Creating a Question and Answer Format with InDesign Nested Styles

In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create nested paragraph styles on a question & answer example text. This is an intermediate level tutorial, which shouldn’t take more than an hour to complete, and it’s great practice for utilizing InDesign styling features.

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Open up a new document, choose letter and… read more

The Care and Feeding of Subcontractors

There will come a time in your freelancing life when you’ll tackle a project that’s too big for you to handle alone. Which may make you feel like the project is tackling you.
You can eliminate that tackling-you feeling when you think of those extra-big projects as extra-big opportunities for… read more

CSS Sprites: Useful Technique, or Potential Nuisance?

Ah, the ubiquitous CSS sprites — one of the few web design techniques that was able to bypass “trend” status almost instantly, planting itself firmly into the category of best practice CSS. Although it didn’t really take off until well after A List Apart explained and endorsed it, it was… read more

Keys to Getting Your First Web Design Clients

I receive a lot of emails and comments from designers who are just getting started in their work as a freelancer and looking for advice. With that in mind I thought it would be helpful to many readers to provide some tips or pointers for getting those… read more

Cameron: Don’t Watch Avatar on Your iPhone. Or Laptop.

We agree: the Avatar is an amazing cinematic experience, best seen in the cinema or a huge TV (preferrably 3D, if you can afford it). Today, however, people are used to consume multimedia on a variety of screen sizes, and watching a full-length movie on a cell phone, laptop,… read more

Sites of the Week #95

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Super User Studio and Bounty Bev. Also we’re featuring the Neography portfolio and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

Pixmac.com Free Subscription Competion Winner Information

Last month we published the competition Win 1 of 5 Free Subscriptions to Pixmac.com worth $199, the competition has now ended and it is now time to announce the winners.

All answers and comments that we have recieved were great, unfortunately we could only pick five winners, which may it very… read more

Comment on What Every Designer Should Do Right Now by minetti albertini

oh i like this article.. you got me at cleaning my desk

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30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design

A Vintage or retro style design is meant to transport it’s audience decades into the past. Designers try to do this by using various design elements such as textures and patterns from a certain time period. But it’s also important to use accurate typography from the time period you are… read more

Funny Freakish Manbabies

It’s time for some Friday fun! Yeah, I know what you thinking: this is completely retarded. And yes, it is, but I actually find these pretty darn funny! Besides, we get to see some Photoshop skills here and there.

It actually gets funnier if you pay more attention to the men… read more

The Little Known font-size-adjust CSS3 Property

Ever wanted to use fallback fonts on your CSS with different aspect ratios without them looking huge (or tiny)? The sparkling new CSS3 font-size-adjust property could do just that, maybe. read more

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China Hands Down New Rules on Media Coverage of Google

A new set of rules and instructions from the Chinese government itself suppresses China media outlets from reporting almost anything about Google’s recent pull out from China.

The instructions, nabbed by China Digital Times, outline a series of rather disturbing edicts to media outlets that are covering the Google story…. read more

[Ask BB] Illustrator 101: Edit Selected Paths

I recently received a good question via email from Jimmy with an Illustrator question. Although the solution is simple, if you are unaware of the solution, it can be very annoying. Jimmy’s question was “When in brush mode, why is it that when you go to make a second stroke,… read more

A Brief Look at Grid-Based Layouts in Web Design

A Brief Look at Grid-Based Layouts in Web Design

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Daily Inspiration #466

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

Comment on Lorem Ipsum is Killing Your Designs by Joe

Wow there’s alot of comment and I assume there’s lot of website linking to this one but how come it’s on PR 0? anyway just a thought.. Google should rate this one

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10 Most Commonly Used Colors In Web Design And Their Examples

10 Most Commonly Used Colors In Web Design And Their Examples

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13 Essential Social Media Lessons for B2B Marketers from the Masters

This series is supported by the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, where you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of social media as part of your overall B2B marketing mix. Register today!

