Budget Camera Accessories on Kickstarter Stabilize Moving Shots [VIDEO]

Professional and amateur movie-makers have been there before: After you spend hours capturing video, you realize your footage is too shaky. MoveeGo, created by Los Angeles-based engineer Sylvain Lepoutre, is a low-cost solution to a frequent problem.

The Kickstarter project hopes to make iPhone and compact camera footage significantly… read more

Facebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for All Groups [EXCLUSIVE]

Could Facebook become the next Dropbox — or a haven for sharing files without regard to copyright?

The social network has revealed to Mashable that all Groups will now offer the ability to send files. This update rolls out to a small percentage of groups Thursday, and will become available… read more

Know A.B.C Of Photoshop [Tutorials]

Know A.B.C Of Photoshop [Tutorials]

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Logo Design: Sausages

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with brains, and today it’s all about logos with sausages!

Every week we search… read more

30+ Step by Step Portfolio Photoshop Tutorials

30+ Step by Step Portfolio Photoshop Tutorials

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40+ Best Coffee Company Branding Design Inspirations

40+ Best Coffee Company Branding Design Inspirations

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25+ Amazing Digital Artwork For Your Inspiration

25+ Amazing Digital Artwork For Your Inspiration

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How Does User-Flow Play a Crucial Role in Web Design?

How Does User-Flow Play a Crucial Role in Web Design?

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Responsive Design 101

It wasn’t too long ago that designers didn’t really need to worry how websites looked on mobile phones and tablets. Phones weren’t yet really practical for web viewing, and before the iPad, tablets were more of a novelty than an essential.

Obviously, all that has changed and most tech… read more

45 Examples Of Websites Designed With HTML5

With the revised and improved edition of HTML, the authors as well as the web developers have been given some more flexibility and interoperability in order to create more interactive and creative websites. HTML5 has been proposed recently because the community believed that now it is the time to move… read more

Tomas Muller: Artist Of The Day

Tomas Muller is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more

Shtuff People Say to Photographers

It’s time for a little photographer humour with this video on the Shtuff People say to Photographers.

From the team at Outward Bound Collective

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.

Shtuff People… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create Folded Text with Adobe Illustrator

Today we will learn how to create text that is located in different planes. One very interesting trick with the Bounding box will let us do it without using 3D modeling. Find out more at the jump!

Step 1

Take the Type Tool (T) and create an inscription.

I used the Impact font…. read more

Dealing With Copycats

Is one (or more) of your competitors copying your idea? Congratulations! You are not alone.

As the co-owner of a niche publication, I look at copying as the best form of flattery—I have to! If I spent hours upon hours stressing out about having my ideas copied, I’d go crazy…. read more

Interaction Design In The Cloud

Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. Many of us cannot imagine life without them.

There are, however, reasons to consider moving to the cloud to do interaction design. In short, today’s… read more

Test Your Photoshop Knowledge #9

We know how much you guys like to test your knowledge of Photoshop so today we are giving you an opportunity to do so with another quiz from Martin Perhiniak. Please take a moment to complete this 10-question quiz and see if you’re prepared to pass our test! Good luck!… read more

Tictoc: Simple Time Tracking In Your Menu Bar

Keeping track of the time you spend during certain activities can be useful for many reasons. The most obvious one that comes to mind is if you are a freelancer that needs to bill by the hour, and therefore need some proof of how much time you spent doing certain… read more

35 Navigation Menus for Your Design Inspiration

35 Navigation Menus for Your Design Inspiration

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Create a Radio App Icon Using Adobe Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you’ll be provided with examples wood and fabric texture creation techniques. Also we will learn how to render the light play on the objects with the help of the Opacity Mask, Blend Tool and Art Brushes. Studying this tutorial step-by-step, you’ll get to know all… read more

How to Design a Clean and Modern Calendar Widget in Photoshop

Calendar is one thing every House or Office or software now a day needs. It helps schedule your task and keeps you on track everywhere. Doesn’t matter where you work and what you do.

Every app needs some extra widgets, like calendar for example. Therefore, we decided to offer you one… read more

50+ Hi Res Free Design Element for Perfect Mother’s Day Card

50+ Hi Res Free Design Element for Perfect Mother’s Day Card

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Choosing The Right Fonts: Choosing Your Font

Choosing The Right Fonts: Choosing Your Font

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You! Be Inspired! #0004 – History Comics, Fan Art, and Artist Workspaces

Despite having interesting topics to write about, there comes a time when whatever I type looks and feels uninspired. When that happens, I visit the online abodes of my favorite artists. The team stumbles upon new sites and artists often, and that’s what You! Be Inspired! is all about! We… read more

WordPress Plugins That Make Your Life Easier

Whether you’re a designer, a developer (or both), chances are you don’t have a lot of spare time. With that in mind, here are some of my favorite WordPress plugins that can help you get things done and move on to the next project.

