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Share Your Latest Purchases With Scordit

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: Scordit

Quick Pitch: A social site where you… read more

HP attacks Apple iPad over Flash

<puring CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7, sports a form factor similar to Apple's iPad, as well as similar uses; it supports eBooks, music, videos, and of course, the Internet. But wait, there's more. According… read more

15 Famous Tech Titans Hit Forbes’ Billionaire List

Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year.

After regaining the throne last year, Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time… read more

Sony Answers Wii Remote with PlayStation Move

Sony has named its forthcoming PlayStation 3 motion controller “PlayStation Move.” The controller is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Wii Remote and Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360 — a way to use motion to play video games instead of (or at least in addition to) buttons.

The controller was originally… read more

Valve on Mac piques interest from other game developers

Gas Powered Games, creator of Supreme Commander 2, Kings and Castles, and Dungeon Siege, has said of the Mac: “We, as a developer, will include a Mac platform option in all of our proposals moving forward. We’re in 100 percent support of it, absolutely.” Chris Taylor, founder of Gas Powered… read more

Count The Beats: Inspiration… two apps for the musician on the move

This is what I found that worked well for me.

1. TonePad and TonePad Pro

The iTunes Store describes TonePad Pro as “…the easiest way to make music. Discover the inner musician in you. Create songs by simply touching.” And this is exactly what I found. With a… read more

Google Apps Marketplace: 6 Great Apps to Try Now

Last night at its Campfire One event, Google officially launched the Google Apps Marketplace. The Google Apps Marketplace offers third-party developers and services a way to integrate directly with the Google Apps platform and sell that integration at whatever price point they choose. This is a huge win for… read more

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GDC 2010: Interview with Street Fighter IV producer Takeshi Tazuka

<ptopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here at GDC 2010 last night, and in addition to playing the new game, we also got to talk to producer Takeshi Tazuka. Actually, we got to talk to his translator — Tazuka only speaks Japanese, and I only speak English, so the… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Jobs

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

MySpace Courts Gamers and Developers with New Platform

One of the many initiatives on MySpace’s upcoming roadmap is a renewed focus on the applications platform, most notably surrounding games. The company announced this morning at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco the launch of a new Games Gallery experience, a gaming-specific iPhone app, and a number… read more

MacHeist nano bundle adds Tweetie for final day

First, all the initial applications have been unlocked; both Tales of Monkey Island and RapidWeaver are fully present and accounted for. Second, there’s been a last-minute addition to the roster; Tweetie for Mac (normally $20 on its own) is now part of the bundle.

If you’re Macheisting this year,… read more

Photo Trekking: A Traveling Photographer’s Guide to Capturing Moments Around the World [Book Review]

Perhaps one of the best features of the widespread availability of digital cameras is the ability to capture our vacations and trips across the globe. Never has it been easier to photograph and share with our friends and family the unique cultures, monuments, people and wonders of the world we… read more

Video Games On-Demand from OnLive Arrive in June

Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman revealed a U.S. launch date of June 17 and a monthly price of $14.95 for his subscription-based, on-demand video game-streaming service.

We wrote about OnLive previously when it went into beta testing. You can think about the… read more

EyeTV Hybrid shrinks down, gains Win7 compatibility

<pame price, same features (mostly) but a sleek and slender new look: yesterday Elgato introduced the latest revamp of its EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner for high-definition digital television. The US$150 widget gives you the option of watching over-the-air digital television in full HD glory, and can also tune in unencrypted… read more

Re-Create a Logo in Illustrator Based on a Photo

Have you ever worked on a layout that required a specific logo but all you had was a photograph of that logo, and no matter how hard you tried you couldn’t find a nice high-res or vector version to use? In this tutorial, we’ll take you through one example of… read more

Daytrotter Launches New Paid Downloads Option for Bands [EXCLUSIVE]

