Hype: A Worthy Flash Alternative?

Hype, by developers Tumult, seems to have a rather appropriate title. There has been a great deal of talk about this web animation app since its release some months ago, and that can hardly be a surprise, given that it claims to allow the user to create “beautiful HTML5 web… read more

Interview with Freelance Marketer Danny Iny

Want to boost your profile? Add additional income streams to your freelancing business? Release your own self published book? It’s time to have a chat with author and freelance marketer Danny Iny.

He quit school at the age of fifteen to start his first freelance web design business. The only… read more

Top 7 Comments on Mashable This Week

We’re back again with another roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week.

In this post, we showcase the week’s best comments on our site. We always look for thoughtful comments that engage the community and drive more conversation, as well as those that make us laugh.

This week, the Mashable… read more

Why the iPad Won’t Transform Education — Yet

Apple’s announcement on Thursday that it would be introducing a new iPad textbook experience and iBooks authoring tool presents huge opportunities for technology in classrooms.

The company is selling textbooks from McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Houghton Mifflin at a price comparable to print versions, and it’s presented an unprecedented opportunity for… read more

Hands On: Apple’s iBooks Author App

Apple is hoping its new iBooks Author app will turn educators into authors, the same way iMovie and Garageband turned amateurs into audio and video editors.

Apple launched the app at its education event in New York City in conjunction with the revamped iTunes U and partnerships with various textbook publishers…. read more

Interactive Textbook Makes Reading Social, Braces for Apple Announcement

Sitting at the front of the class and attentively listening to a professor’s lecture won’t be enough for college students aiming to impress their professors once the new BioBook rolls out.

With BioBook, an interactive educational tool for tablets, professors can monitor student progress — from how they’re keeping up to… read more

“UIWebView” Apps: Good or Bad?

I’ve witnessed an ongoing debate in recent months over a specific part of the iOS SDK that allows developers to embed web content into their app. This specific class, “UIWebView”, has given the opportunity for some developers to masquerade web apps as native apps by simply embedding their web-based app within… read more

How to Find the Right Digital Training Tool for Your Company

Peter Bray is the chief marketing officer of Trivantis, a provider of innovative e-learning software, including Snap! by Lectora PowerPoint to Flash software and Snap! Empower Flash interactions builder. Free trials of both solutions can be found at SnapbyLectora.com.

Corporate training helps to strengthen a business by focusing on one of… read more

Getting Started with White Paper Marketing

A powerful way to build trust and rapport is to develop authoritative and informative white papers.

Learn what a white paper is, several techniques for marketing with white papers, and tips for getting a white paper published.

With a little work, you can connect with customers on an entirely new level… read more

5 Mac Apps That Make CSS Preprocessors Easier to Use

If you’re a fan of CSS preprocessors, then you know that despite their usefulness, they can be a bit of a pain to work with at times. Most of them require some sort of Terminal voodoo to compile, which immediately scares off a good portion of potential users.

As always, the… read more

Top 10 content management systems

There are dozens of great CMSs out there. Regardless of what type of site you’re building, there’s probably one perfectly-suited to it.

The problem is that most designers and developers don’t want to spend time learning a bunch of different CMSs. They want to learn one, or maybe… read more

Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns

I occasionally write about implementing design patterns in JavaScript. They’re an excellent way of building upon proven approaches to solving common development problems, and I think there’s a lot of benefit to using them. But while well-known JavaScript patterns are useful, another side of development could benefit from its own… read more

Trello: An Online Bulletin Board For Your Tasks

When you think of an office, board room, classroom, community center, or anywhere else that people meet to organize and work together, what’s one of the first things you can picture? Often it’s a prominent bulletin board where random announcements, pictures, important memos, random email forwards, and more are tacked for everyone… read more

10 Excellent User Interface Designs to Learn From

The Web Design Usability Series is supported by join.me, an easy way to instantly share your screen with anyone. join.me lets you collaborate on-the-fly, put your heads together super-fast and even just show off.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve gathered together some great resources and information on constructing amazing user… read more

The Future of Mobile Marketing with Smartphones

As the technology for mobile devices grows, so does the opportunity for development. Many companies are not creating their own apps, but instead utilizing HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 to aid in the creation of web apps and mobile websites. Reducing the initial investment, companies can get the most out of… read more

4 Ways iPads Are Changing the Lives of People With Disabilities

Noah Rahman has moderate Cerebral Palsy affecting his communication, cognition and upper and lower body movement. When he turned two, his language, cognitive abilitity and fine motor skills were diagnosed by a developmental specialist as being at least 12 months behind. Then Noah got an iPad.

