Daily Inspiration #470

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

iTunes 9.1 Released: iPad Syncing and iBooks Support Included

Let the hype and excitement begin: Apple’s preparation for the launch of the iPad has kicked into high gear. Today, the tech giant released version 9.1 of iTunes, its vastly popular music, app, and now book-managing software.

The new update doesn’t do anything like radically change the iTunes interface…. read more

“Glee” Holds Online Casting Call on MySpace

Today, MySpace announced that it is officially hosting the casting call for the hit TV show and is accepting submissions from now through April 26.

Would-be Gleeks between the ages of 16 and 26 can submit their audition video either by uploading their own pre-recorded video or choosing… read more

University to Provide iPads for All New Students

Seton Hill University will supply a new Apple iPad and a 13″ MacBook laptop to every full-time student arriving at its Greensburg, Pennsylvania campus in fall 2010.

The giveaway kicks off the small liberal arts university’s Griffin Technology Advantage Program, which aims to cultivate digital literacy among its students. … read more

EXCLUSIVE: “Scarface School Play” Creators on Manufacturing Viral Success [VIDEO]

As posited by several commenters, the “Scarface School Play” video that was uploaded to YouTube yesterday was not, in fact, a real theatrical performance. The video was created by director Marc Klasfeld of Rockhard Films, who also has directed videos for artists like Beyonce and Eminem, and was made… read more

5 Simple Social Design Tips From the Masters

This series is supported by Wix.com, an online design tool that enables you to create your own Flash websites, social network layouts, and more, for free. Learn more about Wix here.

With so much content competing for users’ attention, it’s important for content creators to have websites or applications that… read more

Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome

Although Adobe Flash is already installed on virtually every computer, Google has announced that all downloads of its Chrome web browser will now include the plug-in.

Rumored since Monday, Google’s blog post on the partnership adds a few details about what we can expect from the integration. One of… read more

Trololo Cat: When YouTube Memes Collide [VIDEO]

This viral video of a cat’s response to its owner scratching its neck would be mildly amusing on its own, but mash it up with Russian singer Eduard Khil’s accidental viral hit “Trololo” and it becomes “epic,” as they say on the interwebs.

When scratched, the cat props its neck… read more

H&M Organizes Flash Mob to Promote Children’s Clothes [VIDEO]

Here’s a nice foil for Philly’s recent spat of violent flash mobs: A bunch of adorable children spontaneously breaking out into a sick dance routine in San Francisco’s Union Square. Yeah, they’re basically shilling for H&M — but the dance is rather impressive and deserves a look.

Utilizing… read more

Flash Comes to the iPad… At Least for Advertisers

Although the iPad will not support Adobe Flash, thanks to the mobile advertising network Greystripe, advertisers can still serve their Flash-based ads on the new device.

Greystripe is now announcing its iFlash Ad Units product, which will let advertisers deliver Flash content to the iPad.

When we talk about… read more

How One Small Biz Turned Their Company Retreat Into Social Media Success

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

As a mostly virtual team with offices spread across three countries in two hemispheres, the entire WooThemes.com staff only gets together twice per year. During… read more

Foursquare, Gowalla and More on a Google Map [Apps]

A new web app called Checkin Mania shows checkins from Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Yelp side-by-side — or at least it will. So far we’re only able to select Foursquare and Gowalla, but that’s still neat.

The app is based on Google Maps and works everywhere those individual services operate…. read more

12 Coolest Web Apps To Simplify Your Business

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE web apps that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will… read more

Update Social Networks with Ping.fm

Overwhelmed by social networks? You are not alone. I constantly find myself jumping from one social network to another, often times updating each network with the same information. Realistically though, logging into multiple social networks to update your status or share info. that’s the same is just silly. There has… read more

50 Inspiring, Awesome & Stylish Mac Setups

We spend an awful lot of time discussing applications and software on Mac.AppStorm, and today we wanted to take a slight departure to investigate a few physical Mac setups. After all, you need a relaxing and inspiring environment in which to use your computer!

