Realistic cardboard box icon (PSD)

Realistic cardboard box icon (PSD)

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Daily Freebie #12: Vector Round Pointers

Daily Freebie #12: Vector Round Pointers

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30 Unusual, Fresh and Creative WordPress Site Designs 9

30 Unusual, Fresh and Creative WordPress Site Designs 9

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Freebie: Twitter Widget for WordPress (PSD)

Freebie: Twitter Widget for WordPress (PSD)

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Facebook Turns 8, And Together We’ve Grown

I’ve been on Facebook for 2,561 days, having joined during the first year of its existence and my first year of college.

As the world’s largest social network turns 8 years old today, millions of people will reflect on the impact Facebook has had on their lives, however big or small… read more

Spectacular Website Design Ideas Using Circles

Spectacular Website Design Ideas Using Circles

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15 of the Most Popular Pictures on Pinterest

1. Hands

Pinterest via Edris Kim.

Click here to view this gallery.

If you’re like us, you’re obsessed with Pinterest. You… read more

15 Professional Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers

15 Professional Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers

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Do You Have a Favorite Landscape Photography Destination?

Is there a place that you love to go shoot landscapes?

I’d love to hear about your favourite landscape photography destinations – particularly I’d like to hear any the following:

where is it (give us a country/state etc – remember our audience is global so don’t assume everyone will know exactly where… read more

3 Free iPhone Apps for Creating Your Own Stop-Motion Videos

1. Created with the Stop-Motion Camera App

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The Work of Tony Aubé

When compositing photos in Photoshop, sometimes the story you tell can be just as important as how well you combine the images. Frequent Psdtuts author Tony Aubé is not only good at combining the images he uses, but he is also great at combining them in an emotional way. Let’s… read more

Super Bowl 2012: Everything You Need to Know About Watching It Online

This year’s Super Bowl marks a digital first: The game will be the first Super Bowl that you can watch online — legally. NBC, the broadcast partner for this year’s game, is going to stream the game live.

NBC has actually been streaming some NFL games online since 2009, though never… read more

35 Adobe InDesign Tutorials – Enhance your Print Medial Skills

35 Adobe InDesign Tutorials – Enhance your Print Medial Skills

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Video – Paul Boag: Get Clients to say ‘Yes!’

View engaging conference lectures, interesting how to discussions, and high quality freelance advice via video here on FreelanceSwitch.

This week we look at Paul Boag: Get Clients to say ‘Yes!’ by Paul Boag. This weekend we’re sharing a great talk from Carsonified. In this talk at FOWD NYC, Paul… read more

How I Shot And Edited It – Nepal Zoomable Panorama

Have I mentioned how much I love photography and technology. Here’s a good case for mixing them together.

As you say previous on the Q&A with Uncornered Market, creating panorama’s can create some amazing images. I took their methodologies and applied them to some of my own panoramas, which do not… read more

Love Heart Art Balloon Valentines day Free Vector

Love Heart Art Balloon Valentines day Free Vector

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Valentine’s Day Heart Card Vector

Valentine’s Day Heart Card Vector

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Best of the Week #208

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

Free Grill Photoshop Layer Style

Free Grill Photoshop Layer Style

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Top 15+ Party Flyers Design Templates

Top 15+ Party Flyers Design Templates

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35+ Captivating Images of Beautiful Portrait Photography

35+ Captivating Images of Beautiful Portrait Photography

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Working with Guide Tool in Illustrator

Working with Guide Tool in Illustrator

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.124

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Hype: A Worthy Flash Alternative?

Hype, by developers Tumult, seems to have a rather appropriate title. There has been a great deal of talk about this web animation app since its release some months ago, and that can hardly be a surprise, given that it claims to allow the user to create “beautiful HTML5 web… read more

5 Overused Photography Effects

5 Overused Photography Effects

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15 Valentine’s free fonts

15 Valentine’s free fonts

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Is Responsive Web Design Working? Showcase of 30 Sites That Prove it Does!