Four months later, his language… read more

Comment to Win – Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook

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Inkscape has been around for some time now, and with each new release it has become the vector editor of choice for many illustrators and web developers the world over. Learning more about Inkscape has been on my "to-do" list for some time now, so today I’m excited to… read more

Toast 11 Titanium Edition For Mac

The Next Generation Disc Authoring Suite

In spite of a few minor criticisms, version 11 continues to make Toast the industry standard for burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs; managing your multimedia for storage or online hosting; and in some aspects, managing your files. Longtime Toast fans will notice a… read more

How to Build Your Own iCloud Today

Unfortunately, for the Apple-consuming public, iCloud won’t be hitting us until the fall. That means we’re going to have to wait several months because all the cloud-based syncing magic becomes a reality for us. However, either for those going crazy in anticipation, or those who oddly despise Apple, there’s a… read more

HOW TO: Get Started With the COMPASS CSS Framework

Anybody who’s built a website of any size knows how quickly CSS can get out of hand. Style sheets can grow bloated and lengthy, making it difficult to find things, introducing redundancy and producing an end product that makes code maintenance tedious. Let’s face it — CSS… read more

Toast 11 Pro: A Complete Mac Media Toolkit

OS X comes with CD and DVD burning capabilities built-in, so you might have managed so far without needing to install a separate app. When I reinstalled Snow Leopard a few months back, I decided to keep my system as lean as possible, since my old Core Duo MacBook has… read more

3 Awesome Webpage Authoring Tools

3 Awesome Webpage Authoring Tools

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The Atlantic Launches Twitter-Based Book Club

The Atlantic has announced the first selection for 1book140, an online reading and discussion club that will span the publication’s presences on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, as well its website.

Readers, in conjunction with The Atlantic‘s editorial staff and Jeff Howe — a professor of journalism at Northeastern… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.82)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook, on Stumbleupon or by… read more

Digital Photographer’s Complete Guide to HD Video [Book Review]

This book hit me fairly between the eyes and ears. Basically it is one of the best video instructionals I have ever read. Co-author Rob Sheppard has an enviable history of writing about still photography while his writing partner Michael Guncheon has well-established credits in video production and writing, mostly… read more

A more affordable Adobe CS 5.5

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Syncing Content With HTML5 Video

One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user interaction to text, links, images and forms, HTML5 promotes multimedia, from a generic <object> element to a highly specified <video>… read more

Thriving on a Code Marketplace

The Simple Newsletter System

Hi folks. My name is Dave; I’m currently in my mid 20’s, and am living in Australia. I went straight from High School into a Bachelor of IT at University, and then worked full-time in the IT industry for four years. Over the past two years, however,… read more

Designing with Web Standards

Web standards, simply put, are the basic rules that all Web designers, coders, and programmers should understand and follow when designing and building webpages. While these standards mostly deal with coding and other behind-the-scenes issues, they can also greatly affect a site’s design and influence how visitors access the content… read more

Demand Media Valued at More Than $1 Billion Following IPO

Demand Media is now officially a publicly traded company following its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, in which it raised $151.3 million. The deal values the company at nearly $1.5 billion, making it one of the largest Internet IPOs in recent history.

Early indications suggest that concerns… read more

RIM CEO: “You Don’t Need an App for the Web”

RIM CEO Jim Balsillie spoke to John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit about the company’s ongoing rivalry with Apple. Balsillie made it clear that RIM and Apple are on opposite ends of the application spectrum.

The main point of contention is the notion that Apple’s iOS platform and SDK are… read more

Mac Design Software: 20 Vector, Bitmap, and Web Design Apps

“The Mac is geared towards creatives.” That’s what you hear most often when a discussion turns to the benefits of operating systems. But what exactly are those fantastic apps that appeal to us creative folks?

Other than the well known giants of Adobe Creative Suite, there are many other software gems… read more

5 Platforms that Defined the Mobile Space in 2010 [Mashable Awards]

As part of the upcoming Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Best Mobile Platform.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please contact sponsorships@mashable.com for more information.

The mobile platform… read more

5 OS X Features You’ll Love as a Mac Switcher

I have long been thinking of getting a Mac, but since I am not a developer or designer, there wasn’t really a compelling reason to do so. But when the AppStorm network called for writers a few weeks ago, I jumped ship and bought a MacBook Pro. And boy –… read more

HTML5: The Facts And The Myths

You can’t escape it. Everyone’s talking about HTML5. it’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners on everything and using unnecessary gradients. In fact, a lot of what people call HTML5 is actually just old-fashioned DHTML or AJAX. Mixed in with all the information is a… read more

Flash vs. HTML5: Adobe Weighs In

Much has been written about the next wave of web technologies, namely HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. A big part of this conversation has surrounded the impact that these new technologies will have on older technologies like Adobe’s Flash.

We’ve written a lot abut the HTML5 vs. Flash “war,” primarily in the… read more

Adobe Responds to Apple’s New Rules

Yesterday, seemingly out of the blue, Apple issued a statement saying it will ease up restrictions for development tools used to create iOS party apps. Now, Adobe has reacted with a statement of its own, calling Apple’s decision “great news for developers”.

