Can Facebook Get You a Job? [INFOGRAPHIC]

In answer to the question above, approximately 18,400,000 Americans say yes, they got their current job through Facebook. Though Zuck’s platform ranks #1, Twitter and LinkedIn don’t have shabby numbers either — 8 million and 10.2 million Americans, respectively, have gotten their jobs through social platforms.

Judging from our Job Search… read more

Pinterest: Inspiration for Photographers

Pin ItSocial networking has exploded onto the scene over the last few years and many photographers use sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ to showcase their work, network with others and to promote their businesses.

But there are a large range of other social networking sites that are well worth… read more

Polaroid Z340 Digital Instant Camera: Party Animal [REVIEW]

What’s there to say about Polaroid’s new Z340 Digital Instant Camera? Sure, I could go on about the 14-megapixel image sensor, the clunky menu interface, and the pop-up LCD, but at the end of the day none of that matters a whole hell of a lot. If you’re buying a… read more

Alec Baldwin Appears as Apologetic Airline Captain on Saturday Night Live [VIDEO]

Alec Baldwin, kicked off an American Airlines plane for playing Words with Friends (at the wrong time) and generally making a nuisance of himself, received a generous apology from the airline last night on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Wait a minute, who’s that guy playing “Captain Steve Rogers?”

“It was very… read more

Lens Loop – A Review

A review of “Lens Loop” by Wulf, one of our excellent forum moderators!

What is a Lens Loop? It is a replacement camera strap made the same kind of nylon webbing used for vehicle seatbelts with a sturdy clip-hook hanging off the bottom. It also comes with a metal hoop attached… read more

7 Free and Popular WordPress Directory Plugins

7 Free and Popular WordPress Directory Plugins

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Wallpaper of the Week 181 by Carlos Lerma

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Carlos Lerma, an illustrator from Mazatlán, México. This image is called Los Olvidados and it was featured on the Abduzeedo book.

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12 Amazing HDR Photography Tutorials and Tips

12 Amazing HDR Photography Tutorials and Tips

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Review: Radiant CMS — A Simple, User-Friendly CMS

Radiant CMS is a simple Content Management System built using Ruby on Rails. It is licensed under the MIT Licence, which means it is freely redistributable and can be employed for both commercial and non-profit usage. Radiant CMS is ideal for small enterprises and teams.

INTRODUCTION

Radiant has a fairly simple and… read more

Al Seckel: Our Brains are Mis-wired, Video

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

This week we look at Our Brains are Mis-wired by Al Seckel. In this talk, Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks… read more

Best of the Week #200

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

18+ Awesome Illustrator & Photoshop Icon Tutorials

18+ Awesome Illustrator & Photoshop Icon Tutorials

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Find the Right Resources for Your Business or Career With Entrepreneur Finder

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: Entrepreneur Finder

Quick Pitch: Entrepreneur Finder helps new companies develop.

Genius Idea: Interactive resource that brings together… read more

How to Increase Facebook Engagement Using Custom Page Tabs

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

The year 2011 brought exciting changes… read more

Meet the 80-Year-Old Woman Who Is a Criminal Duck Feeder [VIDEO]

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

Duck feeding is hardly considered a dangerous hobby, but can it be cause for arrest? In the case of one elderly Massachusetts woman, it was.

Clair Butcher has been criminally charged for taking duck feeding too… read more

YouTube’s Most-Shared Ads of 2011 [VIDEOS]

If we’ve learned anything about viral advertising in 2011, it’s this — you can’t touch The Force. Also, people will always love crazy stunts and action-packed destruction — especially if there are Angry Birds thrown into the mix.

Pop culture references, especially when Internet-related, also seemed to do really well this… read more

Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now

Jeroen Wijering is the creator of the incredibly successful JW Player, which has generated millions of downloads since its release in 2005. In 2007 he co-founded LongTail Video, focusing on a full-fledged online video platform that includes encoding, delivery, syndication and advertising.

The mobile video space has begun to consolidate. In… read more

35 Cutting-edge Development Tutorials – jQuery Slideshow & jQuery Image Gallery

35 Cutting-edge Development Tutorials – jQuery Slideshow & jQuery Image Gallery

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Is Facebook Hiding Your Messages? [VIDEO]

There is a tab under Facebook Messages you may have never noticed. It filters out what’s supposed to be less-than-important messages from events and people you have no apparent connection with.

