Pinterest Drives More Traffic Than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn Combined [STUDY]

Pinterest is social media’s rising star — and now has the traffic stats to prove it.

The darling network of brides-to-be, fashionistas and budding bakers now beats YouTube, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace for percentage of total referral traffic in January, according to a Shareaholic study.

Pinterest accounted for 3.6%… read more

Sony Alpha SLT-A65 Review

Since my review of the Sony SLT-A77 hit the screens of many Digital Photography School visitors it’s obvious the company has pressed the right buttons for people wanting to lift their photo game.

Now we have ‘son of’ … a model similar in many respects, at a lower price, but with… read more

Photoshop CS6 Introduces Background Save and Liquify Performance Enhancements

We recently showed you the first sneak peek of Photoshop CS6 by Senior Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Today, Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee released a new video showing even more features of CS6. In this video Zorana will explain two really nice enhancements to Photoshop; Background Save and… read more

Lightroom Video – Dynamic Watermarks (well… not really, but kinda)

I always like to do videos that answer questions I get, rather than just doing a video that I “think” everyone wants to know about. Well, this weeks video comes from a question that I’ve gotten in several forms over the last couple years. Recently, some one asked if they… read more

Typography Mania #117

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more

How To Shoot 360 Degree Panoramas While On The Road – With Audrey Scott And Daniel Noll Of Uncornered Market

It’s worth your while to click on the image above to be taken to the full sized 360 view of the Shah-é-Chéragh Mosque taken by Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll of Uncornered Market.com. As DPS evolves, we’ll be adding in the ability to see these immersion style Shockwave files on… read more

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

Create… read more

What’s So Great about Digital Photography?

Before digital cameras, the only way to get a digital image was to take a picture with a film camera, get the film developed, then have the photographic print or slide digitized using a scanner.

Digital cameras eliminate the time needed for developing and scanning. When you own a digital camera,… read more

30 Incredibly Useful Apps for Video Pros and Novices

The Mac has long been the homestead for effective and easy video editing, graphic design, and video compressing for many professionals and novices alike. If you are at all interested in getting your creative juices flowing, video wise, you will absolutely love this roundup. Many people know the big video… read more

Photoshop CS5 Tutorials: 30 Must Have Creative Tips

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful Adobe Photoshop tutorialsfrom around the web from the month of Jan 2012. You’ll find everything from creating a… read more

30 Illustrator Video Tutorials Every Designer Should See

30 Illustrator Video Tutorials Every Designer Should See

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Are These the 10 Funniest Super Bowl Commercials Ever?

1. Sprint

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Facebook Post Seals Guinness World Record

Facebook broke a Guinness World Record this week — and no, this doesn’t have to do with the company’s much-anticipated IPO.

Fans of the Zynga game FrontierVille sought and set a World Record, posting over 1,001,600 comments on a single item. If nothing else gives away the string of more than… read more

Hulu’s Super Bowl Teaser Has Arrested Development Theme [VIDEO]

Hulu is teasing its new Super Bowl campaign and its plot to turn human brains into “mushymush.”

The ad will star Will Arnett (Arrested Development, Up All Night) as the latest “TV star” who is surreptitiously trying to rot Earthling brains, thanks to the magic of Hulu Plus.

As teasers go, we’re… read more

5,000 Pound Crab-Like Robot Can Walk On Asteroids

Gravitational pull on most asteroids is pretty low. That’s why NASA’s rover ATHLETE (All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Terrestrial Explorer) — with its dexterous arms and the ability to crawl across low-weight environments — could become useful in the future… read more

YouTube CEO: The Future of Content Is Niche Channels

The way consumers access and consume media is changing rapidly, YouTube head Salar Kamangar believes, and YouTube is evolving to accommodate it.

“We’re entering the third wave of media,” Kamangar said during an on-stage interview with AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka in Laguna Nigel, Calif., Tuesday. “The first wave was the broadcast networks…. read more

Monkey Business: How to Photograph Monkeys

Monkeys are a hugely fun subject to photograph and can be the subject of some great shots for you. They do, however, present a few challenges for the photographer like any other wild animal (and possibly a few challenges unique to themselves). Lets look at what you will have to… read more

Vevo Made $150 Million Last Year

Vevo generated $150 million in revenue last year, President and CEO Rio D. Caraeff revealed at AllThingsD‘s media conference on Tuesday.

The two-year-old music video platform, a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Abu Dhabi Media, has paid out $100 million to content owners over the past… read more

Petitions Demand Apple Improve Foxconn Conditions

Two online petitions beseech Apple to improve working conditions in the Chinese factories that make its products.