Daytrotter is celebrating its fourth anniversary promoting music discovery of emerging bands with a new business model. Now bands who sign on for one of Daytrotter’s unique daily live sessions have an opportunity to sell high-quality digital recordings for a revenue split using a new in-house payment system that… read more

GDC 2010: Ngmoco previews We Rule and GodFinger

<ptopped by Ngmoco's suite at GDC 2010 on the afternoon of the first day of the show, and got a chance to preview two upcoming titles they're working on testing and releasing soon. Both of the games follow Ngmoco's popular (and yet much-maligned) "freemium" model, in which you download the… read more

5 Free Android Apps for Web Developers

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If you’re a web developer on the go, you may sometimes find the need to test some code, fix an error, or manage remote files when you’re away from your desktop…. read more

Corey Haim Dies: Fans Pay Tribute on Social Media Sites

Corey Haim, best known as one half of “the two Coreys,” was found dead in his home this morning at the age of 38, apparently from an accidental drug overdose.

The actor was a teen icon and heartthrob in the late 1980s, known for his roles in films like Lucas,… read more

TextExpander 3 makes short work of keyboard shortcuts

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I honestly don’t think that I could use a Mac without TextExpander anymore. I have a customized list of “frequently misspelled words” that I have it correct for me, as well as a snippet of text for creating a new shell script, a shortcut to insert the current date or… read more

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls

On the Make: magazine blog, they recently posted a piece about the evolution of a project. It was an iPod remote from last year that has gone from a “start and stop” only device to a full featured remote. It is a lovely piece of tech, powered by Arduino hardware…. read more

YouTube Darlings OK Go Say Bye-Bye to EMI

Welcome to Act III of the OK Go/EMI drama: According to EMI, the pop band has decided to leave the record company and form their own independent label, Paracadute Recordings, under which they will take over control of their third album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.

Here… read more

Don’t trust the critics: Four Apple products they thought would fail

Don’t you believe it, because the critics have been wrong before. Several times, actually, according to The Week, which provides a list of five Apple products the critics thought would fail. Out of those five, only one, the Newton, failed to find mainstream success. The other four were industry-defining products… read more

Typography Mania #19

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more.

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Interview with Christian San Jose

Christian San Jose is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Pasig, Philippines. By day he is a senior web designer for an internet marketing company, and by night he works as a freelance illustrator. His list of clients include Nike Phil., The Coca-Cola Company Phil., ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation,… read more

GDC 2010: Real Racing and Flight Control on the iPad with Firemint

<pot to sit down with Australian developer Firemint here at the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco — it's a mobile game developer who hit it big last year with the very popular iPhone game Flight Control, and while it used to make mobile games for just a handful… read more

10 Useful Website Analytics Tools

When you start a website, no matter if you have chosen a top business hosting package or a cheap website hosting package, you will find various website analysis tools in your web hosting admin panel. Website analysis tools, such as Awstats, are typically included in both business hosting and cheap… read more

“Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” uses Macs to solve mysteries

<pou happen to have gotten caught up in the phenomenon known as the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, then you know that the computer of choice for these world-class computer genius hackers is made by Apple. I screened the film version of the story, and MacBook Pros are visible throughout… read more

Now Edit And Share From Anywhere With Photoshop For iPhone

Earlier Adobe Photoshop was developed for the admirers of art and design professionals only. But now a days it seems like every person who even knows very little about computers no matter man, woman and child, everyone wants to use every software that are available to them or they are… read more

The Secret Behind Great Designs: A Young Web Designer’s View

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides.