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The Smashing Book #3 “Redesign The Web” Is Out!

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

20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials

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The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in… read more

The Art of Rock: Legends of the Album Cover

When we say rock and roll, we automatically conjure images of rebellious and non-conformist teenagers. Of course, that’s what the media constantly shows us, so it stuck. But thanks, too, to media rock and roll and its children reached the right audience – the rebels, the creative fellas, and the… read more

2 Essential Corrections to Know When Post Processing Underwater Photos

With the market today providing an assortment of underwater casing options, more and more of us are beginning to bring our cameras under the surface to explore this fascinating world. From the more affordable soft casings for our DSLRs to the simple waterproof coverings for our smart phones, underwater photography… read more

Snowy Evening: Sophisticated and Simple Issue Tracking

With any development project or something in which bugs are required to be fixed constantly, it can be a real pain to manage what needs to be worked on. Developers need to know exactly what’s wrong to ensure that they can release fixes in a swift turnaround and prevent any… read more

Fire Photoshop Text Effect

This Text effect is made with a Layer Style (actually two layers one on top of each other) and some little manual work. The Styles pack contains other styles, check them out here

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Dealing With Your Ego as a Designer

A fundamental difference between programming intensive web-development work and graphic-focused web-design is that everyone – client to business associates – has an opinion and an alternative vision for the latter. The technically-steep learning curve of coding, whether it be the front-end or server-side configuration, tends to elicit few… read more

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX20V Review

First there was the HX5V, then HX9V … now the HX20V. So we’ve gone from a 10x zoom camera to a 15x, and finally a 20x zoom compact digicam.

I happily use the earlier HX5V as an everyday camera, for holidays and occasionally for shots of review cameras. A good all-rounder… read more

Free App Store Deals This Week

Hot off the presses, here’s Mac AppStorm’s weekly picks of the best (and free) deals on the App Store for this week.

Enjoy!

Super Date

If you’re sick of the default date and time view on OS X, then you can change it easily using Super Date. The app features more date and… read more

Over 55 Beautiful Folder Icons for OS X

Today, our computers and mobile devices house many stunning icons that often influence our desire to use a certain application or open a folder. The icons in our machines are practically part of our lives as we see them almost everyday. It is never a bad idea to customize these… read more

Workshop: Creative T-shirt Project, Round 2

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 2 of the Vectortuts+ Creative T-shirt Project. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.

Create Your Own T-shirt Design, Round… read more

How to Teach and Introduce Children the Wonders of Photography

Children see the world through a special lens. There is a purity to their imagination that at some point most adults lose. If you have ever put a camera in the hands of a child you will soon discover that what they see in life is very different than the… read more

jCSML – A New Cross Platform Animation Library

With mobile access and tablets, cross-platform media compatibility has become one of the most important features for new web technologies. With Adobe Flash not being supported on iOS and HTML5 not being native to earlier versions of Internet Explorer, the jCS Media Library has arrived just in time.

The… read more

25 (More) Free And Useful Photoshop Actions

Here is a collection of 25 truly amazing and wonderful Photoshop actions for you. Different types of Photoshop actions are high in demand because Photoshop actions make automating the common sequences easy for the designers and thereby increasing their efficiency and saving their precious time.

In this compilation, we have put… read more

How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System

The Web has become increasingly interactive over the years. This trend is set to continue with the next generation of applications driven by the real-time Web. Adding real-time functionality to an application can result in a more interactive and engaging user experience. However, setting up and maintaining the server-side real-time… read more

10 Jaw-Dropping Sites Featuring a Background Video

Websites with full page backgrounds are pretty cool, there’s no doubt about that. Whether you’re using Flash to achieve your full page background, media queries in CSS, or simply setting your height and width to 100% and not particularly caring about the quality of the image, the outcome is usually… read more

Facebook Timeline – Friend or Foe?

It cannot be denied that Facebook is now a large part of most people’s lives. For many of us, its use involves catching up with friends, organising events and sharing our experiences of the world around us. With over 900 million members, there is no doubt that Facebook is the… read more

Interview with Von Glitschka

Our guest today is a famous designer Von Glitschka. Von is also famous because of his books, which are devoted to vector graphics. “The best way to improve your design as a creative is to improve your drawing skills. The more you do it, the better you get” – he… read more

Easy Page Layouts With Swift Publisher

Mac is a dream platform for designers. Depending on how many complex features are needed to get the job done, there are a myriad of apps available for designers. It goes without saying that a designer has to handle everything from an exciting new mobile app interface to a boring… read more