The petitions, both filed within the last two weeks, follow a renewed round of criticism directed at the company over labor practices at overseas facilities like the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China.

One petition, created… read more

Amazon Rides Kindle Fire to Huge Growth, but Profits Are Down

Amazon is growing fast. But that growth is outpacing its ability to make money, if the company’s quarterly results are any indication.

Virtually every area of the company experienced double-digit growth over the same period a year earlier. Net sales were up 35% to $17.4 billion in total revenue. Sales by… read more

Obama’s Google Hangout Wins Over Republican Questioner

If you watched President Obama’s Google+ hangout Monday night, you saw two interesting exchanges between the president and Jennifer Wedel, a 29-year-old Texas mother of two.

It turns out that Wedel’s digital meeting convinced her to vote for Obama in this year’s presidential election — despite her support for the… read more

40+ Tips to Get the Most Out of Web Apps

There’s so many things you can do from your browser, you could get by quite nicely without any other native apps. The internet is full of amazing web apps, ranging from powerful tools for enterprises to little tools that do one thing great.

While the web apps and sites we love… read more

eBay CEO: NFC Payments Need Standardization to Succeed [VIDEO]

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

eBay CEO John Donahoe sat down with Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore to talk about the future of ecommerce and mobile… read more

Martha Stewart Considering Web-Only TV Show

Martha Stewart is looking into producing web-only video programming, the TV personality and business magnate suggested on stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference Tuesday.

Stewart’s company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is looking for new outlets for Stewart’s daytime show now that her contract with the Hallmark Channel is coming to an end…. read more

Will the iPhone 5 Have NFC? MasterCard Exec Hints at an Answer [VIDEO]

In a recent interview, MasterCard‘s chief emerging payments officer dropped a hint about the yet-to-be announced iPhone 5: the next smartphone from Apple might include near field communication technology.

Fast Company‘s Austin Carr chatted with Ed McLaughlin from MasterCard about when… read more

NBC to Dissect Super Bowl Ads in Post-Game Google+ Hangout

When Google first rolled out Hangout video chats for Google+, part of the plan involved allowing hanger-outers to watch YouTube videos together. While many questioned the usefulness of the feature, we’re now seeing what Google had in mind all along: a Super Bowl post-game Hangout where users dissect the big… read more

4 Inspiring Examples of Digital Storytelling

Layla Revis is vice president of digital influence at Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Her specialties include international affairs, tourism and multicultural marketing.

In 2011, Sundance Film Festival created The New Frontier Story Lab, an initiative created to foster the development of a new style of media production. As media began to depart… read more

Chris Sanders – Photographer Spotlight

This commercial photographer spotlight features Chris Sanders. Sander’s lifestyle and travel work developed out of a film background. His client list includes publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Esquire and Conde Nast Traveler as well as companies such as Bank of America, Microsoft, Reebok and Starwood Hotels. He lives and works from… read more

The Photoshop Team is Looking for Their Next Evangelist

The Photoshop team is looking for their next evangelist. They just announced a contest asking for Photoshop users to submit their own hidden gem tutorial, and we would like the winner to be a Psdtuts+ reader or author! A hidden gem video needs to explain a lesser known feature or… read more

Best of the Web – January 2012

As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there was some excellent Photoshop tutorials to choose from so please take a moment to review our favorites from January 2012. Photoshop Tutorials Ice Cube With Cherry Inside In this… read more

Silhouette Photography Technique

A great photograph is no different than any other work of art, in that it should elicit emotion and engage viewers. One of my favorite ways to engage the viewer of a photograph and encourage them to interpret the image is by utilizing silhouettes.

Silhouettes Engage Viewers

The reason silhouettes are so… read more

Best of the Vector Web – January 2012

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on mixing vector techniques with photography, we learn how to create vintage style lettering that has a grainy retro style, dive deeper into… read more

50+ Creative Examples of Websites Designed With HTML5

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. HTML4 has been around for nearly a decade and now its time to move forward. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next… read more

Creating Email Templates (1 of 3)

Creating Email Templates (1 of 3) is a post from: Free Email Templates

This video is part 1 of a 3 part series on creating email templates the easy way, using Photoshop and Dreamweaver. In part 1 I’ll show you how to slice a design in Photoshop, export into HTML and… read more

Help Wanted: Websites For Finding Design And Programming Jobs

There are a lot of advantages to freelancing. You will have more flexibility over the hours you work, you won’t have to commute to work any more and best of all, you are your own boss. It can be hard work landing a job. Not to mention making sure a… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.118)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Polling App Makes Blog Feedback Painless

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: Quipol

Quick Pitch: Quipol is a web application that makes creating and embedding polls on blogs easy.

