Google Offering Analytics for Your Email Inbox

Want Google to analyze your email habits? The search engine giant highlighted on its Official Blog on Thursday a program called Google Meter that allows Gmail users to learn more about their inbox, from whether they’re more likely to write long emails to information on how long it takes you… read more

40 Creative Examples Of Transparent Business Cards

Business card is your business identity that helps other people to memorize your name and business. Getting a transparent business card is the latest and modern trend in the industry. Though this trend has been in the industry since long and it tried so hard to be prominent yet could… read more

Tech Leaders Top Time’s 100 Most Influential People List [VIDEO]

Several tech leaders including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg landed on Time‘s 100 Most Influential People in the World list, announced Wednesday.

Both Cook and Sandberg have been in the spotlight in the past year. Cook has had a lot thrown at him since he… read more

8 Hot Media Trends You Need to Know

The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. CDW added humor to its video marketing campaign and it led to one million video views. In an interview last month, Neal Campbell, CDW’s Chief Marketing Officer, explained the program and how it led to the Charles Barkley integrated marketing campaign.

When… read more

Why I Think Siri Is the Future of the Mac

For decades now, voice control over any type of hardware has been the epitome of immersive user interface. From Star Trek to Iron Man, you have seen the benefits of vocal commands used over and over in many forms of science fiction. To date, technology still tries to mimic the… read more

The 200 Best and Worst Jobs

CareerCast.com just published a list of 200 jobs ranking them from best to worst based on the following criteria: physical demands, work environment, income, stress, and hiring outlook. They used info from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (along with other government agencies) to create this list.

I did a search… read more

Shave Video: Lightweight Video Editing

Video editing programs are big and bulky and take a lot of resources to run. I regularly use Adobe After Effects and Premiere, but my computer isn’t always happy about that. It doesn’t make sense to use Premiere or After Effects for the little tasks, but I don’t particularly care… read more

Time-Based Task Recommendations with GoalStacker

It’s no secret that we here at AppStorm come across a bunch of new project management apps on a regular basis. There’s so many project management web apps, but then again, there’s so many ways of tackling project management and to-do lists that it’s hard to classify them all together…. read more

Design on the Go: Designer Apps for Android

As smartphones have advanced, and the display and photo capture technologies have improved, many have desired the ability to design and to edit images on their mobile phones. In fact, today hundreds of design applications exist on Google Play (previously known as Android Market). So in order to help you… read more

Creative Fuel #4: Free Icon Sets, Sass Refactoring, Type Pairing & the WordPress Economy

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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

Design Freebies: 365psd Icon Sets

365psd has published a whole lot of great free PSDs since… read more

15 Free Abstract Smoke Brushes

In this collection, we are showcasing some high quality Photoshop Abstract smoke brushes that you can add in your collection of Photoshop brushes. With these Abstract smoke brushes, you can create smoky effects. Smoke is a cloud of fine particles that are created from partial combustion of burning materials. In… read more

10 Incredibly Useful Plugins for Final Cut Pro & Motion

I was very reluctant to adopt Final Cut X and Motion 5 due to a number of reasons, one of the biggest of which was my favorite plugins working with the new software. I am very happy to say after many months, plugins are now available and coming out strong.

Let’s… read more

App Store Deals This Week

Here’s Mac AppStorm’s picks of the best deals on the App Store for this week, 11 – 18 April (there is also a little surprise waiting at the bottom of the page as well…).

Happy downloading!

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If you’re trying to keep to a diet, or simply wanting to eat less,… read more

The New Google Plus Interface

Surprise, surprise! On 11th April Google+ made a new announcement. Google+ now has more than 170 million users!

This is not the only reason why you should consider using Google+ for your freelancing business. Another very important reason is that Google+ profiles and pages can make an impact on the… read more

28 Nice Landing Page Designs

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Today we have collected 28 landing page designs. If you like this post you might also enjoy our previous post below.

34 Best Landing Page Templates Design Inspiration

kickoffapp

photoshelter

raventools

claudiucioba

localhero

tapmonkeys

tearoundapp

humanwrit

positionly

shoplocket

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tapshop

overlapp

postable

s.imon

batch

getharvest

bundlr

votizen

grazsecrets<br… read more

Battery Health: For a Longer Battery Life

If you travel a lot or have a job that keeps you working in different places throughout the day, a decisive factor when you purchased your computer might have been the battery life. MacBooks generally have pretty good battery run time, but in order to keep it functional for as… read more

Duolingo: Language Learning Made Into an Interactive Translation Game

Learning a new language can be one of the most difficult tasks you could undertake, but it’s also one of the more rewarding educational experiences possible. You’ll have to relearn that you think to really be able to speak a language fluently, but then, you’ll get to open your horizons… read more

Designing With Audio: What Is Sound Good For?