Although it’s not a new feature, the “Other”… read more

The Daily Show Goes After Freemium Apps [VIDEO]

Freemium apps are here to stay, but that doesn’t mean all of us like them. Now, The Daily Show has done a hilarious report on parents that let their kids download “free” games only to find massive iTunes charges on their next bill.

Correspondent Aasiv Mandvi’s best comment is:

“Turns out these… read more

NFL Stars: The Secrets to Their Facebook Success

You won’t see Jeff Weiner prowling NFL sidelines while barking orders into a headset, and he’s never won a Super Bowl or coach of the year award. But Weiner, 28, does play a crucial coaching role for NFL players by helping them leverage social media to market themselves and connect… read more

YouTube Snaps Up RightsFlow Music-Copyright Specialist

Google just acquired RightsFlow, a company that specializes in helping artists and labels licence and get paid for copyrighted music. Google plans to integrate RightsFlow’s database and technology into YouTube, making it that much easier for Right Said Fred to collect his two bits from that “Too Sexy” manga mashup… read more

New Twitter: 25 Tips and Tricks for Savvy Tweeters

The reorganized and refashioned Twitter.com is a markedly different beast than it was just 48 hours ago. Now millions of users who call Twitter’s web destination home are looking for help. Perhaps just 25 soupcons of it. If so, look no further than this list of 25 new Twitter… read more

OWS Protesters ‘Mockupy’ Law & Order SVU Set [VIDEO]

Occupy Wall Street protesters occupied a TV show set depicting the movement in New York City Thursday night. They organized the march via Twitter with the hashtag ‘mockupy’ and took over the set of Law & Order SVU.

Real NYPD officers… read more

YouTube Revamps Video Manager

YouTube revamped its Video Manager on Friday in an update that coincides with the homepage makeover from earlier this month.

Like the new YouTube homepage design, the Video Manager is now cleaner and less cluttered. It also better fits into the larger Google ecosystem.

At the YouTube Blog, the team runs through… read more

120 Years of ‘Vogue,’ Online for $1,575

In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians — as well as advertisers and the simply curious — can browse Vogue‘s new digital archive for inspiration. It contains every page of every U.S. issue of Vogue published since the magazine launched in 1892,… read more

‘But What Does it Mean?’ Computer-Generated Rainbows Reveal Some Answers [VIDEO]

UC San Diego computer scientists intended to understand how to create rainbows digitally. And along the way, they made some discoveries about the physics of rainbows that occur in nature — including the awe-inspiring double rainbow.

“This goes beyond computer graphics,”… read more

What It Takes to Build a Thriving Design Business on the Web

The Leaders in Design Series is supported by Volvo.

Jesse Thomas founded the creative agency JESS3 as a student in 2007. In a few short years, he managed to climb an impressive entrepreneurial ladder. The company has completed projects for Facebook, Google and NIKEiD, among dozens of other… read more

DIY Lighting: Photography Challenge

Lit by Computer – Image by Martin Gommel

This week’s photography challenge is a little different – we’re not telling you what to photograph, but we’re challenging you to light your shot with some kind of lighting gear that is not designed for photographic lighting.

Your challenge is to take and share… read more

Will Apple iTV Trade the Remote for Kinect-Like Control?

When Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson in Jobs’s recent biography that he had “cracked” the secret to controlling an Apple TV set, most people assumed he was talking about Siri, the voice assistant in the iPhone 4S. But a new patent… read more

National and International Freelancers Day

Did you know that November 23, 2011 was National Freelancers Day in the U.K.? This year marked the third annual NFD, which was launched by PCG—a trade association and support network for freelancers.

On Wednesday, November 23rd, St. Luke’s in London was host to leading industry experts who debated key… read more

See The Extraordinary In The Ordinary

Have you ever found yourself with your camera in a place where there is nothing interesting to photograph? The quality of light is poor or the surroundings are boring?  You go home with an empty memory card and full of self doubt.  Well, that happens to every photographer, but it… read more

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Is a Design House-Style Really Necessary?

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In my previous post I mentioned that I was currently developing a website and as part of those developments I wanted to look at introducing a house-style. It seemed like a way to introduce consistency and, for the less web-savvy CMS editors, make editing easier…. read more

PlayStation Finds Its Groove with 2 Innovative Music Games

Two new PlayStation games are blurring the line between music software and video games. Sound Shapes, for the soon-to-be-released PlayStation Vita is like a Super Mario — if all of your actions in the classic game painted its unique soundtrack. PixelJunk 4am, for PlayStation 3, uses the gesture-based Move controller… read more

How to Design the Best Navigation Bar for Your Website

Daniel Alves is the design director for the small business web design division at the digital marketing and web design company 352 Media Group.