Our roundup will take a look at… read more

Woopra Is Becoming Another Feature Rich Alternative To Google Analytics

If you are a professional blogger or webmaster, there is a good change that you track your site’s traffic and analyze to learn how to better your website or blog. Such measures are an absolute must if you want your website to have a mark on the web. Most webmasters… read more

Interactive Flash Graphs and Charts For Your Website

By Usama Alam

Charts and graphs provide the visual representation of your data and help you facilitate the understanding of whatever it is you are trying to deliver. Whether you are publishing a survey report, an election result or a financial analysis, charts play a major role in data presentation.

Due to… read more

The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop

Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the absolute best and worst works created with the application. In a skilled and experienced hand, these tools lead to phenomenal results. In the hands of a careless artist, Photoshop cloning can be disastrous to the credibility of… read more

MapQuest Brings Free Voice Navigation to the iPhone

It’s quite inevitable, really: after Google announced free turn-by-turn GPS navigation for Android devices, followed by Nokia’s decision to offer the same on its smartphones, the price of full-featured GPS navigation apps on other platforms is hurling towards zero.

Case in point: MapQuest 4 Mobile, a free GPS navigation app… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.30

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

10 Excellent Tools for Creating Web Design Wireframes

When starting a new web design project, it’s always a good idea to begin with a wireframe. The purpose of a wireframe is to communicate the layout of a page without getting caught up in color and design elements. Wireframes can be a big time saver as they help all… read more

LinkedIn for BlackBerry Released [SCREENSHOTS]

BlackBerry users, LinkedIn has finally arrived; The business social network has just launched LinkedIn for BlackBerry, version 1.0.

The new LinkedIn BlackBerry app, which you can download now online or very soon from the BlackBerry App World app, not only provides users with access to their connections, invitations, and messages,… read more

10 Amazing iPad App Video Demonstrations

Apple’s iPad hits stores this Saturday. Of course, the App Store is a big reason the iPhone has been such a huge success, so many of us are really excited to get a glimpse at what apps for the iPad will look like.

About ten days ago, developers got the… read more

EXCLUSIVE: Lou Reed’s New Commercial for Lou Zoom iPhone App [VIDEO]

Lou Reed isn’t the first legendary musician to make his own iPhone app, but he is probably the first to make one that renders your contacts “beautiful, huge and legible.”

Lou Zoom [iTunes link] is available in the App Store now for $1.99 and performs one simple task effectively: It… read more

Free Music Monday: 10 Totally Free Track Downloads

Welcome, music fans! Thank you for joining us for this week’s edition of Free Music Monday, where we offer you 10 free tracks, sets or albums in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.

Read on, right-click and enjoy some free tunes collated eclectic-style. If there’s a genre you’d like… read more

Adobe Flash to Come Bundled with Google Chrome [RUMOR]

Abode may have a new ally in its battle with Apple over Adobe Flash: Google Chrome.

According to a report from ZDNet, Google intends to bundle the embattled Flash platform into future builds of the Chrome browser — no plugin installs necessary. Chrome is the world’s third most popular… read more

5 Big Twitter Trends to Follow Right Now

As Twitter celebrates its fourth birthday, we thought it appropriate to take another step back from the day-to-day happenings of the Twitterverse and analyze some of the bigger trends. There are many indicators that can clue us in to what’s in store for the social network.

This time we’re… read more

Twitepad Brings Twitter to the iPad [VIDEO]

InfoXenter has released the first screenshots for its upcoming Twitter application for the iPad, Twitepad.

Twitter apps are one of the hottest categories in the App Store, so it’s no surprise that we’re seeing some iPad-specific apps as we approach the Saturday release date.

Apple started accepting submissions to the… read more

Buy Wi-Fi Access Through iTunes [Apps]

There’s a new iPhone, iPod touch and iPad app in the Apple App Store that you can use to buy access to Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots: Boingo Wi-Fi Credits [iTunes link].

The app is free and comes with one credit for one hour of service. Further service costs $1.99 per hour,… read more

The iTunes App Store Comes to Facebook

Interacting with the iTunes App Store just got easier, thanks to the new App Store Facebook page.