Social media marketing might feel simple for the B2C crowd, but with B2B, it’s an entirely different beast. Businesses are entities that are… read more

CTIA Roundtable: Biz Stone, Aneesh Chopra and James Cameron

Wrapping up this year’s CTIA mobile show here in Las Vegas is a special round table of thought leaders: Twitter’s Biz Stone, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra and filmmaker James Cameron came together with host and CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to discuss the impact of mobile technology on business, media… read more

42 Perfect Web Design Layouts From DeviantArt

42 Perfect Web Design Layouts From DeviantArt

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How I Use Inspiration Shots From Other Photographers

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How do you gather ideas for your photography? It would be impossible for anyone to say that they don’t gather inspiration and ideas from the imagery around them. I’d love to share with you the process with which I gather ideas for my sessions and how I use other photographers’… read more

How to export a psd into xhtml and css without losing your soul? (Part 1)

How to export a psd into xhtml and css without losing your soul? (Part 1)

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Create Your Own Toast Icon in Illustrator (Mostly)

Create Your Own Toast Icon in Illustrator (Mostly)

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50 Examples of Large Photography Backgrounds within Web Design

The first thing that springs to mind when thinking about large photography backgrounds within web design are of simple photographers portfolio website or even that of a design company. Upon researching this article, the surprising thing was that this type of background does not seem to have any limitations, it… read more

Motion Tools in Flash CS4, Part 1

This animation tutorial is the beginning of a 4-part series on motion tools in Flash Professional CS4. Learn about motion tweening, easing, transform tool, and onion skinning options.

This video requires Adobe Flash Player.

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40+ Creative Example of Web Interfaces and Web Design

40+ Creative Example of Web Interfaces and Web Design

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Book Review: Logo Design Love

Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities by David Airey is a fantastic place to start if you’re interested in creating logos that aren’t just visually appealing, but are also memorable, easily recognizable, and timeless.

The book includes a ton of real-world examples from a… read more

6 Easy Ways to Score the Best Deals with Social Media

Sara Dunham is the community manager at online coupon site and community Savings.com.  You can read more of Sara’s posts on the Savings.com coupon blog or fan Savings.com on Facebook.

We all want to save some cash. Social media-savvy shoppers know that right now there are more opportunities than ever to… read more

No Plans Tonight? Play Chatroulette Bingo! [PICS]

Have Chatroulette dating, pranks and random musical interpretations all lost their luster for you? Have no fear, now you can turn the random video chat site into a super fun game — like Bingo! Or Bingo Black (i.e. Bingo that involves liquor). Check out three Chatoulette Bingo boards after… read more

Fix Skin Tones & Color Casts in Photoshop

Fix Skin Tones & Color Casts in Photoshop

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Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug Shootout

Flickr, Picasa or SmugMug—which is best? Which one best suits your needs and your budget? What kind of professional level features do you get with each? These are questions I’ve been asking for awhile and it’s now time to compare three of the most popular photo storage and sharing services… read more

Super Realistic 3D Work of Max Wahyudi

It’s been sometime since we had a computer graphics post. This week we got to see the amazing work of a canadian, who shows us the development of a model of the Joker which pretty much is waaay sick.

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If they ever get to clone Heath Ledger, this is probably how… read more

16 Top Useful iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

16 Top Useful iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

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Comment on The Awesome Work of Michael Heald by nic arp

I don’t know much about design. But I can tell when I see a good one. And these are all mind-blowing.

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Back to the 80′s

Pepe Cardoso will bring us back to the 80′s with some amazing digital illustrations that bring the feel and the style of the good old 80′s. He’s work is totally amazing and the style is just timeless. Enjoy!

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Premium Vector Pack – Hand Weapons

We have a new set of vector illustrations available exclusively for Vector Premium members. These are great for using in your work. Crafted by the group over at Designious, there are numerous vector hand weapon illustrations in this set. You can use them in your next project where a cutting… read more

Beautiful Designed Products from the MoMa Store

The MoMA Store. is a great place to find inspiration, there are a lot of beautiful designed products from famous designers such as Alesi, Ron Arad, Karim Rashid, Philippe Stark, Tibor Kalman, and many others. I have never had a chance to visit the store myself, I would love to… read more

Personal Branding for Web Designers

“It doesn’t matter how good you are. What matters is how good you are at showing it!” This statement represents the ABCs of personal branding, self marketing or whatever you prefer to name it. As a designer, you are so fortunate that your work is pure creativity. As a result,… read more

5 Fun Weekend Photography Projects [Part 1]

If you’re stuck for something to do this weekend why not give a new photography technique a try? 

1. Light Graffiti

Fire Island – by sebastien.b

Light graffiti is everywhere at the moment and is a fantastic to way to get creative with light trails at night. Set up your camera on a… read more

Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers

Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers

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Back to the 80′s

Pepe Cardoso will bring us back to the 80′s with some amazing digital illustrations that bring the feel and the style of the good old 80′s. He’s work is totally amazing and the style is just timeless. Enjoy!