Genius… read more

New Career Website Lets Job Seekers Upload Video Resumes

A new career website that launched on Monday aims to be a one-stop shop for hiring managers and job seekers. GetHired.com was co-founded by Suki Shah, 28, who was inspired to create the integrated site after running his own medical diagnostics company and experiencing difficulties with the hiring process.

“We… read more

6 Ways to Give Your App a Leg Up on the Competition

Paul Baldwin is the chief marketing officer of Outfit7 Inc., a subsidiary of Out Fit 7 Ltd, the leading entertainment app developer. Paul has more than 17 years of experience developing, marketing and monetizing digital entertainment content.

Spend a few minutes browsing through both the Android and Apple app stores and… read more

Clear To Do App Has Some Surprising Design Inspirations

It’s increasingly difficult to build buzz around new mobile application studios, especially when the first app on deck is something thousands of others have attempted, like a “To Do” app. Yet that’s exactly what Phill Ryu and David Lanham, the two masterminds behind Impending, Inc. have managed to do.

Ryu and… read more

When Apple’s Siri Met the Flaming Lips [AUDIO]

Alt-rock band the Flaming Lips samples everyone’s favorite iPhone-based personal assistant, Siri, in its new song, “Now I Understand.”

The iPhone 4S’s personal assistant makes up one vocal track of the song, repeating “Wayne,” (Wayne Coyne, the band’s lead singer, isn’t featured), “I don’t understand” and “the moon, the stars and… read more

Codecademy is 1 Million Strong and Launching a Teacher Tool

Codecademy hasn’t had much trouble attracting people who want to learn how to code — it has been used by more than 1 million people and signed up more than 100,000 people for its New Years resolution class alone, including the New York City mayor. Now it’s hoping to have… read more

Obama: Protect The ‘Fundamental Integrity’ of the Internet

President Barack Obama called for the protection of intellectual property rights in a Google+ hangout Monday evening, but said such protection must be done “in a way that’s consistent with Internet freedom.”

Obama was replying to a question submitted over YouTube about his stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA),… read more

Behind the Scenes of Twitter’s No-Cost Viral Recruiting Video

Twitter’s viral job recruitment video took the web by storm over the weekend, already gaining nearly half a million views — and it didn’t cost the company a dime.

“We spent zero dollars on this film, using only existing equipment,” explain the video makers and members of Twitter’s corporate design team,… read more

Syrian Hactivisits Attack Al Jazeera English

Syrian pro-government hacktivists attacked Al Jazeera English‘s website Sunday, in response to the news organization’s “Syria Live Blog,” which reports on the Arab League’s observer mission to Syria.

Visitors to Al Jazeera English’s blog saw a picture of President Bashar al Assad over a Syrian flag, which read, “You got hacked… read more

Apple Introduces New Reservation System for iPhone Purchases in China [VIDEO]

When the iPhone 4S first became available at Apple stores in China earlier this month, pandemonium ensued. Now, Apple has revealed a new way of hopefully safely being able to sell Apple’s newest mobile phone in the country.

In mid-January, gangs… read more

Composition: When to Landscape a Portrait and Vice Versa

This is a guest post by Phil Hill, a travel photographer from the UK based in Australia. You can see more of Phil’s great work at his travel photography blog or follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

At first glance many will probably have tongue firmly in cheek and I might… read more

Groupon is a Star in CBS Pilot — But in the Wrong City [VIDEO]

Working at Groupon is now cliche enough to work as the setting of a TV pilot.

CBS picked up a pilot for a new sitcom called Friend Me. The conceit is about two twenty-something best friends who move from Illinois to… read more

Turn Your Facebook Timeline Into a Movie

A browser tool launched Monday transforms content from your Facebook Timeline into a fast-paced movie.

In what will surely incite a roller coaster of flashbacks, Timeline Movie Maker from marketing agency Definition 6 lets you become a filmmaker with the click of a button. Definition 6 collaborated with Facebook.

After Movie Maker… read more

Bill Would Make Cellphone Carriers Disclose Tracking Software

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) released a draft of a cellphone privacy bill Monday that would require providers to tell subscribers if tracking software was installed on their mobile device.