Developed and powered by Vitrue, the new page puts the App Store inside Facebook — making it easy to search for apps, share them with friends, find out which apps are… read more

How Startups are Using Social Media for Real Results

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here.

For startups, the amount of money you have to burn before you… read more

YouTube Highlights Your Facebook Friends’ Activity

YouTube recently started promoting a lesser-known feature that allows users to connect their Facebook accounts to the video-sharing site and view their friends’ recently favorited videos.

The underground feature is finally ready for primetime usage, which means members will now notice a new Facebook Connect call to action under… read more

A Look at the New MSN.com Design

Since March 9 of this year Microsoft has been rolling out their new design of MSN.com.

Backed by countless hours of testing and roughly 70,000 pieces of feedback from their users, the design has been tweaked over the last four months to its current state.

Visitors who cannot yet… read more

Growing Your Business: 5 Tips From the Founder of Foursquare

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

As founder of the Internet’s hottest startup, Foursquare, Dennis Crowley knows a thing or two about growing a small business.

Foursquare is a location-sharing mobile app that… read more

Cast Official Votes for “American Idol” via Facebook

Idol Fanatic promises to do what FOX’s television enterprise American Idol never has: It lets fans vote for their favorite contestants via a Facebook application — at any time.

The application uses Ribbit — a web-based phone service à la Google Voice — to dial in user votes during American Idol’s… read more

Become a Social Network Ninja with Seesmic

In the Twitter ecosystem, Seesmic has carved a niche for itself with its apps deployed across various platforms: desktop, mobile and web. Seesmic’s web app was launched to much fanfare and gets feature upgrades on a regular basis. The web app is boasted as being a tool to manage and… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Calendar of Social Media Events

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

7 Situations When Designers Outsource (To Other Designers)

Have you ever missed a client deadline because you were too busy?  Ever had a client request a type of design that you don’t offer?  One of the best kept secrets of successful designers and studios is ‘designer-to-designer’ outsourcing.  Designer-to-designer outsourcing involves one designer (such as a web design firm… read more

Money: Finances and Banking on Your Mac

For a long time, I have been a very happy user of Microsoft Money. Since making the switch to a Mac, I’ve played the field, but still haven’t found a money management application that really meets my needs (or is fun enough to keep me coming back). There’s… read more

Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates

Sketching and wireframing are a specialized style of drawing, used for fleshing out preliminary complex ideas, group brain-storming, a lo-fi method for evaluating interaction concepts, and as a way of roughly perfecting a design technique.

Sketch and wireframe paper is essentially drawing paper that is designed specifically for this purpose. You… read more

Bulletproof Email Marketing: Overview, Tips and Tools

We all know, that today is the era of online marketing. Without neglecting how the traditional marketing system started and work as well, we still cannot assume that online marketing is a thing in vain. More than that, online marketing can make thing more efficiently, short, and more real time… read more

HTML Email Newsletter Toolbox – Tutorials, Templates and Inspiration

Whatever your personal feelings are about HTML emails, they do work effectively as a communications and marketing tool. And worst of all, you can’t ignore them, you just know that at some point a client is going to ask you to create a template for them.

If you have never designed… read more

10 Awesome Tools to Boost Your Productivity

Today I’m going to show you some tools I use everyday to increase my productivity. Some are Mac apps, but some are online ones, so if you’re not part of the Mac cult, its okay! read more

Top 10 Funny Dog Videos on YouTube

There are plenty of funny videos on YouTube but the ones that get us spitting our tea all over our monitors and give us the best giggles are animal-themed affairs.

Man’s best friend doubles as a clown on notable occasions, many of which this selection of YouTube favorites captures to… read more

Browsing the iPad App Store [VIDEO]

Feverishly awaiting the release of the Apple iPad and all the goodies that go along with it? Well, now you can take a virtual tour of the iPad App Store, via a video that purports to depict the storied place.