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For more visit Pepe Cardoso gallery

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Beautifully Designed Products from the MoMa Store

The MoMA Store. is a great place to find inspiration, there are a lot of beautiful designed products from famous designers such as Alesi, Ron Arad, Karim Rashid, Philippe Stark, Tibor Kalman, and many others. I have never had a chance to visit the store myself, I would love to… read more

Optimize Your Images For A Faster Loading Portfolio

Optimize Your Images For A Faster Loading Portfolio

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Apple releases Pro Applications, Canon Printer Drivers updates

The second update is Canon Printer Drivers 2.3 for Snow Leopard and includes the latest Canon printing and scanning software for Snow Leopard. The update weighs in at 281.16MB and requires Mac OS X 10.6.1 or later.

The updates are available through the download links above or via Software… read more

Give Finder a Turbo Boost With TotalFinder

The Apple experience is pretty slick, but one thing that frustrates many users is the Finder. Although it gets the job done, it hasn’t evolved a great deal in recent years and is missing a few widely-requested features.

As an integral part of OS X, the aptly named ‘Finder’ is used… read more

200+ Free Spray Paint Brushes for Photoshop

We try to provide readers with links to resources that will make designing easier, more effective, and more fun. Today we have a collection of free Photoshop brushes that will allow you to easily add spray paint effects to your design. Have fun experimenting and see what you can come… read more

What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies?

Ah, the dreaded cover letter. Boring to write, difficult to get right, and you’re usually preoccupied by other things (such as the portfolio and resume, which are also really important). Unfortunately, your cover letter is a company’s first exposure to you, and it determines whether your application is trashed or… read more

50 Stunning Typography Wallpapers For Inspiration

Typography is said to be the backbone of web design, but it’s also considered art all by itself. And, let’s face it, most designers are obsessed with it. No surprise then that in the right hands it can be very powerful. Whether it’s to improve the looks of a website… read more

Before You Go Live, Test Your Website Security With Websecurify

Website security is one of the major concerns of developers and webmasters because when their sites go live, these are in the eyes of several threats.  Hence testers put lots of efforts in determining and maintaining website security.  Among different techniques used to test the security of websites, testing tools… read more

The Definitive Color Wheel

Selecting a color has not always been a few clicks away. Color used to be collected from pigments of the earth and then died into fabric. You had to collect the berries to make the purple-ish/reds or dirt to get a brown. Color, binds the creative realm together be it… read more

Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Today, it’s all about plants, trees and flowers… and there’s some pretty cool stuff here.

As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves, Logo Moose,… read more

Comment on Out of This World Typography by Web Design Maidstone

Quire like Chasing Daylight but for me they are all a bit “mystic” or what have you

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45 Creative Examples in Footer Design

45 Creative Examples in Footer Design

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12 Inspirational Typography Posters

12 Inspirational Typography Posters

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Comment on Out of This World Typography by Hian Battiston

All of them are amazing, I really love it!

Thanks so much for sharing!
Hian Battiston´s latest Blog Entry – Photoshop CS5 – Surpreenda-se

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Comment on 15 Impressive Case Studies from Behance by Bill Chambers

Jad, thanks for pulling this collection together! Awe inspiring to say the least. Bookmarked for inspiration! Thanks!
Bill Chambers´s latest Blog Entry – Sacramento Day Trippers Poster

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WordPress Founder: Open Source Is About People, Not Technology

We’ve discovered a lot of great ideas here at The Economist Innovation Conference in Berkeley, California. Pixar’s President spoke on how the company creates great films and Paola Antonelli of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) discussed the history of the @ symbol, among other presentations and workshops.

Now… read more

Random House leery of iPad over pricing concerns

<pe heard that Apple is still trying to hammer down multimedia content, but print may not be in the bag just yet. Random House is apparently applying some last minute pressure to Apple, since the company says that it's not quite sure about how pricing will work on the iPad…. read more

Android Tablet Prototypes Support Flash [VIDEO]

Drooling over tablets, but worried about lack of Flash support on the iPad? Sit tight, because a slew of tablets running Android will be emerging shortly with full Flash support, thanks to the NVIDIA Tegra platform team’s work with Adobe.

As we’ve said before, the age of the tablet is… read more

25 Pics of Places You Probably Don’t Work @!

We are in the process of building a new building for our company and we were all assigned to bring in photos of places we thought were pretty cool. I found a bunch of photos that I thought were really inspiring and meshed a lot of textures and natural elements… read more

Daily Inspiration #465

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

45+ Unique Examples of Coming Soon Pages

When launching a new site, it is important to build up buzz before actually revealing your masterpiece to the public. That way you can have an eagerly waiting audience to hit the ground running! This next post will not only help you start a promising site, but will… read more

GoDaddy to Stop Offering Chinese Domain Names

As of today, popular domain registrar GoDaddy plans to stop registering .cn (China) domain names due to the country’s new restrictions that require more personally identifiable information from registrants.