Is Responsive Web Design Working? Showcase of 30 Sites That Prove it Does!

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Like Testing New Apps? BetaBait Will Hook You Up

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: BetaBait

Quick Pitch: BetaBait connects startups with beta testers.

Genius Idea: Access to early adopters that doesn’t require… read more

4 Ways to Tweet as a Visual Brand

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

Companies that rely on a visual or photographic web presence often find it difficult to convey their media on Twitter. Take, for instance, apparel brands that need… read more

Weekly Fresh Web Design Freebies – Vol. 4 (1-25-2011)

Weekly Fresh Web Design Freebies – Vol. 4 (1-25-2011)

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Olapic’s Crowd-Sourced Photo Campaigns Becoming a Sports Trend

Crowd-sourced social photo sharing appears to be the latest community engagement trend among professional sports teams, largely powered by the online startup Olapic.

Olapic’s service allows organizations to quickly and easily enable fans, readers or other types of audiences to submit photos of their own experiences at a game or… read more

149 New Seasonal Vector Illustrations & Freebie!

149 New Seasonal Vector Illustrations & Freebie!

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The Strange and Epic Lifestyle of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom

If you’re not aware of Kim Dotcom, the man who changed his last name to pay homage to the World Wide Web, we offer you this brief history lesson. Born in Germany, Kim Schmitz (a.ka. King Kimble, a.k.a. King of the Kimpire, a.k.a. The Kim-pin), is a larger-than-life Internet hustler… read more

10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail

Macala Wright is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the leading fashion and retail industry business websites. She is a retail consultant and business strategist who specializes in marketing consulting for fashion, luxury and lifestyle brands. You can follower her on Twitter at @InsideFMM or @Macala.

In 2010, branded content was… read more

Donald Trump, Deion Sanders and Apolo Ohno Star in Century 21′s Super Bowl Ad [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Century 21 has enlisted a team of celebrities for its first-ever Super Bowl commercial.

Reality TV star and business mogul Donald Trump, Pro Football Hall of Fame member Deion Sanders and Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno… read more

Tips to Evaluate Design User Experience

Tips to Evaluate Design User Experience

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Daily Inspiration #1048

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How Social Media Changed ESPN Audio’s Super Bowl Week

Social and mobile technologies aren’t just important for guerilla marketing campaigns and grassroots outreach.

They’re also changing how the world’s biggest broadcast media companies do business.

Mashable recently spoke with top executives and personalities from the sports behemoth ESPN during the company’s biggest week of the year for Super Bowl… read more

How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump, and works for the Global Strategic Management Institute.

Working with hundreds of speakers as… read more

GE’s Beth Comstock: Social Media Redefines the Focus Group

Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock sat down with Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore to talk about her role leading business… read more

15 Beautiful Flash Web Design Examples

15 Beautiful Flash Web Design Examples

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MadeFreshly: Instant Ecommerce

Gone are the days when you needed a truckload of money to start an eCommerce venture. I’m not saying that you don’t need a huge amount of capital to start your own shop online. It all depends on the nature and volume of goods you deal with. But one variable… read more

Sculpting Signatures in Illustrator

Create a stylized digital signature in Illustrator to drop onto your artwork when you are finished. Use Illustrator’s width tool to add some calligraphy style to your signature.

