10 Free WordPress Themes for Photo Lovers

April 27th, 2012
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1. Fullscreen

Fullscreen is a one-column photography and multimedia theme with a side-scrolling homepage. You can use it to… read more

NBA Playoff Teams’ Seasons in Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

April 27th, 2012
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The NBA’s lockout-shortened regular season has come to a close and the 2012 playoffs tip-off Saturday. It was a pretty remarkable season on the court — LeBron James’s statistical genius, Jeremy Lin‘s magical run and Blake Griffin’s thunderous dunks being just a few of many highlights.

But pro basketball had… read more

CSS3 Structural Pseudo-class Expressions Explained

April 27th, 2012
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CSS3 Structural Pseudo-class Expressions Explained

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11 Useful And FREE Script Fonts For Your Design

April 27th, 2012
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Typography is the most important aspect of any design project that cannot be overlooked. There are different types of fonts and typefaces that are available on the net and majority of the designers are using them. Among them one is Script fonts that are gaining huge popularity among the designers… read more

Amazing Red Bull BC One 2011 Promo Video

April 27th, 2012
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Red Bull is known for making the energy drink, but also for organizing and promoting absolutely awesome events, such as the Soap Box Race, Air Race and the one I just got to know: BC One, a break-dancing fight. Awesome.

And to promote this amazing contest, Sehsucht, a creative agency from… read more

Facebook Rap Asks ‘Why Don’t You Look Like Your Profile Pic?’

April 27th, 2012
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Dan Bull, an English rapper, is attempting to glom on to the hype around Facebook with a rap questioning, among other things, why our profile pics look so much better than we do in real life.

The catchy, Streets-like tune also takes on shopworn Facebook complaints about Mafia Wars… read more

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Klouchebag Site Mocks Klout, Measures Your ‘Asshattery’

April 27th, 2012
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1) Justin Bieber on Klouchebag

While Klout measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare to assign its… read more

Google Drive is Finally Here!

April 27th, 2012
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It has been a long time rumor that Google was going to release some kind of cloud stoage product akin to the likes of Dropbox or iCloud. It does make sense, after all; Google was the company that changed email by offering an unprecidented 1GB of storage for email all… read more

Limit WordPress Search To Post Titles

April 27th, 2012
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Limit WordPress Search To Post Titles

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Mashable Photo Challenge: How Do You Spend Your Lunch Break?

April 27th, 2012
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Lunch is a part of our daily routine. Whether you spend the time at your desk cramming in some extra work, or you’re at home relaxing in front of the TV, we want you to share a moment from your lunch break for this week’s Mashable photo challenge. So, when it’s time… read more

Type ‘Zerg Rush’ Into Google for a Pleasant Surprise

April 27th, 2012
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Google is giving us another reason to goof off on a Friday with an Easter egg related to the popular game StarCraft.

If you type “Zerg Rush” into Google, the “O’s” in Google take over the page. If you double click, your cursor turns into a plus sign. Click on… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #150

April 27th, 2012
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Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#150 and make… read more

How to Add ‘Pin It’ Button With Images To Your WordPress Blog Without Plugin

April 27th, 2012
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How to Add ‘Pin It’ Button With Images To Your WordPress Blog Without Plugin

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Yahoo!’s Doug Crockford On JavaScript

April 27th, 2012
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Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code, and create. The goal is not to get into the specific nuances of their craft (as that information already exists online), but… read more

Writing In Style – 10 Great Fonts For You

April 27th, 2012
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Writing In Style – 10 Great Fonts For You

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Free Icon Fonts and Tutorials

April 27th, 2012
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Free Icon Fonts and Tutorials

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The Power of Your Emails in Mobile Devices

April 27th, 2012
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Email marketing is the most popular trend of today’s business world. It is one of the simplest, yet most successful, ways to market your business. The core aim of email marketing is to reach out to the maximum number of customers and market your business. This helps you reach many… read more

Efficient Communication in a Freelance Design Team

April 27th, 2012
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Working as a digital professional in any field is tough. You have to constantly push towards gratifying clients and rushing through deadlines. Managing tasks in a team allows you to divide up the work much more evenly. However this also means it can be difficult getting… read more

10 Basics Steps To WordPress Security

April 27th, 2012
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While some WordPress designers don’t give a second thought to the security of sites they design, others turn to a variety of plugins they hope will keep hackers at bay. Others, as you’ll see, have taken a more fundamental approach to security concerns. The world’s most popular content management system… read more