Reports detail that GoDaddy is explaining its decision — announced today — before the Congressional Executive Commission on China, which is… read more

What Was Your First Photography Experience?

Photo by muha…

This week’s reader question is – What Was Your First Photography Experience?

Think back to the first time that you held a camera.

What was the camera?
What were you photographing?
Was it film or digital?
What lessons were you taught in the early days?

Looking forward to reading your stories!

By the… read more

Audible.com downloads: there’s an app for that, just not on the iPhone.

<phere are very, very few things I miss about my Treo, but one of the few is my favorite app: AudibleAir.

AudibleAir is an application from Audible.com that would download audio books from your Audible Library directly to your mobile phone. It is available on just about every popular smartphone you… read more

Letterpress Text Effect Using Photoshop and CSS

Letterpress Text Effect Using Photoshop and CSS

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How Pixar Creates Great Films and Balances Art, Tech and Success

Here at The Economist Innovation Conference in Berkeley, California, hundreds of thought leaders have gathered to discuss the process, politics, and economics of innovation.

How do you create an innovative technology? How do you balance innovation and economics? What fosters great ideas? On stage earlier today was… read more

10 Beautiful Free Blogger Templates

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Let’s face it: The default themes that come with a Blogger account aren’t going to win any design awards. They’re plain, fussy, and lack that bit of the snazz you’re… read more

Animal Photo Manipulation – Photoshop Tutorials

Animal Photo Manipulation – Photoshop Tutorials

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Moving Type and Images Between the Creative Suite

Go with the flow

The ease with which you can move type and images between the Creative Suite applications allows you to take best advantage of the specific capabilities of each application. In the following tutorial, we’re going to use Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat to create, display, and distribute a sequential… read more

Adobe announces CS5 release date, second beta of Lightroom 3

Adobe has put up a counter, and announced a launch event for the release of Adobe Creative Suite 5 on April 12 at 11am EDT. Though little is known about the features of CS5, Adobe had previously announced that it will give Flash CS5 the features to allow devs to… read more

13 Clean Unicode Free Fonts

13 Clean Unicode Free Fonts.

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8 Apps to Chat with Random Strangers

In the 21st century, an online service has the potential to garner hundreds of thousands of hits if it is social networking enabled. Networking is the key. Now after a decade of connecting with real world friends online, people suddenly have the desire to befriend strangers. Let us not get… read more

Photoshop Tutorial – Face Transform with Type

In this tutorial, written again by Violet Bag, you are going to learn how to change a normal and basic image of a little kid and transform his face so that it appears to be constructed with text.
There are fifteen easy to follow steps to complete this tutorial… read more

Create a Cute, Stylized Suitcase Tag in Pink

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to create a suitcase tag with the help of the 3D tools. Learn how to make a custom, seamless, vector pattern quickly. We’ll use numerous 3D and layer effects, as well as warping, simple shape creation, pathfinder tools, and more.

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Open up a new… read more

Typography Mania #21

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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25 Free Minimalist Vector Symbols And Icons

25 Free Minimalist Vector Symbols And Icons

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One of the Most Beautiful Houses I’ve Ever Seen

I’m absolutely sure that this house is one of the most incredible houses I’ve ever seen. Of course, the pictures help a lot, but the shapes, the straight lines, the use of a few materials, elements that I believe are main points on the contemporary architecture, are all too evident… read more

World Water Day Pictures

If you don’t know, on March 22nd, 2010 was celebrated the World Water Day, a day for consciousness of how bad things are going with our clean water. And if our clean water is bad, we are faded to a rough future.

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Although we live on a water-covered planet, only 1%… read more

66 Mind Blowing Photo Manipulations Art

Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. Photo manipulation is an art in itself, that requires a skill and precision as we know, it is… read more

Get Creative with Photoshop Actions

Actions are a feature of Photoshop that allow you to automate tasks. So you can record your steps as you work as an action and then play them back to make repetitive tasks more simple to perform. You can also find actions on the web that others have created and… read more

Hacked? Google Corporate Pages Temporarily Switch to Chinese

Google’s corporate bios suddenly switched to Chinese this morning, the Guardian reports. It only affected users connecting from some areas, and the change was live only for a short amount of time, but the screenshots prove that Google may have indeed been hacked – again.

The pages affected were http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html…. read more

WDL Premium: Floral Photoshop Brushes

Today we’re releasing a set of high-quality floral Photoshop brushes for our WDL Premium Members from Designious. Floral elements are a great way to give a design an organic and inviting appearance. This brush set contains 26 brushes in all.