The navigation bar is the most important design element on a website. Not only does it guide your users to pages beyond the homepage, but it’s also… read more

Photo Manipulation: 12 Photoshop Collage Tutorials

Photo Manipulation: 12 Photoshop Collage Tutorials

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12 excellent tutorials for designing

12 excellent tutorials for designing

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New Twitter HQ Shows Big Ambitions, Rooftop Garden

Twitter didn’t just launch a major new redesign Thursday — the event also served as an unveiling of sorts for its next headquarters in San Francisco.

Like the redesigned service — part of an aggressive push to make Twitter the dominant communication tool for people from all walks of life… read more

The New Twitter: Everything You Need to Know

Twitter is dead. Long live, Twitter!

The Internet’s most popular microblogging service got a major upgrade today, rolling out a brand-new look and a bunch of new features. The update is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging change Twitter’s ever done, revamping its… read more

Facebook Fires Back Against Timelines.com Lawsuit [VIDEO]

Facebook on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Timelines.com, a Chicago company that alleges that the social networking giant infringed on its trademarked name.

The move was a response to Timelines’s lawsuit against Facebook in September, which asserts that if Facebook is allowed… read more

Photography Links You May Have Missed This Week

It’s been another great week in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling this list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  The Toad is pleased to present this comprehensive list of really great links showcasing the work of some truly… read more

New Rick Perry Ad Lambasted on YouTube, Facebook

Rick Perry’s latest advertisement, a 30-second YouTube video entitled “Strong,” is receiving a barrage of negative attention from Internet users. The video, uploaded Tuesday, Dec. 6, has now been viewed nearly 750,000 times. Roughly 4,000 users (2% of responders) liked it — while 192,000 (98%) disliked the ad.

The spot features Perry, Governor of… read more

4 Ways the New Twitter Is Taking on Facebook

Twitter’s native video- and photo-sharing features may have hinted at its desire to go after Facebook, but the redesign it launched on Thursday stated them loud and clear.

Twitter now looks a lot more like the world’s largest social network, with features that focus on social interaction and brand pages.

Twitter… read more

Google Currents Becomes Latest News Aggregator App

Google has released its new Currents app for Android devices and iOS. The universal app offers a personalized news experience in a magazine-like format.

Google Currents contains three “editions,” including Publisher, Google trending, and favorites.

In a blog post, Google said:

We strive to give you beautiful and simple ways to experience all… read more

Interview: Meet ZURB

Managing successful paid web apps and client design work while still releasing free apps and resources regularly would be tough to handle for any company. ZURB’s one company in the world of web apps that has always excited us with their dedication to quality and the sheer number of apps… read more

The 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2011

Josh Warner is president and founder of Feed Company, which promotes and distributes brand videos, including campaigns such as Levi’s “Backflip,” Ray-Ban’s “Catch” and Activision’s “Bike Hero.” In five years, Feed Company has seeded more than 300 videos across the social web.

This year in viral video ads feels a… read more

5 Key Digital Media and Advertising Trends for 2012 [VIDEO]

The past year didn’t see the emergence of the next Facebook or Twitter. Rather, it saw social and digital spread to new places and along the way enabled a wave of new opportunities for content creators and marketers.

Recently,… read more

Focus on Piper Mackay ~ Africa in her Heart

Piper Mackay, a California-based photographer, and I first met about a year ago via social media.  When I first saw her images of Africa, I immediately recognized her passion.  It’s the same passion that drives many of us to capture the world with our camera every day.  Her love for… read more

Pope Uses Android Tablet to Light Christmas Tree [VIDEO]

Pope Benedict XVI used a Sony tablet to illuminate a Christmas tree in central Italy during a lighting ceremony Wednesday.

His Holiness seems fairly comfortable using tablet computers — and platform agnostic. In fact, he sent his first tweet from an… read more

Sony’s SimulView Could End Split-Screen Gaming for Good

Remember having to cover part of the television when playing a split-screen video game so your friends wouldn’t cheat by looking at your screen? Well no more we say! Sony has tapped the miracle of 3D technology to let you play your favorite split-screen games in the privacy of a… read more

Crowdsourced Kitchen: How Two Journalists Made Cooking Social Again [VIDEO]

Food journalists, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, met while working together on the New York Times Cookbook. As they wrote the book, the noticed a shift in the online foodie community from content consumption to creation and hatched an idea… read more

Follow Mashable Staff on Facebook With the Subscribe Button

Facebook rolled out its Subscribe button for websites today, and Mashable is proud to be a launch partner.