How to Use Drop Shadows in Photoshop

Photoshop layer styles are a popular way to add effects, such as drop shadows and strokes, to layers in a non-destructive way. With the right knowledge and experience, any effect can be achieved. To achieve these effects, however, you need to understand what each setting does and how they can… read more

How To Begin Your Creative Dream Job – Today

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Maybe this scenario sounds familiar to you: A few years ago I found myself working an office job that was ok. It paid ok, I liked the work ok, I liked the people I worked with ok, and I was pretty ok at what I did…. read more

Kickstart Guide to Breaking into Freelance Illustration

A career in Freelance Illustration is much more than drawing pretty pictures. While as much as you’d like to spend the entire day sitting in front of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or your other favorite tools, like most freelance professions is is more about selling yourself, keeping your portfolio fresh… read more

The Complete Guide of Retouching Photos with Human Subjects

There are tons of magazine covers with models, females and males that amaze the onlookers with their bodies or faces. The perfection expressed by these models conducted to deviated behaviors, many young women attempting to look similar to these and many times the effects were disastrous. The tabloids encouraged the… read more

Incredible Examples of Origami Paper Art

Paper is a very delicate medium, yet it can, as this post proves, create beatiful and powerful art. Originally from Japan, the art of paper folding, as I am sure you will know, is called origami. Over the years its popularity has extended to all corners of the… read more

Creative Fuel #5: Free Social Media Icons, Star Wars Portraits & Type Pairings

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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

Design Goodies: Basic Social Media Icons & Transparent Flip Clock

First up, we have this great… read more

The Art of Typographic Flourishes: Vintage Typography Design Inspiration

A quick Google search using the term “flourish” gets different types of results. The word can refer to an extravagant gesture that’s meant to attract attention. Sometimes it can also pertain to an ornamental embellishment in writing. We’ve discussed the subject of typography with our articles on movie intertitles and… read more

Witty & Creative Illustrations

Witty & Creative Illustrations

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AT&T Says Facebook is ‘Major Force’ in Mobile Business

NEW ORLEANS – Speaking during a keynote session at CTIA Wireless on Tuesday, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega said Facebook is good for his company’s business.

“I think that social networking is going to be a major force in this industry for years to come,” says Vega. “I think… read more

A Collection Of 41 Fonts With Free For Commercial Use License

A Collection Of 41 Fonts With Free For Commercial Use License

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Cool New Web Design Inspiration – 30 Sites

Cool New Web Design Inspiration – 30 Sites

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14 Incredible 3D Printing Creations

1. Nanolet Watch

Keep your Nano nearby with this snug wrist case.

Price: $22.71

Click here to view this gallery.

3D printing… read more

Toyota’s Latest Vehicle: An All-Electric SUV [VIDEO]

In the market for a new SUV and live in California?

Toyota announced the launch of an all-electric SUV at the 26th annual Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles on Monday. It’s basically the RAV-4 in appearance, but runs on battery power with a six-hour charge time and a… read more

Many Social TV Companies ‘Will Disappear Over the Next Year’

The evolution of social TV for consumers, content producers and advertisers continues to move at a breakneck pace.

Several second-screen-experience insiders recently gathered at Mashable Connect in Orlando to weigh in on those shifting dynamics in the television industry.

With their cautious eyes set on the future, panelists Randy Shiozaki,… read more

Logo Design Inspiration for Moon Concept Series

Logo Design Inspiration for Moon Concept Series

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Facebook: Social Reader Usage May Be Down, But Engagement Is Up

The media, forever a navel-gazing industry, worked itself into a fever earlier this week after evidence emerged that usage of Facebook’s social reader apps is declining.

In an article designed to further dramatize The Washington Post‘s recent tension between its editorial and financial divisions, Jeff Bercovici at Forbes pulled up… read more

Cameras for the Comrades: 4 Soviet Era Cameras That Are Worth Checking Out

Like many people, my path into photography came from a Soviet SLR, in my case a Zenit 11. For my 16th birthday I had the choice of an Olympus Trip or the big clunky Zenit with lots of buttons and dials. Even in those days I was a budding gadget… read more

35+ Food Drink Concept Logo Designs for Your Inspiration Series

35+ Food Drink Concept Logo Designs for Your Inspiration Series

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Tweets From the Beard of Steve Jobs’ Favorite Adman Become a Book

Since 2009, ad industry execs in the know have figured out where to find pearls of wisdom on creativity, how to deal with clients and, of course, life itself.

Lee Clow’s Beard.