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Red Bull Launches a Fitness Mission With Fitocracy

Red Bull sponsors several extreme sports pros who produce videos with gnarly titles such as “Wakeboarding in the Swamps of Louisiana” and “Dust and Bones.” But through a partnership with online health startup Fitocracy, the company now wants to motivate average joes to submit decidedly non-extreme reports with names such… read more

20 After Before Photos – Retouching work by Adobe Photoshop

20 After Before Photos – Retouching work by Adobe Photoshop

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Age Progression – Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

Age Progression – Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

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How To Do Levitation Photography: Amazing Tutorials And Images

How To Do Levitation Photography: Amazing Tutorials And Images

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7 Tips for Planning a Wedding on Pinterest

1. Join

If you haven’t already, sign up for a Pinterest account. There’s a waiting list to join now… read more

30 Beautiful One Page Websites For Inspiration

30 Beautiful One Page Websites For Inspiration

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Beautiful Houses: Villa BH – Netherlands

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

Manage Your Money to Avoid Freelancing Failures

Business is always about monetizing one component from among a host of other important things. The reason behind every business is to make money or generate revenues. Given the inherent focus on revenues, when launching a business or a site, it is critical to understand how to manage finances, which… read more

25 Funny & Creative Mug Designs

25 Funny & Creative Mug Designs

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30 Great Photoshop Text Effect tutorials

30 Great Photoshop Text Effect tutorials

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Quick Tip: Create a “Transfarmers” Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

In today’s quick tip tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a cinematic “Transfarmers” Text Effect using the layer styles. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Transformers Solid font Dark Metal texture from Texturemate.com Brushed Metal Pattern Step 1 Make… read more

Five Tips for Running a Successful Home Office

There are a lot of stories written about home-based businesses—trust me, I just did a Google search. Working from home has changed drastically over the years, thanks to technology.

If you think back not even 20 years about home-based businesses, you might envision a low-tech service business such as a… read more

How to Create a Cute Valentine’s Day Icon with Adobe Illustrator

Valentine’s Day is almost here and what better way to express your love for design than to send a letter? This Quick Tip explains how to create an envelope icon, you’d love to click!

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How to use checkboxes and radio buttons in Flash

When you are developing rich and interactive applications in flash, you need to provide the best communication between the user and the application. Flash has some very easy to implement UI components that you can use with your applications. These components will save you from the hassle of designing and… read more

Mastering Panning – Photographing Moving Subjects

Photo by Delineated

Previously we’ve covered the topic of shutter speed and looked at how increasing and decreasing it can have a significant impact upon the images we take – particularly if the subjects in those images are moving.

Today I’d like to take a brief look at a related topic –… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #138

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#138 and make sure to comeback… read more

Publish Magazines and eBooks Quickly with Calaméo

From Amazon’s runaway success with the Kindle platform to Apple’s new iBooks Author tool to help writers create interactive eBooks for their iPad iBooks store, eBooks are the story of the day for digital media. If you’ve ever considered writing a book or creating a new magazine, you’ll want to… read more

Meet the Developers: Dustin MacDonald of Acrylic Software

Acrylic Software is known for their beautiful and useful apps for the Mac and iOS. We got a chance to speak with Dustin MacDonald, the company’s Founder, Designer & Engineer. In our interview, we touched on a number of topics ranging from the history of Acrylic Software to their view… read more

Free download: Infographic Vector Kit

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Should You Keep Your Website Open Source?

When you enter the world of web hosting, you will find yourself inundated with options. Choosing a hosting company is only the beginning. Even after you have a domain, hosting account, and all of the preliminary tasks out of the way, you still have to build a website…. read more

NetSpot: WiFi Site Survey for the Rest of Us

You’ve just moved to a new apartment and you’ve set up your wireless router. You think you’ve done everything correctly, but you’re just not getting the coverage and rates that you should be. Maybe there is some interference from some other WiFi hotspots nearby? But how do you know?

Enter… read more

Cloudy Blog Layout (PSD)

Cloudy Blog Layout (PSD)

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Google’s Bouncer For Android Shows Malware Apps the Door

Bouncer scanning software, developed by Google, is designed to search the Android market for software that could be malicious, the company announced Thursday on its blog.

With the success of Android this year, the company says it wants to protect its many users and their devices from harm.