Our world is getting louder. Consider all the beeps and bops from your smartphone that alert you that something is happening, and all the feedback from your appliances when your toast is ready or your oven is heated, and when Siri responds to a question you’ve posed. Today our technology… read more

Worksy: smart business tools for creatives and their customers

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The team behind Worksy has been hard at work on their product for a couple of years now, but it was only recently that it was ready to go into public beta. The Next Web covered the end of Worksy’s stealth mode at the end of March.

Worksy… read more

Massimo And Lella Vignelli: Designs That Will Outlive Mankind

There are two major things that had to be overcome in writing this spotlight on Massimo and Lella Vingnelli: One was how to approach the subjects in a different way as they’ve had so much written about them. Two, as with writing about other designers who are still living, one… read more

12 Free Tumblr Themes to Class Up Your Blog

1. Watercolor

Splash some color over your header with this modern design. The hint of paper texture will do… read more

Can Twitter Tell Us What We’re Feeling? [VIDEO]

Twitter’s 140 character limit can be perfect for sending out short bursts of information, but is it also perfect for helping us gauge the public mood?

Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. conducted a study to test this hypothesis. From July 2009 to January 2012, they analyzed… read more

Lover.ly Makes Wedding Planning Simple

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: Lover.ly

Quick Pitch: Wedding planning made easy

Genius Idea: Lover.ly partners with bridal blogs and other editorial content… read more

Appcelerator’s Developer Platform: Now with Cloud-Based Tools

Mobile platform company Appcelerator launched the latest version of its popular Titanium platform Tuesday, with cloud-based tools to help developers build more dynamic apps for Android and iPhone devices.

Titanium 2.0, which includes support for HTML5 mobile web apps, aims to help brands create apps quickly and efficiently for their businesses…. read more

How to Stay Focused in a World of Distractions

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conferences, which bring together staff from Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga along with Zen teachers and others to explore living with awareness and wisdom in our modern age. You can follow him at @SorenG.

In our connected world, it is easy to… read more

Tell Twitter or Facebook Why You Love Books, Get an All-Star MP3 [VIDEO]

Pinocchio, Madeline, the Three Blind Mice, Little Red Riding Hood and a dozen other beloved storybook characters star in Reading Is Fundamental’s (RIF) latest PSA, which the organization released online Tuesday to kick off its “Book People Unite” campaign.

RIF is calling all story lovers to declare themselves “book people”… read more

Women: Calculate How to Achieve Your Target Salary Online

April 17 is Equal Pay Day — and for women in the workforce, it’s a stark reminder of the glass ceiling that still prevails in most industries. Full-time working women earned only 77% of what their male counterparts did in 2010.

That’s why the women of the Levo League, an online… read more

Elle Tries Facebook Commerce, Launches Shoppable Trend Guide

Elle has launched a shoppable trend guide on Facebook in the latest of several ecommerce initiatives within the magazine industry.

The guide, embedded as a tab on Elle‘s Facebook page, invites shoppers to navigate across six editorially chosen spring trends, including floral, nautical and ladylike.

Users can click “love,” “want, “own”… read more

21% of Brad and Angelina Tweets Asked: Weren’t They Already Married?

Wedding bells are on the horizon for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, after a seven-year relationship. But if you thought the Hollywood power couple were married already, you weren’t alone.

Some 21% of people who tweeted about the couple’s engagement after it was announced on Friday thought the duo were already… read more

Verizon’s 4G LTE Network Coming To 27 New Markets This Week

America’s largest 4G network is getting a little larger this Thursday. Verizon has announced it will bring its 4G LTE network into 27 new markets this week, and will be expanding the service in 44 of its existing markets.

The expansion makes Verizon’s 4G LTE network available in a total of… read more

Google Bike Isn’t What You’d Expect

The New GBike

Here’s the design of the new Google bike for the company’s Mountain View, California campus, which… read more

Chicago Police Use Social Media to Find Food Trucks Breaking The Law [VIDEO]

Chicago police are monitoring food trucks on social media, and it’s not because they want a juicy burger.