This $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company

April 27th, 2012
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Meet Amun 3554. Doesn’t look like much, right? Little more than a mile wide, it’s one of the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroids yet discovered. Unless it ever decides to smash into us — a theoretical possibility, but extremely unlikely over the next few centuries — it will continue orbiting the… read more

Beautiful Houses: Casa CKN in Brazil

April 27th, 2012
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The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

Meet the 80-Year-Old Grandma on a Quest for 80,000 Twitter Followers

April 27th, 2012
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When the poet Dylan Thomas wrote of growing old, “do not go gently into that good night,” it’s a safe bet he didn’t have Twitter in mind. But Josephine Lamberti does.

The 80-year-old Staten Island grandma is, as her @J_DIMPS Twitter bio puts it, on a quest for “80K followers… read more

High Quality and Attention-Grabbing WordPress Themes

April 27th, 2012
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High Quality and Attention-Grabbing WordPress Themes

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Major Video Game Villains to Appear in a Disney Movie

April 27th, 2012
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Wreck-It Ralph, a 3D computer-animated Disney movie due out Nov. 2, will feature cameos from the gaming world’s most-beloved bad guys.

Although the star-studded comedic film stars the 9-foot, 643-pound video game character Ralph, be on the lookout for villains from Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, Sonic, Mega Man,… read more

How to Develop Customer Evangelists

April 27th, 2012
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Alex Goldfayn’s new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn’t). He is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute, a marketing consultancy with clients that include T-Mobile, TiVo, and Logitech. Follow him @alexgoldfayn.

When you have evangelists for your product… read more

Closures: Front to Back

April 27th, 2012
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Closures are often viewed as an arcane art in the land of JavaScript. Once mastered, they allow you to write some truly amazing JavaScript. This article will get you up to speed on the magic of JavaScript closures. What Is A Closure? One of the key truths of JavaScript is… read more

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Airbnb Launches Match: A Booking Service that Makes More Sense

April 27th, 2012
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Airbnb users may have booked 4 million nights of accommodation in 2011, but the room-renting startup didn’t make it easy until now.

The company launched a new booking process on Thursday called “Match” that aims to make searching and booking rooms more efficient. Instead of asking you to find rooms through… read more

Text Message Alerts Mean More Kids Get Flu Vaccines

April 27th, 2012
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Text messaging may be the best approach to encourage people — especially in low-income communities — to get flu vaccines.

A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) says a pilot program that asked parents in low-income communities to get their children vaccinated was successful in increasing… read more

89 Awesome Photography Links and Photographs

April 27th, 2012
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Never one to spend too much time lounging, the Toad is always searching the internet for tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This week’s list contains a set of links to some truly incredible pieces of art posted by some truly talented artists.  We really hope… read more

4 Hot New Events in Business, Dev, Social Media and PR

April 27th, 2012
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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

Why Apple’s CEO Is Right About ‘Refrigerator-Toasters’ — and Laptop-Tablets

April 26th, 2012
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Few people have the kind of clout that their off-the-cuff asides qualify as world news.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is such a person. His ad-libbed comment during this week’s company earnings call about “convergence” devices has inspired more online buzz than a Kardashian marriage.

Answering a question about whether an Apple… read more

20 Fresh and Beautiful HTML5 Web Designs Inspiration

April 26th, 2012
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20 Fresh and Beautiful HTML5 Web Designs Inspiration

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StumbleUpon Hits 25 Million Users — And is Gaining 1 Million a Month

April 26th, 2012
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StumbleUpon passed the 25 million user mark earlier this week — that’s about one million users every month since it announced it had reached 20 million users in October.

The discovery service has existed in some form since 2001. It accepted its first round of funding in 2006, was purchased by… read more

Make a Creative Design With the Use Of Hand-Drawn Fonts

April 26th, 2012
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Make a Creative Design With the Use Of Hand-Drawn Fonts

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Daily Inspiration #1119

April 26th, 2012
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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

Brought Your Kids to Work? Send Us Your Photos

April 26th, 2012
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Technology Editor Pete Pachal gives his son a tour of Mashable HQ

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Amazon Stock Surges on Strong First Quarter Results

April 26th, 2012
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Internet retailer Amazon beat analysts’ estimates for its first quarter on Thursday, prompting a 15% surge in its stock price in after-hours trading.

