Smashing Special: What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy?

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built… read more

Build Your Freelance Back-up Team

If there is one thing I miss about working in the corporate world, it is having teams of people working in the background that I can call on for any type of support my business may need.

Have a legal question? Dial the extension to get someone in… read more

25 Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates

Today we have a 25 fully-layered PSD web templates that have not only been designed with current web design trends in mind, but are also so detailed and professional you simply won’t believe they are free to download.

But, do you know something, they all are! Enjoy.

You may also… read more

Television Typography: Showcase of Memorable TV Show Logos

TV show logos have become an art. They create recognizable brands that become an important part of a show’s off-air life and legacy. The eclipsing O of “Heroes”, the periodic elements of “Breaking Bad”, the film-negative “X-files”, these title pieces have become instantly recognizable, and help make their shows familiar… read more

30 Minimalist Logo Designs

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Every designer loves a foray into the minimalist — even if you make your bread and butter designing wildly grungy logos for metal bands using absurd, busy fonts and lots of black and red (not that this is a common niche for designers who do want to… read more

25+ Fresh jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials

25+ Fresh jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials

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Startup Stops Sites Selling Your Information in One Click

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: SafeShepherd

Quick Pitch: SafeShepherd finds and removes your information from websites that sell it.

Genius Idea: Automating each… read more

Astonishing 3D Computer Graphics

As computers get faster and more powerful we get to see better 3D renderings. Artists who opt to make photo-realistic pieces get to achieve some unbelievable results, so unbelievable that it may look more realistic than a photograph, which is insane.

During a visit to the amazing CGSociety I got to… read more

Useful Links for Learning CSS @Keyframes Animation

Useful Links for Learning CSS @Keyframes Animation

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JK Rowling Upgrades Website, Teases First Adult Book

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling released details of her forthcoming adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, alongside her newly redesigned website Thursday.

Until Thursday, the author’s website, JKRowling.com, had been under construction and inaccessible for several months.

The new design reflects a cleaner, more streamlined aesthetic. It’s available in a variety of… read more

‘Hunger Games’ Satire Blasts Politicians, Plays With Food [VIDEO]

International relief and development organization Oxfam American has released Food Games, a Hunger Games-inspired satire video featuring a food fight between an elephant and a donkey.

The animals irresponsibly throw around food, mimicking how Oxfam feels Congress is acting with the 2012 Farm Bill.

Oxfam’s simple message: “When kids play with… read more

7 YouTube Channels of Nerd Entertainment

If two left feet keep you from Dancing with the Stars, or the thought of visiting the Jersey Shore makes you break out in hives, then listen up.

There’s a new breed of entertainment being produced by nerds for nerds on YouTube, and we have some of the best of… read more

Exposed by ‘Digital Trail,’ Fox News Mole Tweets Termination Letter

The Fox News mole that Gawker found inside the conservative cable TV station has been outed and fired. He posted his termination letter to Twitter on Thursday for the world to see.

Joe Muto (right) began working for Fox News in 2004, and was an associate producer for hit show… read more

16 Good Questions to Ask Before Hiring PSD to WordPress Provider

16 Good Questions to Ask Before Hiring PSD to WordPress Provider

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89 Photography Links & Photographs To Rock Your Socks

The Toads return from a wonderful Easter weekend to share this week’s list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs encountered during their weekly adventures online.  This list contains some really wonderful photographs and images as delivered by some truly talented folks.  The Toad really hopes you enjoy viewing these… read more

Is Boeing Developing a Super-Secure Spy Phone? [VIDEO]

Earlier this week it was reported that aerospace and defense firm Boeing is developing its own mobile phone for the James Bonds of the world — namely, the defense and intelligence communities.

The phone will compete with other “highly secure communication devices,” but will have a lower price-point… read more

How to Make An Entire Mall Think You’re Famous [VIDEO]

Thomas Elliot is a “famous” dude who has Virginia shoppers going nuts over him — for doing nothing at all.

Along with his team at Chill Hill Media, Elliot (whose name is actually Thomas Cramer — his middle name is Elliot) entered MacArthur Center Mall in Norfolk, Virginia with the intention… read more

Mashable Photo Challenge: Work in Progress

Last week in the Mashable Photo Challenge we were happy to see you explore the idea of firsts. A gallery of our featured photos can be found in this post and on our Facebook page.