Instead, police are asking the trucks to pack it up and are issuing citations if they don’t, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In the Windy City, by law, food trucks are… read more

Finally, a Rap Song About Being 24 and Awkward [VIDEO]

When a young man in a purple button-down shirt and khakis creates a rap song to tell you what it’s like to be 24 years old, gosh darnit, you listen.

In my case, you relate. As a 24-year-old myself, I can testify that, I too shop at Trader Joe’s because… read more

Facebook Meets Instagram: What It Means for Your Brand

Joshua Teixeira heads up the strategy discipline at Big Spaceship, helping shape engagements for active projects and prospective clients alike. Recent projects include work with clients like Crayola, Chobani, Google, Wrigley, General Electric, Urban Daddy, and Gilt Groupe.

When it comes to Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, details are still… read more

Prototype Apple Macintosh Computer Selling for $100,000 on eBay [PICS]

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What just might be the oldest Mac computer in the world is up for bids… read more

Weekly Poll: How Do You Organize Your Photos?

How do you organize and view your photos?

Lately the world of Mac software has seen quite the surge in photo editing apps, many of which are banking on the retro photo craze that helped fuel Instagram to a huge user base and billion dollar sale. This increase in the… read more

Startup Turns Research Databases Into Searchable Notecards

Citelighter, a browser extension for collecting notes online, is teaming up with Cengage Learning to turn paid research databases such as Questia into a stack of free virtual note cards.

With Citelighter’s first product, students can highlight any text on any web page and click a “capture” button to save it… read more

Is Ikea’s New Home Entertainment System an iPod for the Living Room?

Ikea has offered a glimpse into its latest foray into consumer electronics, an all-in-one TV called Uppleva.

The system, which will go on sale in five European cities this summer, attempts to solve the problem of unsightly wires bulging from behind the HDTV and stray remotes strewn throughout the… read more

Facebook Adds ‘Listen’ Button to Band, Artist Pages

Facebook added on Tuesday a “Listen” button to its band and artist pages that give users an easy way to listen to their favorite songs directly on the site.

As of now, fans can listen to songs from artists such as Justin Bieber and Linkin Park to former Guns N’ Roses… read more

Makers of ‘Deus Ex’ Present Dark Assassin Game, ‘Dishonored’ [VIDEO]

Bethesda released the first trailer for Dishonored Tuesday, a game being developed by minds behind Deus Ex and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

The trailer shows the first glimpses into a world that features both industrial-age factories, giant walking robots, insatiable hordes of rats and magical elements. Think of… read more

Weekly Poll: Do you Prefer Short Articles or Longform Pieces on the Web?

Do you prefer reading short article or longform pieces on the web?

For the longest time, it has seemed that online writing was doomed to being confined to just short articles. Readers in browsers get bored, and there’s always something in another tab calling for our attention. Wait: what was… read more

7 iPad Apps For Productivity And Project Management

With the plethora of iPad apps available in the market, it has become quite easy to manage your work and improve your productivity. Although people working in the web design and development field spend most of their time on their PCs and laptops and they would hardly get time to… read more

8 Fresh Twitter Apps for 2012

Perhaps no other app category changes as fast and as much as the Twitter client one. They seem to merge, disappear, lose support and come up with new ones more than in any other app category. If you are into Twitter as much as we are, you probably already know… read more

Pinterest: The Social Network You Didn’t Know You Needed

You’ve likely already listed your favorite movies, music, and more on Facebook. You tweet and like new sites you come across online, and if anyone kept up with your online ramblings at all, surely they’d know your preferences in everything from software to soap.

Then comes Pinterest, the latest social network… read more

Pixa: Organizing Image Clutter the Smart Way

There are many tools available for organizing bits of information on your Mac, but if your goal is to get a grip on those many images and screenshots you assembled, there’s a new player on the horizon you should check out.

Pixa is a companion app for all designers and graphic… read more

55 Latest Free Fonts for Professional Designers

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design… read more

Apple kills Aperture and iWork trials

Apple has removed the free trials for two of its most popular software packages, the photo editing program Aperture and the office suite iWork, from its website as of yesterday and instead redirects users to the Mac App Store, where they have the choice to buy the product at full… read more

Extending the Web: Useful Google Chrome Extensions

At the end of 2011 Chrome surpassed Firefox as the second most popular browser in the world. One of the reasons it has grown in popularity could be because of its expansive Chrome Web Store. The store has thousands of applications that help extend the functionality of Chrome and make… read more

2013 Ford Escape Can Park Itself, Unlock, Open the Hatch

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I used to think hands-free driving meant you keep… read more

Tracky: The Most Useful Online Tool You’ll Use At Work Today

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: Tracky

Quick Pitch: Tracky is an application that boosts productivity by cutting Internet clutter. The web and… read more

Microsoft Reveals Its Plan to Sell Windows 8

Microsoft just told the world what it’s going to call the next version of Windows, and — shocker — the official name will be “Windows 8.” It also revealed how many versions of Windows 8 there will be, and what the company will call them.