One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been… read more

GDC 2010: Street Fighter IV for the iPhone out now

<pght at GDC 2010, I went out and stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here in San Francisco, and while there, Capcom projected the actual App Store interface for sending their Street Fighter IV app to the App Store on various screens around the room. We actually got to… read more

On The Job: Time Tracking and Invoicing Made Easy

Dear freelancer, listen up – this is important: You need to track your time and expenses. Nowhere is the axiom “time is money” more obviously true than in the life of a freelancer. If you don’t pay enough attention, you will find money dribbling away – in unbilled… read more

MySpace Co-Presidents Reveal Company’s Plan for the Future [INTERVIEW]

We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills. The joint office speaks to how closely Hirschhorn and Jones are working together to… read more

Automatically open Bittorrent files using Dropbox and Hazel

<p also remembered a tip from my friend Guillermo Esteves (who did the awesome Star Wars crawl using only HTML and CSS), about using Dropbox to start torrents remotely. Guillermo provides some detailed instructions for Transmission and µTorrent to set them up to "watch" a folder for new .torrent files,… read more

GDC 2010: From concept to Top Paid with Unity iPhone

<py Technologies hosted the sponsored lunch panel during GDC 2010 today, and their "product evangelist" Tom Higgins gave a quick rundown of the software platform that enables developers to assemble and release games extremely quickly on multiple platforms.

The company was actually founded in Denmark, but has since… read more

Daily Deals for March 9, 2010

Apple Store: [iPods] Refurbished Apple iPod touch MP3 Players from $139 + free shipping
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: Pocket Heart, Diner Dash, Magellan RoadMate, more
MacUpdate Promo: [Security/Anti-Virus Software] Lockngo 4 for Mac… read more

Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2008 and 2004

<picrosoft has just released updates to the 2004 and 2008 versions of Microsoft Office. According to the company, the updates, which weigh in at 9.7 MB and 221.5 MB respectively, provide "fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code"… read more

HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media

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.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes — lately, it… read more

GDC 2010: Ngmoco explains how Eliminate Pro was built

<p2010 Game Developers Conference kicks off today in San Francisco, and TUAW is in attendance to check out the latest and greatest in iPhone game development. The conference boasts a whole track dedicated to iPhone gaming this year, and all week long, we'll be bringing you panels, news, and interviews… read more

Report: RIAA pressured Apple into creating iTunes LP

<ps feature over at GigaOM has quite a few interesting insights about the iTunes LP program — while Apple sells it wholeheartedly as "the visual experience of the record album," it appears the story behind the story is not quite so clean. According to an anonymous source in the industry… read more

How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop

By Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions: Photoshop Actions and Training

There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this post I am going to focus on one way to pop colors using “Channel Mixer” adjustment layers.

To start with, locate an image that could benefit from more… read more

PlayStation First to Sell HD Movies from All Major Studios

Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to sell high-definition movies from all the major movie studios: Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner Bros and, of course, Sony Pictures.

Some of the content… read more

Tekken bound for the iPhone

This comes a few weeks after Capcom announced the release of Street Fighter IV for the iPhone, leading to an eventual fighter game showdown in the App Store. While both games on the iPhone is pretty awesome, I’m waiting to see how they will look and play on the iPad…. read more

EFF releases iPhone developer license agreement

As EFF points out, public copies of the license agreement are pretty scarce thanks to developers being locked under a non-disclosure agreement as part of the contract. EFF used the Freedom of Information Act to get its copy from NASA, which is the version from approximately a year ago (Rev…. read more

ShiftPlanning Makes Setting Schedules for Businesses Easy

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: ShiftPlanning

Quick Pitch: ShiftPlanning Provides free… read more

FileMaker 11 now available with charting, reporting improvements

Launch

Right off the bat, the introduction screen is new (after the splash screen “wobbles” into view). It’s wider with more options, like a link to the online resource center. There you’ll find video tutorials, starter solutions (more on that later) and access to consultants. They’re all extremely useful… read more

Using Adobe Bridge to Create a Mosaic

Get Creative with Adobe Bridge

Many people, understandably, think of Adobe Bridge as a visual file browser, and of course, that’s its strength. But thanks to the Output module, Bridge also offers some interesting design possibilities. In this example, we’ll use Bridge to create both a filmstrip of images and a… read more