This week we want you to look at the next step. Show us a work in progress. As with your… read more

Elon Musk: Why I’m a Space Junkie [VIDEO]

If all goes well on April 30, Elon Musk’s Dragon spaceship will become the first private space vehicle to rocket off into space and dock with the now-completed International Space Station.

It will be yet another major milestone for Musk, who seems to make a career of them.

The 40… read more

30+ Photographer Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

30+ Photographer Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

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Single Page Web Design is the Way to Go!

Single Page Web Design is the Way to Go!

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NFL Star Has Epic Twitter Implosion, Claims He Was Hacked [UPDATED]

National Football League wide receiver Jabar Gaffney offered a lesson in how not to use Twitter — by posting a train wreck-like series of tweets that had his name trending worldwide Thursday afternoon.

Gaffney posted an expletive-laden stream of messages to do with his wife, following another recent profane tweet… read more

Web Design Blogs to Read in 2012

Web Design Blogs to Read in 2012

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Daily Inspiration #1107

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Create Your Own App in WordPress With Script Manager

WordPress may just be the most versatile web app ever. You could use it to power your site or blog (as we do here at AppStorm), or you could turn it into an eCommerce store, discussion board, photo gallery, or almost anything else with the wide range of plugins and… read more

Google Announces 2-for-1 Stock Split

Google is planning a two-for-one stock split that will take effect sometime after June 21. The split, which investors have been requesting for some time, is designed to preserve the power of existing shareholders.

The company is planning to create a new class of non-voting capital stock, to be listed on… read more

3 Marketing Lessons From Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition

Matthew Siegel is the co-founder of Indaba Music, an online community of musicians making and promoting music. He was named one of Billboard’s “30 Under 30” power players of the music industry in 2010. Follow him @matthewlsiegel.

This week, pages upon pages of commentary have been written about Facebook’s… read more

24 Clean and Fresh WordPress Premium Portfolio Themes

24 Clean and Fresh WordPress Premium Portfolio Themes

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9 Ways to Follow Coachella on Social Media

1. Facebook

Stay apprised of Coachella updates and tips by following the music festival on Facbeook.

Click here to view… read more

Why Instagram Was Worth $1 Billion to Facebook

“Had Facebook been built today, it would be mobile.”

That was a casual statement made last Thursday by James Pearce, head of mobile developer relations for Facebook to a small group of writers (including myself) during a lunch at Facebook HQ.

I thought Pearce’s statement was intriguing, but it… read more

IWearYourShirt.com Founder Jason Sadler Answers Reader Questions [LIVE CHAT]

IWearYourShirt.com’s chief t-shirt wearer, Jason Sadler, decided to he wanted to get paid to wear t-shirts for a living in the fall of 2008. With zero followers on social media, no video experience and a small Rolodex of contacts, Jason dove head first into becoming a virtual billboard for any… read more

5 Hot New Events In Social Media, Dev, Advertising and More

From digital advertising conferences to programming hackathons and everything in between, you’ll definitely find a swanky locale to suit your professional and personal interests on Mashable’s new Events Board. Whether you’re an event organizer or an event-goer, our Events Board is an essential resource for helping you build relationships, engage… read more

Can This App Let You Control Your Dreams?

It’s common knowledge that dreams reflect our subconscious thoughts and feelings. But is it possible to actually manipulate our subconscious, so we can think, feel and dream however we want?

That’s the premise behind Dream:ON, a new iPhone app being used as a mass-participation study to test whether people really… read more

Nest Labs Hires Apple’s Former Patent Chief for Honeywell Lawsuit

The same patent lawyer who defended iPad, iPod and iPhone technology is now defending thermostat tech for Nest Labs.

Nest Labs announced on Thursday that Richard Lutton Jr., Apple’s former chief intellectual property officer, will be joining the startup thermostat maker as general counsel.

His first task will be to… read more

Exciting Collection Of Impressive Navigation Menus To Inspire You

In today’s round up, we are showcasing a roundup of some interestingly designed navigation menus. We all know that functional and well organized navigation menu is the key to any website success. It helps the visitors in navigating the website effectively. Therefore we thought to present another exciting collection of… read more

Is Pinterest’s Exponential Traffic Growth Slowing?