Net income for the quarter dropped 35% to $130 million, or $0.28 per share, compared with its 2011 figures of $201 million, or $0.44 per share.

Revenue, however,… read more

How To Create A Google Plus Badge WordPress Widget

April 26th, 2012
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How To Create A Google Plus Badge WordPress Widget

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Groupon CEO Drinks Too Much Beer, Says His Site Needs to ‘Grow Up’

April 26th, 2012
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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason told company employees during a town hall meeting Wednesday that the daily deal site needs to grow up — right after apologizing for drinking too much beer during the meeting.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the 31-year-old CEO said the company doesn’t “have any margin for… read more

8 Nice Patterns For Your Collections

April 26th, 2012
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8 Nice Patterns For Your Collections

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Sell Anything You Can Share Online With Gumroad

April 26th, 2012
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One of the things I’m glad to see the web has made easier over time is eCommerce for independent creatives like artisans, artists, designers, photographers, bands, writers et al. Innovations like Paypal, Square, and Kickstarter have paved the way for people to make money or raise funds for projects online… read more

Kindle Fire Takes 54% of Android Tablet Market [STUDY]

April 26th, 2012
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire has taken 54.4% of the Android tablet market, leaving the number two in the category — Samsung Galaxy Tab — in the dust, according to comScore.

The Kindle Fire, introduced in November, nearly doubled its share over the last two months, comScore reports. Meanwhile, Galaxy Tab, which had… read more

Zynga’s Q1 Report Shows a Company Thriving

April 26th, 2012
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There’s no question about it: people love to play Zynga games. The company’s latest financial report reflects its growing fan base.

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) announced its financial results on Thursday for the quarter ending March 31, 2012, and the results are impressive: Q1 revenue of $321 million, up 32%… read more

25 ‘Green’ Photos From the Mashable Community

April 26th, 2012
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Sunday, April 22 marked the 42nd annual Earth Day, and more than 500 million people in 175 countries took the time to focus on the environment. In the spirit of Earth Day, we asked you to send us a photo that represented the idea of green for this week’s Mashable… read more

Icona Fansite: A Celebrity WordPress Theme

April 26th, 2012
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Icona Fansite: A Celebrity WordPress Theme

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Children, Puppies and Webby Awards, Oh My!

April 26th, 2012
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Mashable is very excited to be nominated for a Webby Award in the business category!  Today is the final day to vote and we’d greatly appreciate your help.

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While we focus on staying on top of the latest business news, we also know how to have fun!

Today, Mashable took part in “Take… read more

Auto Moving Submenu Using jQuery

April 26th, 2012
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Auto Moving Submenu Using jQuery

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Twitter Updates Its iPhone and Android Apps

April 26th, 2012
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Twitter has updated its iPhone and Android apps, tweaking the design and adding a number of improvements to the mobile version of the service. Amongst the new enhancements: the addition of a discover tab to the app, improved search functionality, and push notifications for Interactions.

Discover: Thursday’s update brings the Discover… read more

Are Kickstarter Investors Idiots or Geniuses?

April 26th, 2012
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Kickstarter, the crowd-sourced project funding platform, is now officially a thing. It’s being actively parodied by comedians all over the web with videos that mock the slick, yet warm and heartfelt-approach of its best pitches.

Those jokesters can make fun all they want. Many Kickstarter projects are laughing all the… read more

Etsy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Crafty Ecommerce Site

April 26th, 2012
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Sure, Etsy‘s been around since 2005, but not everyone is hip to the ecommerce site. No worries, we’ve provided an overview of all the great features Etsy has to offer. Just don’t blame us when you’ve logged your fifth straight hour browsing refab couch cushions. It’s been known to happen.

Etsy… read more

Video Inspiration #66

April 26th, 2012
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Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

Kickstarter Spoof Wants Funding for T-Shirts, Beer [VIDEO]

April 26th, 2012
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Yahoo has released a hilarious video that pokes of crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, featuring a guy named Nick asking the public to help find his life.