MacHeist Offers Early Access to Tweetie 2 for Mac

Tweetie for Mac is the newest bonus edition to the MacHeist nanoBundle 2, which gives Mac users an opportunity to buy a variety of software for a discounted price. Additionally, buyers will also get early access to the pre-public beta for Tweetie 2 for Mac, plus a free… read more

Found Footage: iPad intro video as captioned by Google

Auto-captioning, introduced last year by YouTube in a pilot test, uses voice recognition to create text captions for uploaded videos (via the same massively distributed approach that Google uses for machine translation, and with the same underlying engine that Google Voice uses to transcribe voicemail). Just last week the feature… read more

Why Computer Engineer Barbie is Good for Women in Tech

Rebecca Zook, whose current favorite fashion item is a sparkly ladybug necklace, is an online female math tutor who has been helping students get math into their brains for seven years. Her blog, Triangle Suitcase, is about unpacking the process of learning in all its complexity and delight.

Over… read more

Steve Ballmer compliments Apple, Hell freezes over

Ordinarily, a comment like this might not be significant, but in this case it adds fuel to the fire that Apple will replace Google with Bing as the default search engine in the next iPhone OS. Google and Apple are increasingly at odds and it’s possible that Apple may see… read more

Go Tribal Helps Friends Coordinate Informal Plans

Launching in beta today, Go Tribal tackles the other side of the equation from formal event services like Meetup or Plancast by helping members organize informal group plans. By identifying when users are free and available to hang out, Go Tribal hopes to eliminate some of the hassle involved… read more

Postbox adds Things and OmniFocus support

<pee, I love my setup, but everything that I really like about Mail has been added by plugins, and those plugins require a certain performance and stability sacrifice. It would be bittersweet to part with everything I've built there, but it would be a welcome change if it were a… read more

50+ Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution

A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts… read more

Tuesday Total Textures #9

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.

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5 Websites & Tools Bloggers Should Know About

While the job is interesting and one gets to discover the latest about the Internet, blogging is no easy task. “Time is money” could not be any truer for bloggers; impossible deadlines put us under harsh time constraints. Due to this constraint, bloggers are always actively on the lookout for… read more

8 Mac Apps to Embrace Minimalism

We posted earlier this year about how to clean up your Mac, but today I thought it would be interesting to share a selection of applications that can really simplify your Mac experience. While being “minimal” isn’t everything – and nor is it for everyone – it’s a fun exercise… read more

Playing with Vectors in Illustrator

Last week I decided to spend some time playing with Illustrator and trying to come up with a cool black and white artwork. My inspiration came from some skateboard deck designs which have this sort of 3D effect without using gradients or anything, and not exactly a woodcut effect either…. read more

Remote webcam activation now disabled in software that led to controversy at Pennsylvania school

Absolute Software, makers of LANrev, say they are going to remove the webcam remote activation feature from the software this week.

In a note to customers today, the company said:

“We know that webcam pictures are an ineffective tool in tracking down the location of a stolen computer…. read more

iPhone devsugar: The need for multiple ipa delivery

Each of those applications must be registered with a unique app identifier, each one takes up a separate slot when installed on your iPhone’s home screen, each application occupies a separate App Store listing, complete with its own screen shots, marketing material, reviews, and so forth. Each one must be… read more

DotNetNuke Makes It Easier For You To Build Feature-Rich, Interactive Web Sites And Applications

DotNetNuke Community Edition is a leading free open-source content management system for ASP.NET websites.  With DotNetNuke, you can quickly and effectively deploy dynamic web applications with almost no technical knowledge, however if you are an ASP.NET developer, you can customize it in the way you want to fulfill your specific… read more

Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location

I thought I could not be out-geeked. With a background in radio, and having dabbled in the demo scene on the Commodore 64 and hung out on BBSes and IRC for a long time and all the other things normal kids don’t quite get, I thought I was safe in… read more

Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy?

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.

Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created… read more

HP Slate Demo Shows Off Flash Support [VIDEO]

One of many upcoming tablet alternatives to the Apple iPad, HP’s forthcoming Slate device was teased briefly by Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s CES keynote earlier this year. HP and Adobe teamed up to offer a couple of video demos of the HP Slate (embedded below), with an emphasis on… read more

Online Video’s Rapid Growth Hits a Speed Bump [STATS]

comScore just posted its monthly report on online video viewership, and the total number of videos viewed in January slipped slightly as compared with December.

In December, 179 million people watched 33.2 billion videos. In January, it was 173 million people and 32.4 billion videos. It’s not a big decline,… read more

Is Google Search Coming to Your TV?

Google is testing a new television programming search service in conjunction with Dish Network, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The service, which appears to be very much in a limited testing phase, runs on a special set-top box and apparently searches content from both the Dish programming guide, as… read more

Free Music Monday: 10 Free Tracks

Hey there, music fans! Thanks for joining us for Free Music Monday this week, where we offer you 10 free downloads for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven’t been with us before, we’re collating free and legal tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.

We happily accept… read more

Valve: Steam, games coming to Mac in April

Game titles we can expect to see include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half Life series. Even better news is that Valve intends to make simultaneous platform releases the norm from here on out. Expect Portal 2 to be the first game to be… read more

iPad ad reveals book pricing and NYT button

Several of the books had prices clearly displayed (you’ll get a better look here), ranging from US$8 to $15. For example, Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “True Compass: A Memoir” is listed for $14.99, while “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time” by… read more

Steam Brings Portal 2 and Half-Life Series to Mac

Massively popular online games distribution platform Steam is headed for computers running Apple’s Mac OS X in the near future. Developer Valve Software plans to release native Mac versions of all of its games, including the upcoming and highly anticipated Portal 2, which it will release for Mac and… read more

Creative Use of Blur in Digital Photography

If you’d like to download the images used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, visit www.layersmagazine.com and navigate to the Magazine section. All files are for personal use only.

Sharpness is an important element in any photograph, but a creative use of blur—whether from shallow depth of field, motion blur,… read more

Mac 101: Use the tab key in more dialog boxes

TUAW reader Cody Rogers wrote in to say: “I’m fairly new to my iMac and Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. One of my biggest annoyances from switching over from PC to Mac is when a dialogue box comes up and says ‘cancel’ or ‘okay’ I can’t find the keyboard… read more

Social Media Dorks Get an Anthem [VIDEO]

Remember the Pantless Knights of “I’m on a Mac” fame? Well, they’re back today with a new vid titled “The New Dork,” a parody of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” that pays tribute to social media adherents and hipsters alike.

With shoutouts to Zuckerberg, Mashable,… read more

Bing Takes On “Goliath” Google with Huge UK Ad Campaign

It’s a bit funny to hear Microsoft referring to any other company as the “Goliath,” but when it comes to the business of search, there’s no doubt that Google has managed to overshadow Microsoft’s efforts, which prompted Microsoft to ditch Live Search and start anew with Bing.

It’s therefore no… read more

How to: Get your 1984 Mac running Snow Leopard

<pouldn't happen, they said. It wouldn't work, they warned. But gmjhowe over at Instructables did it anyway: he converted his old 1984 Macintosh into a machine that could run Snow Leopard. And he laid out some pretty good instructions on how to do so yourself. His two rules are as… read more

New & Amazing Portfolio of Emeric Trahand

Graphic designer, Art director, Illustrator, Emeric Trahand works with a special emphasis on aesthetics, creative ideas and communication goals, with a very high attention to details. Inspired by everything, everywhere, interested and enthusiastic, he is in complete love with visual creation.

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Delicious Library: Catalog Your Media in Style

Have you recently bought a book, DVD or a CD you already own, but had forgotten about? No? But you do know every single book, DVD, game, CD, gadget or toy you own?

If you just screwed up you forehead trying hard to think of everything, maybe Delicious Library is something… read more