Pinterest has been heralded as one of the fastest-growing social networks to ever grace the web, bringing in more referral traffic than YouTube, Reddit, Google+ and LinkedIn.

But according to digital analytics company comScore, the popular site — which allows users to collect and share things they like on the Internet… read more

Amazon Plans to Lower Ebook Prices, But Does It Need To?

In the wake of the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and book publishers over ebook pricing, Amazon is in a renewed position of strength. Emboldened by Wednesday’s news, the online retailer has already made plans to lower ebook prices.

In an emailed statement, Amazon said “[The settlement] is a big… read more

Can a Tech Meetup Change the World? [VIDEO]

Name: New York Tech Meetup

Big Idea: Bring together entrepreneurs, investors, developers and tech nerds in order to level the playing field and change the way the world is run.

Why It’s Working: New York Tech Meetup mobilizes Silicon Alley’s eco-system into a powerful social and political force — and it’s… read more

Digital Painting of F1 Heroes

Formula 1 has always been very popular all over the world, specially in Brazil. I remember watching Senna every Sunday with my whole family and the memories are great. Polish designer Piotr Buczkowski decided to make a tribute to the best F1 drivers by painting some portraits and the result… read more

Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites

Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use to play any role at all; rather, they were drowned by a flood of rational functionality and… read more

Study of Font Styles and Best Uses for Each

The world of typography can be daunting, to say the least. For a few dollars, you can download 10,000+ fonts in just a few minutes and tens of thousands are available for free if you are willing to sort through them all. Not only are there a plethora of font… read more

How Much Time Should You Really Spend Networking with Other Freelancers?

We all know that we need to spend as much time as we can networking with prospective clients. But how much time should you spend networking with other freelancers?

Other Freelancers Aren’t Just Competition

As a freelancer, other freelancers have to seem like competition. But those other freelancers can also be… read more

Tuts+ Premium Pack – Outdoor Icons

Today we have a unique Tuts+ Premium Pack, which is created in Illustrator by Anastasiia Kucherenko. It’s filled with 10 illustrated outdoor icons. Each is completely vector, available in AI and EPS formats. Log in or Join Now to get this exclusive download. Learn more at the jump!

New Tuts+ Premium… read more

30 Pixel Perfect iPad App Designs

Have you started work on a new app? Are you in need of some design inspiration? Well, your in luck. Today we have a showcase of 30 beautifully designed pixel-perfect iPad UIs that will stimulate your inspiration in no time.

If you know of any others please leave a… read more

Best Free Social Media Icon Sets for 2012

Best Free Social Media Icon Sets for 2012

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Logo Design: Hats

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

Every week we search… read more

We’re Giving Away 3 Personal Copies of the Impressionist UI Pack from DesignModo!

DesignModo has invited us to host this giveaway for them, and since this is a great resource for us designers we just had to say yes!
 

 
Impressionist UI is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack, containing over 300 elements for web design that represent almost anythng… read more

Find The Necessary Paperwork For Your Small Business With One Site

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: License123.

Quick Pitch: License 123 connects business owners with applications, forms and other paperwork they need, based… read more

50 Resopnsive Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

50 Resopnsive Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

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Multihued Easter Photoshop, Illustrator Tutorials and Freebies

Multihued Easter Photoshop, Illustrator Tutorials and Freebies

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7 Lessons From Content Marketing’s Greatest Hits

Gilad de Vries is vice president, brands and agencies at Outbrain. Before joining Outbrain he served as VP of Digital Media and Principal at Carmel Ventures, one of Israel’s top venture capital firms.

Lately, it’s impossible to open a newsletter, check Google alerts, or visit any news sites without reading… read more

Why CEOs Should Allow Facebook in the Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC]

Many CEOs forbid use of social media at work, but recent research shows that web surfing leads to increased productivity.

This Keas infographic explores the benefits of social media in the workplace, showing that social connections make people happier and a brief recess involving Internet-browsing increases productivity.