Today, Mac Stories posted a video that an… read more

5 Essential Apps for Your Business’ Facebook Fan Page

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

If you’ve already searched for some Fan Page inspiration and undertaken the task of building a custom landing page for your business’s Facebook presence, you may… read more

5 Essential Apps for Your Business’s Facebook Fan Page

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

If you’ve already searched for some Fan Page inspiration and undertaken the task of building a custom landing page for your business’s Facebook presence, you may… read more

See Yahoo’s Sketch-a-Search in Action [VIDEO]

Earlier this week, Yahoo launched a new iPhone app called Sketch-a-Search that allows you to trace an area with your finger to get restaurant results in a specifically defined region.

We had a chance to sit down with Director of Product Management Ariel Seidman for a demo of Sketch-a-Search,… read more

Building Your Freelance Business Around WordPress

WordPress has been nothing short of spectacular for freelancers and clients alike. Of course, we all know it’s the go-to system for blogging, but these days it’s much more than that.

In this post, I’d like to cover how different types of freelancers can build their businesses around this great… read more

Why Chatroulette Is More Than Just Penises

Five months ago, right around the time that Andrey Ternovskiy was building Chatroulette, no one could have predicted that being “nexted” would become the modern day equivalent to a rite of passage.

But after three days of coding, Ternovskiy introduced his pet project for random video chat to friends, then… read more

5 Excellent Text to Voice Free Applications

Many computer users take advantage of text-to-voice programs to make their computer tasks easier. With a voice command we can execute a task which otherwise might take a combination of keyboard-key presses and mouse clicks.

For my readers who have not yet tried out text-to-voice applications or are looking for something… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Mar 21-Mar 27, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

50 Absolutely Stylish Vintage and Retro Graphic Wallpapers

Here is a new addition to our wallpapers collection that is based on Retro and vintage wallpapers. These two fundamentals are becoming more and trendier and have been used in a variety of design contexts. So here we are presenting a memorable image of Retro and Vintage years that usually… read more

10 Must-See Google Street View Sightings

While we brought you 15 amusing Google Street View sightings when the service launched back in 2007, in the last few years Google has expanded its coverage around the globe, which also means expanding the chances of humorous photo captures.

Here we bring you ten more funnies from around the… read more

15 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

It’s happened again. Another week, jam-packed with expert insights, has flown by. You’ve probably caught a few of the week’s essential resources, but there’s always that chance you missed something that could transform your social media or business strategy.

Here at Mashable, we don’t like to take those chances,… read more

HOW TO: Support Earth Hour With Social Media

The World Wildlife Fund’s now annual Earth Hour campaign is great way for individuals to take a stand against climate change. Something as simple as switching your lights off for one hour can make a visual statement of your support for the global sustainability movement.

Begun back in Australia in… read more

MacTastik Weekly #60

Embedding this MacTastik strip elsewhere? Please provide a link back to this post and to NCWinters.com

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Best of the Week #112

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

Apple Acquires the iPad Trademark

Remember the whole legal dust-up over the trademark for the name iPad? Well, now that’s been resolved.

The iPad launch is only a week away and as such, Apple is getting its ducks in a row: accepting submissions for iPad apps to the App Store, making developers use pre-release models… read more

CTIA 2010 in Review: Top Trends in Mobile

The CTIA Wireless Association’s annual Las Vegas mobile-centric show has wrapped up for this year, and a few key trends emerged. We wanted to bring you some of the high points from the show that shed light on what’s hot now as well as what’s on the horizon in… read more

“Apple vs. Predator” Parody Highlights Apple’s Legal Woes [VIDEO]

Hey! You know what’s a new and different observation? The iPad is, like, totally just like that thing in Minority Report… and Harry Potter… and Star Trek… Yeah, I think we’re all getting sick of the comparisons/lawsuits at this point, which is what makes this new parody video,… read more

10 Essential Money-Saving iPhone Apps

Luke Knowles is the founder of numerous money-saving websites including Coupon Sherpa, Gift Card Granny and Mr. Free Stuff. In 2008 Luke founded Free Shipping Day, now a red-letter discount date for online holiday shopping.