There are three main editions. At… read more

ScoreBig Goes Mobile With Priceline-Style App for Event Tickets

Event ticketing service ScoreBig took a significant step Monday toward expanding its Priceline-style business model for live shows and sports games.

The site launched a free mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch. The ScoreBig Daily app — available here — currently only serves events in San Francisco and Los… read more

Google Spends More On One Day of Lunch Than It Will On FCC Fine

The FCC is fining Google $25,000 for impeding an investigation into personal e-mails and other data collected via the company’s Street View cars.

But that’s far from a punitive fine for the search giant. In fact, it is less than the company spends on one day of lunch for its… read more

‘Terminator,’ ‘Rocky’ and More MGM Movies Unleashed on YouTube

YouTube is infusing its 15-month-old movie rental service with more than 600 MGM titles including Rain Man, Robocop, West Side Story, The Terminator and Rocky.

Media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — better known as MGM to film lovers — is now one of five major studios that allow people to rent flicks on… read more

How to Use Facebook Timeline Without Reworking Your Brand Strategy

Joe Chernov is the vice president of content marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing, and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand.

Within days of Facebook’s official launch of Timeline for brands, social strategists and brand marketers turned their Facebook strategies upside down and came up… read more

Study Investigates How Valuable We Consider Our Mobile Data [VIDEO]

Have you ever thought about the privacy concerns associated with smartphone apps?

Researchers at Queen Mary University in London certainly have. They’re starting a new project aimed at finding out just how valuable we consider our personal information.

The study asks volunteers to download a free Android app, which feeds… read more

Pulitzer Prizes Highlight Social Media’s Penetration Into the Newsroom

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners reflect the rising role of social media and the Internet in today’s news coverage.

Online news sites The Huffington Post and Politico were recognized for their editorial content. Traditional news outlets integrated social media into their reporting of breaking news in real time.

“Social media appeared… read more

Millennial Consumers: Engaged, Optimistic, Charitable [STUDY]

A study comparing Millennials with non-Millennials sheds light on some of the key behaviors and attitudes of the generation.

Currently numbered at 79 million — and growing in influence — Millennials are expected to outnumber the Baby Boomer population 78 million to 56 million by 2030.

The Boston Consulting Group recently… read more

11 Expensive iOS Apps Worth Your Hard-Earned Cash

1. MLB.com At Bat

It’s no secret that Major League Baseball leads professional sports leagues in its ability… read more

Beyond 1080p: Canon Unveils $15,000 Camera with 4K HD Video

Canon has a message for everyone in pro video: 1080p is over.

The next big thing is 4K, a video format that pumps up the number of pixels to 4,096 x 2,160 — or more than four times as many as in 1080p — and Canon has just announced a… read more

Holographic Storage: Coming Soon to a Cloud Service Near You? [VIDEO]

Holographic storage, once a pipe dream, may be headed to the market soon. A company called HVault has plans to turn the high-tech concept into reality this year.

In most cases, holographic storage is a write once, read many times data archival technique. Unlike other types of storage, holographic storage… read more

Industry Events: 6 Ways to Make a Big Impact On a Small Budget

Ted Iannuzzi is the CEO of DIDMO. He is the co-creator of the company’s flagship product, the mobile content creation platform Magmito.

Conferences, large and small, remain great opportunities to meet prospective clients and partners. In fact, according to one study, more than half of business travelers say that between 5%… read more

Turn Your Friends Into Memes With This App

Have you ever wanted to turn someone into a meme? Do you know someone who would look perfect with a rage comic for a face?

The Memefier App might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

The app uses facial recognition to superimpose a rage comic over a person’s face. The… read more

What the Mobile Web Means for Web Apps

I’m a web developer; that’s my jam. I enjoy making websites, and I really enjoy trying new technologies, techniques, and hacks for websites. In 2012, that means making websites responsive. While the ‘Responsive Web Design’ movement started a few years ago, it’s really starting to pick up steam with better… read more

31 [+10] Cool Photography Tutorials, Tips, Videos, Hacks and How To’s from Around the Web

This morning I spent some time trawling through some of my favourite photography blogs to see what they’ve been posting – the array of great tutorials, videos, hacks and advice I found was amazing! What a great time we live in where we have so many great resources to draw… read more

Make Your Gloves Touchscreen-Friendly With TapCaps [VIDEO]

A new Kickstarter project aims to bring touchscreen-friendly control to your favorite gloves.