An Academy of Management experiment… read more

Google Unveils Google+ Redesign with Customization

Google+ has been going pretty strong since its launch back in June of 2011. In just a year, it amassed 170 million users — Google is obviously not going to give out the numbers of those who actually use the service, but they like to say 170 million do, so… read more

NBC Launches 2012 Election Foursquare Badges [EXCLUSIVE]

Social media-savvy fans of politics are about to add a new set of Foursquare badges to their collection, thanks to NBC Politics.

The badges come in three flavors: “Political wonk,” “campaign advisor” and “chief of staff.” Foursquare users have to follow NBC Politics on the network, then checkin to debate… read more

8 Great Uses For Google+’s New White Space [PICS]

Betty #WhiteSpace

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The Internet quickly seized on a perceived design… read more

Mashable Photo Challenge Results: A Week of Firsts

Last week we introduced a new Mashable Photo Challenge: We asked you to send us a photo that embodied your idea of a first.

We wanted to give you a prompt that was open to your discretion, and we were thrilled to receive so many fantastic entries that interpreted this… read more

20 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Get You Up to Speed

Photoshop is one of Adobe’s most widely used products, however most users barely scratch the surface of the features the software offers. As people who love photography we come across great things that folks are doing with Photoshop on a daily basis. Below is a list of online tutorials we… read more

George Zimmerman Charged: How Journalists Used Twitter to Cover the Story

George Zimmerman has been charged with second degree murder in February’s shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey announced the charges at 6 p.m. ET.

The alleged murder of Martin by Zimmerman has been trending online since the 17-year-old’s parents set up a Change.org petition to prosecute… read more

First Look: Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6

The new Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 looks strikingly similar to an Android smartphone, but the device is actually the latest media player to grace the growing category. The good news, however, is that it can even make calls and send text messages via Bluetooth.

The device — which runs on Gingerbread… read more

Build Us A Robot: DARPA Robotics Challenge

Calling all robot-makers! The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is calling on anyone who can advance current robot technology past existing limits to create an autonomous bot for the DOD’s “disaster recovery mission.”

“Robots played a supporting role in mitigating fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan,… read more

‘Glee’ Gets a Big Welcome Back From Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

Glee returned Tuesday night after a six-week hiatus. But the FOX show’s struggling ratings didn’t keep devoted fans from making the “Big Brother” episode of Glee a smash on Twitter — the hashtag #gleeisback was trending.

Glee tantalized its audience with a cliffhanger right before its break in February. The show’s return answered… read more

Google+ Redesign: Here’s What’s New

Google’s social network got a redesign on Wednesday that makes it prettier and easier to navigate.

“It accelerates our efforts to create a simpler, more beautiful Google,” Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra argued in a blog post announcing the redesign.

Some of the design elements included in the update echo… read more

Secret Sauce: What Does It Take to Create a Viral Video?

“Going viral” is a distinct phenomenon particular to today’s Internet culture. But if you think about it, viral movements have been around forever. How else do you explain those horrifying motivational posters from a decade ago, or Britney Spears, or Furbies? Ick.

An incredibly powerful sub-category of viral content on the… read more

Could Military Mind Control Get Out of Hand? [VIDEO]

The United States military is using technology to its advantage, and now, the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience might also provide the government with weaponry and gear that taps into the human brain. However, fiddling with such developments has the potential to do great harm.

A recent article in… read more

20+ AWESOME WORDPRESS THEMES FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

20+ AWESOME WORDPRESS THEMES FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

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Disconnect: 5 Business Benefits of Working Out

Eric Siu is the Vice President of SEO at Evergreen Search Marketing. He also writes about SEO topics such as the 10 Immutable Laws of SEO. Follow him @ericosiu

Disconnecting in the digital age seems like a virtue and a sin. The reality is, it’s hard to unplug. So much of… read more

Daily Inspiration #1106

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

TNT Pumps Up the Promo Drama With Crashes, Guns, Fights, Bikini [VIDEO]

TNT, according to the cable network’s catchphrase, knows drama.

So, when it needed to promote its channel launch in Belgium, it brought the drama in a big way — with ambulances, bike crashes, fistfights, gunslinging and a woman on a motorcycle in her underwear.