The legendary TBWAChiatDay adman behind Apple’s “1984″ TV spot doesn’t have a Twitter account, but since 2009, a Dallas-based copywriter… read more

Showcase: Beautifully Designed Landing Pages

Showcase: Beautifully Designed Landing Pages

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20 Beautiful Digital Paintings and Caricatures by Daniel Adel

20 Beautiful Digital Paintings and Caricatures by Daniel Adel

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25 Creative and Awesome 3d Character Designs for your inspiration

25 Creative and Awesome 3d Character Designs for your inspiration

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21 Professional Fonts for Graphic and Web Designers – Free Download

21 Professional Fonts for Graphic and Web Designers – Free Download

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Daily Inspiration #1129

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

30 Fresh Free Fonts

30 Fresh Free Fonts

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Digital Art Inspiration – 20 Great Examples

Digital Art Inspiration – 20 Great Examples

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Watch What Happens Live: Behind the Scenes of Bravo’s Most Social Show

Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live studio is not your typical live studio audience setup. Visitors walk through an open floor plan office, where staffers are hard at work, to arrive at the pint-sized studio. There is enough room for about three chairs on its living room-styled stage.

There’s a bar too,… read more

Illustrator Symbols, Part 3

In this third video on working with Symbols in Adobe Illustrator CS5, AJ Wood shows how to move those Illustrator symbols into Photoshop and Flash.

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U.S. and China Team Up to Stop Cyberattacks

In an unexpected announcement, the U.S. and China have announced they will be working together on matters of cybersecurity, despite many cybersecurity experts’ assessments that China is the main source of digital attacks against the U.S.

The partnership was announced after a Monday meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and… read more

7 Secrets Every Aspiring Street Photographer Should Know

A Guest Post by James Maher

Street photography ain’t easy. It’s a fast moving world out there and it takes a lot of practice to be able to capture it well.

However, it’s not just about practice. Every seasoned street photographer has a bag of tricks to make their lives easier… read more

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

Visit the Pyramids of Giza With This Interactive 3D Site

If you’ve ever dreamed of visiting the Great Pyramids of Giza, you can hold off on purchasing the plane ticket. An online experience now brings Giza to you, transporting you across the world — and through time — to the land of the Pharaohs.

Dassault Systèmes created a 3D model of… 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

Responsive Design – Good or Bad for Businesses

Responsive Design – Good or Bad for Businesses

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Witty Paintings by Hillary White

Pop culture is the inspiration for many great artists. From music to movies, all of it provide great amount of ideas for people to do great, even witty pieces, like these, by American painter Hillary White.

Hillary came up with these fun pop-reinterpretations of some famous paintings, really worth checking out…. 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

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

Presiding as Editor over your own Design Magazine

WordPress has made it easier than ever for a web designer to setup their own blog. This system allows you to add content into your website and publish in a number of different ways. But with the ever-advancing Internet we are seeing posts transform into articles and webblogs… 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

Create a Chocolate Volcano Using 3D Effects

In this tutorial we will use the 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS5 Extended to create a chocolate volcano and text effect. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Milk splash Chocolate texture Volcano depth 3D Lights and Chocolate Material Wrexham Script… read more

Amazing Paper Typography

I love it when two art forms collide and something beautiful emerges. Paper typography is one such type of art that has fascinated me since I was little. Maybe it’s because I learned about origami in grade school, and now also have a love of typography. So when I see… read more

Job Hall: Artist Of The Day

Job Hall is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more

Buy our New Natural Lighting eBook and Go in the Draw to Win $1000 worth of Lenses

Two weeks back we launched a brand new dPS eBook – Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool.

We’ve seen an amazing response to the launch with some wonderful feedback coming in and people reporting both inspiration to shoot more natural light shots but also feeling that they now are… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a Bullet Hole in Five Steps

You know those joke bullet hole decals you see on cars? Well, it’s super easy to make one in Illustrator in just five steps. Follow along with this Quick Tip to find out how.

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20 Minimal Portfolio Designs

20 Minimal Portfolio Designs

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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

Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Beach Stone Textures

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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

How To Create a Vector, Wooden Axe

In this tutorial you will learn how to vector an execution axe from a reference. Discover essential techniques that you need as a vector artist, such as creating different types of shadows, specular and non-specular highlights, bitmap textures for surfaces, gradients for metals, and more. Let’s get started.

Tutorial Assets

The following… 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

Essential Tools for Crowdsourcing Answers to Your Questions

These days, you can ask everyone, anywhere anything, anytime.

Since the advent of the social internet, gone are the days when seeking advice required thorough investigation of forums, IRC channels, and databases. Now, we have the power to ask anyone, anywhere anything, anytime by using crowdsourcing question and answer tools. Crowdsourcing… read more

Impossible is nothing – 40 Creative Interior Design Objects

Impossible is nothing – 40 Creative Interior Design Objects

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Mind Blowing Web Design – 20 Examples

Mind Blowing Web Design – 20 Examples

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