Go here for a detailed explanation of what Apple’s… read more

Top 15 Posterous Themes

In the past few years, self publishing on the Internet has come a long way. With a number of platforms pioneering easy to use authoring tools and incredibly affordable pricing- click to configure & self hosted – writers can just focus on delivering quality content instead of managing a complex… read more

Recovering lost or deleted files – Backing Up & Saving Your Images: Part 4

This post is the final part in our Backing Up and Saving Your Images series. See previous posts on Backing up and Saving Your Images – External Hard Drives – Online Storage Sites and Software Solutions.

That crushing, sickening and agonising feeling of realising your memory card has corrupted or for… read more

Interview with Sanjay Patel

Sanjay Patel is a animator and illustrator from Southern California who was born in the UK. Sanjay works as a supervising animator and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios, where he has worked on numerous films, including Monsters, Inc, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Ratatouille, The… read more

Stop Designing Aesthetics, Start Designing Emotions

Despite the somewhat provocative title, you shouldn’t really stop designing aesthetics.

Gradients and colors and contrast are all good, but there’s a more important side to web design that many people overlook most of the time: Designing emotions.

Discussing emotion in design is a bit of a hot topic at the moment,… read more

30 Fresh and Free Icon Sets for Designers and Developers

As we like to do every few months, in this article you will find a comprehensive round-up of the best and freshest icon sets for web designers and developer. As well as the popular icon categories – general purpose developer sets, mini-pixel sets, pictograms and social media and service icon… read more

Full Browser Flash

Most Flash movies are created at a specific size, which makes them much easier to design and build. But every now and again you come across a website built in Flash that fills the entire browser window and dynamically repositions its elements when the browser is resized. In this tutorial… read more

Sonic and DivX Merge to Deliver Video to Millions of Living Rooms

Sonic Solutions will purchase DivX for $323 million this September, forming a union that will greatly expand online video viewing options on millions of consumer electronics devices.

Sonic Solutions is best known for online video distribution service CinemaNow (renamed RoxioNow after Best Buy bought the CinemaNow trademark), which offers 14,000… read more

100 Incredibly Useful & Free Mac Apps

Everyone loves free applications. One of the greatest things about Macs is the wealth of extremely talented developers that are willing to share their amazing creations without asking for a single cent.

We’ve compiled an enormous list of 100 amazing free Mac applications that you can download and start using today…. read more

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Brings Sexy Back

Adobe will unveil its new Creative Suite 5 on Monday April 12th at 8AM PDT, just a few hours from now.

You can catch the official launch online here, however, if you can’t wait, we’ll be revealing all the juicy details before the official launch… right now!

The Adobe team kindly invited… read more

10 Blank/Naked WordPress Themes Perfect for Development

If you have to develop WordPress themes on a regular basis then I have no doubt that you too have experienced the tedium that goes with re-writing the same code over and over again. It doesn’t matter how excited you are about a new project or even how much you… read more

Web Based Microsoft Office 2010 Soon To Be Launched

A new productivity suite of Microsoft windows is soon to be fully launched for everyone who uses computers, it will be a successor of Microsoft Office 2007. Yes, it is Microsoft Office 2010 and this time it will be free to use and a web based application. Microsoft has somehow assured… read more

50+ Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution

A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts… read more

45 Best Places You May Visit To Get Or Create Free 3D Models

3D models are being in used in a wide variety of industries with great popularity and fame. 3D Models are basically the representation of 3 Dimensional objects by using a compilation of points in 3D space and associated by different geometric entities. Free 3D models have been in use primarily… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

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

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

By Angel Wardriver

jQuery can empower a developer with the tools required to create a rich user experience. The way in which we display images, text, charts and graphs can enhance functionality for the wide range of users. Let’s take a look at 35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media & Marketing Event Guide

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 establish… read more

Macworld 2010: Microsoft’s MacBU talks Office for Mac 2011

<pnext version of Microsoft's Office suite, slated for arrival during the fourth quarter of 2010, has a new name, enhanced functionality, and even a more streamlined look. TUAW met with members of the Microsoft Mac Business Unit (MacBU) on Thursday to hear how the developers of Office for Mac are… read more

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Digital 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 establish… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Marketing 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 establish… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Event Guide

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 establish… read more

Mashable’s Social Media Marketing & Web Event Guide

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 establish… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Conference & Event Guide

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 establish… read more

50+ Useful Mac Applications for Freelancers and Professional Designers

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to play around and tweak with applications on my Mac too. There’s little confusion that Mac is a popular platform for web designers and freelancers as it offers an… read more

Mashable’s Guide to Digital Marketing & Social Media Conferences

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 establish… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Digital Marketing & 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 establish… read more