In the video, a button labled… read more

How to Create Tabs in HTML Using jQuery

How to Create Tabs in HTML Using jQuery

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13 Creative Google+ Cover Photo Hacks

1. Mike Tungate

This cover banner features a high desert lightning storm. Spooky!

Click here to view this gallery.

Google+ overhauled… read more

EMagazine : Free Premium Magazine WordPress Theme

EMagazine : Free Premium Magazine WordPress Theme

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Theophilus London Remixes His Album, Animated-GIF Style [PREMIERE]

Brooklyn rapper Theophilus London is about to drop a remix version of his debut album, Timez Are Weird These Days, but Mashable readers can listen to one of the tracks today!

Bing is sponsoring the album, titled Timez Are Weird These Nights, which will be released on April 24.

The track Mashable… read more

10 Mac Apps Your Grandparents Will Love

This post is part of a three-part series of roundups dedicated to finding apps for your home and family life. Today, in part two, we’ll focus on fun and useful apps that your grandparents might enjoy. Reread part one here.

Switching to a Mac-centric household can be hard on certain members… read more

Model Will Strip for Facebook Likes [VIDEO]

Stüssy — retailer of mens and womens sportswear — is trading up Facebook Likes for a strip tease on the social network. The campaign’s promise: “The more likes, the more clothes come off.”

The “Strip for Likes” campaign debuted on April 10 for the re-launch of their Amsterdam Facebook Page…. read more

Announcing a Live Chat With IWearYourShirt.com Founder Jason Sadler

IWearYourShirt.com founder Jason Sadler will be answering questions from readers live at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) tomorrow, April 12 exclusively on Mashable. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s program, YEC Global, Sadler will be answering questions live via video chat, broadcast exclusively on this site.

IWearYourShirt.com‘s chief t-shirt… read more

Use 3d effect fonts To Create An Attractive Look of your Design

Use 3d effect fonts To Create An Attractive Look of your Design

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Ultra Realistic Oil Paintings by Pedro Campos

Photorealistic paintings on canvas are definitely in a whole other level of awesomeness. Seeing a painting for the first time and thinking it’s actually a photograph is definitely a compliment for an artist like Pedro Campos.

Pedro is a Spanish artist that makes these astonishing pieces of oil on canvas. He’s… read more

Corel Draw Tutorials: Stunning Icon Designs for Designers

Corel Draw Tutorials: Stunning Icon Designs for Designers

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Interesting Things Designers Can Do With Extra Time

A little R&R can go a long way to refresh the body and fill your mind with all the great ideas you need for creative success. In this article, Divya Rawat shares a series of things you can do during your off time to keep yourself productive, energized,… read more

Toying With the HTML5 File System API

HTML5 provides us with a whole crop of new possibilities, such as drawing with canvas, implementing multimedia with the audio and video APIs, and so on. One of these tools, which is still relatively new, is the File System API. It gives us access to a sandboxed section of the… read more

20 Creative Grunge Fonts To Download

Good collection of classy and high quality fonts are always in demand. This is the reason why designing community constantly release fresh collection of different types of fonts for the designers. For today’s assortment, we have put together a fine collection of 20 cool and free grunge fonts for you… read more

A Book Apart: Essential Reading for Anyone Working on the Web

When’s the last time you read a technical book that didn’t make your head spin? One that you actually learned something from, and didn’t fall asleep while reading it? One that inspired you to get up and create something better?

Book reviews aren’t exactly what you’ve come to expect from AppStorm…. read more

CSS Sprites Revisited

I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as early as 2003.

Still, the CSS sprite hasn’t truly found its way into the everyday toolkit of the… read more

The Art of Vectoring Hair

We’ve previously looked in detail of the theory work and techniques used in skin shading, now we’re going to look into vectoring hair.

