, while others were beautifully-rendered depictions.

Antonio De Rosa of ADR Studio has created his own vision of what the… read more

Opera 10.5 Beta for Mac Adds Multi-Touch Gestures

Opera just released the 10.5 beta version of its web browser for Mac computers — the fifth most popular browser on the market. We previously covered the Pre-Alpha version of 10.5, but this beta release is likely far more stable.

There’s a complete change log online if you want to… read more

5 Fantastic Facebook Fan Page Ideas to Learn From

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

So your business is on Facebook, and brand engagement is up thanks to some savvy social media strategy. You may even be interested in further… read more

Terminal Tips: Generate random filenames for digital photo frame images

One example of a photo frame feature gap is the lack of ability to “shuffle” photos so that they can be displayed in a random order. While sitting at my grandma’s house for hours on end, it quickly became a personal challenge to try and successfully guess the next photo… read more