Despite a recession allegedly in our rear view mirror, frugality remains a hot, dare I… read more

Daily Inspiration #467

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

FRIDAY POLL: How Did You Celebrate Twestival?

Yes, it’s that time once again, folks — time for the Weekly Poll!

Yesterday, thousands of people in more than 175 cities got together to celebrate the second annual Twestival, an event that has (at the time of this posting) raised $311,696 for Concern Worldwide, an organization that works to… read more

Check.in Aims to Support Universal Location Checkins [INVITES]

Location-sharing is all the rage, but those of us who spread our checkins across a handful of sites are already starting to find the process daunting. Check.in, a mobile app for any phone that supports HTML5 (it looks great on the iPhone), solves that problem: It’s the first app… read more

Awesome: iPhone App Created to Control Mars Rover [VIDEO]

We already have a game for the iPhone that lets you play pretend at controlling the Lunar rover, but how would you like to mess about with the real deal? A creation by attendees of this year’s EclipseCon2010 indicates that an iPhone-controlled rover might not just be a flight… read more

10 Fantastic Websites for Spotify Fans

With Spotify bound for the U.S. later this year, now is the time to start getting ready for all that music goodness. Which is why, in addition to our getting started guide to Spotify, and our hints, tips and tricks for getting the most out of the music streaming… read more

Feed My Inbox Giveaway Winners

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Feed My Inbox (FMI) giveaway, generously sponsored by the FMI team! Read inside to see if you’ve won.

Not long ago we also reviewed Feed My Inbox, a great way to receive RSS feeds via email. If you haven’t read the review yet, be… read more

Spotify Aims to Launch in U.S. in 3 to 6 Month

Even though Daniel Ek gave a keynote address at SXSW Interactive, he didn’t reveal any details about the migration of Spotify’s popular European online music service to the U.S. New information suggests, however, that we could see the service launch stateside in roughly three to six months.

Spotify “aims to… read more

Spotify Aims to Launch in U.S. in 3 to 6 Months

Even though Daniel Ek gave a keynote address at SXSW Interactive, he didn’t reveal any details about the migration of Spotify’s popular European online music service to the U.S. New information suggests, however, that we could see the service launch stateside in roughly three to six months.

Spotify “aims to… read more

The Magnificiently Captured Beautiful Places On Earth (Earth Hour Special)

Earth Hour is globally celebrated environmental event organized by World Wide Fund for Nature. This is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action… read more

Wikipedia’s Redesign Is Coming Soon

Wikipedia is edging closer to a redesign. Nako Komura, head of the user experience team for the Wikimedia Foundation, detailed some of these changes on the foundation’s blog and in the Wikimedia Technical Blog.

The new default design will start to roll out the week of April 5 on the… read more

4 Tips for Reducing Social Media Stress

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, April 30th-May 2nd in Silicon Valley, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter, along with Tony Hsieh from Zappos and many others, to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code Mashable for… read more

Win a Copy of SongGenie and CoverScout

After reviewing CoverScout earlier this week, we thought it would only be fair to give away a few licenses to our wonderful readers! Today’s competition is for three licenses of CoverScout, and three licenses of SongGenie (worth over $225!). These will be bundled together, so there will be three winners… read more

Here Are Some Games You’ll Be Playing on the iPad

We already know that we’ll be able to use iPhone applications on the iPad, scaled to iPad’s bigger screen size. But what native iPad apps has Apple approved so far? PadGadget has done some digging through iTunes’ web interface and found out several titles with “HD” in their title,… read more

15 Insanely Popular Lady Gaga YouTube Videos

You may have heard that Lady Gaga is the first music artist to reach one billion online video views. Some of us here at Mashable say that’s downright ridiculous — a tragedy, even — but other staffers are cheering her on.

And while we may not be able to agree… read more

China Hands Down New Rules on Media Coverage of Google

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

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

“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]

The trailer for the most recent Michael Cera vehicle — Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – has hit the Internets hard, and apparently people are excited.