By clicking the Subscribe button from a staffer’s author page on Mashable, you can get his or her Facebook updates right in your News Feed.

Many of us from the Mashable team jumped on… read more

Using Photoshop and Illustrator Together, Part 3 of 3

In this video series, Dave Cross shows off some creative ways to use Photoshop and Illustrator together. In the third video, Dave talks about Illustrator’s vast collection of shapes, symbols, textures, etc. that can be copied into Photoshop. Dave also explain how these symbols and textures can be used to… read more

25 Delicious Food and Drink Related Websites

The internet is a fantastic resource for anyone who has a passion for food. There are thousands of recipe websites available for those who want to try something new, and photo blogs where users simply share a picture of what they are eating. Ordering food through the internet has become… read more

20 Amazing Implementations of HTML5 Canvas

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In this article, we explore some of the most awe-inspiring implementations of HTML5′s canvas element so far. From all of the new HTML5 tags, canvas is likely to be the most powerful.
In a nutshell, the canvas element is a drawable region defined in… read more

Helvetica Inspiration: 10 Best Videos

Helvetica Inspiration: 10 Best Videos

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Hero – A Portrait Composed of Dots [Video]

Hero – A Portrait Composed of Dots [Video]

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Why You Should Shoot Raw

Before we go anywhere, we should answer the question, what is RAW. Well the word itself is the clue, put simply a RAW file is just the raw data from the sensor put into a readable file format. No adjustments of any kind are made to the image, it is… read more

The Three Stooges Encounter an iPhone, Snooki [VIDEO]

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

The iconic Larry, Curly and Moe come back to life in The Three Stooges movie trailer, released Wednesday.

This 106-second clip showcases their familiar raucous antics in a modern setting — featuring Jersey Shore‘s Snooki and… read more

Christmas Package: Tutorials, Themes, Wallpapers, Templates, Brushes and More

Christmas Package: Tutorials, Themes, Wallpapers, Templates, Brushes and More

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7 Free Office Tools to Save Non-Profits Money

Giving programs and donations to non-profits are generally the first thing that companies scale back on when a struggling economy forces budget cuts. Fortunately there are great no-cost ways for non-profits to continue to administrate and build their organization in spite of leaner times. One simple solution that will shave… read more

Hollywood Heroes Become Villains in Online Video Gallery

Ryan Gosling as a shadowy stranger, Gary Oldman as a ventrilloquist’s doll, Brad Pitt as a moth-obsessed freak — these are just a taste of the bizarre-brilliant villains that the New York Times Magazine has collected as part of an unusual online video gallery: “Touch of Evil: Cinematic Villainy from… read more

Judge Hits Blogger With $2.5 Million Charge for Not Being a Journalist

In a case that’s sending a frightening message to the blogger community, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a blogger must pay $2.5 million to an investment firm she wrote about — because she isn’t a real journalist.

As reported by Seattle Weekly, Judge Marco A. Hernandez said Crystal Cox,… read more

Apple’s iPad Aims to be a Hospital Helper [VIDEO]

Hospitals and doctors continue to use Apple’s iPad for a number of tasks around the hospital, but with its growing popularity Apple must make sure it doesn’t break FDA guidelines.

Check out the video above to find out how iPads are being… read more

Solo: An Artsy Project Manager (with a giveaway!)

The world of web apps is over-saturated with project management apps. It often seems like the only new apps you hear about are new project management, time tracking, or invoicing apps. There’s only so many ways you can design an app for the same purpose, and so many project managers look like… read more

Seth Godin Challenges You to Fail [VIDEO]

Seth Godin wants you to fail, but in a good way. In this interview with Behind the Brand, Godin explains why companies like Facebook and Google aren’t afraid to fail fast and why you should try it too.

In his… read more

What Should You Get Mom for the Holidays? [GIFT GUIDE]

If it wasn’t for your mom, you wouldn’t even exist. Think about it!

Doesn’t she deserve the best from you this holiday season?

But shopping for mom — especially in the tech department — can be a challenge. Will she even use that fancy ereader six months from now? Will she appreciate… read more

Groupon’s New Scheduler Lets Customers Book Appointments Online

Groupon launched a pilot for a new service Wednesday that lets customers independently book appointments with small businesses online, regardless of whether or not those appointments are associated with a Groupon deal.