The Mobile Device Privacy Act (MDPA) is a response to the Carrier IQ controversy that exploded at the end of 2011. Under… read more

British Tourists Barred From Entering U.S. Over Tweet About ‘Destroying America’ [VIDEO]

Leigh Van Bryan claims his tweets about “destroying America” and digging up Marilyn Monroe’s grave were jokes, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security isn’t laughing.

The British man and his friend, Emily Bunting, who flew to Los Angeles for vacation,… read more

The Swarm: Short Horror Film Made Entirely on Phones [VIDEO]

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

The Swarm is all about shallow breathing, heavy petting and Xperia smartphones. The short horror film, shot entirely on Sony’s Xperia Arc S phones, follows a group of (mostly) horny teenagers in London who come face… read more

Who’s Winning? The Most-Shared Super Bowl Ads So Far

We’ve just entered the Year of the Dragon, but Super Bowl 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Dog.

No less than five of the ads featured in Unruly‘s list of Super Bowl ads with the most traction star dogs, including the early favorite — Volkswagen’s “The… read more

Face-Detection Program Ranks Senators with the Biggest Smiles [VIDEO]

Adopting Face.com‘s face-detection algorithm, a new program called Congressmiles analyzes the smiles of a group of people. His guinea pigs for the project: U.S. senators.

Dan Nguyen, a developer at ProPublica, created the program by incorporating the Sunlight Congress API, the Congress… read more

Facebook’s Road to IPO

2004: First Offers Turned Down

Facebook launches with humble beginnings that most people have seen dramatized in The Social… read more

Valentine’s Day Special – 30 Exciting Photoshop Tutorials

Valentine’s Day Special – 30 Exciting Photoshop Tutorials

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Julian Assange Records The Simpsons Guest Spot While Under House Arrest

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is set to play himself in the 500th episode of The Simpsons, according to a report by Entertainment Weekly.

Assange — who has been the subject of a grand jury investigation in the U.S. that has been going on for more than 500 days amid sex crime… read more

How You Should Use Google+ for Your Business

Chris Brogan is the author of the new book, Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything.

As a Google+ skeptic (heck, I’m skeptical of all new social media) I was interested to learn more, so I sat down and watched this video where Michael Stelzner of Socialmediaexaminer.com interviewed… read more

Your Burning Lightroom 4 Questions Answered From Adobe

I just saw a post over on Adobe’s Photoshop.com blog where product manager Sharad Mangalick, answered a bunch of Lightroom 4 questions. Everything from catalogs, to video, new features, you name it. Below is one question I pulled directly from the page because I’ve been asked quite a bit too,… read more

The Psychology Of Color In Design

Have you ever wondered why you seem to be getting hungrier while waiting to place your order at a fast food place or why you eat faster than any human should ingest that poison? Have you ever heard of a “power tie” in business?

There are things that excite the human… read more

45 Latest Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop

When we talk about image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is the first thing that comes to our minds. The software itself is hard to learn and harder to master though. Thanks to the many tutorials available though, even novices can learn the tricky tecniques used by… read more

30 Examples of Impressive Concept Art

For both video games and comic books, concept artists are necessary to create the aesthetically-pleasing visuals that enhance the storyline’s action and drama. From simple pencil sketches to 3D models, detailed character turnarounds to costumes, fantastic vehicles to intricate weapon design, the possibilities are endless.

These are some examples of impressive… read more

Create a Creamy Ice Cream Poster on Illustrator

Hi everyone, before someone say it’s winter on the north pole, I gotta say it’s damn hot here in Brasil, so I though a tasty and frosty illustration would be a good exercise to do.

This is a step by step tutorial forwarding some of the previous tutorials. The idea is… read more

Squad: Collaborative Code Editing in Your Browser

Web development can be a sole or group task. For the former, it’s pretty simple to organise your workflow, having everything within your own hardware and your own software. However, if you’re working as part of a development group, it’s a little more difficult to organise and collaborate.

Introducing Squad, a… read more

How Evi Compares to Siri: Evi’s Clever, Too, But Slow [VIDEO]

Getting Siri’s voice-recognition capabilities on your phone just became a possibility for Android users and a bit less expensive for iPhone users. Meet Evi — a $.99 app for iPhones and free for Android.

For such a nominal price, don’t expect Evi to be on par with Siri. There… read more

Should You Really Use a DSLR for Video?

In the last few years, there has been a plethora of DSLR’s being sold with video capabilities. As well as being photographers, my wife and I also produce short travel films so in 2010 after shooting for several years on a Sony FX1 camcorder, we decided to try out shooting… read more

How the Peace Corps is Building a Community of Volunteers Online

When volunteers return home from service with The Peace Corps, they often want to stay in touch with fellow Corps members. Can social media help them do that?