The video — called “Nickstarter” — spoofs the popular crowd-funding platform that allows inventors, artists and entrepreneurs to fund their concepts, products and events by raising… read more

Good Stuff on the Web #9 (web design news)

April 26th, 2012
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Good Stuff on the Web #9 (web design news)

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Current Web Typography Trends

April 26th, 2012
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The evolution of typography in web design has been hampered by technological limitations. The lack of browser support for CSS in the pre-2000 era, and later, unavailability of a wider range of fonts limited typographical adventures to a handful of font choices. Every web designer willing to experiment… read more

New CSS3 Support in Dreamweaver CS6

April 26th, 2012
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Adobe Evangelist Greg Rewis shows what’s new with CSS3 support in Dreamweaver CS6.

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Dealing With Procrastination

April 26th, 2012
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Right now I am procrastinating. I should be working on writing a story about American Legion Baseball, but I’m writing this blog post instead.

I am not a serial procrastinator—in fact, rarely do I procrastinate. But when there is a story that I know I have to write on a… read more

Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose

April 26th, 2012
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Smashing Magazine

The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again — and occasionally, they even get out their 15-year-old Nintendo 64 to play some Zelda.

Now, I am not a game designer. I actually… read more

Breezi: Website Design Sans Effort

April 26th, 2012
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Web App Storm

Website creation nowadays can be a slightly gruelling task, especially given the demands on web designers and creators to produce high-quality, professional-looking and intuitive websites. Often with these kind of sites there is a steep learning curve as CSS, HTML5, and even Flash in some ways play huge roles in… read more

Create a Mobile Phone Weather App Interface – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

April 26th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a mobile phone weather app interface. We’ll build the interface using pixel perfect alignment, quality vector shape building techniques, as well as gradient and lighting control. The result is a modern phone app interface. You can use these techniques… read more

13 Tips to Speed Up and Optimize Your WordPress Plugins

April 26th, 2012
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InstantShift

A common query among the internet users is that they need to know how can they enhance the speed of WordPress apps and optimize the plugins. Frankly speaking, this is never a cumbersome process as there are certain skilled tips that work towards speeding up WordPress experience. But, in this… read more

How to Create a Fixed Navigation Bar for Your Website

April 26th, 2012
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There are many ways to approach navigation on your website and they all have their pros and cons. We have the top horizontal navigation bar, which can limit the number of links you can have before you have to resort to sub menus which, in my opinion,… read more

Websites of the Deep: A Showcase of Underwater Web Design

April 26th, 2012
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Noupe

Developing a website can sometimes be a dry process, but that doesn’t mean the finished site can’t make a splash. As the lead designer at a studio called “The Deep End”, it’s always interesting to see what others have done with the underwater web design theme, and it turns out… read more

How to Build an Accordion Image Gallery with only CSS

April 26th, 2012
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Specky Boy

Fluent animated transitions for sliding web page elements such as a menu or an image gallery, have always traditionally been implemented with JavaScript. But using the CSS3 pseudo-class :target and the negation pseudo-class :not() properties, together with the CSS3 Transition Module you can achieve the same effect, but… read more

Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles of Good Design and How to Apply Them in Graphic Design

April 26th, 2012
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YouTheDesigner

After discussing the Vignelli Canon, we’re going to delve more into design principles applied in the different fields of design today. One designer that I’ve always admired is the industrial designer, Dieter Rams. His works within different industries have become classic standards of simple, elegant, and lasting design. Yet though… read more

Checklist to consider before saying GO to Any WordPress theme

April 26th, 2012
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Checklist to consider before saying GO to Any WordPress theme

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The Avengers AR App Turns You Into a Superhero

April 26th, 2012
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Avengers Super hereo AR App Game Mode Main Menu 01

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The Avengers movie,… read more

Fetchnotes Makes Note Taking Simple and Portable

April 26th, 2012
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Web App Storm

I’m always on the lookout for nice notes apps. I use Evernote, Notepad, Writeroom, Ghost Writer, and more, and will use a different notes app depending on what I want to do with the notes. The great thing about notes apps is that you can use them for so many… read more

LinkedIn iPad App Launches, Takes Social Network in New Direction

April 26th, 2012
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The world’s largest professional social network just got a wider reach — and it wants to be in front of your face for more of the day.

LinkedIn launched its long-awaited iPad app late Wednesday, along with revamped versions of its iPhone and Android apps. Redesigned from the ground up,… read more

How to: WordPress as a Project Management tool

April 26th, 2012
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How to: WordPress as a Project Management tool

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FanCru Is a Sports Social Network With a Twist

April 26th, 2012
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Mashable

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.