Rendering hair in vector is one of the more challenging areas when learning to vector portraits, yet rendering is not the only thing you need to consider. Assuming… read more

65 Fresh and Creative Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

Portfolio is the reflection of one’s work and skills; any potential employer actually goes through your portfolio and sees your previous designs and work you have done. Going over your portfolio he decided to either hire you or not. Most employers search on the net; those portfolios which have something… read more

FreelancerPro Interview: Building a Writing Career Without Formal Experience

It’s always nice to hear a good success story. That’s what struck me when I read about Andrea Wren. The UK-based freelance journalist successfully made a career out of freelance writing with no previous experience or training. Andrea is proof that as long as you can write well, you… read more

10 Awesome Websites With Wood Texture

Every now and again I’ll get a client who already knows exactly how they want their website to look.  Now, some times this can be quite nice as it makes the design process quite a bit easier on my end, other times it can be a bit frustrating as their… read more

40 Recently Released jQuery Plugins

Its that time of the year again were we take a look at and highlight the most useful recently released jQuery plugins.
As expected from the jQuery community, the selection we have for you is highly impressive. They never, ever let you down.

The 40 plugins we have… read more

Intertitles and Typography: How Typography Dictates a Film’s Mood

I’ve seen over a hundred films in the last two years, and most of them are some of the best I’ve watched in my life. Well, some of them were shown in cinemas while I was a toddler. After playing catch-up with films from the late 1960s onwards, I’ve seen… read more

Typographical Infographics That’ll Make You Go “Wow!”

Words are a really powerful tool to express what you think, but an even more powerful weapon to visualize your main thoughts and concept are graphics. To be more specific a rich combination of beautiful typographical signs, letters and symbols. By using different fonts, sizes and styles it’s possible to… read more

11 Extremely Useful Fresh Free Fonts

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Looks like we almost let an entire month go by without finding some fresh free fonts for our readers. If you’ve been a WDL reader for while, you know that we take great pride in finding and letting you know about hight-quality freebies. It’s all about… read more

5 Ways to Market Your Brand With Location-Based Networks

Brian Honigman is the digital marketing manager at Marc Ecko Enterprises. He is a part of Ecko’s marketing and ecommerce team, ensuring a polished brand experience across all channels. Follow him on Twitter @Brian_Honigman.

Between the rise in location-based social networks, like Foursquare, and the mobile market’s meteoric growth,… read more

Instagram: From Zero to $1 Billion in 17 Months [INFOGRAPHIC]

When Instagram launched its first app in October 2010, it did not strike most people as the kind of startup that would be acquired for $1 billion.

“We were all like, ‘what’s the big deal? It’s just photos and filters,” Brian Blau, a Research Director with the Consumer Technology and… read more

The World of Ken Taylor

Ken Taylor is an illustrator and designer based in Melbourne Australia. He primarily works with the music industry so he designed for many Australian bands but he also did some movie posters and let me tell you they are just gorgeous and so detailed. Here’s a set of some of… read more

Get Paid for Sharing Ads on Your Social Networks

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: Wingsplay

Quick Pitch: Earn money to share ads with your social network

Genius Idea: Wingsplay gives average… read more

Blog Comments Could Help Catch a Killer

A woman named Betty Wheeler was killed in a hit-and-run incident while she was out walking in Waynesboro, Virginia last week.

On Tuesday, the car-culture blog Jalopnik posted the picture above, which shows the only piece of evidence found at the scene. The car part, an air dam, is allegedly… read more

30 Groovy Gig Posters

When you’ve got 100+ bands in one city, chances are you’re going to miss a couple of gigs that you would have really enjoyed (had you known about them, at least). There are a billion places a poster might occupy, after all, but around 80% of the time those particular… read more

Lost Your Phone? The Government Wants to Find it For You

If you’re one of the many cellphone owners who’ve ever left their mobile device behind at a crowded restaurant, packed bar or city-crossing taxi, you know the heart-sinking shock felt when you reach for your phone only to find it missing — all because some quick-fingered swindler grabbed it while… read more

7 Things a Creative Team Needs to be Great

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Whether we’re talking about a 5-person team at a small agency or hundreds of creatives at a company like Apple, there are seven key ingredients that evoke potential for greatness.

Over the past 13 years, I’ve seen the gamut—from a solid group of talented people handcuffed by rampant… read more

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Becomes a Movie Character

Emmy Award winner Anthony LaPaglia will play a detective tracking a young Julian Assange in an upcoming film that focuses on the WikiLeaks founder’s early forays into Internet hacking.

Golden Globe winner Rachel Griffiths will play Assange’s activist mother. Assange himself will be played by film newcomer Alex Williams.

The… read more