If you’ve ever tried to use the touchscreen of your phone or tablet wearing gloves, chances are you had a little trouble. Designed to respond to your fingers not your clothing, touchscreen devices can’t tell you’re touching… read more

Huffington Post Wins Its First Pulitzer Prize

The Huffington Post won its first Pulitzer Prize Monday — becoming the first online-only daily news website to do so.

The prize, in the national reporting category, was awarded to veteran reporter David Wood. His 10-part series, “Beyond the Battlefield,” explored the lives of several veterans who were severely injured… read more

Last Chance to Get Your Tickets to Mashable Connect

This week is your last chance to get a pass to Mashable’s biggest conference of the year, Mashable Connect.

This three-day conference is a must-attend event for leaders of the Connected Generation. There, industry experts will discuss the ideas and trends that will impact the space in the coming years…. read more

Musk: Tesla Is a Success, on Some Levels [VIDEO]

By its own measure, Telsa Motors has sold around 2,100 of its electric motor Telsa Roadsters. At $100,000 a pop, that’s probably a pretty decent haul.

But is Tesla an automotive success? As cofounder and current CEO Elon Musk sees it, the answer is yes — on some levels.

Musk,… read more

Dating Site Finds You a Mate Based on Your Klout Score

Matchmaking service Tawkify now considers users’ Klout scores when pairing them with each other for phone dates.

Tawkify rolled out in January to set up singles, but on Monday, the service added a new twist to its matchmaking methods: connecting people with similar Klout scores.

Tawkify co-creator E. Jean Carroll, a… read more

Women at Work: Can Startups Level the Playing Field? [INFOGRAPHIC]

A woman’s place in the modern workforce is a hotly debated issue these days. Most likely that’s because the figures surrounding female pay rate, education and business experience don’t parallel male statistics.

The infographic below, based on compiled research from the University of North Carolina’s online MBA program, details where… read more

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM

This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for… read more

50 Fresh And High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is an excellent tool that has been used in the graphics and designing field. It is such widely used even by the novices that it needs no introduction at all. Though everyone knows it and even uses it, the software needs some guidance to let you use it… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: iDraw

Our featured sponsor this week is iDraw, a fantastic vector illustration application.

What Pixelmator is to Photoshop, iDraw is to Illustrator. This amazing app will blow you away in its ability to provide professional level vector editing capabilities at a price that you simply won’t believe.

iDraw for Mac… read more

Hello Bar: Promote Anything on Your Site, Stylishly

If you manage websites, you know how important it is to keep your content fresh and up-to-date. It’s also crucial to guide your users towards your new content, without marring the site design and experience you’ve spent a lot of time and effort creating. Pop-ups and banners are distracting and… read more

Make Your App Demos Clear with Mouseposé

Whether you’re a developer who wants to showcase the functionality of your new software, or you’re just the person in your family to whom all tech questions are brought, being able to clearly demonstrate how to use a program can be important. That can also be a challenge, considering how… read more

Create A Robotic Pony in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your hands around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications like Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand.

In the following steps you will learn how to… read more

21 Inspiring Examples of About Pages

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About pages are important because they are the place where the user goes to discover more about who/what is behind the site they are visiting. From design studios to apps and online shops, users like to browse a page to find the good old who, where,… read more

Brands on Pinterest: To $ or Not to $? [STUDY]

Brands should be wary of attaching price tags to the products they pin on Pinterest, a new study from analytics startup Pinreach and Joshua Yang, a MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, indicates.

The two parties discovered that pins with price tags are just as likely to be shared as pins… read more

11 Adorable Kid-Proof Device Cases

1. Toyota Creatures

Toyota Creatures like YetYet (pictured) protect your iPad and iPhone from rambunctious behavior. The alien “creature”… read more

10 Indie Games Worth the Cash

1. Wizorb

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14 Tech-Forward Concepts Reshaping Our Future

For the Global Innovation Series, presented by BMW, we’re focused on one simple question: In what ways is technology drastically changing our lives for the better? In a lot of ways, living in a city is challenging — urban citizens are constantly thinking about mobility, energy, shelter, safety and efficiency… read more

Cruises Then and Now: The Tech Behind Titanic [VIDEO]

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago today, ending up in a watery grave 12,600 feet below the surface of the sea. But that was 100 years ago. Could that happen today?