Quick Pitch: A place for fans to connect with other supporters of the same teams, find the… read more

9 Things Businesses Need to Know About Web Security

April 26th, 2012
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Incapsula co-founder and CEO, Gur Shatz, is a security industry veteran with more than 14 years of product leadership and engineering experience. Before founding Incapsula, Shatz held several key positions at Imperva.

Recently, someone posted a list of 5,012 websites on a hacker forum that were vulnerable to a SQL injection… read more

60 Minutes to a More Efficient Social Business Strategy

April 26th, 2012
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Mashable

Josh S. Peters is the co-author of TwittFaced, and is the social media manager at The Search Agency. Follow him @JoshSPeters.

Every company should run a quick social media audit each quarter to make sure content is properly optimized and every aspect of their social presence aligns with their brand. The… read more

Mom Uses Facebook to Epically Put 13-Year-Old Daughter in Check [VIDEO]

April 26th, 2012
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When Denise Abbott’s 13-year-old daughter Ava wouldn’t stop talking smack and stirring up drama on Facebook, the Ohio mother decided to employ a punishment to fit the crime.

Abbott replaced her daughter’s profile picture with a photo of the girl with a red X layered over her mouth. “I… read more

Daily Inspiration #1118

April 26th, 2012
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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

Just Buy This Guy’s Pontiac Already [INFOGRAPHIC]

April 26th, 2012
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Mashable

If you live in the Seattle area and are in the market for a new set of wheels, have we got a Craigslist deal for you. Sporting tires, doors, a steering wheel, seats, and waits for it…a radio, this 5-speed 95′ Pontiac Grand Am “eminates manliness from every loosely coupled… read more

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10 Unmissable Apps for Ipad and Iphone Photographers

April 26th, 2012
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When Apple launched the iPhone, most people realized there was about to be a revolution in mobile telecommunications, what perhaps, was not recognized was the quiet revolution in photography. Since the launch and the emergence of the iPad and Android devices, a huge number of photographic apps have become available,… read more

Ex-NBA Star’s Awesomely Bad YouTube Rap Brings Out the Twitter Haters [VIDEO]

April 25th, 2012
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Former NBA star Steve Francis is “used to the finer things” and don’t you forget it. An awesomely bad YouTube rap video took Twitter by storm Wednesday, bringing Francis briefly back into the public consciousness. Predictably however, most of the Twitter commentary was derisive (see gallery below).

An “official” version… read more

Bitchin’ Kitchen: How a Web Chef Cooked Up a Hit TV Show

April 25th, 2012
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Mashable

Name a chef who wears green eyeshadow, sequined purple sweaters and leather pants with a zip-out crotch. Chances are, you’re still searching. That is, unless you’ve tuned in with millions of other viewers to watch Cooking Channel’s Bitchin’ Kitchen, where celebrity chef Nadia G totters around on heels higher than… read more

Web Design into the Future with CSS3

April 25th, 2012
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Web Design into the Future with CSS3

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Twitter, Times Square Billboard Call for an End to Malaria

April 25th, 2012
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In honor of World Malaria Day, April 25, advocates for the end of the disease are campaigning on the social web with the hashtag #endmalaria — the very hashtag responsible for propelling Ashton Kutcher (@AplusK) to become the first Twitter user with more than 1 million followers in 2009.

Lady Gaga-backed… read more

Roozt Is the Etsy for Social Entrepreneurs

April 25th, 2012
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Mashable

Ecommerce site Roozt is trying to become the go-to hub for socially conscious consumers. With Roozt, shoppers can browse products based on cause supported, region of the world, or products sold.

Brent Freeman founded Roozt about three years ago with the idea of creating an Etsy-style marketplace for social… read more

How a Social Network Helps Families Coping With Autism

April 25th, 2012
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Mashable

Autism Awareness Month may be coming to a close, but by using the social network MyAutismTeam, parents of children with autism spectrum disorder can spread awareness and find support throughout the year.

MyAutismTeam is a part of the MyHealthTeams network, online communities for people living with or caring for those… read more

Briefcase – Free WordPress Portfolio & Blog Theme

April 25th, 2012
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Briefcase – Free WordPress Portfolio & Blog Theme

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‘The Muppets’ Lands Sequel After Box Office, Social Media Successes

April 25th, 2012
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Mashable

Walt Disney Studios announced it will developing a sequel to its wildly successful film The Muppets, during the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Thanks to a strong digital campaign that not only revived its brand but also led to huge box office sales, you will be seeing more… read more

Apple’s Q2 Earnings in a Nutshell [INFOGRAPHIC]

April 25th, 2012
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Mashable

Apple announced on Tuesday another blockbuster quarter due largely to strong iPhone sales. Our friends at Statista put together an infographic that makes it easy to see how well the company fared.