Be sure to check out Designious for more design resources.

Here is… read more

Getting Equipment on a Freelancer’s Budget

There isn’t exactly a checklist of equipment you must have as a freelancer: for some freelancers, an old computer is more than adequate as long you’ve got chairs and a table where you can meet with clients. For other freelancers, a laptop loaded with the latest software is crucial, but… read more

Why Doing Your Homework Leads to More Sales

I recently received a prospecting e-mail from a Tucson photographer I’ve never heard of. His message noted that I’m included in the website developers directory in this city’s Book of Lists.

If you’re not familiar with these books, they’re published by the weekly business journals in many American cities. They list… read more

Interview with Sharon Milne aka ChewedKandi

Meet Sharon Milne, also popularly known as ChewedKandi from the north east of England. Sharon works as a civil servant doing payroll administration but she says she is absolutely obsessed with vector art and her passion is reflected in her illustrations. In this interview she talks about how… read more

35 Fresh JavaScript/jQuery Tools and Resources

It’s time for more JavaScript and jQuery goodies here on Noupe. Today we are featuring fresh JavaScript Development Frameworks, code optimization and minimization tools, reference tables, compatibility issues, common coding errors, image manipulation techniques and graph solutions. Please feel free to submit further resources in the comments to this post!

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A Short Guide To Open-Source And Similar Licenses

Many developers and designers want to release their work into the world as open-source projects. They want others to be able to build on and share their code. The open-source community is vibrant because of this. Open-source software is available for virtually any application you could think of. Most designers… read more

Video of the Week #54

Ever find yourself wishing commonplace tasks came with Photoshop tutorials? Say…baking butter cookies, for instance? Then check out this cleverly put together stopmotion video by Maya Rota Klein made entirely of cardboard for competition AdobeYouGC!

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.

About the author

I am Amanda Macedo – a student,… read more

10 New jQuery Plugins You Have to Know

I have noticed that there are quite a few of new jQuery plugins out there and they really caught my attention because of its design and application. So, this is the 10 jQuery plugins that I have collected for last few weeks. read more

QuantumFilm Could Change the Way Your Camera Phone Takes Pictures

Earlier this morning at DEMO, I was wowed by a presentation from a company called InVisage. InVisage is developing a product they call QuantumFilm which has the ability to make significant changes to the the digital camera space, most notably when dealing with small CMOS sensors on small form… read more

When Do Twitter Users Sleep? [Apps]

A website called SleepingTime.org analyzes any Twitter user’s tweets to figure out when he or she is most likely to be sleeping.

All you have to do is plug a username into SleepingTime.org’s main page. It determines the user’s timezone from his or her location and looks at the times… read more

Apple stock at another all-time high, market cap 4th in US

Apple’s market cap is so high that only three publicly-traded US companies have market caps higher than Apple’s: Exxon, Microsoft, and a little retailer called Wal-Mart. Apple will probably never catch up to Exxon’s market cap, which exceeds Apple’s by more than $100 billion, and it has another $55 billion… read more

DEMO: The Winning Startups in Mobile, Social, and More Are…

DEMO Spring 2010 just ended and executive producer Matt Marshall has just given out the DEMO God awards to the most promising companies in a range of categories, as well as the audience choice award, which offers the winning company $1 million in free advertising on the IDG network.
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Daily Inspiration #464

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

US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers

Rather than continuing to invest heaps of money to research its own devices, Maj. Gen. Justice wants to take a different approach: leveraging the knowledge and research of the commercial sector into the Army’s portable equipment. This approach makes perfect sense for a number of reasons. Companies like Apple have… read more

HTC EVO 4G: Sprint’s First WiMAX Phone

Sprint let some hot news fly at CTIA today: The first commercially available phone that will support the WiMAX next-generation cell network will be the HTC EVO 4G. It’s a powerhouse of a phone, running a 1GHz processor even more powerful than what’s under the hood of the Nexus… read more

iPhone Is Eating Sony PSP and Nintendo DS’ Lunch [STATS]

Flurry just published a report claiming that the iPhone and iPod touch have done so well as video game platforms that they’ve taken market share from traditional handheld gaming devices like the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS.

The research establishes a correlation between the iPhone’s growth and the PSP… read more

The Future Newsroom: Lean, Open, and Social Media-Savvy

On the campus of Penn State University, a rivalry between a rogue campus blog and the official newspaper has become a fascinating mirror of the strife between old and new media. In only a matter of months, the unofficial campus blog Onward State, has marshaled the power of… read more