Yes, says Erica Burman, director of communications at The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA).

The Peace Corps, a U.S. service program, sends Americans… read more

YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Adele’s ‘Set Fire to the Rain’

Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite.

More than year after Adele’s mega popular 21 came out, the album’s third U.S. single — “Set Fire to the Rain” — claims the top spot on Billboard‘s Hot 100 this… read more

Daily Inspiration #1043

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 To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup

Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder for Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software company that helps busy startups make great hires.

In a startup, hiring a new employee can be a business-changing event. The smaller the organization, the more impact each employee has on its ultimate success.

Don’t get me wrong… read more

Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Loses ‘Call of Duty’ Top Spot While in Prison [VIDEO]

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can’t defend his top-spot score in the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from behind bars — he was recently bumped to the no. 2 spot by a player named Azaros.

On Wednesday, a judge denied Dotcom bail, meaning he likely won’t be able… read more

Remarkable ‘Joy of Books’ Animation Brings Books to Life [VIRAL VIDEO]

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

Relax and enjoy the magic that ensues when you combine a bookstore full of books, skillful stop-motion animation, haunting music, a boatload of creativity and 28 volunteers: The Joy of Books is a brilliant video… read more

35 Awesome Photoshop Background Tutorials

35 Awesome Photoshop Background Tutorials

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Tweet Your Best Shot to Make NBA’s Curry Your Voicemail Assistant

How would you like to put an NBA star to work as your own personal phone operator?

That’s more or less the idea behind a Twitter-driven contest by Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry. Curry has called for fans to tweet him video clips their best moves from the game H-O-R-S-E,… read more

How I Stumbled Across an Amazing Way to Slow Down My Shooting Process

A guest post by John Davenport

I, like many new photographers, would walk around shooting everything I saw without consciously thinking about the way it was framed or the settings on my camera. If you browse through the archives of my blog you’ll see a clear pattern of growth and learning… read more

Wallpaper of the Week 188 by Sebastian Andaur

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Sebastian Andaur an young visual artist and graphic designer from Chile. Sebastian loves colors since he was born and when he got his first computer at the age of 12 he started to play with Photoshop.

Today, Sebastian works creating graphics,… read more

Roundup Of 26 Truly Helpful HTML 5 Tutorials

Roundup Of 26 Truly Helpful HTML 5 Tutorials

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Audio Hijack Pro: Take Control Of Your Mac’s Audio

Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack Pro is an application which promises to perform a seemingly simple function that’s actually more difficult to execute than one might imagine – to take complete control of your Mac audio card and capture any audio from any source, whether from applications like iTunes, Skype or… read more

Sound Design: Audio Branding: Airela Case

What is audio branding?

“Audio branding describes the process of brand development and brand management by use of acoustic elements within the framework of brand communication. It is part of multi-sensory brand communication and holistic corporate design. Audio branding aims at building solidly a brand sound that represents the identity and… read more

Photoshop CS6 Turns to The Dark Side [VIDEO]

Attention, Photoshop lovers: Adobe is treating us all to a sneak preview of Photoshop CS6, and from what we can see, it looks amazing.

Adobe posted a YouTube video named “Sneak Peek #1″ on Photoshop’s official channel last week. In the video, senior product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives viewers a… read more

Panasonic DMC-GF3 Review

If this is the way it’s going, I’m all for it: smaller, interchangeable lens cameras, with decently-sized sensors and sophisticated image processing internals.

Panasonic and Sony seem to be waging the war with their Micro Four Thirds models and this is another missile hurled at (IMHO) the oversize DSLRS, with or… read more

Google Doodle Celebrates World’s Largest Snowflake [VIDEO]

Google is at it again, creating yet another of its whimsical doodles. This time, the search giant’s Google Doodle on its main search page revels in the glories of midwinter, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the discovery of the world’s largest snowflake.