Earlier today, MTV reported that director Edgar Wright (of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead fame) heralded the coming of the… read more

Friendgiftr Lets You Buy and Send Gift Cards on Facebook

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Friendgiftr

Quick Pitch: This app allows you to… read more

CTIA Roundtable: Biz Stone, Aneesh Chopra and James Cameron

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

Digg for iPhone Vaults to #1 News App Worldwide

On Wednesday, Digg finally launched its iPhone app, and within about 24 hours, it’s shot to the top of the app store’s “news” category in many countries around the world, including the US (where Mashable’s app [iTunes link] currently sits at #16).

Now that the app’s live [iTunes link],… read more

3 Useful iPhone Apps to Help File Your Taxes

Tax season is upon us, and the iPhone is here to take the sting out of Uncle Sam’s April chore. The current arsenal of App Store software is useful for both simple and complex tax processes, and is generally cheaper than desktop equivalents.

While there are a variety of… read more

37signals Makes iPhone Debut with Highrise App

In the past, 37signals — purveyor of popular business-friendly web applications — has stayed out of the mobile application business, leaving that task to enterprising third parties. That all changes today as the company’s first official iPhone app — Highrise for iPhone — has landed in Apple’s App Store.

Opting… read more

6 Easy Ways to Score the Best Deals with Social Media

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

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

Bing Adds Foursquare Data to Maps

Another day, another big Foursquare development, with Bing announcing that it’s integrating data from the location-based network into its Maps product, with a set of features that will debut later this year.

Bing Maps is pulling in “quick tips” data from Foursquare, so as you’re browsing a locale you’ll see… read more

Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug Shootout

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

Line2 Adds a Second Line to Your iPhone [VIDEO]

Line2 is a mobile app from Toktumi that’s a refreshing option for iPhone users who need to maintain a separate personal and a business phone number.

It’s also useful — and potentially revolutionary — for iPhone owners who want to cut down on their monthly voice minutes by allowing them… read more

30 Best Free iPhone Applications

Today we presents the collection of best free iPhone applications. read more

16 Top Useful iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

16 Top Useful iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

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Prevent iTunes web previews from opening iTunes automatically

Ever since Apple rolled out web previews for iTunes links several months ago, I’ve been meaning to find a way to disable those pages from automatically opening iTunes, which I don’t usually have running. These pages have a “View in iTunes” link already, so if I want to open iTunes,… read more

AdMob: Smartphone Usage Up, iPhone and Android on the Rise

AdMob’s Mobile Metrics report for February focuses primarily on smartphones, a category of mobile phones that has seen tremendous growth in the last year. In February 2010, smartphones accounted for 48% of AdMob’s worldwide traffic, up from 35% in February 2009.

The really big news, however, is the stellar rise… read more

Apple releases Pro Applications, Canon Printer Drivers updates

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

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

Give Finder a Turbo Boost With TotalFinder

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

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

What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies?

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

iPhone, Firefox, Safari, IE8 Hacked at Pwn2Own Contest

The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security show in Vancouver gives hackers and security experts a chance to demonstrate their ability and try to breach the security of various devices and software, and boy, were they successful this year.

Nearly all major browsers – Firefox, Safari, IE8 – were… read more

Before You Go Live, Test Your Website Security With Websecurify

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

Screenshot Plus and iWork: the poor man’s screenshot editing suite

<phile a handful of useful paid-for screen capture apps are available for Mac OS X — and many with very useful advanced features — the one-two combination of the Screenshot Plus Dashboard widget and iWork can serve as an adequate pseudo screen capturing app.

While you can use Command-Shift-3 (or 4)… read more

Mysterious Monkey of Tampa Bay is a Facebook Phenomenon

A monkey has gone viral … on Facebook. The story dates back more than a year, when numerous sightings of a mysterious monkey were first reported around the state of Florida.

Since then, the local media has latched onto the case, with the St Petersburg Times devoting a microsite… read more

Urbanspoon shaking right along

<pnspoon is one of the earliest "locator" apps that I put on my iPhone. It offered up a pretty unique (at the time — this was, of course, before "shake to undo") "shake to find" feature that solved the problem of a big group asking, "Where should we eat tonight?"… read more

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

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

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