The trial version of “Scheduler” launched with merchants in Sacramento and Miami who are running Groupon deals. These businesses… read more

Klout Launches Sashes and ‘Add a Topic’ Button

Klout just unwrapped sashes, a visual update to its Topics feature, which rolled out in September and lets you gain insights on top influencers and +K recipients for specific content areas.

The sash concept is simple. A blue sash goes to Klout users with the most +Ks for any topic,… read more

Augmented Mirror of the Future Reflects You and Your World

The New York Times‘s R&D Lab has developed a digitally enhanced mirror that allows you to interact with personalized data during your morning routine.

Unfortunately, the mirror won’t be making its way into your local Restoration Hardware any time soon. Rather, it’s… read more

Lightroom Video – Skin Softening in Lightroom

Over the last couple of months I’ve taught a few Lightroom seminars around the country. One of the tips I show is using the Adjustment Brush for softening skin. It goes over amazing! People absolutely lose their minds over this one. Mainly because unless you know Lightroom really well, you’d… read more

Study Shows Lost and Found USB Drives Are Not Secure [VIDEO]

Security firm Sophos studied 50 USB keys from Sydney’s major transit authority’s lost-and-found auction. Among its discovers: Two-thirds of the devices were infected and a total of 62 files were infected. And most of the drives appeared to be predominantly used… read more

Sony Literally Fills Rooms With Films to Immerse the Viewer [VIDEO]

Sony has launched a series of videos promoting the range of movies now available on the PlayStation Video Store. These extraordinary short films were shot in one take, in real time and with no post-production, and literally bring to life the store’s tagline: Great Films Fill Rooms.

In the videos, the… read more

10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme

The beauty of WordPress is in how easy it is to adapt for different tasks. One can extend it with just a couple of lines of code. In this post, we’ll review 10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and optimize your WordPress theme. You can add all of these code… read more

Gradient: Create Beautiful CSS Gradients

With the multiple common web browsers these days, designing websites that work on all of them can be a strain, especially when they each read CSS in different ways. Even if you’re not someone who creates websites, you’ve no-doubt heard the complaints of many a web coder about the different… read more

How Not to Put Your Foot in It When Creating a Photo Portfolio [With 34 Examples of How to Do it Right]

A portfolio of your works is a very important thing that every photographer has to create. As a true photography geek (or a professional photographer) you probably never part with your camera and take many photos per day. Obviously, there are good and bad shots in your reserve. So what… read more

The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011

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What an exciting web development year we have had (OK, its not quite finished, but almost). HTML5 and CSS3 have forced there way into the mainstream, responsive layouts techniques are rapidly moving towards being the standard, sites like Dribble, Forrst and GitHub have offered a… read more

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Curtain

Adobe Illustrator has an amazing feature that allows us create many realistic illustrations. Today we will have the opportunity to practice with the Mesh Tool once again. We will use it to create an interesting damask curtain. The Mesh Tool will help us to create the illusion of the silk look… read more

30 Offbeat Albums’ Artistic Covers and Transcendent Sounds

If you’re tired of seeing the same glitterati faces on the record store racks day after day, looking for a bit more art or something more interesting to listen to, this post is for you! Grab a mug of your favorite poison and check out these 30 offbeat albums and… read more

Book Suggestion: Typology – Type Design From Victorian Era to the Digital Age

The book suggestion of the week is one of my favorites, it’s called Typology: Type Design From Victorian Era to the Digital Age and it covers a lot of art history always linking with types and typography. It’s a must read for those starting out their careers or even willing… read more

Pixar Exec Talks Steve Jobs and ‘Brave’ [VIDEO]

John Lasseter, the chief creative officer at Pixar, was on Charlie Rose last week, talking about Steve Jobs, the evolution of animation and Pixar’s next project, Brave.

The episode is worth watching in its entirety. On the subject of Jobs, Lasseter refers… read more

Apple, Nintendo and Kodak: Three Innovators and How They Faced Extinction

Today I’d like to talk about three tech companies that have each had their ups and downs. Apple, Nintendo and Kodak: How are these companies alike? How are they different?