How large was it? How’s 15 inches (38 centimeters)… read more

The Work of Digital Speed Painter Nico Dimattia

If you have ever searched for speed paintings on Youtube, you’ve probably seen the work of Nico Dimattia. Dimattia is an exceptional digital painter from Argentina who has received worldwide attention on his Youtube channel with his amazing speed painting videos. In this article we will feature some of his… read more

Women Entrepreneurs, Example Not Exception, Video

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

This week we look at Women Entrepreneurs, Example Not Exception by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. In this inspiring video she gives examples of women entrepreneurs across the world. She argues that women running… read more

15 Killer Quotes From ‘Sh*t People Say’ Videos

This meme is certainly making a strong case to be one of the biggest of 2012. Sure, the first episode of “Sh*t Girls Say” was uploaded at the end of last year, but who’s counting really? The results that Google yields when you start typing “Sh*t People Say” are as… read more

Elaborate ‘It Gets Better’ Video Resembles ‘Glee’

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

An extensively choreographed “It Gets Better” music video — set to Lady Gaga‘s “Hair” — gained steam Friday after the mega pop star gave it her seal of approval on Twitter.

This is so AMAZING tinyurl.com/7jd638s #HairMusicVideo… read more

Meet Beckinfield, a YouTube Show With 4,000 Actors [PICS]

The make-believe town of Beckinfield is the setting for the Mad Libs-style show of the same name, which uses crowd-sourced amateur actors from all over the world who create the show’s story by posting videos.

Writers outline the plot and email a “town happenings” newsletter to actors each week. Each… read more

35+ Amazing & Creative Photoshop Tutorials For Designers

35+ Amazing & Creative Photoshop Tutorials For Designers

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Twitter Users Rally to Boycott Country-by-Country Censorship [VIDEO]

Twitter‘s new approach to censoring tweets has users rallying around the hashtag #TwitterBlackout — a call to boycott the microblogging service Saturday.

The change lets Twitter withhold content on a country-by-country basis, when a government deems the tweets inappropriate. Rather than wholly… read more

Newly Discovered Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth

It isn’t just the sun’s radiation storm getting all up in Earth’s face this week. An asteroid the size of a school bus, discovered mere days ago, came about five times closer to us than the moon Friday.

The good news is an asteroid that size would have burned up… read more

Facebook IPO: Everything You Need to Know [VIDEO]

By now you’ve probably heard the news: Facebook could be filing its papers for IPO as early as next week.

A Wall Street Journal report, siting some anonymous sources, spilled the news that many of us may have been suspecting following… read more

Angry Birds on Facebook Launching Your Way on Valentine’s Day

What could be more romantic than playing Angry Birds on Facebook with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly anticipated Facebook version of Angry Birds will officially be landing in a browser near you on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day.

Rovio, the studio behind the game, has… read more

Can Regular Investors Buy a Piece of Facebook?

Now that it looks like Facebook is (finally!) going to file for an IPO, plenty of potential investors want to know how they can get in on the action.

Mashable is not a financial publication, and we’re not in the business of giving stock market tips. But we can break down… read more

Seinfeld’s Kramer Reacts to Hearing Skrillex [VIDEOS]

A familiar Seinfeld clip of “hipster doofus” Cosmo Kramer has been set to dubstep beats from electronic music producer Skrillex — continuing the [Person] Reacts to Dubstep meme bumping loud (see other videos below).

The altered footage shows Kramer driving and then entertainingly reacting to hearing dubstep. People have already watched… read more

NASA Kepler Telescope Finds 26 New Alien Planets in 11 Solar Systems

NASA announced on Friday that its Kepler telescope has discovered 11 new planetary systems that include 26 confirmed alien planets.

The new planets vary in size from one-and-a-half times the radius of Earth to bigger than Jupiter. Their orbital periods range… read more

Google Music Finally Lets You Download Your Own Tunes [VIDEO]

Google Music, Google’s cloud music service, has finally introduced a feature that lets users download their music to a computer with just a click of a button.

It’s been nearly a year since Google Music made it easy for users to add… read more

Google and Bing Searches Help Us Pirate Music?

Of course the public is going to pirate music when 80% of our search results for music direct us to illegal sites. That’s the claim made by a coalition of entertainment industry groups in a private document sent to the U.K…. read more

Solar Storm Smacks the Earth — And We’ve Got Video

A massive wave of charged particles exploded from the sun and hit Earth earlier this week in what NASA calls “the most intense solar energetic particle storm since 2005.”

The resulting magnificent light show has been making the rounds around the Internet through videos like the one below, taken… read more

10 Best Arcade Games for Android

1. Hard Lines

This retro-style mashup of Tron and Snake puts players in control of a wisecracking yellow line… read more

Nintendo Announces Online Gaming Network

Nintendo users will finally soon have an online experience on par with Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. At least that’s the message from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who broke the news in a meeting with investors yesterday shortly after the company released its quarterly earnings.

Iwata’s presentation explained that the Nintendo… read more