Let’s take a look at the tech behind the Titanic, explore the innovations made since… read more

Mobile Mistrust: Are Texters Cheaters? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Do mobile phones make you suspicious? Do texters have something to hide?

That’s what a couple of recent studies suggest. College students trust text messages less than phone calls, video chats and face-to-face conversation when communicating with their peers. And it may be a case of guilty consciences — 35%… read more

Baseball Home Openers: Social Media’s Best Shots [PICS]

1. A head of the game

The New York Mets tweeted this photo of a fan with a Shea… read more

5 Retro Games Brought Back From the Dead By Kickstarter

Who can forget their first computer game? It wasn’t just kind of awesome, it’s what took up most evenings and every weekend. If you’re the type to have spent far too many hours playing these games in the 1980s and ’90s, you might want to clear your schedule now.

Some… read more

Where and When Do Most People Lose Their Phones? [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you’ve never lost a cellphone, you’re either very lucky or a big ol’ liar. With $30 billion worth of phones lost in the U.S. every year, we bet your phone has contributed to the heap at one time or another.

I can count on 47 hands the times I’ve seen… read more

J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore Site Is Now Open to the Public

With the books and movies all finished, are you suffering from Harry Potter withdrawal?

Maybe it’s time to head over to Pottermore, an online hub developed by J.K. Rowling for fans of the boy wizard. The free site is now open for all to join.

Users will be treated to… read more

Working Remotely: Is It Right For You?

Sara Ferraioli is a Manager in the Human Resources Contracts division at Winter, Wyman, the largest and one of the most recognized staffing organizations in the Northeast. Find out more on the Winter, Wyman blog or follow on Twitter .

More than 34 million Americans work at home at least occasionally,… read more

8 Hilarious ‘Titanic’ Parodies to Lift Your Sinking Spirits

1. Titanic Super 3D

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This Week in App News

As always, here’s Mac AppStorm’s weekly roundup of news and this week, it isn’t related to Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. Enjoy!

Apple patches up Flashback trojan with official fix

Since Apple officially recognised the FlashBack Trojan back at the start of the month (and simultaneously releasing a patch for OS X… read more

Wallpaper of the Week 199 by James White

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by the mighty James White for FITC Toronto 2012. It’s another amazing work coming from James for this amazing event that FITC is.

The game has changed and FITC is on it! Featuring over 70 renowned digital creators from around the globe,… read more

IndieGoGo’s Co-Founder Wants Kids to Launch 10 Startups in 10 Years

Slava Rubin, co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, has an ambitious plan to plant the seeds of entrepreneurship in the minds of students: He wants them to launch a new startup every year for ten years in middle school through college.

“The best way for students to become entrepreneurs is… read more

Uranus Auroras Spotted by Hubble Telescope Scientists [VIDEO]

Conditions are bizarre on the peculiar seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus. Much is different from our planet, including auroras, which were spotted by the Hubble telescope last November.

The space telescope, Earth’s workhorse of observational power, snagged images of a couple of auroras on the surface of Uranus… read more

8 Useful iPad Apps for Designers

8 Useful iPad Apps for Designers

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Is a Yacht Philippe Starck’s ‘Revolutionary’ Apple Project? [RUMOR]

World-famous French designer Philippe Starck told a French radio station on Friday that he’s working on a “revolutionary” secret Apple project that will surface in eight months. The designer said that he couldn’t reveal more details because of Apple’s “religious cult of secrecy.”

Apple flatly denied Starck’s involvement with… read more

Google Doodle Pays Homage to Street Photographer Robert Doisneau

Today’s Google Doodle features photographs from the famed French photographer Robert Doisneau on his 100th birthday.

Born April 14, 1912, Doisneau was one of the original street photographers — he wandered the streets of Paris snapping away with his Leica camera decades before thousands of Brooklyn’s hipsters would do the same… read more

4 Ways to Outdo Your Competitors

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

Do you ever feel like there’s a competitor around every corner? Budding entrepreneurs often hesitate to follow their business dreams because they believe their target market is… read more

Best of the Week #218

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

Elegant Photo Editing with CameraBag 2

With apps like Instagram and services like Facebook, it seems everyone now is taking pictures and submitting them out to the world via the Internet. Taking pictures is just one part of the equation though. Those who want a perfect picture know that editing typically follows the capture. Manipulating light… read more