“Device activations… read more

Free Bundle for Designers

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Today is Friday, and what better way to celebrate than by presenting you with something new. ZeroBundle.com is a website that offers an awesome free bundle of goodies for designers. It is brought to you by WebDesignerDepot and MightyDeals.com. The bundle will be available for a… read more

50+ Amazing & Clever Examples of Alternative Movie Poster Design

50+ Amazing & Clever Examples of Alternative Movie Poster Design

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8 Things You Should Know Before Building a Mobile App

Seth Porges is a magazine editor and the creator of Cloth, an iOS fashion app for iPhone and iPod Touch. His Twitter handle is @sethporges.

App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with just… read more

26 Gorgeous Chocolate Package Designs

26 Gorgeous Chocolate Package Designs

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Book Suggestion: One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

The book suggestion of the week is about Jeff Bezos and the history of Amazon.com. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com is a really good book, very inspiring and motivating especially about believing on what you are doing and focus on the long term when doing things…. read more

iPhone Wallpaper: Compilation of Fantastic Designs

iPhones as we already know, have so many different applications. One of my favorite uses of my iPhone is as a mp3 player. I just love listening to various styles of music while I am working. In this post you will see an amazing collection of  iPhone wallpaper designs ranging from… read more

ADzero Smartphone Is Carved Out of a Solid Block of Bamboo [VIDEO]

Kieron-Scott Woodhouse was fed up with cellphones all looking alike, so he took the matter into his own hands, building his own brand of smartphone out of a solid block of organic bamboo.

The 23-year-old design student at Middlesex University… read more

Mac 101: Part 3, The Apple Ecosystem

When you take the plunge and purchase a brand new Mac, you’re receiving far more than simply a beautiful computer wrapped in svelte packaging. The modern Apple computing experience is complemented by various online services, features and products which Apple offer exclusively to their customers, in the hope of compelling… read more

23+ Unique One-Page Interface Designs

23+ Unique One-Page Interface Designs

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22 Examples of Love and Dating Logo Design

22 Examples of Love and Dating Logo Design

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10 Standout Quotes in Zuckerberg’s Facebook IPO Letter

Facebook, if nothing else, is on a social mission, wrote Mark Zuckerberg in a personal letter filed within the company’s preliminary prospectus for Initial Public Offering.

Zuckerberg’s four-page message to potential investors provides a glimpse into what the 27-year-old CEO believes are Facebook’s priorities moving forward. The letter details the mission… read more

Love Kiss Tree Lovers day Valentine day Vector

Love Kiss Tree Lovers day Valentine day Vector

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Most Popular Rose Banner Valentine day Vector

Most Popular Rose Banner Valentine day Vector

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Gentlemint: Pinterest For Men

I have to admit, when Pintrest first came out, I thought to myself, there is no way that this thing has any use and will disappear soon. Boy, did I eat my words and then some. It has grown to one of the most popular websites in its very short… read more

Marine and Wildlife Photography by Manchester Creative Ryan Johnson

Marine and Wildlife Photography by Manchester Creative Ryan Johnson

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73 Links and Photos That Will Make Your Photography-Loving Head Explode

It’s been a truly wonderful week online in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy collecting the best set of links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This is a really great list highlighting wonderful work by some of the best… read more

Logo Alert: Refresh your Brand with a New Logotype

Logo Alert: Refresh your Brand with a New Logotype

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Daily Inspiration #1047

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

What to Do When Your Website Gets Hacked

Dallas Lawrence is the chief global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations and communications firms. He is a Mashable contributor on emerging media trends, online reputation management and digital issue advocacy. You can connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.

If an individual or activist group broke… read more

Create heart icon in photoshop

Create heart icon in photoshop

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Romney and Obama Go Head-to-Head in Online Donation Drives

Mitt Romney dropped the gloves on Barack Obama Tuesday night by launching an online-only donation drive. The goal? Collect $1 million to make Obama a “one-term president.”

“The inspiration was President Obama,” says Romney digital director Zac Moffatt. “It’s three years ago to the day that he should be held… read more