We’ll discuss how an industry leader falls from grace and whether or not it’s possible to be saved once that happens…. read more

Beyonce’s Baby Inspired More Tweets Per Second Than Steve Jobs’ Passing

The onstage confirmation of Beyonce’s pregnancy during MTV’s Video Music Awards shattered Twitter’s tweets-per-second record in August. To this day, the event still tops the TPS chart, ahead of significant moments involving Steve Jobs, FIFA Women’s World Cup, New Year’s Day in Japan, Osama bin Laden’s death and the Super… read more

Home Photography Project: How to Make a Light Stencil

This is a guest post from Light Stalking’s Light Painting group admin, Todd Edson. Check out Todd’s photography site or follow him on Google + and Facebook.

This group exercise is going to show you how to create a light stencil box & stencil to use with your long exposure low… read more

The Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in November

The Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in November

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Judge Accidentally Releases Details in Apple, Samsung Legal Battle [VIDEO]

The smartphone and tablet patent battle between Apple and Samsung continues, but recently included an interesting twist. A U.S. District judge accidentally revealed some details about just how secretive these court proceedings are. Check out the video above for more… read more

Mostly Mobile: How the Internet Is Consumed in India [INFOGRAPHIC]

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As India becomes more connected, technology is disseminating in different patterns… read more

Coming Soon to Your Smartphone: Grand Theft Auto III for $5

Grand Theft Auto III: 10th Anniversary Edition Collage

This title shot and collage combines some of the best moments… read more

Amazon Will Pay You Up to $15 to Shop With Its Price Check App

Consumers are increasingly turning to mobile devices to run price comparisons while shopping in stores, and many online retailers — who, without the costs of a brick and mortar operation, are often able to offer better prices — are benefitting as… read more

Verizon to Challenge Netflix With Streaming Service [REPORT]

Verizon plans to roll out a video streaming service that will challenge Netflix next year, according to a report.

The company is in talks with potential programming partners about the service, which will target users who don’t have Verizon’s FiOS TV and broadband package, according to Reuters, which cites “several people… read more

Can Gaming Change the Climate Change Conversation?

From Foursquare to Angry Birds to Farmville, there’s no denying social gaming is exploding. Riding this trend, new ideas and inspiration site PSFK recently challenged designers to use social gaming to combat climate change.

At this month’s Gaming for Good in New York City, 10 finalists presented gaming concepts, which… read more

Microsoft Delays Major Xbox Update, Without Explanation

People awaiting Microsoft’s shiny new user interface for Xbox 360 will have to keep holding their breaths. The update, which adds the tiles aesthetic seen on Windows phones and Windows 8, was supposed to go live around 10 a.m. EST on Dec 6.

Larry Hyrb, a member of the Xbox team,… read more

T-Pain Talks Autotune, Apps and the Future of Music

Technology has permanently changed the way we listen to music. One of the artists credited (or blamed) for that shift is T-Pain, the perpetually auto-tuned R&B and rap hit-maker.

Some years ago, auto-tune was inescapable. Every rapper seemed to have an auto-tuned hook or run. The tacky technology was originally used… read more

How a Startup Went From Zero Revenue to $1 Million in a Year [VIDEO]

When Shane Snow co-founded Contently a year ago he had just 48 cents in his bank account. Fast forward to the end of 2011 and the startup is on track to clear over $1 million in revenue.

Watch Snow’s… read more

How Russians Are Tracking Elections on Social Media

A YouTube video of a poll worker casting a vote for an elderly lady went viral; arrested Russian bloggers uploaded a jubilant photo from the police bus on Twitter.

In Russia, a country with Europe’s highest Internet penetration, social media offers an alternative form of election coverage.

“These elections are for the… read more

Facebook Holds All-Night Hackathon for College Teams [VIDEO]

Like auditions for a part in a play or tryouts for a sports team, developers have their own rituals for landing hot gigs: hackathons. Facebook recently held its own competitive coding session with teams from 14 schools.

Their assignment was to… read more

Website Layouts: 50 Professional Photoshop Tutorials

If your next design project involves creating a website layout from scratch, you do not want to miss this article. I have been scouring the web in search of the very best in web design tutorials. These Photoshop tutorials will arm you with all the latest techniques to help you… read more

Android Market Surpasses 10 Billion Downloads

Google’s celebrating a pretty big app market milestone: 10 billion apps served…er..downloaded. In a blog post, the search giant announced the landmark for the store, which serves its mobile OS-phone-carrying customers, noting that app downloads have been accelerating over the last year or so.

“One billion is a pretty big… read more

Greatest Hits of 2011 Get All Mashed Up [VIDEO]

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

One of our favorite things about the end of the year: the awesome music mashups that talented DJs and video editors put together. Every year since 2008, DJ Earworm has created an epic “United States of… read more