Apple raked in 35.06 million iPhone sales in the second quarter of 2012, which marks an 88% jump in… read more

Google Photo Tours Take You to 15,000 Destinations [VIDEO]

April 25th, 2012
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Upload your travel photos to Picasa or Panaromio? Those images might now be used in Google photo tours — a new feature that turns dozens of still pics into a photo gallery for more than 15,000 destinations.

Similar images are shown one after the other to give the viewer… read more

Daily Dot, Editor-in-Chief Part Ways

April 25th, 2012
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Mashable

The Daily Dot, an online news startup launched in August that bills itself as “the hometown newspaper of the World Wide Web,” is no longer being edited by Owen Thomas, the publication confirmed in a blog post Wednesday.

“It is a bittersweet parting,” writes Dot CEO Nicholas White. “Bitter, because… read more

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Cuban [VIDEO]

April 25th, 2012
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Jesse Draper is creator and host of “The Valley Girl Show” through which she’s become a spokesperson for startups and helped pioneer the way of new media content distribution. Formerly a Nickelodeon star, Draper is now CEO of Valley Girl™ where she oversees the show and runs technology… read more

CSS3 family tree

April 25th, 2012
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CSS3 family tree

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Meet Grunt: The Build Tool for JavaScript

April 25th, 2012
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Nettuts+

If you’re working on a large project, you’ll no doubt have a build script or a bunch of task scripts to help with some of the repetitive parts of the process. You might use Ant or Rake, depending on the language the project is written in. But what do you… read more

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Social Networks: Are They Eroding Our Social Lives? [STUDY]

April 25th, 2012
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Is the Connected Generation actually the Alienated Generation?

Nearly 40% of Americans spend more time socializing via the Internet than in real life. Almost a quarter say they have missed out on important moments because they were, ironically, distracted by trying to share those moments on social networks. Nearly 20%… read more

Recycle Your Facebook Status to Save the Planet, Says Honest Tea

April 25th, 2012
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Mashable

Love that Facebook status update from last Monday or summer and want to use it again?

Honest Tea wants you to recycle your Facebook status — supposedly, to raise awareness of recycling everyday products.

Organic tea and drink company Honest Tea has launched The Great Recycle — a call-to-action to… read more

How To: Sell Advertising on Your WordPress Site

April 25th, 2012
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How To: Sell Advertising on Your WordPress Site

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Categories: Web Design

Why Great Design Is the Future of Content Marketing

April 25th, 2012
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Chuck Longanecker is the founder of Digital-Telepathy, a user-experience design company passionate about creating products, like SlideDeck and Impress. Follow him at @dtelepathy.

Although it’s still early in 2012, the importance of visual storytelling is clearly one of the year’s breakout trends. Facebook Timeline, Pinterest, and Instagram are forcing brands to… read more

20 Free E-books For Web Designers

April 25th, 2012
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20 Free E-books For Web Designers

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Klout for iPhone Arrives, Shows Your Score Without Opening App

April 25th, 2012
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Nearly four months after confirming plans to build a mobile app, Klout has just released an iPhone version and assured Android users that an app for them will eventually arrive.

The Klout app lets people monitor their online influence on the go. The app icon, for example, displays a user’s… read more

Kickstarter Project Wants to Socialize Tabletop Games [VIDEO]

April 25th, 2012
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Tabletop gamers from Wichita, Kan., are hoping to change the world of online tabletop games with their Kickstarter-backed project called “Roll20.” Other online gamers clearly believe in the cause — with five more fundraising days to go, 902 backers have raised 439% of the team’s $5,000 goal.

Roll20 will… read more

WWDC ’12 Dates Announced By Apple

April 25th, 2012
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All systems are go, people. Apple has announced the official dates for their annual Worldwide Developers Conference and internet forums and Twitter feeds are already alive with predictions about what exactly is going to be announced. WWDC ’12 (with a slightly cryptic tagline It’s the week we’ve all been waiting… read more